Diex

Diex (pronunciation: [ ˈdiːɛks ]; Slov .: Djekše ) is a municipality with 787 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Völkermarkt district in Carinthia .

geography

The community is located in south-eastern Carinthia on the southern slope of the Saualpe high above the Jauntal and Lavanttal .

Community structure

The community is divided into the four cadastral communities Diexerberg, Grafenbach, Haimburgerberg and Obergreutschach. The municipality includes the following seven localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

Evil place ( Hudi kraj ) (57)
Diex ( Djekše ) (378)
Grafenbach ( Kneža ) (114)
Großenegg ( Tolsti Vrh ) (38)
Haimburgerberg ( Vovbrske Gore ) (125)
Michaelerberg ( Šmihelska Gora ) (2)
Obergreutschach ( Zgornje Krčanje ) (73)

history

Diex was first mentioned in a deed of gift from King Arnulf in 895 as "mons Diehse" .

Due to its favorable climatic conditions, today's municipal area was settled early on and was later divided between several manors. In the 15th century the churches of Diex and Grafenbach were expanded into fortified churches because of the Turkish threat .

The political community was formed in 1865 from the local communities Diexerberg and Haimburgerberg, which had existed since 1850. The municipality changed in 1973 when parts of the dissolved municipality of Haimburg and Griffen fell to Diex.

population

At the time of the 2001 census, Diex had 863 inhabitants, 99.2% of whom were Austrian citizens. 6.8% belonged to the Slovene-speaking ethnic group .

97% of the community population professed to be part of the Roman Catholic Church . 2% were without religious beliefs.

Culture and sights

Fortified church in Diex, Saualm

Buildings

Defense system around Diexer Friedhof and parish church

Around the cemetery and church, the visitor marveled at a remarkable early modern, around 5 m high circular wall over an irregular, hexagonal floor plan, as well as three-quarter round towers at the kinks in the east and west . In the northeast corner there is a trapezoidal gate with loopholes . A late Gothic crucifixion group emblazoned above the profiled portal (originated around 1515), the gate itself is barrel-vaulted, a stone depicting the " oath hand of Odin" is walled in over the outside of the portal , marked on the cemetery side with 1535 (construction completion) and the door has shooting holes . On the inside of the defensive wall there is a covered, well-preserved defensive corridor with a shield wall and a crack that can be covered by movable beams .

Parish church Diex St. Martin, fortified church
Parish church Maria Magdalena in Grafenbach, Gothic fortified church

Diexer Friedhof and curtain wall with battlement
Construction completion stone above the portal of the defense system
Oath handstone above the portal of the fortifications

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 11 members and has been composed as follows since the 2015 municipal council election :

4 ÖVP
4 FPÖ
3 SPÖ

The directly elected mayor is Anton Napetschnig (FPÖ).

coat of arms

Diex's coat of arms shows “In a blue shield made of a golden ring wall, a double-towered golden church with a turret growing on the choir ridge; The stone slab roofs of the wall and church are drawn in black, the turret helmet in black. ” It depicts the fortified church of St. Martin, which was used as a motif in the seal of the community even before the coat of arms was awarded.

The municipality's coat of arms and flag were awarded on October 22, 1969. The flag is blue-yellow-black with an incorporated coat of arms.

literature

DEHIO Carinthia. Topographical inventory of monuments , pp. 78–81. Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X

Matthias Kapeller: Churches, monasteries and culture - meeting rooms in Carinthia , pp. 44–45, 2001 Carinthia publishing house, Klagenfurt; ISBN 3-85378-539-5

Robert Wlattnig: Diex - sunny village on the Saualpe. From the medieval fortified church to the modern tourist community. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1996 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-85366-808-9

Herta Mauerer-Lausegger: The Diex / Dejkše dialect. A bilingual video documentation . In: Interrelationships between Slavic languages, literatures and cultures in the past and present . Innsbruck 1996.

Web links

Commons : Diex - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Diex parish
20802 - Diex. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 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. @1@ 2
↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 72

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )