Deutschfeistritz

market community Deutschfeistritz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Surface:	57.06 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 12 '  N , 15 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '55 "  N , 15 ° 20' 10"  E
Height :	414  m above sea level A.
Residents :	4,409 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8121
Area code :	03127
Community code :	6 06 59
Address of the municipal administration:	Grazerstraße 1 8121 Deutschfeistritz
Website:	www.deutschfeistritz.at
politics
Mayor :	Michael Viertler ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (21 members)	12 4th 3 2 12 4th 3 2
Location of Deutschfeistritz in the Graz-Umgebung district
View from Kirchberg in south direction to the town center.
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Deutschfeistritz is a market town with 4409 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Styria in Austria . It is located in the north of the Graz-Umgebung district and the Graz-West court district on the Mur .

On January 1, 2015, the formerly independent municipality of Großstübing was incorporated as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform.

geography

Geographical location

Deutschfeistritz is located about 15 km north of the provincial capital Graz in the Middle Mur valley at the confluence of the Übelbach into the Mur - and not, as the name might suggest, on the Feistritz . The municipality is only separated from the neighboring municipality of Peggau on the left side of the Mur by the river. The Schartnerkogel, Gamskogel and Pfaffenkogel peaks are located in the municipality .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following nine localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Arzwaldgraben (35)
• Deutschfeistritz (2372)
• Großstübing (352) including mine, Großstübing-strewn houses, Hundsdorf, Kollmanngraben, Krienzgraben and Wartkogel
• Himberg (47)
• Kleinstübing (763) including Dielach and SOS Children's Village Kleinstübing
• Königgraben (170)
• Prenning (328) with Eichberg and Zitoll
• Stübinggraben (104) including Walchergraben
• Waldstein (238)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Deutschfeistritz, Großstübing , Kleinstübing , Königgraben , Prenning, Stübinggraben and Waldstein.

Incorporations

In the course of the structural reform of the Styrian community , the community of Deutschfeistritz was merged with the community of Großstübing on January 1, 2015 .

Neighboring communities

Ubelbach	Frohnleiten	Peggau
Gratwein street angel		Peggau
	Gratwein street angel	Burr grain

history

The place name goes back to the original Slavic * Bystrica (torrent, stream with clear water). The name Deutschfeistritz was created to differentiate itself from Slovenska Bistrica ( German : Windisch-Feistritz ), a small town and municipality in Slovenia .

There was a mine near Deutschfeistritz which mainly mined lead and zinc. 1765 was his most successful year with 116 kg of silver, about 22 tons of lead and about 104 tons of black lead. Mining stopped at the beginning of the 20th century.

Population development

Culture and sights

Thinnfeld Castle

Parish Church of St. Martin

See also:  List of listed objects in Deutschfeistritz

• Thinnfeld Castle
• Scythe factory (now a museum)

Erected in 1849 by the hammer gentleman Johann Pachernegg, scythes were produced here until 1984. During the heyday, 60,000 scythes left the factory every year. The hammers were operated by six large water wheels.

Since the restoration and revitalization by the "Kulturverein Sensenwerk Deutschfeistritz", an industrial monument has been created

• Gothic parish church of St. Martin and Kirchberg

The Kirchberg , the landmark of Deutschfeistritz, is a 100 m high elevation in the town center near the market square and the market mill. In addition to a view of the houses embedded in the green landscape, the Kirchberg also offers numerous sports options such as Nordic walking , walking paths, toboggan runs and downhill opportunities.

The Kirchberg is used economically as pasture for sheep and goat breeding by the local pastor.

• Austrian open-air museum in Kleinstübing
• Stübing Castle (also in Kleinstübing; today part of the SOS Children's Village)
• Waldstein Castle and Waldstein Castle ruins in Waldstein
• The castle ruins of the Hunger Tower in Waldstein
• The ruins of the Roman villa rustica in Kleinstübing

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Street

Deutschfeistritz is on the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 and on the Brucker Schnellstraße S 35. The nearest junction is at the Peggau-Deutschfeistritz junction (165), three kilometers away. The Pyhrn Autobahn can also be reached in seven kilometers via the Übelbach junction (157). The Grazer Straße B 67, which runs parallel to the Pyhrn Autobahn in the direction of Graz, can also be reached via the Peggau-Deutschfeistritz junction.

The Deutschfeistritz motorway service station and the approx. 1200 m long Schartnerkogel tunnel are located in the municipality as part of the Pyhrn motorway .

railroad

Deutschfeistritz has a stop on the Peggau – Übelbach local railway , which is operated by the Styrian regional railways. There are also stops in the districts of Zitoll, Viertler / Prenning, Prenning, Waldstein and Himberg.

The Peggau-Deutschfeistritz train station on the Südbahn with hourly rapid transit connections (S1) is located in the neighboring municipality of Peggau, about one kilometer away. The market town's only train station is located three kilometers away in Kleinstübing .

Air traffic

The Graz Airport is around 30 km away.

Tourism association

Together with Peggau, Übelbach, Gratkorn and Gratwein-Straßengel, the community forms the “OberGraz” tourist association. Its seat is in Deutschfeistritz. Until March 2016, Deutschfeistritz, Peggau and Übelbach operated as the “Deutschfeistritz-Peggau-Übelbach” tourism association.

politics

mayor

Michael Viertler (ÖVP) has been mayor since 2011.

The community board also includes the first vice mayor Franz Stampler (ÖVP), the second vice mayor Josef Fuchs (SPÖ), the community treasurer Gabriel Hirnthaler (ÖVP) and board member Helmut Gössler (FPÖ).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 21 members and has been composed of mandates from the following parties since the 2015 municipal council election :

• 11 ÖVP - represents the mayor
• 5 SPÖ
• 3 FPÖ
• 1 GREEN
• 1 US - Independent. Neutral. Social for Deutschfeistritz

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010						2005						2000
	Large community			Deutschfeistritz			Großstübing			Deutschfeistritz			Großstübing			Deutschfeistritz			Großstübing
	be right	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	1283	51	11	1230	51	12	172	63	6th	1436	62	14th	205	73	7th	1378	61	14th	191	73	7th
SPÖ	0582	23	05	0797	33	07th	100	37	3	0797	34	07th	075	27	2	0642	29	06th	070	27	2
FPÖ	0344	14th	03	0260	11	02	not running			0088	04th	00	not running			0143	06th	01	not running
The green	0187	07th	01	0102	04th	00	not running			not running			not running			not running			not running
UNS (Independent. Neutral. Social for Deutschfeistritz)	0113	05	01	not running			not running			not running			not running			not running			not running
People for people	not running			not running			not running			not running			not running			78	3	0	not running
voter turnout	74%			77%			91%			76%			87%			79%			85%

coat of arms

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The re-award took place on June 15, 2016.
The blazon reads:

"In a red shield over a silver, triple-pointed mountain, jumping a golden stag with a golden leafy twig in its branch."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 2014: Wilma E. Schmidt-Högl (* 1949), historian
• Johann Bammer (1922–2017), retired regional councilor D.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Peter Tunner (1809–1897), ironworks pioneer
• Victor Franz Hess (1883–1964), physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Vincenz Liechtenstein (1950–2008), Austrian politician, grandson of Emperor Karl I.
• Rudolf Egger (* 1959), teacher and university professor

Persons in connection with Deutschfreistitz

• Ernst Fischer (1899–1972), Austrian writer and politician (education minister), died in Deutschfeistritz

Web links

Commons : Deutschfeistritz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60659 - Deutschfeistritz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Community website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian regional government of December 19, 2013 on the unification of the market community Deutschfeistritz and the community Großstübing, both political district of Graz-Umgebung. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 30, 2013. No. 185, 38th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 762.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ The State of Styria: The new municipal structure of Styria. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved November 9, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
4. ↑ 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 ]).
5. ^ Slovenska Bistrica [1]
6. ^ Leopold Weber: The lead-zinc ore deposits of the Graz Palaeozoic and their geological framework. Archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 12, Vienna 1990. ISBN 978-3-900312-72-5 . Pages 261-269. (PDF file; 29 MB)
7. ↑ OberGraz. Retrieved December 30, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Four places together form an attractive region. Retrieved December 30, 2017 . 
9. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 300. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 624.
10. ↑ Marktgemeinde Deutschfeistritz: Community Board. Retrieved May 7, 2015 . 
11. ↑ 61. Announcement of the Styrian state government of June 2, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Deutschfeistritz (political district Graz-Umgebung) , accessed on June 17, 2016