German Goritz

German Goritz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Southeast Styria
License plate :	SO (from 1.7.2013; old: RA)
Surface:	34.02 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 45 '  N , 15 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '0 "  N , 15 ° 49' 48"  E
Height :	244  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,805 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8483
Area code :	03474
Community code :	6 23 77
Address of the municipal administration:	Deutsch Goritz 16, 8483 Deutsch Goritz
Website:	www.deutsch-goritz.at
politics
Mayor :	Heinrich Tomschitz ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	11 2 1 1 11 2 1 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 11 GREEN : 2 Citizens list community for all : 1 SPÖ : 1
Location of Deutsch Goritz in the district of Southeast Styria
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Deutsch Goritz is a municipality with 1805 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the south-east of Styria . It is located in the judicial district of Feldbach or the district of Southeast Styria . Since 2015 it has been merged with the municipality of Ratschendorf as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria .

geography

Geographical location

Deutsch Goritz is located in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria .

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following ten cadastral communities or towns of the same name (area as of December 31, 2017; population as of January 1, 2020):

• Deutsch Goritz (227.99 ha; 370 Ew.)
• Haselbach (192.17 ha; 89 Ew.)
• Farmsteads (304.17 ha); Hofstätten near Deutsch Goritz (104 Ew.)
• Krobathen (174.23 ha; 84 Ew.)
• Oberspitz (351.82 ha; 87 Ew.)
• Ratschendorf (1,042.17 ha; 615 Ew.)
• Salsach (343.75 ha; 86 Ew.)
• Schrötten (282.56 ha); Schrötten near Deutsch Goritz (66 Ew.)
• Unterspitz (88.55 ha; 57 Ew.)
• Weixelbaum (363.10 ha; 247 Ew.)

Incorporations

On January 1, 1968, the municipalities of Diepersdorf, Hofstätten near Deutsch Goritz, Krobathen, Salsach, Schrötten near Deutsch Goritz and Spitz near Deutsch Goritz were merged with Deutsch Goritz, on January 1, 1969 Weixelbaum was incorporated, and on January 1, 1972, Haselbach 1972 came into being to the large community.

Neighboring communities

All four neighboring communities are in the district of Southeast Styria.

Sankt Peter am Ottersbach		Straden
Mureck		Halfway

history

In 1386 Goritz was mentioned for the first time as "Guritz". The name goes back to the Slavic gorica (small mountain, hill). In the 14th century Goritz (Guritz, Goricz, an der Goriczen) was owned by the Krabatsdorfer, a noble family resident in Grabersdorf . From 1446 the property was dedicated to the parish Gnas, with whom it remained until 1848. In that year, the landlords were abolished. The local church as an autonomous body was established in 1850.

In order to distinguish the two localities with the name “Goritz” in the district, the name “Deutsch-Goritz” was used from the 19th century at the latest, in contrast to “Windisch-Goritz” (today Goritz near Radkersburg ). The place name was spelled with a hyphen until the Second World War (Deutsch-Goritz).

After the end of the First World War, there were disputes with the Ljubljana National Government for Slovenia and Istria (“Narodna vlada za Slovenijo in Istro”) about the area's territory. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark. At the end of the war, the place was temporarily occupied by Bulgarian and Yugoslav troops. 1945 to 1955 the area was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Population development

Culture and sights

Deutsch Goritz Church

The altar of the parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Deutsch Goritz

• The first chapel in Deutsch Goritz was started in 1873 and completed in 1889. In 1902 it was expanded to a church. In the course of the expansion, a monastery of the Kalasantine congregation was added. In 1904 and 1910 the church was expanded and it had become too small. In 1913 a theater and assembly hall was built.
• In 1957 a new municipal office was built. A new community center was built in 2009/10.
• Deutsch Goritz has inns, local shops and a skate park.
• On April 1, 1913, the theater and assembly hall was opened for use. Since then, theater has been performed in Deutsch Goritz with interruptions of only a few years. The hall was also used for film screenings, lectures and various celebrations. After the Second World War, the hall also served as a public cinema from 1949 to 1969. For years, the German Goritz Music Association's Christmas wish concert was performed in this hall. During the church renovations in 1989 and 2003, masses and church events were held there. Currently, theater is played once a year (in November) (four performances). The hall is also used for various events at the secondary school or a traveling cinema.
• The Musikverein Deutsch Goritz was founded in 1926. It originated from the Young Styrian Federation. After the Second World War, Johann Auer took over the musical direction of the band in 1946 and rebuilt it. He held this office until 1996. In the same year the new music center was inaugurated, where rehearsals have been taking place ever since. The Musikkapelle Deutsch Goritz has been organizing a Christmas and New Year's wish concert every year since 1972, at which modern music is presented in addition to the typical songs of brass bands. Since 2009 this concert has been taking place in the new gymnasium of the Neue Mittelschule (previously in the theater).

Sports

The USV Deutsch Goritz played from 2008 to 2013 in the regional league south-east.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality resulting from the reform continues after the election in 2020 as follows:

• 11 ÖVP
• 2 The Greens
• 1 citizens' list "Community for all" (BGA)
• 1 SPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2020			2015			2010						2005						2000
	Large community			Large community			German Goritz			Ratschendorf			D. Goritz			Ratschendorf			D. Goritz			Ratschendorf
	be right	%	M.	be right	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	709	67	11	809	63	10	673	75	12	293	61	6th	521	59	9	259	57	5	554	66	11	243	55	5
SPÖ	82	8th	1	153	12	02	101	11	01	187	39	3	165	19th	3	199	43	4th	098	12	01	172	40	4th
Citizens List Municipality for All (BGA)	104	10	1	198	15th	02	126	14th	02	not running			166	19th	3	not running			132	16	02	not running
The green	163	15th	2	118	09	01	not running
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running						030th	03	0	not running			052	06th	01	023	05	0
voter turnout	69%			83%			85%			91%			84%			89%			82%			90%

mayor

• Heinrich Tomschitz (ÖVP) has been mayor since April 27, 2015

In addition, there are twelve mayors for the ten districts (three in Ratschendorf).

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
• 

  Deutsch Goritz
  (until 2014)

• 

  Ratschendorf

Both predecessor communities - Deutsch Goritz and Ratschendorf - had a community coat of arms . Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The first award of the coat of arms to the municipality of Deutsch Goritz took place on October 1, 1972 by Governor Niederl
The blazon (description of the coat of arms) read:

"In the silver shield there is a green pole with a golden ear, in front of a blue lily, behind by a blue spring."

The lily stands for the parish church, the fountain for the Peter spring, the ear of wheat for the predominantly agricultural character of the community.

The award of the municipal coat of arms to the (old) municipality of Ratschendorf took place with effect from November 1st, 1954. The spade stands for the manorial rule of the lords of Graben until the 16th century, "... in the black field a silver bar ..." refers to the Lords of Wallsee , who bought the Weinburg lordship in 1308.

The new municipal
coat of arms for the merged municipality took effect on February 10, 2017. The new coat of arms combines elements from the two coats of arms of the previous municipalities . The new blazon reads:

"In the double-split shield in the middle field on silver a blue three-shell spring spring, in the flanks on each pole in red a silver grave stone placed on the handle on the right, a golden stalked ear of corn on the left in green."

The grave stone ( shovel ) stands for the Lords of Graben , the former landlords of Ratschendorf, the fountain for the Peterquelle, the ear of wheat for the predominantly agricultural character of the community.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Luigi Loir (1845-1916), French painter
• Anton Puntigam (1859–1926), Austrian Jesuit, youth chaplain and writer
• Kurt Schattelbauer (* 1940), Austrian racing cyclist

Web links

Commons : Deutsch Goritz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62377 - German Goritz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.deutsch-goritz.at Homepage of the community
• Local history of Deutsch Goritz (PDF; 5.6 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian regional government of September 12, 2013 on the union of the communities Deutsch Goritz and Ratschendorf, both political districts of Southeast Styria. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 100, 28th issue. P. 555.
2. ↑ Regionalinformation.zip  (Excel file, 1,210 kB); accessed on January 4, 2018
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
5. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 34 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
6. ↑ Municipality of Deutsch Goritz: Politics , accessed on August 20, 2018
7. ↑ 18. Announcement of the Styrian state government of February 2, 2017 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Deutsch Goritz (political district of Southeast Styria) , accessed on February 8, 2017
8. ^ Municipality of Deutsch Goritz. Old invalid municipal coats of arms