Berg im Drautal

Berg im Drautal
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Spittal an der Drau
License plate :	SP
Surface:	54.24 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 45 '  N , 13 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 44 '56 "  N , 13 ° 7' 52"  E
Height :	692  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,268 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	23 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9771
Primaries :	0 47 12
Community code :	2 06 03
Address of the municipal administration:	No. 121 9771 Berg im Drautal
Website:	berg-drautal.gv.at
politics
mayor	Wolfgang Krenn ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2015 ) (15 members)	6 ÖVP , 4 BFB, 3 UBL, 2 SPÖ 6th 4th 3 2 6th 4th 3 2  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 6 BFB : 4 UBL : 3 SPÖ : 2
Location of Berg im Drautal in the Spittal an der Drau district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Berg parish church

Filial church hl. Athanasius

Berg im Drautal is a municipality with 1268 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Spittal an der Drau district in Carinthia .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in the upper Drautal between the Gailtal Alps with the Jauken (up to 2276  m ) in the south and the north-facing mountain slope of the Kreuzeck group (up to 2784  m ). The Drautal Straße (B 100) runs through the municipality and connects Berg with the district capital Spittal an der Drau (approx. 40 km east) and with Lienz in East Tyrol (approx. 35 km to the west).

Community structure

Berg im Drautal is divided into the three cadastral communities Berg, Emberg and Goppelsberg. The municipality includes the following nine localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Mountain (742)
• Ebenberg (9)
• Emberg (131)
• Emberger Alm (13)
• Feistritz (128)
• Frallach (72)
• Goppelsberg (37)
• Oberberg (82)
• Final (54)

Neighboring communities

Dellach in the Drautal		Greifenburg
Dellach (Gailtal)		Kirchbach

history

The first documentary mention of the village of Berg im Drautal - as well as most of the localities in today's municipality - was made in 1267/68 as "Perige" in the register of ownership rights ( Urbar ) of the princely castle Greifenburg and around the same time in the register of the Berg parish church. The origin of the place name Berg can be found in mining , since silver and copper mining existed near Draßnitz north of Dellach and in Gnoppnitz. The earliest finds are traces of a Roman road that led to the mining town of Gurina in the Gail Valley, which has been known since pre-Celtic times . Parts of this street can still be seen in the “Römersteig” along the southern slope of the Jauken . The place gained its early importance mainly through the former pilgrimage church branch church St. Athanasius .

In 1849, the cadastral communities Berg and Goppelsberg were initially united to form the local community Berg. Emberg initially remained an independent local community, but was incorporated after the Carinthian municipal code was passed in 1864. Today's community name "Berg im Drautal" was set on July 1, 1965.

population

According to the 2001 census, Berg im Drautal has 1,373 inhabitants, 97.9% of whom are Austrian citizens. 93.2% of the population profess to the Roman Catholic Church, 2.5% to the Evangelical Church and 1.9% are of the Islamic faith. 1.5% of the population is non-denominational.

The community has had a fairly balanced population over the past 150 years. It rose from 1,020 in 1869 to just under 1,400 in the period 1970 to 2000. Since then, despite the positive birth balance , the population has declined slightly due to the negative migration balance .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Berg im Drautal

• The parish church of Mariae Birth , located above the mountain, is a late Romanesque building that was first mentioned in 1267. In the second half of the 15th century it was expanded into a fortified church, whereby the original shape of the tower and the nave were also changed.
• The Roman Catholic branch church of St. Athanasius (St. Athanas near Berg) is located south of the village not far from Drautalstrasse in a flat field. It was first mentioned in 1443 and was probably built on a very old sanctuary. Inside the church there are fragments of Roman tombstone inscriptions. In 1485 it was consecrated to St. Nonosius by the Bishop of Caorle . Nonnosus veneration in Upper Carinthia, which is documented for St. Peter in Holz near Lendorf and for Molzbichl , goes back to Christianization from Freising in Bavaria. Nonnosus is still a patron saint in Freising Cathedral today . Later Nonnosus was replaced by St. Athanasen. The church used to be a popular pilgrimage church.

The non-profit association Stella Carinthia was founded when the Emberger Hochalm above the district of Emberg proved to be an ideal astronomical observation site. The Astro Association built a public observatory there and holds the international telescope meeting on the Emberger Alm every autumn .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Berg im Drautal has 15 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

• 6 ÖVP
• 4 mountain for mountain
• 3 Independent Berger List
• 2 SPÖ

The directly elected mayor from 1997 to 2018 was Ferdinand Hueter (ÖVP). After Hueter's resignation in April 2018, the first Vice Mayor Wolfgang Krenn (ÖVP) took over the official business. In the mayoral election on June 24, 2018 with the candidates Wolfgang Krenn (ÖVP), Gerhard Mentil (Berger for Berg) and Wolfgang Hassler (SPÖ), Wolfgang Krenn emerged victorious with around 63 percent of the votes.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was selected from a large number of designs by a vote of the population and awarded to the municipality on March 16, 1989. The official blazon of the coat of arms reads:

"In green, with two laterally jagged and swinging-connected points below the main base of the silver head of the shield, a silver, black-open Romanesque-Gothic church with a steep tower and an adjoining silver Romanesque round barn, accompanied at the front by a silver three-pronged crown, at the back by a silver miter crossed by a silver bishop's and cross with ribbons; a silver wavy bar in the base of the shield. "

The green ground sign indicates the abundance of forests in the municipality, the silver wavy band the Drau. The “local mountain” of the community, the Jauken, is indicated by the stylized silhouette in the head of the shield. In the heart of the coat of arms, the parish church of the Birth of the Virgin Mary is shown with one of the numerous Romanesque round barn from the time the church was built. The crown stands for the Marian patronage of the church, the bishop's cap with bishop's and cross staff for Saint Nonnosus, an early Christian local saint to whom the church in the valley floor was originally consecrated (it was not until the 17th century that Athanasius was determined to be the church's patron saint).

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

Partner municipality

• Lohfelden (Germany), since June 25, 1988

Personalities

• Johann Hufnagel (1909–1991), long-distance hiker
• Erika Seywald (* 1955), painter
• Alois Hotschnig (* 1959), writer
• Ferdinand Hueter (* 1960), politician
• Carmen Thalmann (* 1989), ski racer

Web links

Commons : Berg im Drautal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Berg im Drautal municipality
• 20603 - Berg im Drautal. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ In Spiegel der Zeiten on the Hotel Glocknerhof page, accessed on February 19, 2014
3. ^ Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 3, 2019 . 
4. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Berg im Drautal, population development. Retrieved March 3, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Dehio Kärnten , Vienna 1976, pp. 51–52.
6. ↑ Johannes Grabmayer: Popular belief and popular piety in late medieval Carinthia. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-205-05550-0 , p. 104.
7. ↑ Feriensternwarte Emberger Alm on the ÖAW website, accessed on October 8, 2012.
8. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Berg im Drautal: Berg has to look for a new boss . Article dated April 4, 2018, accessed April 4, 2018.
9. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Three candidates are behind the intercommunal medical center . Article dated June 7, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018.
10. ↑ Clear ÖVP election victory in Berg im Drautal: Wolfgang Krenn is mayor . OTS notification dated June 24, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018.
11. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Clear election victory for Wolfgang Krenn . Article dated June 24, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018.
12. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 60.