Kapfenberg

Borough Kapfenberg
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag
License plate :	BM
Surface:	82.08 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 26 '  N , 15 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '22 "  N , 15 ° 17' 22"  E
Height :	502  m above sea level A.
Residents :	22,380 (January 1, 2021)
Postcodes :	8600, 8605, 8641, 8642
Area code :	03862
Community code :	6 21 40
Address of the municipal administration:	Koloman-Wallisch-Platz 1 8605 Kapfenberg
Website:	kapfenberg.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Friedrich Kratzer ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2020) (31 members)	19th 6th 3 2 1 19th 6th 3 2 1  A total of 31 seats SPÖ : 19 ÖVP : 6 FPÖ : 3 KPÖ : 2 List of socially just Kapfenberg : 1
Location of Kapfenberg in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district
Overview: Kapfenberg in the Mürz Valley
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

With 22,380 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2021), Kapfenberg is the third largest city in the Austrian state of Styria and the largest city in the judicial district of Bruck an der Mur and in the political district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag . The city lies between Kindberg and Bruck an der Mur on the river Mürz in Mürztal . As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , Kapfenberg was merged with the formerly independent municipality Parschlug on January 1, 2015 . The area of ​​the municipality is largely shaped by the forest, which makes up around 66% of the municipality's area.

The city, which was first mentioned in a document in 1145, became known primarily for its local steel industry. The proximity to the Styrian Erzberg and sufficient hydropower allowed several hammer mills to be built here as early as the 15th century . Especially since the Böhler brothers took over the factories - today all owned by voestalpine AG - in 1894, the world reputation as a steel city was established. Today the focus is on the production of highly special steel alloys for tools, medical technology, aviation and alloy powder for additive manufacturing (metal 3D printing). Kapfenberg's importance as an industrial city has increased due to new high-tech companies, including Pankl Racing; the local businesses are among the most important employers in the region.

Oberkapfenberg Castle , first mentioned in a document in 1173, sits enthroned above the town and one of the largest knight festivals in Austria takes place here every year. The castle, which was restored in the years after 1992, and a wide range of sports facilities are the focus of the town's tourist activities.

geography

Geographical location

Kapfenberg is located as the crow flies about 43 kilometers north of the Styrian capital Graz and about 117 kilometers southwest of the Austrian capital Vienna.

The city is located in the southern section of the Mürz Valley between the Mürz Valley and the Fischbach Alps . In the Kapfenberg area, the Thörltal and Lamingtal flow into the Mürz Valley. The highest point is at 1583  m above sea level. A. the Floning , the lowest point at 483  m above sea level. A. is the Mürz on the municipal boundary of Bruck an der Mur, which flows about 1.2 kilometers downstream into the Mur .

Extension and structure of the municipal area

Cadastral communities of Kapfenberg

Before the merger with Parschlug in 2015, the area of ​​the municipality was 6,122.79 hectares. The municipal boundary was 45.1 kilometers in circumference. The extension of the municipality in north-south direction was about 8 kilometers and in east-west direction about 12.4 kilometers.

The municipality includes the following 16 localities (residents as of January 1, 2021):

• Arndorf (343)
• Deuchendorf (5440)
• Diemlach (2104)
• Desolate (83)
• Goritz (601)
• Hafendorf (6226)
• Kapfenberg (3162)
• Krottendorf (164)
• Parschlug (1135)
• Ponegg (9)
• Poetschach (83)
• Pötschen (45)
• Saint Martin (2361)
• Schörgendorf (141)
• Bridge (36)
• Winkl (447)

Kapfenberg has been divided into 15 cadastral communities (KG) since 2015 , which are essentially divided into the three valleys of Mürz, Laming and Thörlbach:

• With 181.64 hectares, Arndorf is the smallest KG in Kapfenberg and is located in the Lamingtal. 75% of the area is forested. Formerly Arpindorf (named after the Count Palatine Aribo, who received the village as a gift in 1020), Arndorf has largely retained its village character.
• Deuchendorf , originally a sparsely populated and mainly agricultural KG (588.77 ha), owns a few larger housing estates and several farms.Since 1939, the districts of Schirmitzbühel and Apfelmoar have emerged, which have developed into a kind of satellite town in the last few decades . The constantly expanding Euromarkt shopping center is located on the border with Sankt Lorenzen in the Mürz Valley .
• KG Diemlach (230.00 ha) consists largely of the former factory premises of Felten & Guilleaume AG, the freight station, some settlements and the Diemlachkogel ( 714  m above sea level ).
• Einöd (830.59 ha) is 92% mountainous and forested. The highest point of Kapfenberg and the Rettenwand Cave are located here with the Floning .
• Göritz has belonged to Kapfenberg since the Styrian municipal structural reform in 2015 (see also the former Parschlug municipality ).
• KG Hafendorf (467.40 ha) underwent a fundamental change in the last century. While they used to be extremely sparsely populated and the areas were mostly used for agriculture, the KG has now become the most densely populated in Kapfenberg. The former name Hafner village is an indication of the Hafner craft , which was located here. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, the construction of the Hochschwabsiedlung began in 1938 under the National Socialists (apart from the mountain group of the same name, it was named after a National Socialist underground group from the period of illegality from 1933 to 1938). The Walfersam settlement was established in 1965.
• In the KG Kapfenberg (412.08 hectares) are the old (old town with main square) and the new center (Europaplatz) of the city, the Schlossberg with the castle and the sports center.

Krottendorf Castle, lith. Around 1830, JF Kaiser, Graz

• Krottendorf (332.63 ha) is named after the castle of the same name, originally a moated castle . Plant VI of Böhler is located on most of the development area. The FH Joanneum , among others, is currently housed in the buildings of Plant VI that are no longer required .
• Parschlug has belonged to Kapfenberg since the Styrian municipal structural reform in 2015.
• The area of ​​KG Pötschen (242.36 ha), the most originally preserved KG, is 62% forested. There are some large farms in it.
• Pötschach (265.28 ha) contains part of Plant VI, most of which belongs to Krottendorf (see below). In addition, an industrial park with 150,000 m² is being built here on the former site of the Böhler company.
• Schörgendorf consists of 60% of the area (560.57 ha) of forest. The original name of Schörgendorf was Schergendorf, i.e. the village with a village judge .
• The area of ​​KG St. Martin (327.06 ha) is the oldest settlement center in the city. The municipal cemetery is located around the Church of St. Martin. In the middle of the nineteenth century the Kurhotel Steinerhof and the neighboring Fürstenhof with an attached hydropathic institute were located here, but they were given up with the expansion of steel production and the resulting air pollution. The western part of the Hochschwabsiedlung and the Redfeld district are also located in this KG.
• With 767.16 hectares of forest and a total area of ​​824.92 hectares, Stegg is the most heavily wooded KG. In the south of the KG, Tragößerstraße L 111 leads to Sankt Katharein an der Laming and Tragöß .
• With an area of ​​859.48 ha, Winkl is the largest KG in Kapfenberg. This is where the main part of the Böhler main plant is located.

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Panoramic view from Oberkapfenberg Castle: Mürz Valley downwards - Thörlbachtal towards Floning - Mürz Valley upwards

Neighboring communities

Thörl	Turnau
Tragöß-Sankt Katharein		St. Lorenzen
	Bruck	St. Marein

geology

The Mürz Valley, bounded in the north by the Mürz Valley Alps and in the south by the Fischbach Alps, is widened like a basin between Mürzhofen and Kapfenberg and is part of the Noric Depression . In the north and south of the valley, young tertiary sediments of the inner-alpine Tertiary are stored , which are bound to the so-called Mur-Mürz furrow, a tectonic weak zone (lineament). The terraces in the valley area, made of sand and gravel, have a small thickness of up to ten meters; the strip of the floodplain varies in width. A closed body of groundwater runs within the Quaternary sediments , which is connected to the Mürz in many places and is fed by the mountain ranges.

climate

Climate diagram of Kapfenberg

Kapfenberg is located in the temperate continental climate zone and belongs to the Styrian climatic region of Mürz Valley, which extends to Mürzzuschlag . The long-term monthly mean temperature fluctuates between −2.3 ° C in January and 17.8 ° C in July. The average annual temperature is 8.1 ° C. The area has little wind, especially in winter, and is therefore prone to fog ( high fog often occurs ). This significantly affects the duration of sunshine in winter and can be less than 30 percent in valleys.

In summer there is a clear maximum precipitation in relation to the course of the year. Most of the precipitation falls in July with an average of 111 mm, the lowest in February with an average of 32 mm. The average annual precipitation is 796 mm. Precipitation fields often reach the area via the Hochschwab in the main Alpine ridge .

story

Prehistory and early history as well as antiquity

The first permanent settlements in the area of ​​the Rettenwandhöhle (5000–3000 BC) and the Ofenberger Höhle in the Stollingergraben can be traced back to the Neolithic Age . These settlements expanded and in the Bronze Age already included the Mürz Valley along the municipalities of Kapfenberg, Wartberg and Kindberg. From the second century BC, this area belonged to the Kingdom of Noricum , which became part of the Roman Empire around 45 AD under the emperor Claudius as the province of Noricum . A first Roman post office was built with the name Poedicum (Bruck an der Mur). Most of the settlements were abandoned after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

During the Great Migration , Slavs settled the almost deserted land and founded smaller settlements and farms. Many names of districts and areas (e.g. Schinitz, Pötschen, Diemlach and others) go back to this.

middle Ages

Settlement from the Bavarian area

Coat of arms of the Lords of Stubenberg

In the 7th century the tribes of the so-called Alpine Slavs merged with Romanesque settlers and other residual groups to form the new tribe of the Carantans . Settlers from the Bavarian region also came to the area. In the middle of the 8th century, the Duchy of Bavaria took control of Carantania. Towards the end of the century, Bavaria was incorporated into the Franconian Empire . Around 890 AD the area around Kapfenberg fell to the Hungarian Empire during the Hungarian invasions . About 60 years later, in 955, the Hungarians were expelled again by King Otto the Great after the battle on the Lechfeld , and new settlements began again from the Bavarian-Franconian area.

The Stubenbergs and the establishment of the Oberkapfenberg Castle

Many areas of today's localities of Kapfenberg were subsequently given as fiefs to various noble families. The most important lords in the following centuries were the Counts of Stubenberg , who built Oberkapfenberg Castle. The fact that the Mürz valley upstream and downstream as well as the Thörl valley can be easily observed from the castle and that the Mürz valley is naturally narrowed below the castle hill explains the strategically good location of the location. Around 1173 the name Chastrum chaffenberch (castle on the lookout mountain ) was mentioned for the first time in a document.

Due to the fortified location, a larger settlement soon emerged below the castle. The paths through the Mürz Valley became part of a trade connection that was important for trade in Italy up to the most recent history. At the beginning of the 13th century, the Stubenbergs built a toll station to finance the maintenance of these paths and two bridges over the Mürz. The course of the thoroughfare was also changed, making it possible for craftsmen to continue to settle along the road.

Chapfinberch market

Oberkapfenberg Castle in 2007

A few quiet years passed and Kapfenberg was promoted to market. However, it is unclear whether this was done by the king according to the laws of the time or whether the Stubenbergers themselves took out the right to raise Kapfenberg to the status of a market. Was mentioned in a document Chapfinberch as the market for the first time in 1256 and was henceforth clearly recognized as such. With Haertel the judge , a market judge was named for the first time in a document from 1328 , who was appointed by the Stubenbergers.

After that, the rule of the Babenbergs began in Styria . After their early retirement, after some turmoil, the country fell to King Ottokar II of Bohemia in 1260 . He tried to get hold of many estates and lands, arrested some princes in 1268 and had their castles razed. Wulfing von Stubenberg and Oberkapfenberg Castle were among them. However, it is believed that only parts of the castle were razed and that it was not completely destroyed. However, around 1269, Wulfing von Stubenberg had today's Oberkapfenberg Castle built at a different location below the uninhabitable castle. The Loreto Chapel stands on the site of the old castle. After the death of King Ottokar, the Styrian nobles and with them the Stubenberg King Rudolf from the House of Habsburg swore allegiance.

Modern times

Start of iron processing

Iron hammer in the 16th century

In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Stubenbergs were able to further expand their influence and property under the rule of the Habsburgs. At this time, the first hammer mills were built in the area (from 1446), the forerunners of the steel industry that had been based in the 19th century. The pig iron was transported from Vordernberg to Kapfenberg for this purpose. There was sufficient water power and forests for the production of charcoal for the hammer mills. The second half of the 15th century brought difficult years for the population. The invasion of the Ottomans , the war against the Hungarians around 1480, who occupied Oberkapfenberg Castle until 1491, a plague of locusts, the plague and famine plagued the people.

In February 1526, the citizens of Kapfenberg received from the Stubenbergs the right to democratically elect twelve councilors and a market judge. Until then, the market judge had always been appointed by the market owners.

Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Kapfenberg from the southeast, lith. around 1830, JF Kaiser, Graz

Wieden Castle, lith. around 1830, JF Kaiser, Graz

When Protestantism spread in German-speaking countries in the 16th century , the Lords of Stubenberg and a large part of the Kapfenberg population also turned away from the Catholic Church. This led to conflicts with the strictly Catholic sovereigns.

In the course of the Counter Reformation in the 17th century, Protestant citizens and nobles were punished or expelled. Georg von Stubenberg, Herr von Kapfenberg, therefore had to emigrate to Regensburg in Bavaria with his wife in 1629 , where he died in 1630 and was buried in the Petersfriedhof. The cemetery with all the monuments was destroyed by the Bavarian occupation troops as early as 1632, but Georg von Stubenberg's grave plate has been preserved and can be found today in the ambassadorial cemetery at the Trinity Church as part of the Stubenberg epitaph . He left the rule of Kapfenberg to his Catholic great-nephews Georg and Wolf. Wolf von Stubenberg obtained from Emperor Ferdinand III. In 1647, in return for his services, he was awarded a coat of arms for the market in Khapffenberg . In this century, wars against the Turks and several plague epidemics threatened the lives of the Kapfenberg population.

The danger of plague persecuted people from the beginning of the 18th century until 1716. After that there were no more plague diseases in Styria. The expansion of the road over the Semmering in 1728 had a very positive effect on the economic development of the craft trade in Kapfenberg and on the income from the toll. Due to the increasing density of buildings, there were repeated major fire disasters, of which in 1733 almost the entire market was destroyed. When the Lords of Stubenberg built Wieden Castle in the valley in 1739 and moved there, the unused castle began to fall into disrepair. At that time there were already several smaller and larger hammer mills in Kapfenberg, the most important of which were the Höllhammer, Erlachhammer and Hammer an der Laming. Since the hammer mills had an increased need for coal, hard coal was also mined in Winkl from 1759. Furthermore, the construction of paved roads and the sewer system began.

Construction of the southern runway and the establishment of the Kapfenberg community

At the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century, during the French Wars, French soldiers came to Upper Styria and Kapfenberg several times (1797, 1799, 1800, 1805 and 1809). In addition to the consequences of the wars, the population also suffered from several severe floods and fire disasters in the 19th century. In 1814, for example, 61 of the total of 97 houses were destroyed in a major fire. In 1819 the now dilapidated castle was further destroyed by a partial demolition, as stones were needed for the construction of a city theater in Bruck an der Mur. When the state began to build the southern line, the railway line was built in Kapfenberg from 1841 and the first post office was built at the station in 1848. With the completion of the southern line in 1857, people and goods could be transported by rail from Kapfenberg to the Mediterranean port of Trieste and to Vienna.

On March 18, 1850, the local community of Kapfenberg was created through the amalgamation of the communities of Markt Kapfenberg, Arndorf, Berndorf, Diemlach, Einöd, Pötschen, Schörgendorf, St. Martin, Stegg and Winkl, and the first local council was elected on July 20, 1850. The first mayor was Wolfgang Graf von Stubenberg.

Contemporary history

Start of industrialization in the steel town and foundation of the Böhler works

Albert Böhler (around 1890)

Siemens-Martin furnace

In the second half of the 19th century, industrialization of iron and steel processing began in Kapfenberg. In 1854 Franz Mayr acquired several hammer mills in Kapfenberg; Steam engines replaced the water wheels. Under the direction of Fridolin Reiser, a Siemens-Martin oven was built in 1859, the first in the German-speaking area. The meanwhile ennobled Franz Mayr von Melnhof sold the plant in 1872 to the Innerberger Main Union , which expanded it and sold it on to the Austrian-Alpine Montangesellschaft in 1881 . The annual production volume was 4,000 tons in 1891 and the factory employed around 500 workers. In addition to the Kapfenberg cast steel factory, other plants were also built. So in 1855 Hans Pengg bought the iron hammer in Einöd and called it Hansenhütte. Friedrich Bruno Andrieu built a steel and rolling mill in Diemlach, which was later sold to Felten & Guilleaume by his sons .

The steadily growing workforce began to organize itself from 1868 and founded the first workers' associations to protect their interests.

On January 29, 1894, the Böhler brothers bought the Kapfenberg cast steelworks and the associated properties for 800,000  guilders from the Alpine Montangesellschaft. The development of the community in the following decades was closely linked to the development of the Böhler works. In 1893 the local railway from Kapfenberg to Au-Seewiesen , the so-called Thörlerbahn , was opened. This gave the steelworks a better connection to the southern runway.

Expansion to an armaments location

The city and its residents benefited greatly from the defense industry of the First and Second World War . At the beginning of the 20th century, a number of structures were built to accommodate the growing number of inhabitants, which had doubled from around 3,000 to around 6,000 between 1869 and 1900. A few mansions for executives, many workers' housing estates, a spring water pipeline in 1900 and the first power station were built in 1900 and the street lighting was switched from oil to electricity. Due to the armaments requirement of the First World War, the workforce of the Böhlerwerke increased tenfold from 1900 to 1918 to 7500 employees. Among them, however, were prisoners of war, for whose accommodation special barracks were built. However, the workforce sank again after the end of the war to 2140 in 1924. In order to employ the large number of unemployed, the community had so-called emergency buildings built.

On October 21, 1918, a serious railway accident occurred in the entrance to Kapfenberg station . The express train No. 5 from Vienna to Ljubljana ran into a freight train and a front holiday train traveling in the opposite direction into the rubble of the accident site. 13 people died, 106 were also injured.

→ Main article : Kapfenberg railway accident

Elevation to the city and civil war

The town was raised on May 9, 1924 and, given the dreary situation, there were no major celebrations. In the years that followed, the great social hardship led to increasingly radical political conflicts in the form of demonstrations, strikes and riots. In 1929 the NSDAP held its state party conference in Kapfenberg. There were violent riots in works council elections in the Böhler works. On September 13, 1931, two people were killed, several people injured and Mayor Josef Schweighardt was imprisoned for several hours during the attempted putsch by the Heimwehr , the Pfrimer Putsch , in Kapfenberg. In the municipal council elections in April 1932, the NSDAP received two seats and there were already more than 1,000 unemployed in the city. In Diemlach the police discovered an arsenal of the Republican Protection Association and the National Socialists carried out several bomb attacks in the city. On February 12 and 13, 1934, violent fighting took place in Kapfenberg during the February uprising . In the armed conflict between the Schutzbund under the leadership of Koloman Wallisch and the gendarmerie and the armed forces, two people were killed and four people injured in Kapfenberg. Wallisch was arrested and executed in Leoben on February 19 . Around 40 members of the Schutzbund were tried in the following months for high treason and the Social Democratic Workers' Party was banned in Austria.

Construction of Plant VI and foundation of GEMYSAG and MVG

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938 , the industrial facilities were expanded and expanded to meet the requirements of massive military armament. Since the area around the main plant in the Thörlbach valley offered too little space, construction of Plant VI in the northeast of the city began. Additional underground tunnel systems, some of which are still preserved, were built so that production could continue there in an emergency. In addition, the Böhler company founded the Gemeinnützige-Mürz-Ybbs-Siedlungs-AG (GEMYSAG) in 1938, which began with the construction of the Hochschwabsiedlung. Furthermore, in 1943, with the support of Böhler, the municipality decided to found a trolleybus company, the Mürzaler Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH  (MVG). The trolleybus -Transport was recorded between Kapfenberg and the work VI 1944th

Soon after the Anschluss, the Antifascist Front formed in Kapfenberg, a resistance movement with around one hundred members. One of the most important organizers was Anton Buchalka, who was executed in Berlin in 1941.

For the large number of prisoners of war and forced laborers who were used in the war production at Böhler, several barracks were built on the Schirmitzbühel, near Plant VI, in Hafendorf and in Winkl. From November 1944 to May 1945, the Böhler facilities, the train station and the freight station in Kapfenberg in particular were attacked several times by Allied bombers .

Destruction of the armaments factories and nationalization of Böhler

Allied Bomber Association

After the end of the war, the city was occupied by Soviet soldiers on May 9, 1945, who were relieved by British occupiers on July 24, 1945. A DP camp for around 600 Jewish and non-Jewish so-called displaced persons was set up. The destruction of the industrial infrastructure by bombing and dismantling of the facilities by the victorious powers was considerable. In July 1946, was made under the federal government Figl the nationalization including the Böhler-Werke, so as to prevent a further seizure of industrial plants by the occupying powers.

reconstruction

The first provisional municipal council after the war was constituted on May 25, 1945. Since during the period of reconstruction the municipality was unable to meet the ever increasing demand for living space, many families started building their own homes. These initiatives were supported by the community and the Böhler company. The Kapfenberger Sportvereinigung (KSV) was founded in 1947 and the Alpine Stadium was opened in 1950 . A time followed which was characterized by brisk construction work. In 1954, the renovation of the Oberkapfenberg castle ruins began. In 1957 the road tunnel through the Schlossberg was opened to traffic. In August 1958, one of the worst flood disasters of the century occurred in the urban area and it took two years for the clean-up work to be completed. In 1963 the southern runway was electrified. The Mürzverband was founded, whose task it was to treat the wastewater and make the completely polluted Mürz and the groundwater usable again. In 1970 the Böhler company celebrated its centenary.

Beginning of the steel crisis and formation of the VEW

Up to 1973 the development of Kapfenberg was characterized by the economic boom and the good order situation at Böhler; the population grew to over 26,000 people. After that, the oil shock and steel crisis led to a slump in development. On January 1, 1975, Böhler was merged with Schoeller-Bleckmann and the Steirische Gussstahlwerke to form a group under the name Vereinigte Edelstahlwerke AG (VEW) and the brand name Böhler was given up. In 1982 the Felten & Guilleaume plant was closed and 600 workers were given notice. There were also dismissals and early retirement at VEW.

In November 1983 the first tube of the Tanzenberg tunnel was opened to traffic. This enabled through traffic to bypass the city, which subsequently led to a significant reduction in traffic congestion in the city area.

On the night of February 9th to 10th, 1986, around 1.7 meters of fresh snow fell in Kapfenberg, bringing public life to a complete standstill. The snow masses on the traffic routes and on roofs in danger of collapsing could only be cleared by soldiers of the armed forces and the deployment of more than 700 firefighters.

Resurrection of the Böhler brand

In 1987 the industrial park in Pötschach was founded by Mayor Klaus Prieschl in order to make up for the job losses in the steel industry. In the same year Vogel & Noot took over the former factory premises of Felten & Guilleaume . In 1988 the United Edelstahlwerke (VEW) ( Vöest-Alpine ) was dissolved; The year before, the Böhler Ges.mbH with the locations Kapfenberg and Mürzzuschlag was founded, which in 1991 was merged with the Swedish Uddeholm group to form Böhler-Uddeholm .

In 1992 the municipality acquired the vacant Oberkapfenberg Castle from the Stubenberg family. In the following years the castle was restored and made available to the public. The shopping center Europaplatz (ECE) and the pedestrian zone around the newly designed main square were opened this year. On October 5, 1995, the FH Joanneum was opened in Kapfenberg in the former buildings of the Böhler company, Plant IV. Due to the gradual relocation of the city center from Hauptplatz to Europaplatz, the municipality started a major project in 2000 to revitalize and revitalize the historic Old town.

From 2018 to 2020 Voestalpine, the parent company of Böhler, will build a new stainless steel plant in Kapfenberg.

population

Population development

The population statistics show the strong dependence of the city on the economic development at Böhler. The first significant increase in population can be seen around 1890 (4,368 inhabitants) and in the following three decades, when the Böhler brothers acquired the steelworks. The location benefited from the company's strong export orientation and the armaments industry of the First World War. The number of employees rose, and with it the number of residents, to 13,542 (1923). In the time of global economic crisis , which began in 1929, the population was again slightly to 13,369 (1934).

With the armament and during the Second World War, the population rose sharply from 13,369 (1934) to 23,789 (1951). However, the largest increase in population can be attributed to the incorporation of Hafendorf.

In the post-war years up to 1971, the population increased to 26,300, the highest census result in Kapfenberg's history. The number of employees at Böhler was 8,000 in 1972. The subsequent steel crisis and the progressive privatization of the company, which reduced the number of Böhler employees to 3,500 at the turn of the millennium, caused the population to drop to 21,831 in 2011. In 2015, the increase in population can be explained by the amalgamation of the municipalities of Kapfenberg and Parschlug as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform.

Religious communities

59.6% (13,251) of the Kapfenberg population is Roman Catholic and 25.4% (5,654) have no religious beliefs. About 6.4% (1,412) are of the Protestant faith, 3.7% of the Islamic faith (821) and 1.7% (374) belong to Orthodox churches. The proportion of residents of the Israelite faith is below 0.1% (5). 1.3% (286) belong to other religions and 1.9% (431) are less known or do not belong to any religion.

The Catholic parishes belong to the Diocese of Graz-Seckau , the Evangelical Church of Kapfenberg to the Superintendentur Styria .

In addition to the four Roman Catholic churches of St. Oswald , St. Martin (both built in the 15th century or rebuilt), Church of the Holy Family (built in 1961) and Church of Maria Königin (built in 1957) there is also the Evangelical Christ Church (built in 1961 ). Furthermore, there are institutions of several congregations of different Christian religious or denomination communities , including the Baptists , the New Apostolic Church and the Pentecostal Church, Congregation of God. The Jehovah's Witnesses have also been represented in the town for a long time. Islamic prayer rooms or mosques are not known.

politics

Local council election Kapfenberg 2020

Turnout: 43.33% (2015: 57.16%)

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Municipal council

City Office Building

Since the 2020 municipal council election, the municipal council of the city of Kapfenberg has consisted of:

• 19 SPÖ mandataries (+ 2)
• 6 ÖVP mandataries (+ 3)
• 3 FPÖ mandataries (- 5)
• 2 KPÖ mandataries (± 0)
• 1 list of VOGL mandates (± 0)

(In brackets gains / losses compared to the previous choice)

City council

The city ​​council includes:

• Mayor Friedrich Kratzer (since July 31, 2017; SPÖ)
• 1st Vice Mayor Melanie Praxmaier (SPÖ)
• 2nd Vice Mayor Erwin Fuchs (ÖVP)
• City council
  • Jenny Baierl (SPÖ)
  • Matthäus Bachernegg (SPÖ)
  • Werner Wolfsteiner (SPÖ)
  • Andreas Handlos (ÖVP)

Mayor since 1850

Term of office Surname 1850-1863 Wolfgang von Stubenberg 1864-1870 Wenzel Morawetz 1871-1873 Johann Noringbauer 1873-1895 Gottfried Göschl 1895-1898 Vincent Capra 1898-1905 Peter Steingruber 1905-1918 Vincent Capra 1919-1924 Josef Sperl 1924-1933 Josef Schweighardt 1933-1934 Alois Lafer 1934-1936 Franz Nestroy 1936-1938 Franz Stindl 1938-1944 Otto Dietrich

Term of office Surname 1944-1945 Helmut Meyer 1945 Ludwig Scheer 1945-1948 Adolf couple 1948-1949 Alfred Mikesch 1949-1962 Heinrich Scheibengraf 1963-1987 Franz Fekete 1987-1999 Klaus Prieschl 1999-2005 Manfred Wegscheider 2005–2012 Brigitte Schwarz 2012-2014 Manfred Wegscheider 2015 Government commissioner 2015-2017 Manfred Wegscheider 2017– Friedrich Kratzer

badges and flags

The coat of arms was given to the Kapfenberg market at the instigation of the Stubenberger on December 15, 1639 by Emperor Ferdinand III. awarded and shows the bridges of Kapfenberg. The heraldic animal - a lion with a royal crown - holds the Stubenberg coat of arms, the anchor , in its paws . However, the anchor was probably a wolf tang or a whisker in earlier times . The whiskers attached to a rope were used as a weapon against knights. Only later was this heraldic figure reinterpreted as an anchor, a Christian symbol and sign of a knight who set out on the crusade. The rope on the anchor, braided into a braid, was possibly an indication of the Stubenbergs' membership in the Knightly Society for Braids.

Flag of Kapfenberg

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The reassignment took place with effect from December 1, 2015. The blazon reads:

“In a blue shield over a silver-flooded shield base, a silver-walled arched arch bridge with four pillars, standing on this is a golden lion with an erect double rod, attached golden royal crown and red tongue, holding an upwardly placed silver anchor through its ring between both paws golden braid is pulled. "

The city flag has three stripes in white-blue-yellow with the coat of arms.

Incorporations

The local community Kapfenberg was created on March 18, 1850 through the merger of the communities Markt Kapfenberg, Arndorf, Berndorf, Diemlach, Einöd, Pötschen, Schörgendorf, St. Martin, Stegg and Winkl.

However, the cadastral community of Berndorf was incorporated into the city of Bruck an der Mur in 1922 . The Social Democrat Koloman Wallisch played a decisive role in this, and the reason for this was of a political nature: By incorporating Berndorf, where many Social Democratic railway employees lived, the Social Democrats were able to gain a majority in the previously bourgeois town of Bruck.

In 1939 the local community Hafendorf was incorporated into the city of Kapfenberg with the cadastral communities Deuchendorf, Hafendorf, Krottendorf and Pötschach. The structure was thus achieved by the end of 2014.

As of January 1, 2015, the Parschlug municipality was incorporated by ordinance. The basis for this was the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

City partnership and European city

Memorial stone town twinning in Frechen

In 1957, the local council decided unanimously to set up a town twinning with Frechen in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , which is still very active in both towns to this day. In 1963 the former Neue Platz was renamed Frechener Platz.

Kapfenberg has been the bearer of the Council of Europe's flag of honor since 1971 and has also been called the European City since then . On the occasion of the award ceremony, the so-called loop or the trolleybus square was given the name Europaplatz. Europaplatz is currently the new center of the city, where the Shopping Center Europaplatz (ECE) was built in 1992 . Since 1998 the city has also been the holder of the European badge of the Council of Europe, the second highest award in this regard.

E-government

The city has a small e-government service on its website. An electronic signature in the form of the citizen card is required to submit the online forms . The range of online forms offered by the city of Kapfenberg currently includes an option to apply for a job online and a link to the website of the Federal Ministry of the Interior to apply for a criminal record certificate.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Public transport

The Mürzaler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft mbH (MVG) maintains a bus network in the city, in Bruck an der Mur and Leoben and is part of the Styrian Transport Association . From October 20, 1944 to February 15, 2002, the Kapfenberg trolleybus also ran in the city ; for cost reasons, it was replaced by ordinary buses . In addition, regional intercity bus connections to Mariazell are operated.

The southern railway line also runs through Kapfenberg. Railjet / EC trains in the direction of Vienna / Graz stop every hour at Kapfenberg station . Only S-Bahn trains stop at the Kapfenberg University of Applied Sciences stop.

From 2018 to 2021, the Kapfenberg station will be completely renovated by the Austrian Federal Railways . Since its completion, there has been handicapped-accessible access everywhere and better connections to the park-and-ride car park to the north .

Lines of the compound line

line	course	annotation
	Bruck an der Mur - Kapfenberg - Kapfenberg University of Applied Sciences - Marein-St. Lorenzen - Allerheiligen-Mürzhofen - Kindberg - Wartberg in Mürz Valley - Mitterdorf-Veitsch - Krieglach - Langenwang - Hönigsberg - Mürzzuschlag	from December 2016
	Bruck an der Mur - Kapfenberg - Kapfenberg University of Applied Sciences - Marein-St. Lorenzen - Allerheiligen-Mürzhofen - Kindberg - Wartberg in Mürz Valley - Mitterdorf-Veitsch - Krieglach - Langenwang - Hönigsberg - Mürzzuschlag - Spital am Semmering - Steinhaus - Semmering

Roads and bike paths

Kapfenberg: overview of infrastructure

One of the most important roads through the Kapfenberg area is the autobahn-like Semmering expressway S 6, which runs from northeast to southwest and bypasses the city with the help of the Tanzenberg tunnel . The S 6 is the most important connection to Mürzzuschlag and Leoben. The Leobener Straße B 116 runs parallel to Mürz and also from northeast to southwest as the most important connection to the neighboring town of Bruck an der Mur. The B 116 bypasses the old town, Europaplatz and Frechner Platz with the help of the Schlossberg tunnel . Mariazeller Straße B 20 runs in north-south direction , which leads to Mariazell and the northern border of Upper Styria and then on to St. Pölten in Lower Austria .

Direction Bruck an der Mur, after four kilometers, the S 35 branches off in the direction of the provincial capital Graz and after about 36 km there is a connection to the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 in Sankt Michael . This is where the S 6 ends and joins the S 36 ( Murtal expressway ) over. To the north, the S 6 at the Seebenstein junction, 80 km away, connects to the A 2 south motorway and thus to the federal capital Vienna .

The Kapfenberg cycle path network has a total length of more than 20 km and the pedestrian zones have a total length of 275 meters.

Air travel

The Kapfenberg airfield with 2818 aircraft movements (2007) is mainly used for sport aviation and has a 600 meter long grass runway. It has existed since 1962 and direct flights to and from abroad have been permitted since 1990. A civil aviation school is attached to the airfield.

The nearest airport is Graz-Thalerhof , which is about 76 km away in a southerly direction. It can be reached from Kapfenberg via the expressways S 6 , S 35 and the A 9 motorway or directly with the Südbahn.

Companies and employees

Böhler's main plant

In 2001, 5,343 employees (including 3,515 blue-collar workers, 1,664 white-collar workers and 193 apprentices) were employed in 82 manufacturing facilities and 1,558 people (including 836 salaried employees, 395 blue-collar workers and 152 apprentices) in 262 trading facilities and repairing motor vehicles and consumer goods . The rest of 4,558 employees are distributed across other sectors of the economy.

Steel production has lost much of its importance as an employer since the 1970s. City politicians tried to cushion the economic decline in this area by relocating companies, which they succeeded in doing. The industrial park and two larger shopping centers emerged from these efforts.

Boehlerit GCK has its roots in Düsseldorf in 1932, has been in Kapfenberg, today's headquarters, since 1950 and manufactures carbide tools made of tungsten carbide-cobalt composite material. With a total of 700 employees, sales of 110 million euros are achieved. (As of 2018)

Kapsch BusinessCom AG has been operating the underground high-security data center earthDATAsafe since 2008 , which is also remarkable for its unusual architecture.

Old town offensive

Since the old town continuously lost its shops and attractiveness with the opening of the Europaplatz (ECE) shopping center, work was carried out on its revitalization, such as the redesign of Lindenplatz, new construction of the main square, conversion of Grazerstraße into a pedestrian zone, new street lighting, project << Wohnen an der Mürz> > in Schmiedgasse. These measures were unsuccessful in terms of the number of trading companies between the two Mürzbrücken that limit the old town, which fell from around 70 to just over 20.

media

The television broadcaster MEMA TV Regionales Fernsehen had editorial offices in Kapfenberg. MEMA-TV supplies around 22,000 households in several communities in the districts of Bruck an der Mur and Mürzzuschlag via the local cable networks. The programs Panorama - Das Mur- und Mürzalmagazin and the news program Mürz Valley are currently being produced in Bruck an der Mur.

There is also the HiWay TV channel operated by Stadtwerke Kapfenberg , which also produces programs from the Kapfenberg, Bruck and Leoben regions and can be seen in the cable network of Stadtwerke Kapfenberg.

Public institutions and health

The Special Hospital Neurological Therapy Center Kapfenberg (NTK) opened in 1999. The Böhler factory hospital, private from 1908 to 1990, was rebuilt from 1995 to 1999 and the old buildings were completely renovated. It contains two wards with 70 beds and an outpatient clinic for neurological patients. The world's leading healthcare provider Vamed expanded the special neurological clinic by around 8.7 million euros and opened it in March 2021.

In Kapfenberg there are 17 specialists (including for radiology and radiation medicine, paediatrics, gynecology and internal affairs), 15 general practitioners, six dentists and a dental clinic. There are also five pharmacies, an outpatient clinic for physiotherapy, facilities for addiction issues and work assistance, a counseling center for psychotherapy, a women's shelter, a men's advice center, two senior citizens' homes and two veterinarians in the city.

There are six municipal kindergartens, a day nursery and, since 1982, the Bunte Fabrik youth and communication center.

A police station has been established in Kapfenberg as an office of the Federal Police , which is subordinate to the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District Police Command. She is responsible for the communities Kapfenberg and Tragöß-Sankt Katharein . In addition, Kapfenberg also has its own city ​​police . The municipal cemetery with the celebration and ceremony hall is located in the KG St. Martin around the church of the same name and has existed in its current form since 1974.

training

Joanneum University of Applied Sciences

In Kapfenberg there are eight elementary schools , two new middle schools , one special school , one general high school , one polytechnic school , two higher and two middle technical schools and one middle agricultural and forestry school. This educational offer is extended by a municipal music school and an adult education center.

The HTBL Kapfenberg offers seven educational directions at the day school with the subjects information technology , electrical engineering , mechatronics , aviation, machine and systems engineering, automation and robotics as well as plastics and environmental technology. There is also the part-time evening school with high school diplomas in mechanical engineering , electrical engineering and industrial engineering .

Kapfenberg has been one of the three locations of the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences since 1995 . The following courses are offered here:

• Advanced Electronic Engineering (Master’s degree, part-time)
• Internet technology (bachelor's degree, full-time and part-time)
• IT law and management (master’s degree, part-time)
• Software Design (bachelor's degree, part-time)
• Energy , traffic and environmental management (bachelor's degree, full-time)
• Industrial Management / Industrial Management (Bachelor's Program, full-time and part-time)
• MSc International Supply Management (postgraduate course, part-time)

World record 2014

To increase awareness of the city beyond national borders, the longest lipdub video in the world to date was shot on September 19, 2014 for the song " Live Is Life " by Opus . It takes 14 minutes and around 6,000 people were involved in creating it.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Kapfenberg

Cultural center with the Europaplastik in the foreground

The cultural center was opened in 1989. It is divided into the three areas gallery for applied and contemporary art, city museum (shows the cultural history of Kapfenberg on an exhibition area of ​​350 square meters) and city library with video library and toy library (total stock of 20,475 media, of which 1,538 are AV media and 246 games - as of December 2015). A branch of the municipal library is located in the Parschlug district.

Until 2016 there was also a café in the cultural center, which was named after the Austrian actor, writer and cabaret artist Helmut Gustav Friedrich Qualtinger (1928–1986). With a statement by his fictional character Travnicek, Qualtinger created the catchphrase " Simmering - Kapfenberg, das nenn i brutality", alluding to a match between the two clubs in 1958, which Qualtinger attended. In the last minute of the game, the 1-0 shooter, the Kapfenberg striker “Haube” Hauberger, collided with the Simmering goalkeeper Engelmaier and suffered an open bone fracture.

The Kapfenberg Music School has had a chamber music and cabaret hall since 2004 , designed by the architect Meinhard Neugebauer.

The Dieselkino Kapfenberg is located on Lindenplatz with four cinema halls and a total of 603 seats and an adjoining restaurant area. Cinema screenings have been shown here since 1911.

Buildings

Old Town Hall

• The castle Oberkapfenberg above Kapfenberg is part of the 1145 was first mentioned Castle Kapfenberg, built in the 13th century by the counts of Stubenberg as a residential and administrative center and around 1550 the Renaissance fortress rebuilt. It has been owned by the municipality since 1992. In 1994 a castle restaurant was opened. In addition, the castle houses a bird of prey show and since 2003 historical weapons, as well as various torture methods and torture instruments in a special section, have been exhibited.
• Only remnants of the wall remain from the Altkapfenberg fortress .
• The old town hall, which is located on the main square, dates from around 1240. The current round gable facade is baroque. The building served as the town hall from 1604 to 1911, after which shops were housed on the ground floor.
• Today's town hall with its classical facade is the oldest house in Kapfenberg's old town and was built around 1140. The so-called Meierhof at that time was later expanded into Castle Unterkapfenberg. Until 1934 there were stone pillars with chains around the house, which marked the boundaries of the legal districts of the market judges and the Lords of Stubenberg. The municipality only acquired the building in 1909 and has used it as the town hall from 1911 until today.
• The parish church of St. Oswald is a late Gothic building that was expanded in baroque style from 1752 to 1755 . It has a three-storey west tower with a pointed helmet , a two-bay choir with a 5/8 end , a three-aisled nave and baroque side chapels. The vaults are square vaults on belts. Rococo style furnishings and high altar were created after 1770.
• Next to the parish church is the Marian column ( plague column ) originally erected on the main square , created in 1738 by the sculptor Johann Matthias Leitner and the stonemason Andreas Zeller.
• Originally the church of St. Martin was a Romanesque building, which was extended in the late 15th century by a Gothic, single-nave nave. At the beginning of the 16th century, the flat ceiling of the church was replaced by a ribbed vault . The attached tower was built in 1918. War damage made it necessary to renovate the building in 1961. Another renovation took place in 1980.

Rosegger fountain

• Wieden Castle in Wiener Straße is a wide, two-storey four-wing building from the 17th century, which was enlarged in the 18th century and later changed several times. The courtyard arcades and the sgraffito decorations, a stucco technique based on scratch plaster, are remarkable .
• The bronze Rosegger fountain (or forest school master fountain) was created in 1908 by Hans Brandstetter .
• The buildings of the Böhler-Werke are remarkable facilities that are located northwest of the old town. These include the factory inn (1918), a private hotel (around 1914), the factory halls (1910–1915), the Erlachhammer (late 19th century), and the workers' settlement on Grazerstrasse (1901).
• Other buildings worth seeing are the medieval Kandhaus, which was painted in 1992 by the artist group Die Mauersegler based on designs by Kapfenberg artist Helmut Kand , and the Schmidthaus, an Art Nouveau building that was built in 1907 and renovated in 1987.

Natural monuments

In the northwest of the city, about 630 meters above sea level, the Rettenwand stalactite cave is located in limestone layers of the Middle Triassic . The cave, discovered in 1918, was opened up in 1923 and has been open to visitors since 1926. The interior of the cave is rich in sintered forms such as pearl sinter, grape sinter , nodule and button sinter . In the entrance area there were finds from the Stone Age as well as bones, shards and bronze needles from around 2600 BC.

Sports

Franz Fekete Stadium

There is a wide range of sports facilities in Kapfenberg. The Kapfenberg sports center consists of the Franz Fekete Stadium , a sports hotel, an indoor and outdoor pool and an ice and multi-purpose hall. Today's Franz Fekete Stadium was opened as an Alpine Stadium in 1951, reopened in 1987, completely modernized, and after the construction of an additional grandstand can accommodate around 10,000 visitors.

• The Kapfenberger Sportvereinigung (KSV) is with around 5500 members, 24 branch clubs and fourteen affiliated clubs the largest amateur sports association in Austria and, in addition to football, operates the sections handball, ice hockey, skiing, table tennis and a few others. The Kapfenberg junior model was created in 1997 . With the involvement of the schools, in addition to popular, competitive and top-class sports, the aim is to promote young talent in particular. The football department currently plays in the first league (second highest national level) and appeared as KSV Superfund until 2011, including the sponsor's name . After the team had won the championship title in the first division in the 2007/08 season, they played the seasons from 2008 to 2012 - for the first time since 1967 - in the Bundesliga. The greatest successes as the Styrian national champion and cup winner were in the 1940s.
• The second team of SV Kapfenberg plays in the Regionalliga Mitte under the name SV Austria Kapfenberg / KSV II and plays its home games in the Waldstadion in the Kapfenberg district of Schirmitzbühel. The third KSV team Rapid Kapfenberg plays in the lower division North B and plays its home games in Kapfenberg Diemlach.
• One of the best-known Kapfenberg sports clubs is the Kapfenberg Bulls basketball club , which was Austrian men's basketball champion from 2001 to 2004 and won the cup in 2007 . After several years without a title, all national titles (championship, cup and supercup) could be won after changing the management of the club from 2017 to 2019
• The ice hockey club KSV Icetigers played in the second highest Austrian league (National League). The greatest successes of the team, which was (re) established in 2005, are two championship titles in the national league in the 1987/88 and 1998/99 seasons. After bankruptcy in the summer of 2009, the ice hockey team is a division of the Kapfenberg Bulls . They played in the major league under this name. In the 2019/20 season they will play again under KSV in a league with ATSE-Graz, Zeltweg, Frohnleiten and Hart

The Division I games of the 26th Ice Hockey World Championship for U20 Juniors in 2002 took place from December 9th to 15th, 2001 in Kapfenberg and Zeltweg.

Regular events

Every year in June the knight's festival takes place at the castle , which is one of the largest events of its kind in Austria.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Honorary Citizen Bruno Kreisky

• Gottfried Göschel (* 1825 - 23 February 1899), landlord and mayor of the market from 1873 to 1895.
• Fridolin Reiser (* 1843 in Gammertingen ; † January 16, 1909 in Leoben ), mining engineer, is considered to be the co-founder of the international reputation of Kapfenberg steel.
• Vinzenz Capra (born March 29, 1849 in Kapfenberg; † December 5, 1932), businessman and mayor (1895–1898 and 1905–1919), founding member of the Kapfenberg volunteer fire brigade.
• Johann Wist (born June 19, 1841 in Parschlug ; † March 10, 1916), professor at Graz University of Technology , unselfishly designed many plans, including for schools.
• Leopold Worell (born September 8, 1845 in Groß-Siegharts ; † May 6, 1921), businessman, vice mayor and treasurer.
• Josef Sperl (* 1878; † October 4, 1951), doctor, researched the Rettenwand Cave and founded the rescue department and the local museum.
• Heinrich Scheibengraf (born July 1, 1910 in Graz , † September 29, 1996 in Bruck an der Mur ), engineer and mayor from 1950 to 1962, founder of the Mürzverband.
• Bruno Kreisky (born January 22, 1911 in Vienna ; † July 29, 1990 in Vienna), Federal Chancellor, helped the city to finance large investments and promoted the nationalized steel industry.
• Franz Fekete (born September 21, 1921; † February 20, 2009), mayor (1963–1987), responsible for the modernization and expansion of the sports facilities and the construction of the Tanzenberg tunnel. Namesake for the stadium of the same name in Kapfenberg.
• Josef Gruber (* 1925; † September 13, 2013), local councilor and regional councilor.
• Hans Gross (born June 23, 1930 in Graz ; † November 19, 1992), deputy governor and municipal advisor, supported the city energetically and financially.

sons and daughters of the town

In alphabetic order

• Melitta Breznik (* 1961), writer
• Ulrike Diebold (* 1961), physicist
• Goldie Ens (born 1954), pop singer
• Erika Kloepfer (* 1913; † 2000 in Graz), painter
• Ernst Kovacic (* 1943), violinist and conductor
• Julius Peter (* 1924 - † 1944), prisoner in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
• Peter Pilz (* 1954), politician
• Claus Raidl (* 1942), manager
• Michael Scharang (* 1941), writer
• Albin Stranig (* 1908; † 1944 in Désandans), painter and sculptor
• Wulfing von Stubenberg (* 1259; † 1318 in Bamberg ), Catholic bishop
• Sepp Tezak (* 1923; † 2013), railway painter, historian and journalist
• Heimo Wiederhofer (* 1962), jazz musician

literature

Non-fiction books, maps and miscellaneous:

• Franz Stieglbauer: Kapfenberg with a difference; in images and documents , Graz, Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-222-12791-3
• Helga Papst: The series archive images: Kapfenberg , Sutton, Erfurt 2001. ISBN 3-89702-299-0
• Helga Papst: Kapfenberg , Stadtgemeinde Kapfenberg - Department for Culture, Kapfenberg 1999. ISBN 3-9501065-1-0
• Franz Mörth: Kapfenberg in old views. Zaltbommel 1999. ISBN 90-288-4788-X
• Wolfgang Heinrich Heusgen: The urban development of Kapfenberg 1945-1970 (= Diss. Techn. Univ. Graz). Graz 1985.
• Reiner Puschnig: Kapfenberg; old market, young city . Kapfenberg, Graz 1974.
• Walter Pfitzner (Kartogr.): Kapfenberg: city map , scale: 1: 10,000. Kapfenberg 1966.
• Franz Mörth: Kapfenberg through the ages; History of the city of Kapfenberg and its surroundings . Graz 1949.
• Barbara Boisits: Kapfenberg. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .

Fiction:

• Karl Plepelits : Faith, the mountains and the paradise , Liber Libri, Vienna 2006. ISBN 3-85481-031-8
• Herbert Zinkl: Lausige Zeiten , Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft, Graz. ISBN 3-85489-110-5

media

• 2015: Small Town - Dirty Little Secrets? , Austria, director: Christian Rabenstein.
• 2003: Way to the South , Austria, director: Reinhard Jud.
• 1983/84: The comrades of Koloman Wallisch , Austria, director: Michael Scharang

Web links

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• 62140 - Kapfenberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.kapfenberg.gv.at , website of the municipality of Kapfenberg
• Annual statistical report 2005, municipality of Kapfenberg (PDF file; 4.9 MB)

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Kapfenberg - Styria | Similio. Retrieved March 10, 2020 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af} Helga Papst: Kapfenberg , Stadtgemeinde Kapfenberg - Referat für Kultur, Kapfenberg 1999, ISBN 3 -9501065-1-0 .
4. ↑ Region profile Obersteiermark Ost, Land Steiermark ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (PDF). 
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2021 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2021) , ( xlsx )
6. ↑ Kapfenberg - Styria | Similio. Retrieved March 10, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Hydrogeological characterization of the Federal Environment Agency ( Memento from April 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Kapfenberg Klimadaten, Landesstatistik Steiermark ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Climatic region Mürz Valley to Mürzzuschlag, environmental information Styria
10. ↑ history. Retrieved on August 17, 2020 (German). 
11. ^ Albrecht Klose, Klaus-Peter Rueß: The grave inscriptions on the ambassador's cemetery in Regensburg. Texts, translations, biographies, historical notes . In: Stadtarchiv Regensburg (Hrsg.): Regensburger Studien . tape 22 . Regensburg City Archives, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-943222-13-5 , p. 96 ff .
12. ↑ See: Pierre Boujut: De Jarnac a Kapfenberg. Return to the foreign country of the prisoner of war [!]. [Paris] 1955
13. ↑ Europe's first steel mill for 40 years
14. ↑ Census of May 15, 2001 Demographic data municipality: 60209 Kapfenberg. (PDF; 10 kB).
15. ^ Website of the Kapfenberg Baptist Congregation
16. ^ Website of the Pentecostal Church Congregation of God
17. ^ Registered mosques in Austria
18. ↑ Stadtgemeinde Kapfenberg - City Council Election 2020 , accessed on July 7, 2020
19. ↑ 103. Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 12, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Kapfenberg (political district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag) , accessed on December 6, 2015
20. ↑ Entry on Kapfenberg on the website kommunalflaggen.eu
21. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 1, Item 2 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG). State Law Gazette for Styria dated April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 2.
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23. ↑ HiWay-TV: Kapfenberg station officially opened. Retrieved March 27, 2021 . 
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25. ↑ See the airfield website ( Memento from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
26. ↑ Workplace census by Statistics Austria (PDF; 18 kB)
27. ^ Website of the regional television station MEMA-TV
28. ↑ Website of the regional television station TV HiWay
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30. ↑ More space for neuro-rehab from March 20, 2021 in Meinviertel.at
31. ^ Website of the IPA section Austria
32. ↑ See on the history of the music school: Josef Kapfer: Städtische Musikschule Kapfenberg . Kapfenberg 1984.
33. ^ ORF Styria: 6,000 Kapfenbergers cracked the Lipdub world record
34. ^ Information from the Austrian Library Association on the city library
35. ^ Website of the Kapfenberg City Library
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37. ^ Neugebauer Architektur ZT GmbH - architecture office - Styria - playroom music school Kapfenberg. In: arch-neugebauer.at. Retrieved November 11, 2018 . 
38. ↑ Website of the diesel Cinema Kapfenberg
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40. ↑ See also: Gerhard Krisper: The parish church of Kapfenberg - St. Oswald; Document of history and living herald of faith . Kapfenberg 1994.
41. ↑ Information on the city website
42. ↑ https://www.kapfenberg.gv.at/Sport/Sportzentrum/Stadion/Franz-Fekete_Stadion
43. ^ History of the KSV ( Memento from March 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
44. ↑ About father joys and real birth pangs ( Memento from September 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
45. ^ Website of Oberkapfenberg Castle
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49. ↑ Koloman Wallisch's comrades - entry at www.film.at

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