Feldkirchen near Graz

Feldkirchen bei Graz is a market town with 6,622 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) south of Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district in Styria ( Austria ).

geography

Feldkirchen is an up-and-coming market town south of Graz, which has grown into the state capital over the years. It is located on the Mur on the eastern edge of the Grazer Feld .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following four localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Abtissendorf (1564)
Feldkirchen near Graz (1651)
Livers (1032) including liver field
Wagnitz (2456)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Lebern and Wagnitz.

Neighboring communities

Seiersberg-Pirka	Graz	Graz
Seiersberg-Pirka		Gössendorf
Premstätten	Kalsdorf near Graz	Gössendorf

history

The area of Feldkirchen in the Josephinische Landesaufnahme , around 1790

Feldkirchen is one of the oldest settlements in the Grazer Feld , lies on a Roman road , the course of which in Feldkirchen is documented by two Roman stones that connect Flavia Solva with the Danube region, and was the ecclesiastical center in the Grazer Feld as early as the 9th century, before Graz a church or parish has been established.

The earliest written document is from 1144 and is "Veltchirchen". The field name comes from a church standing free in the field and was transferred to the settlement.

Population development

Population development
date	Residents
1869	1,035
1880	1,165
1890	1,072
1900	1,168
1910	1,389
1923	1,417
1934	1,523
1939	1,706
1951	2,059
1961	3,009
1971	3,948
1981	4,307
1991	4,645
2001	5,024
2011	5,433
2016	5,931
2017	6,622

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Feldkirchen near Graz : In 1973, Pastor Josef Gschanes brought the Feldkirchen Passion Play into being. These took place annually in the 1970s and every two years from 1979. They have been held every three years since 1981, with four years passing between 2007 and 2011 due to the renovation of the parish hall. The next date is 2020.

traffic

Road: The Süd Autobahn (A2) runs through the municipality and has been accessible via the Graz-Flughafen / Feldkirchen junction (183) since 2004. The Pyhrn Autobahn (A9) is also easily accessible via the Kalsdorf junction, around 5 kilometers away. Grazer Straße (B 67) runs through Feldkirchen .
Rail: The community of Feldkirchen has two stops on the Südbahn : Feldkirchen-Seiersberg (since December 11, 2005) and Graz-Feldkirchen Airport. There are hourly S-Bahn connections to Graz and Spielfeld - Straß from both stops . In the morning and evening peaks, the trains sometimes run every 15 or 30 minutes.
The Graz Airport is on the municipality of Feldkirchen bei Graz, only the southern third of the runway is located in the nearby town of Kalsdorf bei Graz .

politics

The municipal council consists of 25 members. Since the municipal council elections in Styria in 2015, it has been composed as follows:

10 ÖVP - provides the mayor and the 1st vice mayor
7 FPÖ - provides the 2nd Vice Mayor and the municipal treasurer
7 SPÖ - provides 1st community board
1 GREEN mandate resigned on February 26, 2016 (no substitute member). So from February 26, 2016 - only 24 municipal councils

After the 2001 census for Feldkirchen showed more than 5,000 inhabitants, the municipal council was increased from 21 to 25 members in the municipal council election on March 13, 2005 .

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010
Political party	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	960	37	10	1385	55	15th
SPÖ	721	28	7th	0732	29	07th
FPÖ	757	29	7th	0348	14th	03
The green	098	04th	1	not running
KPÖ	066	03	0	not running
BZÖ	not running			0055	02	00
voter turnout	%			%

Erich Gosch (ÖVP) has been mayor since 2014.

Sports

Table tennis: With the Spielgemeinschaft Feldkirchen-Puch (syndicate of the TTC Feldkirchen and ASV Puch Graz clubs), Feldkirchen owns a table tennis club that is successful throughout Styria and has over 100 registered club members, currently with 7 adult and 4 junior teams (current status 2011/2012 season) is represented in all Styrian leagues (regional league, upper league, lower league, regional league, 1st class). Since the 2009/2010 season it has been played in the newly built table tennis hall on Mühlweg.

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

Johann Bammer (1922–2017), Provincial Councilor
Josef Gschanes (1923–2016), pastor of Feldkirchen (1964–2016)

Sons and daughters of the church

Werner Seidl (March 30, 1914 in Feldkirchen near Graz, killed on July 31, 1941 on the Eastern Front) was a freelance sculptor, student of Wilhelm Gösser , member of the Graz Secession and in 1935 was awarded the Austrian State Prize.

Web links

Commons : Feldkirchen bei Graz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

60608 - Feldkirchen near Graz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Community website
Website of the Feldkirchen drama group
Website of the table tennis club

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Ute Lohner-Urban, Investigations in the Roman Vicus of Kalsdorf near Graz, p. 22, ISBN 978-385161-018-5
^ ^A ^b Walter Brunner on behalf of the City of Graz, Kulturamt (ed.): History of the City of Graz (in 4 volumes), self-published by the City of Graz 2003, ISBN 3-902234-02-4
↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (= magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 55 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
↑ Feldkirchner Passion Play. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .
↑ Graz Airport. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .

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

[ISBN9783851610185_22-2] Ute Lohner-Urban, Investigations in the Roman Vicus of Kalsdorf near Graz, p. 22, ISBN 978-385161-018-5

[Brunner-3] A ^b Walter Brunner on behalf of the City of Graz, Kulturamt (ed.): History of the City of Graz (in 4 volumes), self-published by the City of Graz 2003, ISBN 3-902234-02-4

[4] Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (= magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 55 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).

[5] Feldkirchner Passion Play. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .

[6] Graz Airport. Retrieved April 17, 2020 .