Beer tree at the safe
Bierbaum an der Safen is a cadastral municipality in the Bad Blumau municipality in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district ( Styria ) in Austria . The village of Bierbaum has 228 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).
geography
The Safen flows through the municipality, which then flows into the Lafnitz .
history
The first written mention, as "Pirpoum", is dated 1265. For 1597 a Weistum (rural legal source) is documented for Bierbaum . In 1707 the Kurucs , rebellious opponents of the Habsburg claims to rule, also invaded Bierbaum; Large parts of Eastern Styria were devastated under the leaders.
Before 1740, the Lafnitz , which formed the border between Styria and Hungary , was directed by Count Batthyány in the area of Rohrbrunn Castle into the river bed of the Lobenbach. As a result, numerous pieces of land owned by the Bierbaum farmers, which Count Batthyány wanted to appropriate, were on the Hungarian side of the Lafnitz. Between 1741 and 1745 Graf Batthyány took the farmers so that around 200 yoke plots from. As a result, long-term lawsuits developed between the farmers and Count Batthyány, which resulted in robbery and murder. On the orders of Empress Maria Theresa , a court of arbitration was set up, which met in Vienna on April 27, 1748 and awarded the grounds beyond the Lafnitz to Hungary. In 1754 there were 26 chaste people and 13 resident houses in Bierbaum . For the vineyards in the Rohrbrunn and (German) Kaltenbrunn mountains, the farmers had to pay taxes to the Batthyány rulership.
According to written records, the community residents had to pay community taxes for the first time in 1799. From 1848 the farmers could freely dispose of the land. In 1868 the community built a mill , which was the largest in the entire Safental valley. In 1880 the Bierbaum community built the village chapel.
With the opening of today's thermal railway from Fürstenfeld to Hartberg on October 18, 1891, Bierbaum was connected to the railway network and had a connection to Graz . Bierbaum was also the branch station of the local railway to Neudau . With the opening of the alternating railway from Hartberg to Friedberg on October 15, 1905 and from Friedberg to Aspang on October 12, 1910, Bierbaum also had a rail connection to Vienna .
In 1893 the volunteer fire brigade was founded .
Although there was no fighting in Bierbaum during the two world wars, these also claimed their victims among the population. The chronicle reports seven fallen men for the First World War and seven dead and eight missing for the Second World War .
In 1968 the previously independent communities of Bierbaum an der Lafnitz, Blumau, Kleinsteinbach (with the districts Speilbrunn, Obergfangen and Untergfangen) and Lindegg (with the districts Jobst and Loimeth) were merged to form the large community of Blumau in Styria .
economy
In the place, the agricultural-peasant structure is predominant.
Culture and sights
Bierbaum was originally laid out as a fortified village with typical narrow streets and fronts of houses that protrude or recede . Parts of the former village complex are still visible today. Some well-preserved four-sided courtyards typical of the area can also be seen in their old, original construction.
On the Weinbergweg between Bierbaum an der Safen and Loimeth , the 1000-year-old Oak Bad Blumau stands on the grounds of the Schmidt couple.
Web links
- 62202 - Bierbaum at the Safen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Bad Blumau tourist office: www.bad-blumau.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Municipality of Bad Blumau: Bierbaum , accessed on August 9, 2018
Coordinates: 47 ° 6 ' N , 16 ° 4' E