Gamlitz

market community Gamlitz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Surface:	36.88 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 43 '  N , 15 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '13 "  N , 15 ° 33' 12"  E
Height :	278  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,201 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8462, 8451, 8461, 8463
Area code :	03453
Community code :	6 10 50
Address of the municipal administration:	Obere Hauptstrasse 3 8462 Gamlitz
Website:	www.gamlitz.at
politics
Mayor :	Karl Wratschko ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (21 members)	15th 3 3 15th 3 3  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 15 SPÖ : 3 FPÖ : 3
Location of Gamlitz in the Leibnitz district
View of Gamlitz from the Schererkogl
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Gamlitz (Slovenian Gomilica ) is an Austrian market town with 3201 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the south of the political judicial district or the Leibnitz district in Styria . It is located in the valley of the Gamlitzbach in the south of the western Styrian hill country on the border between Austria and Slovenia . Since January 1, 2015, the municipality has merged with the municipality of Sulztal on the Weinstrasse as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria and continues to use the name Gamlitz.

geography

Community structure

The municipality includes the following eight localities (residents as of January 1, 2020)

• Eckberg (225)
• Gamlitz (1560)
• Grub Valley (368)
• Kranach (295)
• Labitschberg (134)
• Sernau (239)
• Steinbach (268)
• Sulztal (112)

The municipality consists of nine cadastral municipalities : (area 2015):

• Eckberg (533.92 ha)
• Gamlitz (423.51 ha)
• Grubtal (302.79 ha)
• Kranachberg (718.80 ha)
• Labitschberg (322.32 ha)
• Sernau (496.35 ha)
• Steinbach (659.51 ha)
• Sulz (97.42 ha)
• Sulztal (131.80 ha)

Neighboring communities

Heimschuh	Leibnitz	Wagna
Big small		Ehrenhausen on the Weinstrasse
Leutschach on the Wine Route		Kungota ( Slovenia )

history

The Gamlitz area was already settled in the Stone Age. There are Celtic barrows in the municipality . Tombstones of Romans who settled here in the first century are attached to the parish church .

The place name Gamlitz goes back to the Slavic name gomilnitz , which is derived from the Slavic gom ("hill"). The name probably refers to the hilly landscape or to the Celtic barrows.

Gamlitz suffered from incursions by Ottoman troops in 1479 and 1532 . The plague raged in the village in the 16th and 17th centuries .

On January 1, 1959, Gamlitz was given the name “market town”.

Population development

The population of the municipality has changed relatively little since the beginning of the regular censuses . In 1869 there were 2725 and in 1934 there were 3332. This was followed by a slight decline; since 1971 the population has fluctuated around 3,200.

Religions

In the 2001 census (area until 2014), 94.2% committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church , 1.5% to the Evangelical Churches and 0.3% to Islam . 3.2% were without religious beliefs.

Culture and sights

Gamlitz parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Gamlitz

• The Roman Catholic parish church of Gamlitz was first mentioned in a document in 1170. The Romanesque building is dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and was the ecclesiastical center of the surrounding towns from the 14th to the 18th century.
• Gamlitz Castle , built in the 12th century, has been owned by the Melcher family since the 19th century. Today it is used as a hotel.
• In the center of the village there is a monument erected in 1914 for those who fell in the Battle of Königgrätz (1866).

Site design

In 1995 and 2012, Gamlitz received the award “Most beautiful flower village in Europe” with a gold medal in the village category at the Entente Florale Europe competition .

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

Well-known wine-growing businesses in the market town are the Walter Skoff winery and the Sattlerhof winery . In 1990 the Styrian State Exhibition took place in Gamlitz , which was dedicated to the topic of wine culture .

traffic

Gamlitz is on the Südsteirische Grenzstraße B 69, which connects the community in the west with Eibiswald , the Soboth and Lavamünd and in the east with Ehrenhausen, about five kilometers away; there is a connection to the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 (junction Vogau- Strasse) and thus to a high-level connection to Graz . A local road connection leads to Ratsch an der Weinstrasse and the Styrian Wine Route .

The next train station is also in Ehrenhausen on the Südbahn and is served by the S 5 line of the Graz S-Bahn .

politics

mayor

Mayor is the innkeeper Karl Wratschko (born May 1, 1953, ÖVP).

The community board also includes the first vice mayor Friedrich Partl (ÖVP), the second vice mayor Manfred Repolust (FPÖ), the community treasurer Mathilde Monika Karbasch (ÖVP) and the board member Harald Insupp (ÖVP).

Head of office is Roland Waltl.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 21 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:

• 15 mandates ÖVP
• 03 mandates SPÖ
• 03 FPÖ mandates

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015						2010						2005						2000
	Fusion community			Gamlitz			Sulztal			Gamlitz			Sulztal			Gamlitz			Sulztal
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	1657	70	15th	1607	70	15th	35	28	2	1437	65	15th	66	56	6th	1178	61	13	81	70	6th
SPÖ	0319	14th	03	0674	30th	06th	76	61	6th	0514	23	05	40	34	3	0554	29	06th	35	30th	3
FPÖ	0383	16	03	not running			not running			0060	03	00	not running			0207	11	02	not running
The green	not running			not running			14th	11	1	not running			11	9	0	not running			not running
1 for our Gamlitz	not running			not running			not running			not running			not running			189	08th	1	not running
Eligible voters	2,775			2,580			131			2,486			125			2,297			128
voter turnout	86%			90%			95%			89%			94%			86%			91%

coat of arms

Blazon :

"In the shield, four times made of silver and red, a green vine leaf covered with a golden grape."

The municipal coat of arms was awarded on May 1, 1987. Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms was no longer officially valid from January 1st, 2015. It was awarded again on September 1, 2015.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1976: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), governor
• 2009: Hermann Schützenhöfer (* 1952), Deputy Governor
• 2012: Eduard Loibner (* 1932), pastor of Gamlitz

Sons and daughters of the church

• Karl Lieschnegg (1871–1950), politician of the CS , member of the Constituent National Assembly 1919–1920, member of the National Council 1920–1927
• Philipp Renner († 1555), Bishop of Lavant and administrator of the diocese of Seckau

Web links

Commons : Gamlitz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 61050 - Gamlitz. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 19, 2013 about the unification of the market community Gamlitz and the community Sulztal an der Weinstrasse, both political district Leibnitz. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 96, 28th issue. P. 554.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
4. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle of the market town . Website of the market town of Gamlitz, accessed on September 18, 2012.
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
6. ↑ Gamlitz: Population development (PDF; 35 kB), Statistics Austria, accessed on June 6, 2020.
7. ↑ Gamlitz: Demographic data from the population census of May 15, 2001 (PDF; 10 kB), Statistics Austria, accessed on September 18, 2012.
8. ↑ [1] accessed on June 6, 2020.
9. ↑ http://www.entente-florale.eu/results_2012 (link not available)
10. ↑ ^{a b} community Gamlitz: Gemeindevorstand retrieved on June 8, 2015
11. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 38, 1988, p. 31
12. ↑ 64. Announcement of the Styrian state government of August 6, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Gamlitz (political district Leibnitz) , accessed on August 12, 2015
13. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (October 19, 1976), p. 8.