Gallmannsegg

Gallmannsegg ( scattered settlement , former municipality) village Cadastral community Gallmannsegg
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg  (VO), Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Kainach near Voitsberg
Coordinates	47 ° 10 '48 "  N , 15 ° 4' 25"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 10 '48 "  N , 15 ° 4' 25"  E
height	1001  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	198 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	82 (2001 )
Area  d. KG	32.79 km²
Post Code	8573 Kainach
prefix	+ 43/3148 (Kainach near Voitsberg)
Statistical identification
Locality code	16145
Cadastral parish number	63308
Counting district / district	Gallmannsegg (61630 000)
Independent municipality until the end of 2014 Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Gallmannsegg is a village and scattered settlement in western Styria as well as a cadastral community of the municipality of Kainach near Voitsberg in the Voitsberg district , Styria . The place was an independent municipality from 1850 to 2014. On January 1, 2015, it was merged with the municipalities of Kainach bei Voitsberg and Kohlschwarz as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , the new municipality continues to carry the name "Kainach bei Voitsberg". The former municipality last had 305 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2014).

Place name and geography

The part of the name -egg is derived from the Middle High German ecke or egge for an angular part of the terrain, a point or corner. The part of the name Gallmanns- refers to a man named Gallmann who was associated with the part of the terrain. The place name is a field name means something like Gallmann's corner of the terrain .

Gallmannsegg is located in the northeastern part of the municipality of Kainach bei Voitsberg, north of the main town of Kainach bei Voitsberg, on both sides of the Kainach , which also has its source in the north of Gallmannsegg, and on the southern foothills of the Gleinalpe . In the north, Gallmannsegg borders on the cadastral community of Glein of the municipality of Sankt Margarethen near Knittelfeld and the cadastral community of Neuhof of the market town of Übelbach . In the east, the community of Geistthal-Södingberg borders with the cadastral communities of Kleinalpe , Geistthal and Sonnleiten on Gallmannsegg. In the south and west are the cadastral communities Kohlschwarz , Kainach and Oswaldgraben .

The two localities and scattered settlements Gallmannsegg (198) and Hadergasse (93) belong to the cadastral community and thus also to the former local community Gallmannsegg . In addition, located at Forest Bauerngraben another scattered settlement with the Upper and the Lower Pussorhütte two pastures, several inns and the individual layers Brendlstall , Gallaun , Hirtel , Köchl , Krameter , Lenz , Sadner and Weber in the field of cadastral.

history

The oldest traces of settlement in Gallmannsegg are a Neolithic flat ax that was found on the Mandlkogel and a round-neck ax found in the river bed of the Kainach in 1989. Gallmannsegg emerged in the late early Middle Ages as a Slavic- German settlement made up of individual farms with deserted corridors in a cleared area. The settlement also included extensive alpine and forest areas. In the 13th century, some of the inhabitants of the settlement had names of Slavic origin. The first documentary mention took place in 1373 as in the Chanach am Galmansekk . Further mentions were made in 1466 as am Galmansegk and finally around 1790 as the municipality of Gallmannsegg .

The residents of Gallmannsegg belonged to various manors until 1848, such as the Gurtzen office of the Greißenegg rule , the Haller office of the Kleinkainach rule , the head of the Obervoitsberg rule and the Kainach office of the Piber and Rehregg rule . Gallmannsegg belonged to the advertising district of the Piber rule until 1846 and then to the advertising district of the Lankowitz rule .

Since 1734 there has been a Hackenschmiede , later Schopf forge which was to about 1,840 in operation and from about 1754 there was the Sensenwerk family Draßenberger in Gallmannsegg which up to 1878 was in operation in Gallmannsegg. In the period around 1820, cattle breeding, especially sheep breeding, played an important economic role in Gallmannsegg, and two saws on the Kainach and three toll mills are documented for the period around 1840 . White marble has been mined in Gallmannsegg since around 1840 , with the quarry being operated by the Graz master stonemason Franz Grein from 1878 . In 1850 was the constitution of the independent community Gallmannsegg established free communities. Around 1865 a sergeant and several soldiers from the Piber military stud were stationed in the Pfegerhube, north of Hauenstein Castle . On the night of May 20-21, 1910, a heavy storm with subsequent flooding destroyed or damaged the municipal roads and some bridges in Gallmannsegg. In 1922, the district council of Voitsberg maintained the core quarry in order to have material available for road maintenance. On September 10, 1932 and April 20, 1939 there were forest fires in which several thousand square meters of forest area were destroyed. In 1936 the Austrian Armed Forces built a shooting range at Brendlstall on the Roßbachkogel and the road leading there was expanded. From October 1944, 18 armed and deserted Wehrmacht soldiers took up residence in the Brendlstall and on May 5, 1945 the commandant of the gendarmerie post in Geistthal tried to clean up the area. In 1952, Gallmannsegg was electrified from Kainach after the necessary transformer stations had been built in the previous year and the Grein brothers had already operated their own power station in 1950.

Since January 1, 1954, the municipality of Gallmannsegg formed an administrative community with the municipalities of Kainach bei Voitsberg and Kohlschwarz , which has been using a joint municipal office in Kainach since the 1990s. On June 14, 1969, the road to Geistthal was opened, which shortened the route to Murtal and Graz. On November 8, 1999, Gallmannsegg was given its own municipal coat of arms, effective December 1, 1999. On January 1, 2015, Gallmannsegg was merged with the two municipalities of Kainach near Voitsberg and Kohlschwarz to form the newly created municipality of Kainach near Voitsberg as part of the municipal structural reform .

Culture and sights

The listed branch church St. Radegund on the holy water

The Walcherkapelle

See also:  List of listed objects in Kainach near Voitsberg

There are a total of three listed buildings in Gallmannsegg. The branch church St. Radegund am heiligen Wasser was built between 1665 and 1669 and is located next to a spring that is said to have a healing effect on eye disorders. The ruins of Burg Hauenstein , a tower castle on the slopes of the Gleinalpe , probably dates from the 13th century and was abandoned at the beginning of the 17th century. The Gurzgruber Cross , a pillar shrine , was erected around 1900 as a signpost for pilgrims from Maria Lankowitz to Sankt Pankrazen on the municipality border with Geistthal . In the vaulted main niche there is a porcelain figure and nothing of the original, pictorial design of the wayside shrine has been preserved.

In addition to the St. Radegund branch church on the holy water, there are a few other sacred buildings in Gallmannsegg. The Hubertus chapel on Brendlalmweg was built from stone by Franz Ulz around 1950 not far from the Kapitel tavern. It has a clapboard roof and a covered vestibule. In the chapel there is a picture of St. Hubertus as well as a cross made of Kainach marble and a bronze figure of Christ. It serves as a memorial for the residents of Gallmannsegg who died in the First and Second World Wars. The Walcherkapelle, built in 1857, was renovated in 1970 and frescoed by Franz Weiss . The Sandnermarterl is located next to the Gallmannsegg forest estate and was set up around 1900. Its facade and roof were made of polished marble and the kink gable is on the outer sides of decorated with decorative balls consoles supported. In the tympanum there is an angel's head with wings while in the niche there is a marble cross and at the base of the niche there is a holy water kettle carved from marble. The Hubertus Cross, erected in 1911 as a tabernacle shrine, is located about 3 kilometers north of the Sandnermarterl and shows a high relief plate with a representation of St. Hubert with the white stag. The Lukas cross, which was erected as a pillar shrine in the forestry ditch towards the end of the 19th century, has a wooden gable and two cantilevered niches. The Forstbauerkreuz or Wirschlkreuz is an arbor shrine that is located on the way from the Forstbauergraben to the Kapitel tavern. The grill cross is an almost square pillar shrine with a laterally protruding gable field. At the Gasthaus Sauer there is the Wolfikreuz, a pillar shrine from the beginning of the 19th century, which was probably erected as a penitential cross, as a jealous murder is said to have occurred at its location. Its lower niche houses a wooden Madonna from the 19th century as well as three porcelain depictions of Mary and prints of Mary and the Sacred Heart of Jesus, while a crucifix is ​​located in the upper niche. The stone Brendl Cross, consecrated on August 15, 1936, was erected in the place of an original wooden cross and is reminiscent of the Almwirt Bäck vom Almhaus who froze to death at this point.

Natural monuments

In the north-eastern part of the cadastral municipality of Gallmannsegg there is the Brendlalmweg, a protected part of the landscape with the number GLT 305.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gallmannsegg is characterized by forestry and agriculture. In the early 19th century, especially the sheep was economically important and at the Kainach were at least until 1912 three mills and the Sensenwerk family Draßenberger and Hackenschmiede . About 71 percent of the area of ​​Gallmannsegg is forested, with a large part of the forest areas belonging to the Austrian Federal Forests . The Brendlstall and the Brendlalm serve as summer pastures for the Lipizzaners of the Piber Federal Stud . In addition, there have been several quarries in Gallmannsegg since at least 1840, where the fine-grained, white Gallmannsegg marble is extracted, which is used as a filler in paints and tablets.

The Gallmannsegg water cooperative was founded in 2005 to supply the locality with water.

education

Gallmannsegg does not have its own school and the local children attend school in Kainach near Voitsberg.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consisted of nine members until the end of 2014 and, since the municipal council election in 2010, has consisted of mandataries from the following parties:

• 6 ÖVP
• 2 SPÖ
• 1 FPÖ

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms designed by Heinrich Purkarthofer was awarded on November 8, 1999 with effect from December 1, 1999.
The blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads as follows: “In a red shield with a green border bordered by a silver battlement on the flanks and in the base of the shield a silver fountain stone covered with a red flaming heart with water running off to the side, overlaid with a baroque silver crown. ”The green battlements refer to the ruins of Hauenstein Castle in a forest , while the silver crown refers to St. Radegundis and the branch church dedicated to it St. Radegund at the holy water and the Brunnstein with the water and the burning heart refer to St. Augustine and the chapel dedicated to him at the healing spring.

Creditworthiness

According to a study by the municipal magazine Public , Gallmannsegg was the most creditworthy municipality in Styria in 2013. Gallmannsegg was ranked 11th in this list across Austria.

literature

• Ernst Lasnik: The upper Kainachtal. From the history of the communities of Kainach, Gallmannsegg and Kohlschwarz. Kainach 2006
• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 49-51 .

Web links

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

• 61603 - Gallmannsegg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 24, 2013 about the union of the communities Gallmannsegg, Kainach bei Voitsberg and Kohlschwarz, all political district Voitsberg. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 126, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 633.
2. ^ ^{A b c d e} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 49 .
3. ^ ^{A b c} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 50 .
4. ^ ^{A b c d e f g} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 51 .
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 April 10, 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. ↑ Catalog Protected Landscape Parts of Styria. In: www.data.gv.at. Retrieved April 10, 2019 .  
7. ↑ Gernot Peter Obersteiner: The Styrian municipal coats of arms awarded in 1999 and 2000. (PDF) In: Messages from the Styrian State Archives. Retrieved April 11, 2019 .  
8. ↑ Public