Arriach

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Carinthia

Political District :

Villach-Land

License plate :

VL

Surface:

70.82 km²

Coordinates :

46 ° 44 ' N , 13 ° 51' E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '48 " N , 13 ° 51' 1" E

Height :

876 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,333 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

9543

Area code :

04247

Community code :

2 07 03

NUTS region

AT211

Address of the
municipal administration:

Arriach 60
9543 Arriach

Website:

www.arriach.at

politics

Mayor :

Gerald Ebner ( FPÖ )

Municipal Council : ( 2015 )
(15 members)

9

4th

2

9 4th 2

A total of 15 seats

FPÖ : 9
SPÖ : 4
ÖVP : 2

Location of Arriach in the Villach-Land district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Arriach is a municipality with 1,333 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Villach-Land district in the Austrian state of Carinthia .

Arriach is a legally recognized climatic health resort .

geography

Arriach is located on the southeastern foothills of the so-called Nock region of the Gurktal Alps in a valley between Wöllaner Nock ( 2145 m ) in the north and Gerlitzen ( 1909 m ) in the south. About 20 km south of Arriach is Villach , about 24 km east of Feldkirchen .

Center water in Arriach

The geographical center of the federal state of Carinthia is located in the municipality of Arriach .

Community structure

Municipal Office Arriach

The municipality of Arriach is divided into the four cadastral municipalities of Innere Teuchen , Laastadt , Arriach and Sauerwald. The municipal area comprises the following 14 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Arriach (329)
Berg ob Arriach (45)
Dreihofen (44)
Hinterbuchholz (24)
Hinterwinkl (87)
Hundsdorf (153)
Inner Diving (102)
Laastadt (175)
Oberwöllan (51)
Sowing floor (137)
Sauerwald (18)
City (37)
Unterwöllan (90)
Front angle (41)

Neighboring communities

Bad Kleinkirchheim	Reichenau	Gnesau
Afritz am See		Himmelberg
	To meet	Steindorf

history

Arriach was first mentioned in documents as Ovriach in 1207 , but the first settlement should have taken place around the year 1000.

In 1850, the tax and cadastral communities Arriach and Laastadt merged to form the community Arriach. The localities of Sauerwald and Hinterbuchholz split off from the municipality of Treffen in 1898 and were added to the Arriach municipality. Innerteuchen initially belonged to the community of Himmelberg and came to Arriach in 1920.

population

According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Arriach had 1,562 inhabitants, 97.6% of whom were Austrian and 1.2% German citizens. To the evangelical church to 68.8% of the community population known to Roman Catholic 26.0%. 3.2% described themselves as non-denominational. This makes Arriach the municipality in Carinthia with the second highest proportion of Protestant believers.

Culture and sights

The Four Evangelist Church is the largest Protestant church in Carinthia. It was built in the neo-Gothic style between 1903 and 1907 on the site of a prayer house that had existed since 1783 and was consecrated in 1785.
The Catholic parish church of St. Philipp and St. Jakob is located on a hill on the southern outskirts of Arriach. On the site of the original Romanesque building, first mentioned in 1207, a new church was built in 1414, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1690 and then rebuilt by 1694.
Filial church Oberwöllan
Klösterle in Innerteuchen

Protestant church
Catholic parish church of St. Philip and St. Jacob
Peter and Paul Church in Oberwöllan
Klösterle in Innerteuchen

The community is a member of the Kärntner Holzstraße and has a varied range of well-preserved wooden houses in traditional style. Efforts are being made to preserve the old construction for posterity.

Economy and Infrastructure

Traditionally, livestock was predominant in today's municipality, today tourism plays an important economic role. However, the majority of those in employment in Arriach commute, especially to Villach.

According to the 2001 census of workplaces, there were 48 workplaces in Arriach with 178 employees in the municipality as well as 440 out-commuters and 69 in-commuters.

politics

Municipal council election 2015

%

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

56.87%
(+ 10.32 % p )

26.29%
(-7.20 % p )

16.83%
(-3.13 % p )

FPÖ ^{[[#WD 2015 a | a]]}

Remarks:

^a 2009 as BZÖ - Die Freiheitlichen in Kärnten

The municipal council of Arriach has 15 members and has been composed as follows since the 2015 municipal council election :

9 FPÖ
4 SPÖ
2 ÖVP

mayor

1991–2015 Karl Gerfried Müller (SPÖ)
since 2015 Gerald Ebner (FPÖ)

coat of arms

The Arriacher crest reflects the wine chalice symbolizing the Last Supper and the monogram of Christ and the Luther Rose the relatively high proportion of people with Protestant creed resist. The municipality's coat of arms and flag were awarded on May 19, 1971.

The blazon of the coat of arms reads:

"In a green shield there is a golden communion chalice, the lower half of which is decorated with Alpine flowers, with a golden monogram of Christ on the front and a golden Luther rose at the back, which is formed from five heart leaves and contains a black Latin cross in its heart-shaped chalice."

The flag is green and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.

Partner municipality

A partnership with Wain in Baden-Württemberg has existed since 1972 . According to Wain, around 300 Protestants from Arriach had fled the Counter Reformation from 1651 .