Dietenberg (municipality of Ligist)

Dietenberg ( Rotte ) locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg  (VO), Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Ligist   ( KG  Grabenwarth )
Coordinates	46 ° 59 '53 "  N , 15 ° 13' 19"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '53 "  N , 15 ° 13' 19"  E
height	420  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	679 (January 1, 2020)
Post Code	8563 Ligist
Primaries	+ 43 / (0) 3143
Statistical identification
Locality code	16172
Counting district / district	Ligistmarkt (61612)
View from the Ligist castle ruins to part of the west side of Dietenberg
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Dietenberg is a village and Rotte in western Styria in the market town of Ligist in the Voitsberg district , Styria .

Place name

The name is derived from an original castle name. The Middle High German burc for castle, fortified place, was later replaced by -berg , which is often used in castle names. The name part Dieten- is derived from the male name Dioto , which is a short form of a name composed of the Old High German diot for people. The place name means something like Dioto Castle .

geography

View from the southwest of the highest point of the Dietenberg

Dietenberg is located in the northeast of the market town of Ligist, northeast of the main town of Ligist Markt, in the northern part of the cadastral community of Grabenwarth , on a hill called Dietenberg after the place between the Kainach in the north, the state road 314 and the Ligistbach in the west and the Dittenbergbach in the east.

history

Neolithic tools and club heads from around 4000 BC were discovered in the area of ​​today's Dietenberg . During excavations carried out by the Universalmuseum Joanneum in 1976 and 1977 , a hilltop settlement was uncovered that had already been settled in the Neolithic and Copper Age from around 2400 BC. Most of the finds come from the Bronze Age urn field culture and date to around 1000 BC. Other finds from a newer settlement date from the Celtic and Roman times and date between 300 BC and 100 AD. The Romans probably built a temple on the Dietenberg, the stones of which were later used to build the first church of Sankt Johann ob Hohenburg .

A new settlement of the Dietenberg took place from the 10th century AD and the Dietenburg was built, which was mentioned in a document in 1066 and is one of the oldest occupied castles in Styria. Dietenberg emerged as a scattered settlement in a high medieval clearing area and consisted of individual farms and vineyards. The place was first mentioned in a document between 1060 and 1076 as Diet (e) npurch . Further mentions followed in 1268/69 as Taetenperig and Tiettenperg in the Rationarium Styriae as well as in 1340 as Diettenberg and finally in 1492 Dietenberg . In 1544 the vineyards of the Voitsberg women's monastery, which cannot be archived, are mentioned at the Church of St. Anne. The Barons von Racknitz also owned some vineyards on Dietenberg, which they sold to St. Lambrecht Abbey in 1629 . The residents of Dietenberg belonged to various manors until 1848, such as the dominions Ligist and Obervoitsberg . From the end of the 15th century at the latest, the Greißenegg rule had its own mining authority with four subjects in Dietenberg. Around 1580 the mining rights also partly belonged to the Grub rule. From 1652 at the latest, the vineyards belonged to the Großlobming estate through the Saurau family . A tithing was with the dominion of Deutschlandsberg , the sheaf tithing with the rule Greißenegg, one ninth of the wine toe was with the rule Großsöding and one wine and sheaf tithing were each with the dominions Premstätten and Winterhof .

On October 17, 1971, the mechanical engineering company Dau & Seifert opened today's Dau GmbH & Co KG from Nagold, Germany, a branch in Dietenberg.

Economy and Infrastructure

Dietenberg is dominated by agriculture, with viticulture in connection with wine taverns playing an important role. Since the discovery of the prehistoric hilltop settlement and the construction of a Celtic house as an open-air museum in October 1987, tourism has also played a role. In addition, with the branch of Dau GmbH & Co KG there has been a mechanical engineering company in town since 1971.

The local children attend schools in Ligist and Sankt Johann ob Hohenburg .

Sights and buildings

The listed farmhouse Leitnerhans in Dietenberg

There is a model of a Celtic house built in October 1987 in the village, which has served as an open-air museum since 1988. It was built based on the model of a house uncovered in the prehistoric hilltop settlement on Dietenberg . A prehistoric hiking trail leads over the Dietenberg. The listed farmhouse Leitnerhans is also located in Dietenberg.

There is also a chapel and several wayside shrines in the village. The Huslerkapelle, built by Matthias Strommer in 1889, used to be a station for the so-called “Kogelbetens”, which led from the Hechlkreuz to the Huberkapelle and the stone wall chapel. Today it serves as a place for May devotions . In front of the Schilcherhof there is a broad-pillar picture stick built by Alfred Schlosser in 1960 with a stylized grotto and a high-relief representation of Mary with child . A wayside shrine erected in 1981 on Dietenbergstrasse as a replica of the Fleckermichlkreuz in Grabenwarth shows the representation of Mary and Child, the mercy seat of Sonntagberg and the saints Aloisius , Cornelia Katharina , Nikolaus , Roswitha and Urban , all of which were designed by Franz Weiss .

literature

• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 29-30 .

Web links

Commons : Dietenberg (Municipality of Ligist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61612 - Ligist. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 29 .
2. ^ Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 30 .
3. ↑ Federal Monuments Office : Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: www.bda.gv.at. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018 ; accessed on January 7, 2019 . 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.