Berg (municipality of Köflach)

Mountain ( scattered settlement )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg , Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Köflach   ( KG  Gradenberg-Piber )
Coordinates	47 ° 6 '8 "  N , 15 ° 1' 47"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '8 "  N , 15 ° 1' 47"  E
height	923  m above sea level A.
Post Code	8593 Koeflach
Primaries	+ 43 / (0) 3144
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Degrees (61631)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Berg is a scattered settlement in the Voitsberg district in western Styria , which is located in the municipality of Köflach .

Place name and geography

The name Berg is probably derived from the Middle High German bėre for mountain slope , mountain or hill . The place name means something like settlement on the mountain .

The place is located in the northeast of the municipality of Köflach , on a hill in the south of the cadastral municipality of Gradenberg-Piber .

history

It was first mentioned in a document as am Perg in 1541. Berg was a high medieval clearing area and at that time consisted of individual farms and wastelands. The inhabitants of the place belonged to the manor and the advertising district of the Piber rule until 1848 .

With the constitution of the free parishes in 1850, Berg came to the free local parish of Graden- Piber. On January 1, 2015, Graden was merged with the municipality of Köflach as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform.

Economy and Infrastructure

The place is mainly agricultural. There is also the Bergwirt, a hotel and restaurant, which was expanded in the 1970s and expanded to include an indoor swimming pool and a disco.

Buildings

There are several pillar shrines in Berg. The Pongritz Cross was erected in the 18th century as a plague cross and has a niche with a Lourdes Madonna made of plaster, which is now under a glass cover. The stump in the mountain cross is also a former plague cross from the 18th century and shows a picture of the Immaculate Heart of Mary . The stump in the village cross is also a plague cross from the 18th century and is now used as a processional cross. The Bäckkreuz, built in 1965 at the Bergwirt's Wolfleitenweg, serves as a place for May devotions as well as for the consecration of meat and its niche temporarily houses a Baroque Pietà on festive occasions .

literature

• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 23-24 .

Web links

• 61631 - Köflach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 23 .