Frauenstein (Carinthia)

The municipality of Frauenstein is located directly northwest of the town of Sankt Veit an der Glan in a hilly landscape in Central Carinthia. The municipality includes large parts of the Wimitz Mountains and is characterized by a wooded hilly and low mountain range. The Kraiger See is located south of the main town of Kraig . From there it is about 4 km in a south-westerly direction to the eponymous Frauenstein Castle , behind the Kulm (873 m).

Community structure

Frauenstein is divided into eight cadastral communities (Dörfl, Graßdorf, Kraig , Leiten, Obermühlbach, Pfannhof, Steinbichl and Schaumboden). The municipality includes the following 52 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Frauenstein Castle

Provost office in Kraig

Outer Wimitz (13)
Beißendorf (22)
Breitenstein (24)
Dörfl (4)
Dornhof (118)
Trinity (14)
Harrows (30)
Fachau (50)
Foebing (11)
Frauenstein (6)
Gassing (78)
Graßdorf (201)
Grassen (13) including wasteland
Gray (15)
Grua (4)
Hammergraben (17)
Hintnausdorf (70)
Höffern (17)
Hörzenbrunn (2)
Hunnenbrunn (370)
Inner Wimitz (37)
Kraig (595)
Kraindorf (14)
Kreuth (15)
Laggen (9)
Guide (28)
Lorenziberg (2)
Mailsberg (1)
Mellach (31)
Nussberg (25)
Obermuehlbach (140)
Pfannhof (19)
Pörlinghof (135)
Predl (36)
Puppy (44)
Sand (129)
Foam base (104)
Seebichl (17)
Siebenaich (2)
Stammerdorf (22)
Steinbichl (86)
Stone Bridges (4)
Stromberg (61)
Tratschweg (48)
Treffelsdorf (116)
Overfield (481)
Weidenau (5)
Joke (36)
Wimitzstein (5)
Zedl near Kraig (7)
Zensweg (196)
Two (25)

Neighboring communities

Weitensfeld	Cucumber	Mölbling
Steuerberg Sankt Urban
Liebenfels	Sankt Veit an der Glan	Sankt Georgen

history

Kraig was first mentioned in a document in 1091 and Frauenstein Castle in 1197. In addition to the dominant landmark, there are other castles and palaces that were important for the formation of the medieval capital St. Veit, z. B. the headquarters of the Spanheimer , Freiberg Castle , or the Kraiger castles , where the ducal costumes resided, as well as the castles Nussberg and Schaumburg .

Until the revolution of 1848, today's municipal area belonged to the dominions of Kraigerberg and Nussberg. In 1849/1850 the existing cadastral communities were formed into the local communities Schaumboden, Obermühlbach and Pfannhof, of which the latter became extinct in 1899 when it was divided into the communities Kraig and Meiselding. In 1973 today's community of Frauenstein was formed from the communities of Kraig, Obermühlbach and Schaumboden and parts of the communities of Pisweg and Sankt Georgen am Längsee.

population

The community of Frauenstein has 3,528 inhabitants (2001), 96.3% of whom have Austrian citizenship. 96% name German, 0.8% Slovene as a colloquial language.

83.4% give Roman Catholic, 6.6% Protestant, 1.4% Islamic affiliation as religion. 7.3% are without religious belief.

Culture and sights

On the hills of the municipality there are many castles and fortresses (most of them are now castle ruins), which in the Middle Ages served as fortifications for the then royal seat of Carinthia , St. Veit .

Castles

Dornhof Castle

Parish church of Obermühlbach

Trinity Church

Pörlinghof Castle

Hunnenbrunn Palace

Treffelsdorf

Hochkraig castle ruins

Frauenstein
Dornhof
Hunnenbrunn
Pörlinghof
Wimitzstein

ruins

Kraiger castles (Hochkraig and Niederkraig)
Nussberg
Freiberg
Pfannhof
Schaumburg

Churches

Eggen Evangelical Church
Branch church Lorenziberg on the Lorenziberg
Catholic branch church St. Oswald, Nussberg
Catholic parish church Obermühlbach hl. George
Provost office in Kraig
Parish church Steinbichl hl. Nicholas
Pilgrimage Church of the Holy Trinity with tomb of Arthur Lemisch , Governor of Carinthia 1927–1931.

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality is characterized by agriculture and forestry (182 companies in 1999). According to the 2001 census, there are 399 employees in the municipality and 1,174 out-commuters.

Since 2007 the community has a new sports center in Überfeld ( Kraig ). A fourth court was added to the tennis court and a beach volleyball court was built.

In addition, the Kraigersee is located in the municipality, a popular bathing lake for the local population but also popular with many tourists.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 23 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

13 Community list Frauenstein list Harald Jannach
7 SPÖ
3 Together for Frauenstein

The directly elected mayor is Harald Jannach (Frauenstein community list).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Frauenstein shows "in blue on a golden three mountain the golden castle Frauenstein, slightly stylized heraldically, the openings black" . The Dreiberg , on which the south front of the eponymous castle stands in the coat of arms, does not actually exist. It symbolizes the three old communities Kraig, Obermühlbach and Schaumboden, from which today's community emerged.

The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the municipality on February 26, 1982. The flag is blue and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Karl Berger (1940–2017), Mayor of Frauenstein 1983–2015

Sons and daughters of the church

Martin Wutte (1876–1948), historian

Personalities associated with the community

Raimund Ruhdorfer (1928–2014), owner and operator of the Kraigersee guesthouse, discoverer of the drinking water source on Hochosterwitz, head of the Carinthian Chamber of Agriculture in Villach
Helga Berger (* 1972), administrative lawyer
Harald Jannach (* 1972), farmer and politician ( FPÖ ), member of the National Council 2008–2017

literature

Frauenstein community (ed.): Chronicle 900 years of Kraig . Carinthia publishing house, Klagenfurt 1991
Gerhard Glawischnig: Dar Kronawöttarhof (Die Leut vom Kraigerberg), Publishing House of the History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1967

Web links

Commons : Frauenstein (Kärnten) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Frauenstein community
20534 - Frauenstein (Carinthia). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 102.

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

[2] Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[3] Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 102.