Gaisfeld (municipality of Krottendorf-Gaisfeld)

Gaisfeld ( village ) locality cadastral community Gaisfeld
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg  (VO), Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Krottendorf-Gaisfeld
Coordinates	47 ° 1 '12 "  N , 15 ° 11' 57"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '12 "  N , 15 ° 11' 57"  E
height	372  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	186 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	2.78 km²
Post Code	8564 Krottendorf-Gaisfeld
Primaries	+ 43 / (0) 3143
Statistical identification
Locality code	16168
Cadastral parish number	63307
Counting district / district	Krottendorf-Dorf, Krottendorf-Gaisfeld area (61611)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Gaisfeld , sometimes also called Großgaisfeld , is a place and village in western Styria and a cadastral municipality of the municipality of Krottendorf-Gaisfeld in the Voitsberg district , Styria . The place was an independent municipality from 1850 to 1954.

Place name and geography

The part of the name Gais- is probably not derived from the Middle High German avarice for a goat or goat, but in its earlier documented form written with -eu and -ev could refer to a person named Geu. A derivation from the Old High German gawi for Gau or geuß for flood is possible. The place name probably means something like field of Geu . The village in the west of the cadastral community and thus also the settlement focus of Gaisfeld is also called Großgaisfeld.

Gaisfeld is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Krottendorf-Gaisfeld, north and east of the main town Krottendorf, on both sides of the Kainach and Packer Straße B 70. In the north, Gaisfeld borders on the cadastral municipality of Gasselberg , with the Kainach partially marking the border. In the northeast, the cadastral community of Muggauberg borders the market town of Stallhofen on Gaisfeld. In the east and south-east, Söding-Sankt Johann connects with the cadastral communities of Hausdorf and Sankt Johann ob Hohenburg . In the south and west, the border with Krottendorf runs, which partly runs along the Forstbauerbach and the Kainach. In the northwest there is a short border with the cadastral municipality of Arnstein, which belongs to the municipality of Voitsberg . The Packer federal road B 70 and the state road L348, which branches off in the northern part of Gaisfeld, lead through Gaisfeld. Furthermore the Kainach flows through the cadastral community and in its northern part the Teigitsch flows into the Kainach.

The villages of Kleingaisfeld and Muggauberg also belong to Gaisfeld .

history

Gaisfeld emerged in the 10th or 11th century as a Bavarian settlement and was originally a two-line street village with land and block corridors adjoining the courtyards. The first documentary mention took place around 1220 as Gansvelde and Geysvelde . Further mentions were made in 1268/69 in the Rationarium Styriae as Geussvelde , 1393 as Gaisueld and finally in 1527 as Gaisfeld . Viticulture in the area around Gaisfeld has been documented since around 1220 at the latest and was first mentioned in more detail in 1312. In the time around 1290, mainly farmers with a German name such as Ekkehard, Dietmar, Merlin or Neithard lived in the village. Between 1220 and 1230 Gaisfeld was owned by the sovereign and was still shown as such in the Rationarium Styriae . In 1315 the Seckau Abbey and the Stainz Abbey in 1318 owned a number of vineyards near Gaisfeld. The Gaisfeld mill on the Kainach is first mentioned in 1432 and went to Siegmund von Herberstein in 1593 . A few vineyards belonged to the Köflach parish from 1473 at the latest . Goods in Gaisfeld came to the Minorite Convent in Graz through a Licht- und Seelamtstiftung by Bernhard Prankher on November 15, 1504 . The St. Lambrecht Abbey was also in possession of vineyards between 1550 and 1700, and the Greißenegg and Lankowitz gentlemen expanded their vineyards from 1606 through acquisitions. The trade family Pögl from Thörl owned some vineyards in the area in the 16th century and around 1580 a Gaißfeld Weingart Gepirg is mentioned.

In the Middle Ages there was a toll station on Packer Strasse near Großgaisfeld, which came to the Counts of Wagensperg in 1626 together with the Obervoitsberg rulership . In 1688 the city of Voitsberg brought a lawsuit against a second toll station that was newly built at Gasselmühle. The toll at Gaisfeld was confirmed by a gubernial resolution in 1785 . At least the toll at the Gasselmühle can be traced back to 1878. The inhabitants of Gaisfeld belonged to various manors until 1848, such as the Hohenburg dominions , the Dürnberg authority of the Krems authority , the Gaisfeld mining authority of the Lankowitz authority, the court and Stocker authorities of the Ligst authority , the Obervoitsberg authority and the department Tregist of the Piber reign . The grain tenth went to the rule of Greißenegg at least in 1574 and 1625 and Piber held the right to the sheaf tithing. The rookie office was held by the Grub rule until around 1580 and then came to the Ligist rule together with the millet tenth. The mining rights at Gaisfeld belonged to the Lankowitz rule. Gaisfeld belonged to the advertising district of the Ligist rule.

In January 1801 a division of the Austrian army, which had been transferred from Tyrol to western Styria, was quartered in Gaisfeld. The French army occupied Gaisfeld in December 1805. In 1850 was the constitution of the independent community Gaisfeld established free communities. In a major fire on January 31, 1858, the entire village of Großgaisfeld burned down completely with the exception of a single house. In 1895 the volunteer fire brigade was Gaisfeld and around 1930, the fire company founded Kleingaisfeld. Two master wagons based in Gaisfeld are known for the period around 1900 . The municipality of Voitsberg built a power station in Gaisfeld in 1906 , thereby electrifying the place. In 1917 there was another fire, the so-called "small Gaisfelder fire". A planned amalgamation of Gaisfeld with the communities of Gasselberg and Thallein failed in 1919. In May 1936 there was the Gaisfeld-Gasselberg local group of the Fatherland Front . On January 1, 1948, Gasselberg was finally incorporated into Gaisfeld.

On September 29, 1953, a storm caused severe damage to the municipal roads and agriculture. On January 1, 1954, the municipality of Gaisfeld was merged with the municipality of Krottendorf to form the newly created municipality of Krottendorf-Gaisfeld. A flood inundated parts of Gaisfeld on June 23, 1972. The new armory of the Gaisfeld volunteer fire department was inaugurated on August 7, 1979. When Packer Strasse was re-routed in 1980, the former Gaisfeld mill, also known as the Gassel mill, was demolished.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gaisfeld is dominated by agriculture and viticulture played an important role, especially during the Middle Ages. From the first half of the 15th century until 1980 there was a mill on the Kainach. The place has its own volunteer fire brigade and the children of the place attend schools in Ligist.

Packer Straße B 70 runs through the village and the Gaisfeld stop of the rapid transit line operated by the Graz-Köflacher Eisenbahn is in the local area.

Sights and buildings

The listed local chapel of Gaisfeld

One of the most important buildings in Gaisfeld is the local chapel, which was built in 1826 at the latest and is a listed building . She is dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows . It burned down in the major fire in 1858 and was rebuilt from 1859 to 1864. In 1870 she received a measurement license . The painter Widmann from Graz made a fresco in 1936 showing the seven sorrows of Mary. The baroque Pietà survived the fire and is still in the chapel. Next to the chapel is the Gaisfeld document stone made of Graden marble, which was unveiled on September 26, 1992 and shows some data on the location.

In addition to the local chapel, there are several other Christian buildings such as wayside shrines and wayside crosses in Gaisfeld. The Gaischmarterl, built in 1976 according to the instructions of Alfred Schlosser on Wartensteinstrasse, houses plaster figures of the Lourdes Madonna, the Heart of Jesus and Saint Anthony with child. The Göribauerkreuz was erected in 1887 as a wayside cross with neo-baroque plastering elements and a figure of the scourged Savior and Saint Therese von Lisieux and was renovated in 1984 by the artist Erwin Fuchs. The Koanz picture stick with its oil pressure pictures of the Sacred Heart and Heart of Mary was rebuilt after a lightning strike in 1963. As a plague cross , the cruciferous shrine was erected on Wartensteinstrasse at the end of the 17th century. On the occasion of the Katholikentag 1983 it was renovated by Franz Weiss and shows in its niches depictions of Saints Antonius and Margareta , Joseph with Mary , the Trinity and Our Lady of Lankowitz . The Strommer wayside shrine, also called Wagner-Strommer-Kreuz, built around 1885 on the pilgrimage route to Stallhofen was also redesigned by Franz Weiss in 1976 and renovated by the artist in 1997. It branches out depictions of the scourged Savior in a village landscape, the protective mantle Madonna von Lankowitz, the mercy seat as well as Saints Joseph, Borromeo , Catherine of Siena , Notburga and Leonhard with cows and milk cans. At the Langmannmichl farm there is a lamp for the dead that was erected in 1973 on the site of an old plague shrine , which was made from artificial stone by Alfred Schlosser . The old wayside shrine is now in the Ligist local history museum .

The farmhouse with the Vulgonamem Flangeger survived the fire in 1858 as the only building in Großgaisfeld. During the renovation work in 1981, several construction phases came to light under the plaster and the time of construction of the building is estimated to be between 1680 and 1730. This would make it the oldest surviving building in Gaisfeld.

In the south-eastern part of the Gaisfeld cadastral community there is the Krottendorfer Kainachinsel, a nature reserve with the number NSG 64c.

literature

• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 46-48 .

Web links

Commons : Gaisfeld (municipality of Krottendorf-Gaisfeld)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61611 - Krottendorf-Gaisfeld. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 77 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 46 .
3. ^ ^{A b c d e} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 47 .
4. ^ ^{A b c} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 48 .
5. ↑ Federal Monuments Office : Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: www.bda.gv.at. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018 ; accessed on February 28, 2019 . 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.  
6. ^ Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 78 .
7. ^ GIS-Styria : Natural protected areas. In: www.gis2.stmk.gv.at. Retrieved March 1, 2019 .