Wernberg (Carinthia)
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Carinthia | |
| Political District : | Villach-Land | |
| License plate : | VL | |
| Surface: | 26.43 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 37 ' N , 13 ° 56' E | |
| Height : | 590 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 5,526 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 209 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 9241 | |
| Area code : | 0 42 52 | |
| Community code : | 2 07 27 | |
| NUTS region | AT211 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Bundesstrasse 11 9241 Wernberg |
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| Mayor : | Franz Zwölbar ( SPÖ ) | |
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Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (23 members) |
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| Location of Wernberg in the Villach-Land district | ||
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 Wernberg municipal office in winter |
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Wernberg ( Slovenian Vernberk ) is a municipality with 5526 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Villach-Land district in Carinthia .
geography
Geographical location
Wernberg is located in the Ossiacher Tauern , east of Villach and between Ossiacher See (in the north), Wörthersee (in the east) and Faaker See (in the south of the municipality).
Community structure
Wernberg is divided into the five cadastral communities Neudorf ( Nova vas ), Sand ( Pešče ), Trabenig ( Trabenče ), Umberg ( Umbar ) and Wernberg ( Vernberk ). The municipality includes the following 24 localities (in brackets the Slovenian place name and the number of inhabitants as of January 1, 2020):
- Damtschach ( Domačale ) (269)
- Dragnitz ( Dragniče ) (76)
- Duel ( Dolje ) (194)
- Föderlach I ( Podravlje ) (1025)
- Föderlach II ( Podravlje ) (73)
- Goritschach ( Goriče ) (417)
- Gods Valley ( Skočidol ) (179)
- Cold Chess ( Hovče ) (507)
- Kantnig ( Konatiče ) (71)
- Kletschach ( Kleče ) (39)
- Krottendorf ( Kročja vas ) (126)
- Lichtpold ( Lihpolje ) (238)
- Neudorf ( Nova vas ) (293)
- Ragain ( Draganje ) (148)
- Sand ( Pešče ) (103)
- Schleben ( Šleben ) (33)
- Stallhofen ( Štavf ) (216)
- Sternberg ( Strmec ) (75)
- Terlach ( Trnovlje ) (176)
- Trabenig ( Trabenče ) (269)
- Umberg ( Umbar ) (334)
- Wernberg ( Vernberk ) (571)
- Wudmath ( Vudmat ) (61)
- Zettin ( Cetinje ) (33)
Neighboring communities
| Ossiach | ||
| Villach |
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Velden Rosegg |
| Villach |
history
The community area was probably already settled in antiquity, as indicated by relics of Roman reliefs and buildings that were found in the parish church of Sternberg as well as in Föderlach and Gottestal.
The oldest documented mention of a town in the community can be found in a document from the St. Paul Abbey about the Sternberg Castle (as Sternberc ) from around 1170/1180. Wernberg is mentioned for the first time in a document dated November 17, 1227, which specifies the demolition of a Draubrücke near Wernberg and the handover of Wernberg Castle to the diocese of Bamberg .
The community was formed in 1850 from four cadastral communities of the Landskron tax district, in 1865 the cadastral community Umberg was added. In 1922 further area corrections took place, in the process Wernberg lost parts of his municipality to Villach, but also received shares from Velden and Rosegg.
population
According to the 2001 census, Wernberg has 4837 inhabitants, 94.8% of whom are Austrian citizens ; Germany (1.7%), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1.0%) and Croatia (0.9%) are the most strongly represented among the other nationalities .
77.3% of the population profess the Roman Catholic , 11.7% the Protestant and 0.4% the Orthodox Church , 0.8% are Islamic , 8.2% have no religious beliefs.
The municipality of Wernberg is located on the north-western edge of the mixed-language area in Carinthia. The Slovenian character of the municipality is shown, among other things, in the fact that it had a representative of the Slovenian party as mayor from 1908 to 1916, Matija Vospernik. At the census in 1951, one fifth of the population stated Slovene as the colloquial language, but the proportion of Carinthian Slovenes in the total population has now decreased to less than one percent (48 of 4837 inhabitants in the 2001 census).
The parish church Damtschach / Domačale and its subsidiary churches Umberg / Umbar and Ragain / Draganje, the parish church Gottestal / Skočidol and its subsidiary church Föderlach / Podravlje, as well as the parish church of Föderlach / Podravlje, are bilingual, German-Slovenian, within the framework of the Rosegg / Rožek deanery Sternberg / Strmec.
Culture and sights
- Wernberg Castle
- Sternberg castle ruins
- Damtschach Castle
- Eichelberg castle ruins , Umberg
- Parish Church of Gottestal
- Parish church hl. John the Baptist, Damtschach
- Filial church hl. Stefan, Föderlach
- Sternberg parish church
- Filial church of St. Peter and Paul, Kantnig
- Filial church hl. Bartlmä, Ragain
- Filial church hl. Matthäus, Umberg
- Wernberg Castle Church
- Chapel, Stallhofen
- Niche chapel, cemetery in Damtschach
- Wernberger Kreuz at Triester Straße No. 1
- Celtic cult site Viereckschanze north of Terlach
- Defense fighter memorial: On a hill east of the village of Wernberg with a panoramic view of the Mittagskogel , Dobratsch and Villach stands a marble block from the Wernberg KAB from 2002 in memory of the defensive fighters from Wernberg. The inscription reads: "If the homeland could speak, it would thank you, the defenders of the community of Wernberg"
Wernberg Cross
The so-called Wernberger Kreuz is a statue with a cube top in relief. The name 1578 is on the roof cross . The round pillar shows two coats of arms: the first (with the year 1767) shows the coat of arms of the abbots of Ossiach , the second that of the Khevenhüller family . The cube shows a relief from the life of Jesus on each of its four visible sides: his birth, the crucifixion, his resurrection and the ascension of Christ. A four-sided pyramid forms the roof of the statue, which marks the northern border of the former regional court of Wernberg.
Sports
In Föderlach there are two tennis courts, an outdoor pool and a soccer field. The Wernberg soccer team is called SV Wernberg. SV Wernberg has over 100 members.
politics
Municipal council
The municipal council of Wernberg has 23 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :
The directly elected mayor is Franz Zwölbar (SPÖ).
coat of arms
The coat of arms of Wernberg refers to the local rulership history. The quadruple tinned shield stands for the four castles Aichelburg , Damtschach, Sternberg and Wernberg. All were in the possession of the Khevenhüller , so that the golden oak branch was taken from their ancestral coat of arms. Finally, the three stars are derived from the coat of arms of the Sternberg counts .
The municipality's coat of arms and flag were awarded on April 5, 1995. The flag is blue and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.
Personalities
- Helmut Haas (* 1950), politician, former councilor in Wernberg, deputy mayor in Hermagor, member of the Carinthian state parliament
- Maria Pacis Irene Vögel (1931–2010), religious sister in Wernberg and missionary in Kenya
- Simon Quendler (* 1983), painter
- Reginald Vospernik (* 1937), educator
literature
- Peter Wiesflecker: Wernberg - From the history of a Carinthian community . Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 2001, ISBN 3-85366-967-0
Web links
- Wernberg municipality
- 20727 - Wernberg (Carinthia). Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paul Zdovc: Slovenska krajevna imena na Koroškem avstrijskem, razširjena izdaja. The Slovenian place names in Carinthia (published by: Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti, Razred za filološke in literarne vede, Razprave / Dissertationes 21), extended edition, Ljubljana 2010. ISSN 0560-2920 .
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ cf. this list of parishes in the deanery Rosegg / Rožek
Afritz am See | Arnoldstein | Arriach | Bad Bleiberg | Feistritz an der Gail | Feld am See | Ferndorf | Finkenstein am Faaker See | Fresach | Hohenthurn | Nötsch im Gailtal | Paternion | Rosegg | Sankt Jakob im Rosental | Stockenboi | Meeting at Ossiacher See | Velden am Wörther See | Weißenstein | Wernberg