Großradl

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Coat of arms of the former community Großradl

Großradl is an area in the southeast of the municipality of Eibiswald in western Styria . Until the end of 2014 it was a municipality with 1,397 inhabitants (as of 2014) in the Deutschlandsberg district . As part of the Styrian community structural reform , Großradl was merged with the communities of Aibl , Eibiswald, Pitschgau , St. Oswald ob Eibiswald and Soboth to form the market town of Eibiswald in 2015 . The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG. A complaint by the municipality against the amalgamation at the Constitutional Court was introduced was unsuccessful.

geography

location

Großradl is located in southern western Styria on the border with Slovenia. The Radlpass Straße (B 76) connects the village with the neighboring towns of Aibl and Eibiswald and over the Radlpass with neighboring Slovenia. The most important elevation of Großradl is the 1052 m high Klementkogel. The waters of the area are the Stammereggbach, Großer and Kleiner Königinbach, Wuggitzbach, Feisternitzbach and Auenbach.

structure

Großradl comprises the following nine localities (population in brackets as of October 31, 2011):

  • Bach wood (61)
  • Feisternitz (343)
  • Kleinradl (51)
  • Kornriegl (38)
  • Upper Latin (171)
  • Pongratzen (104)
  • Stammeregg (398)
  • Sterglegg (115)
  • Wuggitz (156)

Großradl consists of the nine cadastral communities of Bachholz, Feisternitz, Kleinradl, Kornriegl, Oberlatein, Pongratzen, Stammeregg, Sterglegg and Wuggitz.

Neighboring places

Eibiswald Pitschgau
Aibl Neighboring communities Oberhaag
Radlje ob Dravi

history

The Großradl area is located on the northern slope of the mountain range, over which the road connections between the southern part of historical Styria ( Lower Styria ) and its northern parts ( Central and Upper Styria ) run. In the Middle Ages, these paths were secured by several fortifications, of which only small remains are left. It was about wood-earth systems, so-called moths , at least partially stone foundations were present.

The facility on the Turmbauerkogel in the Sterglegg cadastral community is a listed building . It consisted of two tower castles, between which the unevenness of the terrain of the earlier system can still be seen.

In the cadastral municipality of Pongratzen there was another tower castle hill near Kleinwuggitz, which has the shape of an elliptical truncated cone . It is about six meters high and its plateau measures 13 × 15 meters. Two slope steps ( berms ) can still be seen, as well as the remains of a wall.

Location of the former municipality of Großradl in the Deutschlandsberg district with the municipal boundaries until the end of 2014

A third place, where there were indications of a tower castle hill and which had been known since around 1888, was removed in 1976: the then so-called “Beisser-Schlosskogel”. He was in the cadastral community of Wuggitz on a ridge between the Wuggitzbach and the Latin stream near the Großwuggitz settlement. A layer of fire was found during the removal of the hill. There are no more indications at this point, and no documentary mentions are known. It is no longer possible to determine whether it was actually a weir from the Carolingian era .

Whether the "Hof in der Ladein", which was lent to Jakob aus der Ladein by the Bishop of Seckau in 1318 , was located at one of the three tower castle locations, whether it is another small fortification or whether it was the name of the medieval settlement that further north at the Pfaffenkraner-Waldschloss in the municipality of Pitschgau is not occupied.

The community of Großradl existed from 1969 to 2014. In 1969 the previously independent communities of Kleinradl and Kornriegl were merged with the cadastral community of Stammeregg and the part of the cadastral community of Bachholz of the former community of Stammeregg to form the new community of Großradl. The municipality of Kleinradl in its former form had only emerged one year earlier, on January 1, 1968, from the municipalities of Feisternitz, Kleinradl and Oberlatein. As early as January 1, 1961, the Sterglegg community was merged with what was then Kornriegl.

Großradl does not have its own parish church, but belongs to the parish Eibiswald . Smaller parts of the parish belong to the Oberhaag parish.

population

Population structure

According to the 2001 census, the community had 1,505 inhabitants. 99.7% of the population have Austrian citizenship. 97.1% of the population profess to the Roman Catholic Church, 1.9% are without religious belief.

Population development

While the population hardly changed between 1869 and 1934, the population declined by almost 20% between the 1930s and 1961. Since then, the population has fluctuated by around 1,500 people.


Culture and sights

See also: List of listed objects in Eibiswald

Großradl is also accessible for tourism through the folklore hiking trail .

The publicly accessible bell tower of the Church of St. Pongratzen (Sv. Pankracij) serves as a lookout tower. At 900 meters above sea level there is a panoramic view of southwest Styria and the Slovenian Drau valley .

The church with the attached bell tower is located on Slovenian territory. The first written mention was already in 1490. The current church was built in 1655 in the baroque style. The church tower on the border has been used as a lookout tower since 1935 and was renovated in 2003 with Austrian and EU funding. In the summer months, the tower is open continuously with free admission.

The cross-border events with a bilingual mass on the 2nd Sunday in May, on Whit Monday, on July 17th and on the 1st Sunday after July 17th, on the 2nd Sunday in August and on the 1st Sunday in September are well known.

At the “Glirsch” tavern there is a wine museum that gives an overview of the tradition of viticulture . Guided tours take place on request. Opening times: March to December.

Thomas Hammerl (* 1987) from Wuggitz is proficient in a variety of musical instruments (harmonica, clarinet, guitar, etc.). He is considered a talent, has won several music prizes and makes music with his folk group " Oberkrainer Power ".

The tower castle in Sterglegg was a fortified complex on the site of today's Eibiswald Castle.

Großradl in the south of the Saggau Valley, recording sheet around 1877/78

Landscape protection area

Großradl is located in conservation area no. 3 “Soboth-Radlpass”. This area is characterized by meadows in a large-scale forest landscape, by grassland use and small-scale orchards. The protection serves to preserve the landscape character, the natural and near-natural landscape elements as well as the preservation of the region as a recreational area for the general public. The large, contiguous undeveloped areas, the structured cultural landscape with its small biotopes such as bushes and groups of trees, the field and forest edge communities, the small bodies of water such as springs, streams, etc., the habitats for the animal and plant species occurring in the protected area and the near-natural stream sections are protected.

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces , there were 28 workplaces with 67 employees in Großradl as well as 540 out-commuters and 27 in-commuters. The most important employers are the hotel and restaurant sector and trade. There are 172 agricultural and forestry holdings (39 of which are the main occupation), which together manage 2,497 hectares (1999).

The traffic development takes place via the Südsteirische Grenzstraße B 69 and the Radlpass-Straße B 76.

politics

Municipal council

The community of Großradl was politically strongly dominated by the ÖVP . In the municipal council elections in 2005, it reached 63.98%, which means an increase of 1.18% with a constant number of 10 municipal council mandates. The SPÖ , on the other hand, was able to benefit more from the FPÖ's losses and increased its share of the vote by 2.97% to 24.05%. This enabled the SPÖ to take a mandate from the FPÖ and had four municipal seats. The FPÖ suffered a loss of 4.15% and only achieved one mandate with 11.97%.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from June 1, 2007, the coat of arms description reads: In a green shield on a silver hill covered with a black nine-spoke wagon wheel, a silver tower in half-timbered construction with a tent roof and plank-reinforced defense platform, two black openwork, high-angle windows on the first floor and surrounded from a palisade wall.

literature

  • Heimo Kaindl, Evelyn Kaindl-Ranzinger: Folklore hiking trail Großradl. A walk through the cultural landscape on the bike. Companion . Eibiswald approx. 2000

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
  2. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 2, Item 2 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. 2.
  3. ↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 24 November 2014 G 90/2014, 103/2014 G, G 115/2014.
  4. ↑ Statistics Austria, register census from October 31, 2011
  5. ^ Helmut-Theobald Müller (ed.), Gernot Peter Obersteiner (overall scientific management): History and topography of the Deutschlandsberg district. Graz-Deutschlandsberg 2005. ISBN 3-90193815X . Styrian Provincial Archives and District Authority Deutschlandsberg 2005. In the series: Great historical regional studies of Styria. Founded by Fritz Posch †. First volume, general part. Gernot Obersteiner: Settlement, administration and jurisdiction until 1848. Pages 42–45.
  6. ↑ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Medieval and early modern fortifications in the district of Deutschlandsberg: recording of the soil monuments. With drawings by Stefan Karl. Contributions to medieval archeology in Austria BMÖ. Volume 10, born in 1994. Ed .: Austrian Society for Medieval Archeology ÖGM, Vienna. ISSN  1011-0062 . P 53-54, sketch map 72. coordinates of the tower castle Sterglegg: 46 ° 40 '20.4 "  N , 15 ° 14' 39.9"  O .
  7. ^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. P. 86.
  8. ^ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Wehrbauten. P 55-56, sketch map 76. coordinates of the tower Castle Hill Pongratzen: 46 ° 40 '26 "  N , 15 ° 18' 16"  O .
  9. ↑ V (áclav, also: Wenzel) Radimský: Urgeschichtliche research in the neighborhood of Wiesbaden in central Styria. I. The prehistoric monuments around Wies . In: Franz Hauer (Red.): Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna - MAG. Volume XIV (Volume IV of the new series), year 1884. Verlag Gerold. Vienna. Pp. 47-48.
  10. ^ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Wehrbauten. Page 62, sketch map (property boundaries have been changed since then) 86. coordinates of the biter lock Kogels: 46 ° 40 '41 "  N , 15 ° 18' 6"  O .
  11. ^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces. P. 59.
  12. ^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces. P. 74.
  13. ↑ Law of December 3, 1968 on territorial changes of municipalities , Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of December 27, 1968, Item 22, No. 164. pp. 173-174.
  14. ↑ Law of December 18, 1967 on territorial changes of municipalities , Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of December 29, 1967, Part 26, No. 138, p. 188.
  15. ↑ Ordinance of December 23, 1960 , Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of December 29, 1960, Issue 39, No. 90, p. 238 (second version, double counting in the LGBl.).
  16. ↑ Ordinance of the Styrian state government of December 19, 2013 on the declaration of areas of the Soboth and the Radlpass as landscape protection area No. 3. Styrian State Law Gazette of January 27, 2014. No. 10. ZDB -ID 705127-x . Pp. 1-2. This ordinance replaced the ordinance on the declaration of areas of the Soboth and the Radlpass as a landscape protection area, LGBl. No. 38/1981, most recently in the version LGBl. No. 64/1981.
  17. ↑ State Law Gazette Styria No. 42/2007

Web links

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