Giessenberg

Gießenberg ( Rotte ) locality cadastral community Gießenberg
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg  (VO), Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Mooskirchen
Coordinates	46 ° 57 ′ 36 ″  N , 15 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 36 ″  N , 15 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E
height	364  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	255 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	2.57 km²
Post Code	8562 Mooskirchen
Primaries	+ 43 / (0) 3137
Statistical identification
Locality code	16185
Cadastral parish number	63370
Counting district / district	Giessenberg (61615 003)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Gießenberg is a village and Rotte in western Styria and a cadastral municipality of the market town of Mooskirchen in the Voitsberg district , Styria . The place was an independent municipality from 1850 to 1968.

Place name and geography

The name part Gießen- possibly derives from a Slavic personal name such as * Dragigostĭ . A derivation of giess as in water pouring is also possible.

Gießenberg is located in the southern and eastern part of the market town of Mooskirchen, southeast of the main town Mooskirchen, on the southwest bank of the Kainach , on both sides of the L340 state road between Mooskirchen and Lannach .

In the west and northwest, Gießenberg borders on the cadastral community of Fluttendorf with the Rotte Kniezenberg and the cadastral community of Neudorf bei Mooskirchen with the Rotte Ungerbach . In the north, the community of Lieboch adjoins the cadastral community of the same name, with the Kainach marking the border here. In the northeast and east runs the municipality boundary to Lannach and the cadastral municipality Breitenbach with the districts Hötschdorf , Breitenbach in western Styria. In the southeast, the border to the cadastral municipality of Blumegg connects with the Rotte Oberblumegg and a short border to the cadastral municipality of Teipl . The community Sankt Stefan ob Stainz with the cadastral community Pirkhof and the Rotte Obere Griggling is located in the south and southeast. The state road L340 between Mooskirchen and Lannach runs through Gießenberg.

The Rotte Weinberg and the Grabenjosl single vineyard also belong to Gießenberg .

history

Pour Berg was probably in the 10th or 11th century in part as a two-line street village with stripes Won corridors and Weingart vineyards with Einödfluren . It was first mentioned in a document in 1268/69 as a Gussenperge . Further mentions were made in 1483/84 as Güssenperg , 1542 as Gissnperg , 1782 as Gussenberg and finally in 1822 as Gießenberg . As mentioned in 1268/69, the sovereign had goods in Gießenberg and in 1390 two subjects in the village were subject to interest. In the years 1348 to 1350 Gießenberg was ravaged by the plague . After 1450, three of the five half-huts in the village were barren. The landlords in Gießenberg in the 14th and 15th centuries include the noble families of Lubgaster, Saurer and Rindscheit as well as that of Mürzer, whose property came to the Wildbach rulership in 1572 . In the time around 1750 the subjects in Gießenberg were divided into eight different manors, the number of which increased later.

The inhabitants of Gießenberg belonged to various manors until 1848, such as the manors Altenberg , Greißenegg , Kleinkainach , Mühlau bei Lieboch , Plankenwarth , Rohr , Rohrbach and Schütting as well as the Neudorf district of the Großsöding , Mooskirchen, Gilgenbichl and Fladersbach manors of the Winterhof . Other subjects belonged to the office of Hötschdorf of the Rohrbach rule , the offices of Griggling and Hötschdorf of the Lannach rule , the court office of the Ligist rule and the Söding office of the Winterhof rule . The Altenburg rule had its own office with 17 subjects. The bishop's court in Graz also had subjects in Gießenberg between 1591 and 1685. The Stainz dominion maintained two interest vineyards in Gießenberg. The parish validity went to Mooskirchen and the church validity was collected by St. Veit . The mining rights were raised by the Ligist lordship. The grain toe was to be paid to the Lankowitz rule between around 1570 and 1620 and the March feed was delivered to the March feed office in Graz. From 1806 Gießenberg belonged to the advertising district of the Lannach estate, before that it belonged to the advertising district of the Großsöding estate.

From June 12th to July 6th of the year 1767 an unspecified illness claimed numerous lives in Gießenberg. From 1806 the pastures on the state road were distributed to the individual owners. Around 1840 there was a mill, two shoemakers, a blacksmith, a weaver and a carpenter in the village after the house name . In 1850, with the constitution of the free municipalities, the independent municipality of Gießenberg was founded. In 1929, casting mountain was by the Electricity Company of St. Stefan and around electrified by the supply network Breitenbach was expanded. From 1930 there was its own gas station in town. On January 1, 1968, the municipality of Gießenberg was merged with the market town of Mooskirchen.

Economy and Infrastructure

Gießenberg is characterized by agriculture, with agriculture playing an important role.

The local children attend schools in Mooskirchen. To supply the village with water, the Stierhämmer water cooperative was founded in 1960, named after the Stierhämmer spring that was created at the same time.

Sights and buildings

The protected Kainach branch in Gießenberg

One of the most important buildings in Gießenberg is the Gießenberg local chapel, which was built on his own property in 1878/79 in a mixed Gothic - Romanesque style under the direction of Jakob Hochstrasser. After completion, it was handed over to the community of Gießenberg and is dedicated to the Queen of Heaven . On July 11, 1883, the chapel received a five-year measurement license for four freely selectable working days per year, which was extended in 1911. The tower of the chapel houses two bells, the older of which was cast by Albert Samassa in Graz and inaugurated in 1879. Since August 2000, the tower has also had a tower clock and an electric bell. The interior decoration was provided by three farmers and in 1880 the Way of the Cross of the chapel was consecrated. The brick altar was completely renewed in 1995. The chapel was renovated in 1931 and 1979, the tower was completely refurbished in 1985 and the forecourt was redesigned in 1990.

Furthermore, in Gießenberg there is a not exactly dated plague cross

In the north-western part of the cadastral community there is the Mooskirchen Kainach Altarm, a protected part of the landscape with the number GLT 304.

literature

• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 60-62 .

Web links

Commons : Gießenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61615 - Mooskirchen. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 60 .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 61 .
3. ^ ^{A b c d} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 62 .
4. ↑ Village chapels, wayside crosses - sacred buildings in our community. In: www.mooskirchen.at. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .  
5. ^ GIS-Styria : Natural protected areas. In: www.gis2.stmk.gv.at. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .