Forestry ditch

Forstbauerngraben ( scattered settlement )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg  (VO), Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Kainach near Voitsberg   ( KG  Gallmannsegg )
Coordinates	47 ° 11 '3 "  N , 15 ° 6' 45"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '3 "  N , 15 ° 6' 45"  E
height	770  m above sea level A.
Post Code	8573 Kainach near Voitsberg
Primaries	+ 43 / (0) 3148
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Gallmannsegg (61630)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Forstbauerngraben is a scattered settlement in western Styria in the municipality of Kainach near Voitsberg in the Voitsberg district , Styria .

Place name and geography

The name of the place leads was probably originally a name for a forest landscape, either a spell forest or a well-tended forest and derives from Middle High German vorst , which means forest . From the end of the 18th century it became a brook name that also referred to the rural settlement in its vicinity. Eventually it became a settlement name that refers to the ditch in which the stream flows.

Forstbauerngraben is located in the northeast of the municipality of Kainach bei Voitsberg, northeast of the main town of Kainach bei Voitsberg, in the eastern part of the cadastral municipality of Gallmannsegg , in the ditch of the Alpenbach between the Ochsenkogel in the north and the Lukaskogel in the southeast.

history

The area around Forstbauerngraben was first mentioned in a document as early as 1103 as saltum autem qui vulgo vorst dicitur , which means something like forest, which the people call forest . The settlement of the area with individual farms and desert corridors took place in the 12th and 13th centuries when today's place was part of a high-medieval clearing area. The place was also mentioned in documents in 1494 as the Farschpach and Varstpach , around 1790 as a Forstbauerbach and finally in 1900 as a Forstbauerngraben . Until 1848, the inhabitants belonged to the manorial lordship of Kleinkainach , Obervoitsberg , Piber and Rehregg . Forstbauerngraben belonged to the advertising district of the Piber rule until 1846 and then to the advertising district of the Lankowitz rule .

On the night of May 20-21, 1910, all bridges in Forstbauerngraben were damaged or torn away by a storm and the streets in the village were impassable.

Economy and Infrastructure

Forstbauerngraben is characterized by agriculture.

The local children attend school in Kainach near Voitsberg.

Sights and buildings

There are several sacred buildings in the village. The forest farmers' cross, also called Wirschlkreuz, built in the 19th century is an arbor shrine which is located on the road to the Kapitel Gasthaus. The Lukas cross is a pillar shrine built on the road to Geistthal at the end of the 19th century and originally served as a signpost for pilgrims coming from Maria Lankowitz to Sankt Pankrazen . In the main niche of the wayside shrine there is a Lourdes Madonna and above it a picture panel, which is no longer clearly recognizable.

literature

• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 43-44 .

Web links

• 61630 - Kainach near Voitsberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 43 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 44 .