Au near Turnau
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Au bei Turnau ( Rotte ) locality |
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| Basic data | |||
| Pole. District , state | Bruck-Mürzzuschlag (BM), Styria | ||
| Judicial district | Bruck an der Mur | ||
| Pole. local community | Turnau (KG Göriach) | ||
| Coordinates | 47 ° 34 '18 " N , 15 ° 18' 51" E | ||
| height | 778 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents of the village | 155 (January 1, 2020) | ||
| Building status | 69 (2001) | ||
| Post Code | 8624 Au near Turnau | ||
| Statistical identification | |||
| Locality code | 02992 | ||
| Counting district / district | Turnau (62 135 000) | ||
| Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk | |||
Au bei Turnau is a village in the municipality of Turnau in Styria ( Austria ), it belongs to the cadastral municipality of Göriach . In 2001 190 people lived in the village. While the original name was Au bei Aflenz (and was used on the postmark until the post office was closed in 2002), the name of the place was renamed in the 1980s due to its location in Au bei Turnau . There is also the name Au-Seewiesen , which was written on the former station building.
location
Au is a long street village in a north-south running valley cut in the Hochschwab area , which lies on Mariazeller Straße B20 on the way from Bruck an der Mur to Mariazell ( Obere Au , Oberau ) and the municipal road to Seebach ( Untere Au , Unterau ). The center of the village lies at an altitude of 778 m above sea level. A. In the west it is limited by the steep slope of the Schießling ( 1667 m above sea level ), in the east by the foothills of the Hochanger ( 1682 m above sea level ). At the northern end of the village there is the “Green Lake”, a damming of the Seebach, which rises in the next village Seewiesen on the Styrian Seeberg, about 6 km to the north . In the south the valley widens to the Aflenz basin.
history
In addition to agriculture, due to the location on a stream, which is used for energy generation, and the ore mining in the area, several iron processing companies ( hammers ) in the Au are attested in writing as early as the 15th century .
The heyday of industrialization was towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. In the area of today's Unterau there was a lignite mine from 1871, which, after being temporarily closed at the end of the 1920s , was reopened from 1945 until it was finally closed in 1954 by the owner, the Böhler company , Kapfenberg ; There was also a gypsum mill in which the gypsum that had been broken in Dullwitz near Seewiesen (mainly by Italian workers from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy) was ground into gypsum powder. A former hammer mill remained in the possession of the Pengg company as an iron processing company; later linen lace ("lace factory") was manufactured here.
Likewise, the narrow-gauge state railway Kapfenberg - Au-Seewiesen ( Thörlerbahn ) was opened in 1893 , the terminus of which was in Au. From here - as one of the first routes in Styria - a post bus service was soon led over the Seeberg to Mariazell. Passenger traffic was operated on the narrow-gauge railway until 1959, and the section from Seebach-Turnau to Au-Seewiesen was completely discontinued in 1964.
In 1894 their own post office was opened in Au bei Aflenz , and in the 1960s it was assigned the postal code 8624. The post office was closed in 2002.
As the number of inhabitants increased, several inns (“Gasthaus zur Post”, “Hotel zur neue Post”, “Gasthaus zur Gemse”) were soon built, of which hardly any existed.
After the decline of industry in the interwar period, there was another boom in the 1960s and 1970s as a tourist resort with numerous guest houses and guest rooms, with the village serving as a starting point for numerous mountain hikes into the Hochschwab area.
Today Au bei Turnau is practically a pure place of residence.