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Flattach is a municipality with 1188 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the south of Austria in the Spittal an der Drau district in Carinthia .

geography

The main town is in Mölltal at 699 m above sea level. Most of the other districts are also in the Mölltal, while the largest part of the municipal area in terms of area is in the side valley of the Fragant . The 98.7 km² large community area is bounded by the Goldberg group to the north and the Kreuzeck group to the south . The highest point is the Schareck at 3122 m above sea level. A.

Community structure

The municipality of Flattach with the two cadastral municipalities Flattach and Fragant comprises nine localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Unquestioning (282)
Flattach (384)
Flattachberg (95)
Grafenberg (28)
Inner question (50)
Kleindorf (140)
Lasa (92)
Smelting works (85)
Honeycomb (32)

Smelting works around 1900

history

The name Flattach is probably derived from the Alpine Slavonic blato for moss . The municipality of Flattach was not constituted until 1895 when it was separated from the market municipality of Obervellach . In addition to agriculture and forestry, which are still predominant today, copper mining also played an important role in the past. In the course of the 20th century, tourism ( Raggaschlucht and ski area on the Mölltal Glacier ) and the Fragant power plant group became economically important factors within the community.

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church in Flattach
Catholic branch church Our Lady in Extraordinary

population

According to the 2001 census, Flattach has 1,373 inhabitants, of which 97.0% have Austrian and 1.6% German citizenship . 95.1% of the population profess the Roman Catholic and 1.6% the Protestant Church, 1.8% of the population is without religious belief.

Natural spectacle of the Raggaschlucht

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality of Flattach is located on Mölltalstraße (B 106).

The Serviced has become like everywhere in the Alps to a hobby or a modest extra income. Until the 1970s there was an alpine path through which the cattle were driven from Kolm-Saigurn in Salzburg over the Fraganter Tauern ( 2754 m ) to the high pastures of the Fragant.

In the past, ore was mined in various places , and some tunnels are still preserved today. So the name of the district Schmelzhütten still points to the montane past. Most important was the copper mining in the Großfragant , which started in the 17th century and reached its climax and end with the First World War .

In Außerfragant the turbine building located Kraftwerksgruppe Fragant , a storage power station of KELAG , the water not only from reservoirs in the Fragant, but also from the Zirknitz and Wölla relates.

Today tourism is an important pillar. The Mölltal Glacier is located in the municipality of Flattach . The famous Raggaschlucht and the Duisburgerhütte of the DAV , the Fraganter Schutzhaus and the Dr. Hans Widder youth hostel of the Alpenverein Klagenfurt ( OeAV ) as well as the Weißseehaus of the friends of nature in the community.

Möll Flattach whitewater arena

The whitewater arena Möll Flattach, built in 2014, is a whitewater facility with permanently installed slalom gates in the natural river bed of the Möll for whitewater paddling , playboating , hydrospeed , sit-on-top and rafting , as well as for training and competitions in whitewater racing , canoe slalom and freestyle . The route is 350 m long, 15 m wide, has a height difference of 3 m, an average discharge of 10–20 m³ / s and, depending on the water level, difficulty level III. The 2015 Austrian state championships in kayak slalom and canoe freestyle were held on the route.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Flattach has 15 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

8 ULF (Independent List Flattach)
4 TAFF (Team Alternative for Flattach)
2 SPÖ
1 FPÖ

The directly elected mayor has been Kurt Schober (ULF previously FPK) since 2009.

coat of arms

As early as 1959, the municipality stipulated the motif of a coat of arms, referring to an earlier use with the tack (hammer and mallet), but received no approval for this, and further drafts could not be considered due to deficiencies in content or form. Attempts by the Carinthian Provincial Archives to bring in elements of the landscape and economy in 1977 and later a crab (Slov. Rak ) as the eponymous symbol for the Raggaschlucht also failed. In 1990, the community decided on a coat of arms with scenic and tourist motifs (cable car, Raggaschlucht), which, however, was not approved by the state government due to heraldic deficiencies. So only a further attempt in 2005 brought the breakthrough, when the coat of arms in the form that is valid today was determined from a combination of different designs - Flattach was the last Carinthian municipality to be awarded a coat of arms.

On May 8, 2006, the municipality received the right to carry a coat of arms and a flag with the following description:

“Divided by blue and black, above with a silver Dreispitzberg, the middle point of which touches the main edge, below a silver counter-wedge, at the heart point a red Pelton wheel. The flag shows the colors blue-red with an incorporated coat of arms. "

The silver wedge represents the striking Ragga Gorge, from which the stylized mountain scenery of the Mölltal Glacier protrudes. The red Pelton wheel stands for electricity generated by the Fragant storage power plant.

Partner municipality

Flattach has a partnership with Waghäusel in Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Alois von Egger-Möllwald (1829–1904), school director, Germanist and member of the House of Representatives 1873–1875

Stanislaus Pacher (1892–1970), politician ( SPÖ )

Josef Winkler (* 1950), forester and politician ( ÖVP )

Huby Mayer (* 1954), musician

Web links

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

Official homepage of the municipality
20607 - Flattach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Joint website of the municipality and the tourism association
A Tale of two Valleys: Two Alpine valleys - two stories. The contrary strategies in two neighboring Alpine valleys to deal with climate variability and climate change , Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, zamg.ac.at - research and documentation project on the communities of Flattach and Rauris, numerous materials and historical climate data

Individual evidence

↑ www.austrianmap.at 1: 50000
↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ The Slavia submersa in Austria: an overview and attempt at a reassessment
^ Carinthian regional archive, Obervellach, administrative history. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
^ Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 2, 2019 .
↑ Flattach gauge
↑ Flattach whitewater arena

[1] www.austrianmap.at 1: 50000

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

[3] The Slavia submersa in Austria: an overview and attempt at a reassessment

[4] Carinthian regional archive, Obervellach, administrative history. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .

[5] Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 2, 2019 .

[6] Flattach gauge

[7] Flattach whitewater arena