Eichberg (municipality of Rohrbach an der Lafnitz)

Eichberg (former municipality) Eichberg locality ; Small stroke; Lebing; Schn e llerviertl
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld  (HF), Styria
Judicial district	Fürstenfeld
Coordinates	47 ° 22 '43 "  N , 15 ° 58' 29"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '43 "  N , 15 ° 58' 29"  E
height	578  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	1178 (January 1, 2014)
Building status	367 (2001 )
surface	18.65 km²
Postcodes	8234, 8250
prefix	+ 43/3338
Statistical identification
Community code	62277
Locality code	15143 to 15146
Counting district / district	Eichberg (62277 001)
Location of the former community in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Independent municipality until the end of 2014; KG: 64303 Eichberg, 64308 Kleinschlag, 64309 Lebing, 64317 Schnöllerviertl Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Eichberg was a municipality with 1,178 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2014) in northeast Styria and belonged to the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld . As part of the structural reform of the Styrian community , it has been merged with the Rohrbach an der Lafnitz community since 2015 , and the new community continues the name Rohrbach an der Lafnitz. The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

geography

Geographical location

Eichberg is about eleven kilometers north of the district capital Hartberg near the border with Burgenland . The area is located in Joglland at the transition from the Eastern Styrian hill country to the mountain range east of the Mur . Eichberg is crossed by Kleinlungitzbach that is later than Lungitzbach at Wörterberg in the Lafnitz flows. The northern boundary of the municipality is formed by the Voraubach, in the northeast the municipality is bounded by the Lafnitz, while the south is drained by the Reibersbach.

structure

The municipality of Eichberg consisted of the four localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Eichberg (402)
• Kleinschlag (157) with forest houses
• Lebing (485) with Beigütl, Rohrbach-Vorau-Bahnhof, Tempelbauern and Troppenbauern
• Schnellerviertel (148) with mountain farmers, Brunnmeister, Krausenberg, Steinfeld and Windbichl

Former neighboring communities

Riegersberg	Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel	Stroke near Thalberg
Vorau , Puchegg		Rohrbach an der Lafnitz
Stambach	Grafendorf near Hartberg	Lafnitz

history

The community of Kleinschlag was renamed Eichberg on January 1st, 1999.

Population development of the former municipality

year	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1923	1934	1939
Residents	834	865	875	861	983	958	1.006	965
year	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2013
Residents	1,061	1,182	1,250	1,270	1,210	1,220	1,178

Source: Statistics Austria

Eichberg parish church

Lebing burial mound

Aichberg Castle

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Rohrbach an der Lafnitz

• Parish church hl. John the Baptist
• The Aichberg castle is part of the Eastern Styrian Castle Road . It was founded in the 11th or 12th century when, after the wars with Hungary, the Lafnitz was established as the border between the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary, and consequently served to strengthen this border. It is first mentioned in 1250. In 1953 the castle came into community ownership. It has been privately owned again since 1986.

traffic

Eichberg is off the main roads. The Wechsel Straße B 54 to Wiener Neustadt and Hartberg is approx. 4 km away and can be reached in the neighboring municipality of Rohrbach an der Lafnitz . The south autobahn A2 to Vienna and Graz is approx. 15 km away and can be reached via the Friedberg - Pinggau junction (95).

The Rohrbach- Vorau train station of the Thermenbahn is located in the Eichberg area . It offers regional train connections to Vienna and Hartberg every two hours .

The Graz Airport and the airport Wien-Schwechat are both about 100 km away.

politics

Municipal council

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2010			2005			2000			1995			1990
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	575	68	11	465	59	9	404	57	9	435	53	8th	512	60	9
SPÖ	147	17th	2	198	25th	4th	191	27	4th	211	26th	4th	238	28	4th
FPÖ	125	15th	2	127	16	2	118	17th	2	178	22nd	3	105	12	2
voter turnout	83%			81%			75%			88%			93%

mayor

Mayor was Peter Uhl (ÖVP), deputy mayor was Alois Hofstätter (ÖVP).

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from November 1, 1988.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

“Split half by black and silver and divided by red; on the cuts in the three-pass oak leaves, red in the upper left field, silver in the other fields. "

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1950: Josef Krainer (1903–1971), governor
• 1950: Ferdinand Prirsch (1906–1965), Provincial Councilor
• 1950: Josef Wallner (1902–1974), member of the National Council
• 1950: N. Thaller
• 1950: Hans Linhart
• 1963: Gilbert Prenner, provost of Vorau Abbey
• 1963: Emanuel Eschermann, elementary school director
• 1969: Hanns Koren (1906–1985), Deputy Governor
• 1969: Franz Wegart (1918–2009), Provincial Councilor
• 1969: Anton Weidinger (1907–1991), member of the National Council
• 1969: Karl Prenner , member of the state parliament
• 1977: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), governor
• 1984: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor
• 1988: Josef Ferstl, pastor
• 1990: Erwin Ogradnik
• 2005: Alois Pausackl, Mayor 1985-2005
• 2009: Hermann Schützenhöfer (* 1952), governor
• 2009: Johann Seitinger (* 1961), Provincial Councilor
• 2010: Johann Wiedner, state official
• 2010: Theresia Koller, organist

Web links

Commons : Eichberg (Steiermark)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Aichberg Castle

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 4, Item 3 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 39, 1989, p. 33
5. ↑ Gottfried Allmer, Commune Eichberg. History and culture in the East Styrian Formbacherland. Eichberg 2013, p. 306