Spittal an der Drau district

location
Basic data
state	Carinthia
NUTS III region	AT-212
Administrative headquarters	Spittal an der Drau
surface	2764 km²
Residents	75,868 (January 1, 2020)
Population density	27 inhabitants / km²
License Plate	SP
website	www.bh-spittal.ktn.gv.at
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The Spittal an der Drau district is a political district in the Austrian state of Carinthia . The district administration is based in Spittal an der Drau .

geography

With an area of 2,763.99 km², the district is by far the largest district in Carinthia, after the Liezen district in Styria the second largest district in Austria and larger than the federal state of Vorarlberg . It is essentially congruent with the region known as Upper Carinthia in the north and west of the state. The region is shaped in the north and west by the mountains of the Hohe Tauern , whose numerous three-thousand-meter peaks are among the highest peaks in Austria, on the one hand, and the plain of the Upper Drautal as well as Mölltal , Maltatal and Liesertal on the other. Two of the four large lakes in Carinthia are located in the east and south of the district, Millstätter See and Weißensee .

The Spittal an der Drau district borders East Tyrol in the west and the state of Salzburg in the north .

Adjacent local authorities

Zell am See	Sankt Johann im Pongau , Tamsweg	Murau
Lienz		Feldkirchen
	Hermagor	Villach-Land

Administrative division

The Spittal an der Drau district is divided into 33 communities, including three towns and ten market communities . The population figures are from January 1st, 2020.

Municipalities in the Spittal an der Drau district

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria - List for Carinthia (PDF)

local community	Slovenian	Ew	km²	Ew / km²	Judicial district	Type	Metadata
Bad Kleinkirchheim		1,711	74.01	23	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20601
Baldramsdorf		1,862	37.98	49	Spittal an der Drau	local community	Acc. To code: 20602
Berg im Drautal		1,268	54.24	23	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20603
Dellach in the Drautal		1,590	76.09	21st	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20604
Flat flat		1,188	98.85	12	Spittal an der Drau	local community	Acc. To code: 20607
Gmünd in Carinthia	Sovodenj	2,550	31.55	81	Spittal an der Drau	urban community	Acc. To code: 20608
Greifenburg		1,733	76.22	23	Spittal an der Drau	market community	Acc. To code: 20609
Großkirchheim		1.310	109.51	12	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20605
Heiligenblut am Großglockner	Sveta Kri	997	193.15	5.2	Spittal an der Drau	local community	Acc. To code: 20610
Irschen		1,966	33.43	59	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20611
Kleblach-Lind		1,170	62.99	19th	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20613
Krems in Carinthia		1,661	207.48	8th	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20642
Lendorf		1,703	34.37	50	Spittal an der Drau	local community	Acc. To code: 20616
Lurnfeld	Lurnsko Polje	2,679	33	81	Spittal an der Drau	market community	Acc. To identification: 20643
Mallnitz	Malnice	762	111.73	6.8	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20618
Malta		1.936	262.02	7.4	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20619
Millstatt am See	Milje	3,436	57.74	60	Spittal an der Drau	market community	Acc. To code: 20620
Mortschach		824	74.73	11	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20622
Mühldorf	Mlinče	1.007	24.42	41	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20624
Oberdrauburg		1,188	69.92	17th	Spittal an der Drau	market community	According to code: 20625
Obervellach	Zgornja Bela	2,171	104.4	21st	Spittal an der Drau	market community	According to code: 20627
Radenthein	Radenče	5,782	89.3	65	Spittal an der Drau	urban community	Acc. To code: 20630
Rangersdorf		1,705	84.28	20th	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20631
Reisseck		2,101	139.71	15th	Spittal an der Drau	local community	Acc. To identification: 20644
Rennweg on Katschberg		1,740	120.48	14th	Spittal an der Drau	market community	According to code: 20632
Sachsenburg		1,322	42.59	31	Spittal an der Drau	market community	According to code: 20633
Seeboden on Lake Millstatt	Jezernica	6,506	44.44	146	Spittal an der Drau	market community	According to code: 20634
Spittal an der Drau	Špital ob Dravi	15,300	48.57	315	Spittal an der Drau	urban community	According to code: 20635
barn		1,524	96.46	16	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20636
Steinfeld		2,039	81.33	25th	Spittal an der Drau	market community	According to code: 20637
Trebesing	Trebežinče	1,162	73.79	16	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20638
Weissensee		761	78.11	9.7	Spittal an der Drau	local community	According to code: 20639
Winklern		1,214	37.2	33	Spittal an der Drau	market community	According to code: 20640

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Population development

The population is currently 76,248 inhabitants (2018). This means that since the high of 81,719 in 2001, more than 5,000 people, almost 7%, have been lost. Only 5 of the 33 municipalities were able to gain residents. First and foremost, Seeboden due to its proximity to the district town of Spittal, its location on Lake Millstatt and a nursing home . Winklern and Mühldorf also prove that a nursing home brings residents. There was still a slight increase in Millstatt and Baldramsdorf. The three municipalities with the greatest declines are Krems (over 20%) and Mallnitz and Mörtschach with just under 20%.

The Mölltal - home to many tunnel builders

The population decline is expected to continue. One reason are students who do not return to their home community due to a lack of jobs. Other reasons are the low average income and the high unemployment rate :

Average income

Unemployment rate

A special feature is that a particularly large number of men from the Mölltal work in tunnel construction . In 2011 around 50 workers from the small community of Stall were involved in the construction of the Bosruck tunnel . Mölltalers have been working in tunnel construction across Europe for generations.

economy

The economy in the Spittal district has a clear focus on tourism , and the production sector is also above average, with a particularly strong construction industry .

Economic structure

The proportion of the population who works in agriculture and forestry corresponds to the Carinthian average. The production sector, where 30.1% of the population is active (2017), is more pronounced, while the service sector is less developed:

Spittal

Carinthia

Austria

In the Spittal / Drau district, the proportion of out- commuters is very high; almost a third of those in employment have their job in another district. In contrast, the proportion of inbound commuters is relatively low at 15%.

Almabtrieb in Bad Kleinkirchheim

Agriculture and Forestry

In agriculture, the focus is on cattle farming , the basis of which is grassland management . Almost a third of the 150,000 hectares of grassland in Carinthia are in the Spittal district. The alpine management is particularly well developed . At 30,000 19,625 ha Almfutterflächen be LU 285 dairymen held (state 2017). As in all Carinthian districts, both the number of farms (to 1,636, a decrease of 1.7% compared to 2016) and the number of cattle kept (37,217 in 2017, minus 1.1% compared to 2016) are also decreasing in Spittal ).

In forestry, the sale of coniferous wood is the main source of income due to the altitude. In 2017, 442,606 solid cubic meters of wood were sold, of which over 99% (440,064 solid cubic meters) was softwood.

Wood processing in the Drautal (Sachsenburg)

Industry / manufacturing, manufacturing of goods

The top 5 industrial companies in the Spittal an der Drau district are (as of 2017):

RHI Magnesita in Radenthein: headquarters in Vienna, manufacture of refractory materials
Strabag AG in Spittal / Drau: Head office in Vienna, international company in the construction industry
Merck KG in Spittal: Headquarters in Darmstadt, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, biotech
Noritec Holzindustrie GmbH in Sachsenburg: Part of Hasslacher Holding GmbH, wood processing
Kärntnermilch reg.Gen.mbH in Spittal: milk and milk products

Number of establishments per municipality

While there is only a small number of large companies, the proportion of small and very small companies is high compared to other Carinthian districts.

Swimming at Lake Millstatt

Ice skating on the Weissensee

tourism

Tourism is an important part of the economy in the Spittal / Drau district. Almost 4 million of the 13 million overnight stays in Carinthia were in Spittal (figures for the 2017 financial year). The distribution among the individual municipalities is quite different:

Overnight stays in the tourism year 2017 (in thousands)

The main attractions are the two large lakes Millstätter See and Weißensee, as well as the ski areas such as Bad Kleinkirchheim, Katschberg and Heiligenblut. The Hohe Tauern National Park and the Nockberge Biosphere Park are also largely located in the district. Despite this diversity, the development in tourism is below the average for Carinthia and Austria:

Development of overnight stays

Magnesite mining in Radenthein

Mining

Magnesite has been mined in Radenthein for more than 100 years . The mineral is used on site by RHI Magnesita for the production of refractory materials . In underground mining, 11 employees mine 67,995 t of magnesite (as of 2016).

Tauernbahn, Falkenstein Bridge

Infrastructure / traffic

Railway: The Drautalbahn , which runs from Maribor to Innichen , runs across the district from east to west . At Spittal an der Drau station, the Tauernbahn turns off, which runs via Mallnitz and the Tauern tunnel through the Gastein Valley to Schwarzach-St. Veit leads.
Road: The Tauern Autobahn comes from Salzburg in the north through the Katschberg into the district, leads past Millstätter See and Spittal into the Drautal and further south to Villach . Important federal roads are the Drautalstraße , which connects Villach via Spittal with Lienz , the Mölltalstraße from Möllbrücke to Winklern, and the Großglockner Straße from Lienz via Winklern to Heiligenblut, where it continues as the Großglockner High Alpine Road through the Hohe Tauern National Park via the Hochtor (2,504 m) leads to Salzburg.