Gatschen (municipality of Aigen)

Gatschen ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral municipality Gatschen
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Liezen (LI), Styria
Judicial district	Liezen
Pole. local community	Aigen in the Ennstal
Coordinates	47 ° 30 '6 " N , 14 ° 8' 14" E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 '6 " N , 14 ° 8' 14" E
height	720 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	41 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	83 (2001)
Area d. KG	52.98 km²
Post Code	8943 Aigen im Ennstal
prefix	+ 43/3682 (Stainach)
	Statistical identification
Locality code	15731
Cadastral parish number	67306
Counting district / district	Aigen valley area , Aigen-Bergland (61203 X [000,001])
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

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Gatschen is a village in the Ennstal in Styria as well as a locality and cadastral municipality in the municipality of Aigen in the Ennstal in the Austrian district of Liezen .

history

The earliest written document is from 1293 and is "Gaetsen". The name goes back to the Slovenian gača (weir, dam).

geography

The village of Gatschen is located at around 720 m above sea level. A. south of the municipality's capital , above the village of Lantschern and east of Pichlarn Castle , on the northern slope of the Ennstal. It is located at the foot of the Erlsberg (also Gatschberg , 1630 m above sea level ), which is the foothills of the Wölzer Tauern to the north.

The village has around 90 buildings with around 200 inhabitants. This also includes Pichlarn Castle .

The cadastral community, with almost 5300 hectares , also includes the entire mountainous area around the Gullingtal in the south, i.e. the majority (about ² ⁄ ₃ ) of the community area. As far as Alm Plotscherhütten in the back Plotscherergraben , the area belongs to the village of Gatschen, otherwise the villages of Quilk are to the east and all the scattered houses in Mitteregg are in the cadastral area.

Neighborhoods and cadastral communities

Schlattham ( O and KG Aigen )	Lantschern (O & KG)
Irdning (O and KG, Gem. Irdning)		Quilk (O) Vorberg (KG)
Winklern (O and KG, district of Donnersbach )	Erlsberg (O and KG, Donnersbach district )	Mitteregg (O) Oppenberg (KG, Gem. Oppenberg)

Individual evidence

61203 - Aigen im Ennstal. Community data, Statistics Austria .

↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (= magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 36 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).

[1] Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (= magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 36 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).