Weißkirchen in Styria

Weißkirchen in Steiermark is about 6½ km east of the town of Judenburg . The highest elevations in the municipality are the Ameringkogel ( 2187 m above sea level ) and the Rappoldkogel ( 1928 m ).

Community structure

As of January 1, 2015, the municipalities of Eppenstein , Maria Buch-Feistritz and Reisstraße were incorporated into the Styrian municipal structural reform.

The municipality includes the following 21 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Allersdorf (275)
Baierdorf (325)
Baumkirchen (31)
Eppenstein (297)
Fishing (205)
Size mountain (34)
Grossfeistritz (128)
Kathal (198)
Kothgraben (30)
Maria Buch (293)
Möbersdorf (361)
Möbersdorfsiedlung (234)
Muhldorf (118)
Murdorf (15)
Pichling (221)
Rice Road (124)
Schoberegg (292)
Schwarzenbach am Grossing (201)
Thann (53)
Weißkirchen in Steiermark (1265)
Woellmerdorf (76)

The community consists of ten cadastral communities (area 2016):

Allersdorf (445.41 ha)
Feistritz (840.10 ha)
Fisching (707.46 ha)
Kothgraben (3,807.71 ha)
Maria Buch (857.94 ha)

Mühldorf (1,383.10 ha)
Reisstraße (ha 2421.21)
Schoberegg (2,265.50 ha)
Schwarzenbach (2,107.29 ha)
Weißkirchen (126.81 ha)

The community is located in the judicial district of Judenburg .

Neighboring communities

Fohnsdorf	Zeltweg
Judenburg		Lobmingtal
shelter		Hirschegg-Pack ( Voitsberg district )

history

The town of Weißkirchen from the east

View of Maria Buch and Weißkirchen from the Liechtensteinberg

The earliest written document is from 1066 and is "Wizinchiricha". The name goes back to Old High German wiz (white) and describes a parcel with a church made of white stone.

The village is located at the intersection of Gaberl Straße B 77 and Obdacher Straße B 78 in the center of Murboden on an alluvial cone of the Granitzenbach . It was created between the estates and mills of the surrounding lordship of Eppenstein, Thann and Liechtenstein. The market survey took place in 1453. The political community Weißkirchen was established in 1849/50, in 1951 the name was changed to Weißkirchen in Steiermark .

The townscape is well preserved. The mostly two-story houses are mostly with the eaves facing the street. Parts of the market were destroyed several times by floods and fires. Therefore, many of the facades date from the 19th century.

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church Weißkirchen in Styria

Pilgrimage Church of Maria Buch

Catholic parish church Weißkirchen in Styria hl. Vitus
Pilgrimage Church of Maria Buch

Economy and Infrastructure

There were 13 agricultural and forestry holdings (5 of them in the main occupation), which together cultivated 604 hectares (as of 1999).

In the secondary economic sector there were 61 companies with 752 employees. Nearly 500 of them were involved in the manufacture of goods, over a hundred in construction and seventy in mining. The service sector employed 561 people in 206 companies, around a third of them in trade and a quarter in social and public services (as of 2011).

Mining

The talc-like mineral leukophyllite , which is extracted in the mining industry in Kleinfeistritz in the cadastral community of Reisstrasse , is processed by the IMERYS company in Weißkirchen.

traffic

Train: Weißkirchen is on the Lavant Valley Railway . Passenger traffic between Zeltweg and Bad St. Leonhard was discontinued in 2010.
Road: For the Obdacher Straße B 78 between Zeltweg and Obdach , which previously ran through the town , bypass roads were built, which were completed in 2004 with the Zeltweg bypass.

politics

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The municipal council has 21 members.

With the municipal council elections in Styria 2015 , the municipal council with 21 members had the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ and 2 UUM - our environment, Murwald in dire need.
With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP, 4 UUM – our environment, Murwald in dire need, 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

1945–1946 Franz Uitz
1946–1980 Josef Trattnig
1980–1992 Gerhard Pilz
since ? Ewald Peer (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Eppenstein
Maria Buch-Feistritz
Weißkirchen in Styria

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the municipal coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. Three of the four merged municipalities had their own coats of arms by the end of 2014. The Styrian state government has not yet awarded the municipal coat of arms (as of June 2017).

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

1909: Abbot Severin Kalcher ( St. Lambrecht Abbey )
1909: Eligius Semelrock (Mayor of Weißkirchen 1889–1897, 1904–1910)
1937: Anton Frewein (councilor)
1938: Bartholomäus Mayer (Mayor of Allersdorf 1898–1938)
1950: Johann Apfelknab (community secretary)
1950: Franz Pristautz (community functionary)
1950: Anton Telsnigg (community functionary)
1950: Wilhelm Dobnig (elementary school director in Weißkirchen 1924–1938, 1945–1950)
1953: Josef Anderle (community functionary)
1953: Franz Uitz (Mayor of Weißkirchen 1945–1946)
1954: Konrad Eigler (doctor)
1954: Fritz Matzner (Provincial Councilor)
1956: Ernst Klepsch-Kirchner
1960: Eduard Matauschek (fire chief)
1960: Engelbert Nothdorfer
1968: Johann Bammer (Provincial Council)
1980: Josef Trattnig (Mayor of Weißkirchen 1946–1980)
1983: Josef Kufner (industrialist)
1983: Georg Kufner (industrialist)
1984: Josef Krainer (Governor)
1993: Gerhard Pilz (Mayor of Weißkirchen 1980–1992)
1999: Dominik Kufner (industrialist)
2003: Waltraud Klasnic (Governor)
2003: Franz Tropper (pastor of Weißkirchen 1965–2003)
2015: Rupert Enzinger (Mayor of Maria Buch-Feistritz 1995-2014)

Sons and daughters of the church

Ignaz Raffalt (1800–1857), Biedermeier painter
Reinhard Gerer (* 1953), cook
Horst-Michael Schaffer (* 1971), jazz musician

People related to the community

Willi Denifl (* 1980), Nordic combined athlete, lives in Weißkirchen
Renate Götschl (* 1975), ski racer and multiple world champion, comes from Schwarzenbach

literature

Reiner Puschnig: History of the Weißkirchen market in Styria . Weißkirchen 1981 (2nd edition)

Web links

Commons : Weißkirchen in Steiermark - Collection of images, videos and audio files

62048 - Weißkirchen in Styria. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Web presence of the market town of Weißkirchen in Styria

Individual evidence

^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 12, 2013 on the unification of the market community Weißkirchen in Styria and the communities Eppenstein, Maria Buch-Feistritz and Reisstraße, all of the political district of Murtal. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 95, 28th issue. P. 553.
↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017
↑ 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. 56 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
↑ General State Law and Government Gazette for the Crown Land of Styria, Issue 21, October 7, 1850, No. 378.
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Weißkirchen, workplaces. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Weißkirchen, employees. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
↑ The company - IMERYS Talc Austria. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .
↑ Dr Michael Alexander Populorum: Lavanttalbahn Zeltweg Obdach Wolfsberg St. Paul Lavanttal Lavamünd Unterdrauburg Dravograd Wöllern Velence Cilli Celje Railway. June 10, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 .
^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Weißkirchen in Styria. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Weißkirchen in Styria. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 .

[1] Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 12, 2013 on the unification of the market community Weißkirchen in Styria and the communities Eppenstein, Maria Buch-Feistritz and Reisstraße, all of the political district of Murtal. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 95, 28th issue. P. 553.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-2] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[3] Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017

[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. 56 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).

[5] General State Law and Government Gazette for the Crown Land of Styria, Issue 21, October 7, 1850, No. 378.

[6] Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Weißkirchen, workplaces. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .

[7] Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Weißkirchen, employees. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .

[8] The company - IMERYS Talc Austria. Retrieved December 6, 2019 .

[9] Dr Michael Alexander Populorum: Lavanttalbahn Zeltweg Obdach Wolfsberg St. Paul Lavanttal Lavamünd Unterdrauburg Dravograd Wöllern Velence Cilli Celje Railway. June 10, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 .

[StmkGrw2015_62048-10] Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Weißkirchen in Styria. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 2, 2020 .

[StmkGrw2020_62048-11] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Weißkirchen in Styria. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 .