Fürnitz

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Fürnitz ( village )
locality
cadastral municipality Fürnitz
Fürnitz (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Villach-Land  (VL), Carinthia
Judicial district Villach
Pole. local community Finkenstein am Faaker See
Coordinates 46 ° 33 '45 "  N , 13 ° 49' 27"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '45 "  N , 13 ° 49' 27"  Ef1
height 508  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 1521 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG 4.9 km²
Post Code 9586 Fürnitz
prefix + 43/4254 (Faak am See)
Statistical identification
Locality code 02353
Cadastral parish number 75413
Counting district / district Fürnitz-Korpitsch (20 711 003)
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Fürnitz with the marshalling yard seen from the Federaun castle ruins
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; KAGIS
1521

Fürnitz ( Slov .: Brnca ) is a village and a cadastral municipality in the municipality of Finkenstein am Faaker See with 1479 inhabitants in the Villach-Land district in Carinthia , Austria .

location

Fürnitz is located south of the Graschelitzen and the Gail around 3.5 km west of the community capital Finkenstein am Faaker See.

History and name

In a document from 1090, the place "Furniz" belonging to the parish Maria Gail is mentioned for the first time. In a tithe directory of the diocese of Aquileia from 1296, “Vernz” and a “pleban. de Vernz ”(Fürnitz and pastor of Fürnitz), so at this time Fürnitz was already a parish recognized by the bishop. In 1250 the St. was Michael consecrated church built.

The name Fürnitz comes from the Slovenian Brnca (to brnica = morass, muddy soil) which means something like "Steg area" or "Stegbach". It suggests that due to its proximity to the Gail, the place was probably only accessible via footbridges or bridges.

Infrastructure

traffic

The Rosental Straße runs through Fürnitz and joins the Kärntner Straße to the west of the village . On the junction Villach-Warmbad Fürnitz is to the south highway connected.

The station Fürnitz is located on the Rudolfsbahngürtel and that of the line S4 train Carinthia operated. There are five bus stops in town, which are served by lines 5194 and 8572.

To the north of the town center is the Villach-Süd marshalling yard, built around 1990 , where around 2,800 wagons are handled every day. A logistics center is being built around the marshalling yard.

Web links

Commons : Fürnitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1, 2016 by locality, area status January 1, 2016 (PDF; 3.8 MB)
  2. a b Parish Fürnitz / Brnca: history of the parish
  3. Fürnitz: hub for goods traffic , kaernten.orf.at of June 7, 2013
  4. Astrid Jäger: Logistics Center Fürnitz posts first successes , Kleine Zeitung of October 14, 2017