Eisenkappel-Vellach
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market community Eisenkappel-Vellach
Železna Kapla-Bela |
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| coat of arms | Austria map | |
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Carinthia | |
| Political District : | Völkermarkt | |
| License plate : | VK | |
| Main town : | Bad Eisenkappel | |
| Surface: | 199.43 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 29 ' N , 14 ° 36' E | |
| Height : | 556 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 2,272 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Postal code : | 9135 | |
| Area code : | 04238 | |
| Community code : | 2 08 04 | |
| NUTS region | AT213 | |
| UN / LOCODE | AT EKV | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Bad Eisenkappel 260 9135 Bad Eisenkappel |
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| Mayor : | Franz Josef Smrtnik ( EL ) | |
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Municipal Council : (Election year: 2015 ) (19 members) |
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| Location of Eisenkappel-Vellach Železna Kapla-Bela in the Völkermarkt district |
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Eisenkappel-Vellach ( Slov. Železna Kapla-Bela ) - usually simply called Eisenkappel - is a market town in the Völkermarkt district , Carinthia with 2272 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The southernmost point of Austria is located in the municipality . The main town Bad Eisenkappel is the administrative center of the market community and is the only town in Austria to have the dual title of health resort and climatic health resort .
geography
The municipality extends in the upper Vellach valley from the foothills to the main ridge of the eastern Karawanken , near the border with Slovenia . Eisenkappel-Vellach has two border crossings with Slovenia, the Seebergsattel ( Jezerski vrh ) and the Paulitschsattel ( Pavličevo sedlo ).
climate
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Community structure
Eisenkappel-Vellach is divided into eleven cadastral communities :
Bad Vellach ( Bela ), Blasnitzen ( Spodnja Plaznica ), Ebriach ( Obirsko ), Eisenkappel ( Železna Kapla ), Koprein Petzen ( Pod Peco ), Koprein Sonnseite ( Koprivna ), Leppen ( Lepena ), Lobnig ( Lobnik ), Rechberg ( Reberca ) , Remschenig ( Remšenik ) and Trögern ( Korte ).
The municipal area comprises the following 14 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Bad Eisenkappel ( Železna Kapla ) (893)
- Blownits ( Spodnja Plaznica ) (64)
- Ebriach ( Obirsko ) (312)
- Koprein Petzen ( Pod Peco ) (11)
- Koprein sunny side ( Koprivna ) (30)
- Leppen ( Lepena ) (166)
- Lobnig ( Lobnik ) (120)
- Rechberg ( Rebrca ) (147)
- Remschenig ( Remšenik ) (56)
- Trögern ( Korte ) (20)
- Suburb ( Podkraj ) (41)
- Vellach ( Bela ) (294)
- Weissenbach ( Bela ) (5)
- Smoking ( Suha ) (113)
Neighboring communities
| Gallicia | Sittersdorf | Globasnitz , Feistritz ob Bleiburg |
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Črna na Koroškem |
| Tržič | Jezersko | Solčava |
climate
Eisenkappel-Vellach lies at the intersection of several climatic regions. The influence of the Mediterranean climate joins the Western European maritime climate and the Eastern European land climate. Due to the geomorphological location, the valley air is renewed daily in the evening as the cool mountain air sinks. There is no valley fog all year round and an average of 176 sunny days.
history
Eisenkappel owes its name to a chapel first mentioned in 1050. The elongated street market on the north side of Seebergstrasse probably goes back to Duke Bernhard von Spanheim and originated after 1209; In 1267/68 it was mentioned as a market. The market and town initially benefited from the iron and salt transport. From the 15th to the 19th century, water-powered iron hammers, and from the 18th century onwards, iron mining also ensured local prosperity.
The municipality of Vellach was formed in 1850 and encompassed the entire small market town of Kappel (also: Coppl; first: Capella), whose name was changed to Eisenkappel in 1890. Vellach and Eisenkappel were merged in 1939 to form the Eisenkappel-Vellach mayor.
After the decline of the iron industry in the course of the 19th century, the wood and sawmill industry in particular gained in importance, from the turn of the 20th century also summer and bathing tourism, initially in Bad Vellach (closed since the post-war years), today also in Eisenkappel spa.
From 1902 to 1971 the place was connected to the railway network by the Vellachtalbahn . The line was closed in 1971 and then dismantled. A few traces have been preserved, e.g. B. the former station building Bad Eisenkappel, which today houses a carpentry business.
Four members of today's Eisenkappel community, Marija Olip and her brother Miha Zupanc from Ebriach, Jurij Pasterk from Lobnig and Franc Weinzierl from Rechberg, were sentenced to death on April 9, 1943 by Roland Freisler, President of the People's Court in Berlin (VGH) executed on April 29, 1943 in the Vienna State Prison. A war crime was the massacre of a police unit on April 25, 1945 at the Peršmanhof , in which eleven family members were shot.
population
According to the 2001 census, the market town of Eisenkappel-Vellach has 2,710 inhabitants, 95.2% of whom are Austrian and 1.8% Bosnian citizens. 57.0% belong to the German-speaking and 37.6% to the Slovene-speaking ethnic group .
91.1% of the community population profess to the Roman Catholic Church , 1.9% to the Evangelical Church and to Islam . 4.1% are without religious beliefs .
Population development
politics
The municipal council has 19 members. After the last municipal council election on March 1, 2015, the composition is as follows: 8 EL , 8 SPÖ , 2 ÖVP , 1 FPÖ
- mayor
- until 2009 Dietfried Haller (SPÖ)
- since 2009 Franz Josef Smrtnik (EL) was elected for the first time in the runoff election in March 2009 and is the first mayor of Carinthia in the Second Republic to belong to a list of the Slovene-speaking ethnic group.
coat of arms
On the occasion of a confirmation of the stacking right for sea salt and the court sprinkling, Emperor Friedrich III. the market on January 28, 1493 also as a coat of arms "... ain black schillt, in des mit nach der Twirch ain weissen wasserstram ..." The market seal from the same year already shows the two fish in the wave bar, which the Vellach (from Slovenian bela = Weißenbach) symbolizes. These are clearly identifiable as brown trout and are intended to express the torrent character of the Vellach.
The coat of arms was confirmed to the market town on July 17, 1970 and at the same time a flag was awarded, which shows the colors black and white with an integrated coat of arms. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "In a black shield diagonally to the right a silver river [= wave bar] with two naturally colored [upward swimming] brown trout."
Culture and sights
- Partisan Museum with a memorial at the Peršmanhof : The Peršmanhof was a partisan base during World War II, and now houses a museum on the history of the Carinthian Slovenes during the National Socialist era
- Gallery opening credits / Galerija Vprega
- Oldtimer and farmer's stuff museum: with motorcycles, wine tavern to the Florian
- Catholic parish church Ebriach hl. John the Baptist
- Catholic parish church Eisenkappel hl. Michael
- Late Gothic pilgrimage church Maria Dorn with terrace cemetery
- Hagenegg Castle with Renaissance and Baroque wings (Counts of Thurn and Valsassina )
- Coming Rechberg
- Rechberg castle ruins are located behind the church on the hill
- Ruins of the Türkenschanze
- Obir stalactite caves : accessible as a show cave since 1987, with electric light
- Geopark Karawanken : Geopark information center
- Vellacher Kotschna nature reserve
- Trögerner Klamm nature reserve
- Hochobir : with pine forests; accessed through the Eisenkappler hut
- Türkenkopf via ferrata on the Trobefelsen
- Carrying a church : On February 1st, the eve of Mariä Candlemas , the residents of Eisenkappel / Železna Kapla commemorate a prevented flood of the Vellach / Bela, which flows directly through the village, by carrying the church . According to legend, there was a flood in the community in the late Middle Ages, so that the people had to flee to the higher-lying church of Maria Dorn . Carpenters rebuilt this wooden church and placed it in the floods of the river, whereupon the floods miraculously receded. Since this incident it has been the custom that on February 1st every year children of the village carry self-made, candle-lit wooden churches to the castle bridge on the Vellach / Bela and let them drift down the river. The custom is also called ante pante populore for short - based on the saying that the participants repeat on the way from the church to the castle bridge. The original saying was “Ante faciem omnium populorum”, but it changed over time to “Ante pante populore, Kocle vrate cvilelore!”.
- On the last Sunday of June each year, the memorial ceremony for the victims of the massacre of April 25, 1945 takes place at the Peršmanhof (Koprein Petzen).
Economy and Infrastructure
Along the Seebergstrasse, trade played an important role, especially for the main town; the surrounding area is otherwise still heavily influenced by agriculture, in particular wood extraction and processing. In addition to the nature reserves Vellacher Kotschna and Trögerner Klamm, the market town with the spa and the Obir stalactite caves are popular tourist attractions.
The medicinal springs in Eisenkappel are carbonic acid sources that improve cardiovascular problems. The Carinthia lithium source helps against circulatory disorders and high blood pressure. Besides those in Bad Schönau (Lower Austria), these sources are the only sources of this composition.
energy
Eisenkappel-Vellach is one of the 24 municipalities in Austria (as of 2019) that received the highest award in the e5 municipal energy project. The e5 community project aims to promote the implementation of a modern energy and climate policy at community level.
traffic
The Seeberg Straße B 82 crosses the Vellachtal and the municipality in a north-south direction and connects the villages of the municipality with Sittersdorf in the north and the Seebergsattel and Slovenia in the south. From here the Rosental Straße B 85 branches off in Vellach in the direction of Gallizien and in Eisenkappel a country road in the direction of Zell / Sele .
Education, health and social issues
- Schools: The Bad Eisenkappel Education Center houses an elementary school, a new middle school and a music school.
- Doctors: There are two general practitioners and a dentist available in the community for preventive healthcare.
- Care: The Carinthian Caritas Association operates the bilingual Gregorhof care home in Eisenkappel.
Personalities
- Florjan Lipuš (* 1937), one of the most important representatives of contemporary Slovenian literature
- Otto Barić (* 1933), football coach
- Valentin Polanšek (1928–1985), Slovenian writer and popular artist
- Helena Kuhar-Jelka (1906–1985), maid, farmer and Carinthian partisan
- Maja Haderlap (* 1961), Austrian writer
- Ferdinand Hauser (1795–1868), Mayor of Klagenfurt
- Gerald Florian Messner (* 1937), Austrian musicologist
- Mari (j) a Olip born Županc (1913–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Jurij / Georg Pasterk (1903–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Angela Piskernik (1886–1967), Austrian-Yugoslav botanist and conservationist
- Franc Weinzierl (1912–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Erich Silla (1925–2002), politician
- Michael Županc, Marija's brother (1909–1943), resistance fighter against National Socialism
literature
- Marktgemeinde Eisenkappel-Vellach (Ed.): 700 years of the Eisenkappel market . Publishing house of the History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1968.
- Wilhelm Baum: Persmanhof 1945. Protocols of a Nazi war crime . Kitab-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-902878-13-7
- Josef / Jože Till: Discover Bad Eisenkappel and its churches / Spoznavanje Železne Kaple in njenih cerkva . Klagenfurt / Celovec u. a. 2013. ISBN 978-3-7086-0733-7
Web links
- 20804 - Eisenkappel-Vellach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Market town of Eisenkappel-Vellach
- Peršmanhof Memorial Museum
- Oldtimermuseum (and Stollen and Buschenschenke 'Zum Florian')
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ Statistical information based on municipal data , as of 2001 census from Statistics Austria
- ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Eisenkappel-Vellach: Mayor for the first time for Slovenian standard list , March 15, 2009 ( memo of November 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed March 18, 2009.
- ↑ a b quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 80.
- ↑ Gallery opening credits
- ↑ Little church in Bad Eisenkappel , see also K. Grafschafter: That's the custom in Carinthia . Heyn, Klagenfurt 1999, p. 22 f.
- ↑ e5 communities in Austria as of March 2019
- ↑ Marktgemeinde Eisenkappel-Vellach, Education / Facilities. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Marktgemeinde Eisenkappel-Vellach, Health / Social Affairs, Doctors. Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Caritas Carinthia, Gregorhof. (pdf) Retrieved June 23, 2019 .
