Florianiberg (Plabutsch)

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Florianiberg
Florianiberg from the east

Florianiberg from the east

height 527  m above sea level A.
location Styria , Austria
Mountains Plabutsch , Grazer Bergland , Lavanttal Alps
Dominance 1.5 km →  Bockkogel
Notch height 32 m ↓  sheep puffs
Coordinates 47 ° 1 '13 "  N , 15 ° 23' 21"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '13 "  N , 15 ° 23' 21"  E
Florianiberg (Plabutsch) (Styria)
Florianiberg (Plabutsch)
rock Dolomites
Age of the rock Lower Devon
particularities Copper Age settlement, remains of a medieval rampart, Florian Church , annual Florian Festival
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The Florianiberg is 527  m above sea level. A. high hill in the Austrian state of Styria . The elevation is located in the southwest of the state capital Graz and is known as the location of the Florianikirche from 1597. There was also an early medieval refuge on the mountain, which was probably already settled in the Copper Age .

Location and surroundings

The Florianiberg forms the south-eastern end of the Plabutsch- Buchkogel train and towers over the Grazer Feld near Straßgang by around 180 m. The ridge continues to the west-northwest to the Bockkogel and marks the city limits to the municipality of Seiersberg-Pirka . While the north side of the mountain is forested, the south spur and south-west slope (Gedersberg) are heavily populated. The parish church of Straßgang and the associated cemetery are located on the lower northeast slope . The summit plateau with the Florianikirche can be reached from Straßgang via a nature and culture trail - which is also the Way of the Cross . The Florianiberg is part of the landscape protection area Western Mountains and Hills of Graz (LSG-39).

Geology and geomorphology

The Florianiberg consists of light and dark gray Lower Devonian Dolomites of the Rannach facies within the Graz Paleozoic . Below are dolomite sandstones , on the eastern slope a band of different colored diabase tuffs is temporarily stored . The dark dolomites are partly represented by gray and brown smoky cliffs , yellow and brown, mostly mylonitic limestone and brown slate . This complex of so-called brown stones is a specialty in the southern part of the range of hills and reaches its greatest thickness on Florianiberg. Violet and brown-blue limes also appear further in the hanging wall . The tuff band that runs through the entire Plabutsch consists of up to 17 layers between Seiersberg and Florianiberg and, with the sediments in place, reaches a thickness of almost 30 m. In the Lienhard quarry above the cemetery, the visible tuff thickness is between 10 and 11 m. In the past, the purple diabastuff was used as a building material, for example for the erection of the street pedestals and the substructure of the parish church as well as road gravel. The characteristic violet and red-violet coloring is due to a fine mixture of microscopic hematite and magnetite crystals , variations in brownish or yellowish hues contain limonite . Also noteworthy is the occurrence of crystalline pebbles that locally reach decimeter size.

The leveling area west of the summit at around 500  m above sea level. A. is assigned by Arthur Winkler-Hermaden to the Stadelberg level, which can be followed slightly uphill to Leoben . On the northern slope, the Diabastuffe form a spring horizon . On the southern foothills of the mountain, the dolomite sandstones and coarse-clastic loose sediments are in direct contact with the Kaiserwald terrace and ensure that the groundwater is enriched.

history

Archaeological finds suggest a Copper Age settlement of the Floriani mountain as early as the 4th millennium BC. Suspect. For the Buchkogel there is evidence of this in St. Johann and Paul in connection with the Lasinja culture. The tip of a bronze lance from the 1st millennium BC. BC could be assigned to the urn field culture and identified as a possible votive offering . Barrows southwest of the mountain, possibly from Hallstatt times, were leveled in the course of construction work in the 20th century. A cutting knife and a bronze brooch from the 3rd century BC Were associated with the Latène culture . Other fibula and coin finds date from the first Roman centuries AD.

Florianiberg with parish church Straßgang (lithograph from 1830)
Drawing of the Florianikirche

On the Florianiberg there are artificial embankments that originate from an early medieval rampart . The complex with several weir rings enclosed today's church square and the summit height as well as a weir ditch in between on three sides. Narrow, partially preserved paths were paved battlements that formed three levels on the eastern slope. On the strategically important hilltop, from which one could previously overlook the entire Graz field, there was most likely a refuge of the Aribones in the 10th century . The ramparts were razed down to the sward and the stone was used to build houses in Straßgang.

According to a legend , the church built on the mountain by Maria von Bayern in 1597 was consecrated to Saint Florian after a prayer to him had driven away a pair of griffins living nearby . After another prayer allegedly put out the big fire in the Graz Sack in 1670 , the citizens of Graz and the inner Austrian court chamber vowed an annual appeal to the Florianikirchlein on August 7th. In addition, the Florianifest was created, which originally takes place on Florianitag and now every year on the first Sunday in May. According to Viktor Geramb , this “rural” festival may go back to a pagan May cult. Records from the 19th century depict thousands of crowds with innkeepers, gingerbread parents and wine deliveries from Marburg as well as guests from all parts of Styria. Later, up to 20,000 visitors traveled with special trains of the Graz-Köflacher Bahn . In 1880, according to the parish chronicle of Straßgang, 50 Startin wines were drunk.

From the church bells drowned out
in the morning room down
through the corridors green Width
Festive pretty droves draw.

And in blazing robes,
spiked bonnets, blue ribbons,
the people of the country draws
to the holy Florian.

In 1893, the Grazer Volksblatt was concerned about the “desolation and secularization” of the festival and saw “more and more a neo-pagan Bachanten enthusiasm spread over the former cheerfulness”. Today the Florianifest is organized by the volunteer fire brigade in Seiersberg .

Literature and maps

  • Viktor Geramb : The Florian Festival near Graz. In: Blätter für Heimatkunde , Volume 6, Graz 1928, pp. 28–32.
  • Anton Schäfer: Geological map of the Buchkogel-Florianiberg range on a scale of 1: 25,000. In: Communications from the Natural Science Association for Styria. Vol. 74, Graz 1937, pp. 133-143.
  • Josef Hanselmayer: Petrography and chemistry of the violet Diabastuffe from Florianiberg (Graz-Straßgang). In: Communications from the Natural Science Association for Styria. Vol. 88, Graz 1951, pp. 104-120.
  • Rudolf Flucher: Lost fortifications around Graz - The castle complex on Florianiberg near Straßgang. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz , Volume 7/8, Graz 1975, p. 243.
  • City map Graz 1: 15,000. Freytag & Berndt , Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85084-114-6 .
  • Austrian map 1: 50,000, sheet 4229 ( UTM ). Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying .

Web links

Commons : Florianiberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landscape protection area No. 29. (PDF) State of Styria , accessed on July 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Digital Atlas of Styria: Geology & Geotechnics. State of Styria , accessed on August 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Anton Schäfer: Geological map of the Buchkogel-Florianiberg range on a scale of 1: 25,000. In: Communications from the Natural Science Association for Styria. Vol. 74, Graz 1937, pp. 133-143. Online PDF , accessed August 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Josef Hanselmayer: Petrography and Chemism of the violet Diabastuffe from Florianiberg (Graz-Straßgang). In: Communications from the Natural Science Association for Styria. Vol. 88, Graz 1951, pp. 104-120.
  5. ↑ Helmut wing : The geology of the Grazer Bergland. In: Communications from the Department of Geology, Paleontology and Mining at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Graz 1975, p. 130. Online PDF , accessed on August 4, 2019.
  6. ^ Josef Zötl: The hydrogeological conditions in the area of ​​the Buchkogelzug near Graz. In: Contributions to a hydrogeology of Styria. 6th issue, Graz 1953, pp. 24–31.
  7. ↑ Hans Peter Leditzky & Hans Zojer: On the hydrogeology of the Kaiserwald terrace . In: Communications from the Department of Geology, Paleontology and Mining at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Issue 39, Graz 1978, pp. 85–97. Online PDF , accessed April 3, 2019.
  8. ↑ Egon Leppen: Former information board on the "Festwiese" on Florianiberg ( photo )
  9. ↑ Rudolf Flucher: Missing weirs to Graz - The castle on Florianiberg in Straßgang. In: Historisches Jahrbuch der Stadt Graz , Volume 7/8, Graz 1975, p. 243.
  10. ^ Markus Perl: Parish chronicle of Straßgang. Quoted in: Annemarie Reiter (Ed.): Grazer sagas and stories. Styria Verlag , Graz 1996, ISBN 978-3-222-12388-7 , p. 174. Online , accessed on August 1, 2019.
  11. ↑ a b From the Floriani mountains. In: Grazer Volksblatt , issue of May 1, 1913, p. 6.
  12. ^ A b Viktor Geramb : The Florian Festival near Graz. In: Blätter für Heimatkunde , Volume 6, Graz 1928, pp. 28–32.
  13. ^ W. Reisinger: O holy Saint Florian ...! In: Sonntagspost , edition of May 4, 1952, p. 9.
  14. ↑ Poem by Ignaz Kollmann. Quoted in: Albert Johann Polsterer: Graez and his surroundings. Historically, topographically and statistically represented. One try. FW Damian and W. Sorge, Graz 1827, p. 397 ff.