Gleisdorf

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Borough
Gleisdorf
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Coat of arms of Gleisdorf
Gleisdorf (Austria)
Gleisdorf
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Styria
Political District : Wheat
License plate : WZ
Surface: 38.67 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 6 '  N , 15 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '14 "  N , 15 ° 42' 30"  E
Height : 365  m above sea level A.
Residents : 10,926 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes : 8200, 8302
Area code : 03112, 03133
Community code : 6 17 60
Address of the
municipal administration:
Rathausplatz 1
8200 Gleisdorf
Website: www.gleisdorf.at
politics
Mayor : Christoph Stark ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020)
(31 members)
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6th
4th
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18th 6th 4th 
A total of 31 seats
Location of Gleisdorf in the Weiz district
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Gleisdorf is a town with 10,926 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Weiz district in Eastern Styria , around 21 km east of Graz . Gleisdorf (formerly the judicial district of Gleisdorf) is located in the judicial district of Weiz. On January 1, 2015, Gleisdorf was merged with the municipalities of Labuch , Laßnitzthal , Nitscha and Ungerdorf as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria . The new municipality continues the name "Gleisdorf".

geography

Gleisdorf is located in the valley of the Raab , at the confluence of Laßnitz and Rabnitz in this, as well as with districts in the surrounding hills and ridge landscape of Eastern Styria. Gleisdorf is a regional center with a corresponding infrastructure and, due to its location, important transport hubs and a place of residence with continuous influx.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following ten localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

The city consists of the cadastral communities Arnwiesen, Gamling, Gleisdorf, Kaltenbrunn, Labuch, Nitscha , Ungerdorf , Unterlaßnitz and Urscha.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Gleisdorf
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Min. Temperature (° C) -5.6 -4.6 -0.7 3.4 8.3 11.6 13.5 13.1 9.2 4.8 0.1 -3.9 O 4.1
Temperature (° C) -2.1 -0.3 4.1 9.1 14.4 17.6 19.5 18.6 14.0 8.9 3.2 -0.9 O 8.9
Precipitation ( mm ) 23 28 41 53 83 114 99 120 82 60 50 44 Σ 797
Humidity ( % ) 66.7 54.3 49.5 44.8 47.2 50.3 48.5 49.8 53.1 59.4 67.5 72.2 O 55.3
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Neighboring communities

Ludersdorf-Wilfersdorf Albersdorf-Prebuch Ilztal
Eggersdorf bei Graz
( district Graz-Umgebung )
Neighboring communities Sinabelkirchen
Nestelbach near Graz
( district Graz-Umgebung )
St. Margarethen on the Raab Hofstätten on the Raab

history

From the 1st century to the middle of the 3rd century there was a Roman settlement ( vicus ) at this point .

The place is first mentioned by name in a document dated September 17, 1229. In 1284 Gleisdorf received market rights. In 1532 the place was besieged by the Turkish army and largely destroyed. The fortifications, the ( Tabor ) around the St. Laurentius Church, held up, however.

Until 1570 Gleisdorf belonged to the rule Riegersburg , then it went to the Counts Kollonitsch, who owned Freiberg Castle north of the city . The parish church was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1648–1672, incorporating Gothic parts ; today's neo-Gothic tower dates from 1875. In the revolutionary year of 1848, Gleisdorf equipped an important department of the National Guard .

With the construction of the railway in 1872, an economic boom began for the Gleisdorf market, which reached its peak with the construction of a hydroelectric power station in the Stubenbergklamm . The town hall was also built during this time.

On June 8, 1920, Gleisdorf was elevated to the status of town (LGBl. 1920, No. 156). Gleisdorf was the first municipality in the First Republic to be ranked as a city. In the 1970s, the connection to the south autobahn brought a renewed upswing, as more industrial companies settled there.

The Styrian State Exhibition 2001 in Gleisdorf was dedicated to the topic of energy . A reference to the long-term work of the “AEE INTEC” (“ Working Group Renewable Energy - Institute for Sustainable Technologies”), which began in the city as a “self-assembly group of solar systems”, and finally as “Arge Renewable Energy” (1988 was founded by former Assembly leaders working group Renewable Energy founded a non-profit association.) Became active. Gleisdorf is part of the LEADER region “Energieregion Weiz-Gleisdorf”.

On January 1, 2015, the neighboring communities of Labuch, Laßnitzthal, Nitscha and Ungerdorf were merged with the city of Gleisdorf as part of the Styrian community structural reform. This increased the area from 4.75 km² to 38.66 km² and the population rose from 6,122 to 10,274.

Population development


politics

Main square of Gleisdorf with the parish church of St. Laurentius (2005)

The mayor is provided with Christoph Stark from the ÖVP.

In the municipal council election on March 22, 2015, which was necessary due to the completed municipal structural reform, the ÖVP achieved an absolute majority of the 31 mandates (17 ÖVP, 8 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ, 3 GREENS) with a share of the vote of 52.5 percent. The city council (municipality board) consists of seven members (4 ÖVP, 2 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ).

In the 2020 municipal council elections , the ÖVP came to 57.9 percent and was able to expand its absolute majority to 18 mandates, the remaining mandates are distributed as follows: 6 GREENS, 4 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ.

coat of arms

AUT Gleisdorf COA.svg

The municipal coat of arms was awarded on July 21, 1922. Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1, 2015. The re-award took place on March 20, 2016.

The blazon reads:

"In the red shield under the silver shield head covered with half a green lily growing from the division, a silver crossbar, underlaid with a silver Latin cross with the ends of the bars widened at the top and sides."

Partnerships and networks

Town twinning

Networks

  • Gleisdorf small region
  • 8 cities (the East Styrian city cooperation)
  • LEADER energy region Weiz-Gleisdorf
  • Along with Weiz , Gleisdorf is one of the East Styrian “smart cities” in the context of “smart cities” and “smart regions” established throughout Europe.

Culture

  • Cultural advisor: Alois Reisenhofer
  • Cultural representative: Gerwald Hierzi

Culture: historical

The Gleystorf patch on an engraving by Georg Matthäus Vischer around 1680
Gleisdorf around 1830,
Lith. Institution JF Kaiser, Graz
  • 1681: In the "Topographia Ducatus Stiria" by Georg Matthäus Vischer , the engraving "Freiberg" shows the castle of the same name from the estate, which also enables a view of "Gleystorf". According to historian Robert F. Hausmann "the first image of the market that has been handed down".
  • The post office as a communication hub and reloading point for information, an earlier cultural focal point of the place: “While much larger places only became a no-brainer in the forties of the last century ( = 1840s, note ). k. Received mail, Gleisdorf has had such a ... "
  • The Marienkirche (Church of the Purification of the Virgin), also known as the “Spitalskirche”, built from 1744 to 1747, was a cultural center for centuries, as well as a place of pilgrimage. It housed an archive and a library. A hospital "maintained by the Freiberg rulers" was attached.
  • In the Dominican convent built in 1882, the Dominican women maintained a school and a kindergarten. “Because of the aging of the sisters, the youth education center and the Gleisdorf monastery had to be given up by the Dominican women. The convent, which still consisted of eight sisters, moved to Graz in 1996. The house in Gleisdorf was converted into today's cultural center. ”On the occasion of the Styrian State Exhibition 2001 on the subject of“ Energy ”, the monastery was presented as a cultural event center under the name“ Forum KLOSTER ”.

Culture: traditional

  • 1875: A "Musikverein Gleisdorf" is mentioned in a document.
  • 1909: The Lieutenancy for Styria confirmed the statutes of the "Musikverein Gleisdorf" on July 1st, 1909
  • 1948: On December 12th, the "Stadtkapelle Gleisdorf" was founded.

Museum in the town hall

The "MiR - Museum im Rathaus" as an exhibition space

The MiR - Museum in the town hall was set up in 2008 in the basement of the listed town hall. The main part of the "MiR" is used as an exhibition space in the sense of a white cube and is used all year round. The museum artifacts are outsourced. A side room of the “MiR” has been designed as a “history room” by historian Robert F. Hausmann. There, on three narrative levels, the history of Gleisdorf is related to that of Austria and world history.

Culture: contemporary art

In the Gleisdorf area, year-round activities are dedicated to contemporary and voluntary arts . In addition to art events, this also includes art discourse and topic-related regional development .

In 2001, under the direction of Wolfgang Zinggl, the action-oriented art group WochenKlausur made a guest appearance in the city and presented the results of their findings for public discussion.

In 2007, an art project in Gleisdorf ( Kultur.at ) realized a local cooperation with the Styrian Autumn Festival for the first time (“next code: love”). In 2010 a delegation from the conceptual art formation Collective Actions ( Andrei Monastyrski ) spent a week in town for a follow-up project .

2008 Gleisdorf was kultur.at a scene of the first Styrian regional ( "next code: divan")

2014: Gleisdorf becomes the focal point of the Kulturspange , a cooperation between three cultural initiatives: Heterotopia PerpetuumMobile ( Belgrade ), Kunst Ost (Gleisdorf) and Netzwerk Salzkammergut ( Bad Mitterndorf ). On the second level, the “Kulturspange” is connected to the culture initiative Fokus Freiberg , whose key person is the entrepreneur Ewald Ulrich.

Culture: venues

  • Diesel cinema
  • Forum monastery
  • Gallery einraum (private initiative)
  • House of Music
  • Culture cellar
  • Marienkirche
  • Literature café in the Gleisdorf public library
  • MiR - Museum in the town hall
  • Gleisdorf parish hall

Attractions

Buildings and monuments

  • City parish church St. Laurentius : The first documentary mention of the Gleisdorf church took place in 1229 as a daughter church of the parish St. Ruprecht an der Raab . 1648–1672, today's baroque church was built andconsecratedto St. Lawrence of Rome . Historic extensions are from 1891-1893. On the outer facade there is a Roman stone from the 2nd century
  • On the main square, in front of the parish church, there is a Marian column from 1665. The “woman column” was on the occasion of the victory of Montecuccoli over the Ottomans near St. Gotthard / Mogersdorf (1664). The statue on the "Turkish Column" originally looked in the opposite direction.
  • Former Piarist monastery (1774–1824):
  • The Gleisdorf town hall is located on Florianiplatz and was built from 1892 to 1894. A protruding gable and the corner tower stand out. In addition to the offices, there is the local history museum, numerous Roman finds, a portrait gallery from Freiberg Castle and a mineral collection in the premises. Behind the town hall is the Forum Kloster and an event location. Originally the wing served as a Dominican convent .
  • The 32 meter high observation tower on Kleeberg in the Labuch district is a modern mixture of observation tower and sculpture .
Solar tree on the main square (2005)

technology

  • Solar tree : A central point of the “Solar Energy Road” is the solar tree erected in 1998 . This 17.3 meter high and 12.7 t heavy steel tree consists of 140 photovoltaic modules that together produce 6,650 kWh annually. The energy generated is used for 70 street lights in the city center. The solar tree - the new landmark of the city of Gleisdorf - was designed by the Styrian artist Hartmut Skerbisch , who also created the “lightsaber” in front of the Graz Opera.

Regular events

  • Auto Novo (mobility and mobility history, in autumn)
  • International musical workshop (in August)
  • TIP-Kirta (always on the last weekend of July, since 1975)
  • Gleisdorf Solar (solar thermal etc., every two years, most recently in 2016)

technology

Gleisdorf is considered a shopping city, but is also a technology location, which is expressed in the choice of topics for belonging to a Styrian LEADER region . This bears the title "Weiz-Gleisdorf Energy Region" . As a “solar city”, Gleisdorf is dedicated to renewable energies ; in contrast to the first LEADER cultural project in Styria that started in this city. The main topics “Energy Region” are - according to this topic and economic situation - energy self-sufficiency and mobility.

The use of photovoltaics is not just based on a private initiative, but is also being promoted - along with other measures - by the municipal Feistritzwerke STEWEAG GmbH . The company is largely owned by the municipality and, together with the parent company of Stadtwerke Gleisdorf, takes care of the secure supply of electricity, heat and water as well as waste disposal with innovative projects.

With “Ingenos ZT GmbH” one of the largest civil engineering offices in Austria belongs to the city. With the "AEE INTEC", Gleisdorf houses the second largest research facility in Austria on the subject of "Renewable Energy", which founded the Renewable Energy Working Group in 1988 .

traffic

Highway

In December 1969, the Graz -leisdorf section of the A 2 southern motorway was opened. Years later, the Gleisdorf- Hartberg section was built as an economy motorway on the route of the Vienna carriageway and released as a two-way traffic area. The full expansion of this 42-kilometer section only took place after numerous serious traffic accidents, which were caused by the lack of structural separation of the lanes. Junction points for the A 2 in the Gleisdorf area are Gleisdorf-Süd (157) and Gleisdorf-West (161).

Federal highways

Gleisdorf is located on four former federal highways :

railroad

Platform 1 at Gleisdorf train station (2010)
Freight train with locomotive of the ÖBB series 2016 in Gleisdorf station (2019)

Gleisdorf train station is located in the southwest of the city. It was put into operation as a through station on May 1, 1873 with the opening of the last section of the Styrian Eastern Railway from Jennersdorf to Graz . Since August 28, 1889, Gleisdorf has also been the starting point and connecting station of the Gleisdorf - Weiz regional railway .

In 1999 the Gleisdorf train station was expanded into a traffic hub at a cost of 155 million schillings. As part of the project, a platform tunnel and a covered island platform with a tongue platform were built for the Weizer Bahn. The Mühlstrasse railway crossing in the station area was replaced by an underpass, the bus station relocated and Park & ​​Ride parking spaces and covered parking spaces for bicycles were built.

In 2000, an electronic interlocking ESTW SMC 86 was put into operation. The Laßnitzhöhe station as well as the operational switches Laßnitzthal (train stop) and Autal are remotely controlled from here.

The Park & ​​Ride facility in the station area since 1999, with a capacity of 95 two-wheeler parking spaces and 163 parking spaces, was expanded by a further 64 to 227 parking spaces by the end of October 2013. The third expansion of the Park & ​​Ride facility to date was completed in October 2015, increasing the capacity to a total of 350 car parking spaces and 190 two-wheeler parking spaces, including 110 bicycle parking spaces.

All regional, regional express and S-Bahn trains of the Ostbahn, as well as all trains of the branch line to Weiz, which have another stop in Gleisdorf West, stop in Gleisdorf Bahnhof. With the timetable change in December 2019, there are 63 train connections with Graz (30 to Graz and 33 from Graz) on working days from Monday to Friday, as well as 50 with Weiz (25 each from and to Weiz), a total of 113 trains per day, which are scheduled from four platforms run. On weekdays except Saturday, there are 5 direct S-Bahn trains from Weiz to Graz, as well as from Graz to Weiz, which head in Gleisdorf. On Saturdays, if working days, there are 38 train connections with Graz (18 of them to Graz and 20 from Graz), as well as 14 train connections with Weiz, a total of 52 trains daily that run according to schedule. 34 train connections with Graz are offered on Sundays and public holidays (17 each to Graz and 17 from Graz). The train station in Laßnitzthal, located on the Ostbahn, has been the third S-Bahn station in the municipality of Gleisdorf since January 1, 2015. Passenger traffic on the branch line from Gleisdorf to Weiz is suspended on Sundays and public holidays.

After completing the most important route construction measures (alternate stations and stops, information and safety technology), line 3 of the Styrian S-Bahn started on December 12, 2010 on the route of the Eastern Railway . The branch line from Gleisdorf to Weiz was integrated into the S-Bahn network as line S 31. With the timetable change in December 2018, the train service on line S 31 was expanded on working days and improved in peripheral locations and on Saturdays. The shutdown of the S 31 on Sundays and public holidays was retained. All major regional bus routes travel to Gleisdorf station with their courses, where the stops are set up on the station forecourt or within a short walking distance to it and enable the scheduled change in public transport.

A new line Gleisdorf - Graz is in the official test procedure and should be realized in the next decade. The route is to be run along the existing A 2 motorway, cross under the Laßnitzhöhe in a base tunnel and then connect in Raaba near Graz with the existing route to Graz, and in the Feldkirchen near Graz area with the Koralm railway, which is currently under construction . The NBS will also run direct freight trains to and from the Werndorf Terminal in order to improve its connection via the Eastern Railway to Hungary. After commissioning of the NBS between Gleisdorf and Graz, a condensed PNV is to be run on the existing route via Laßnitzhöhe as a rapid or urban railway.

bicycle

Gleisdorf is on the R11 cycle path, the Raab Valley cycle path, which leads from the origin of the Raab near Passail to Szentgotthárd in Hungary. The pilgrim (bike) away from Kleinmariazell to Mariazell also leads through Gleisdorf.

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Franz Arnfelser: Gleisdorf in old and new times. Leykam, Graz 1928.
  • Robert Friedrich Hausmann and Siegbert Rosenberger: Gleisdorf 1229–1979. City of Gleisdorf 1979.
  • Thuri Lorenz , Christian Maier and Manfred Lehner (eds.), The Roman Vicus of Gleisdorf. Report on the excavations from 1988–1990. In: Publications of the Institute for Classical Archeology at the Karl-Franzens University Graz. Volume 2, Vienna 1995.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 14, 2013 on the unification of the municipality of Gleisdorf and the municipalities of Labuch, Laßnitzthal, Nitscha and Ungerdorf, all of the political district of Weiz. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 2, 2013. No. 140, 34th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 671.
  2. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  3. aee intec , requested on April 16, 2013.
  4. ^ Arge Renewable Energy , queried on April 16, 2013.
  5. Weiz-Gleisdorf energy region , requested on April 16, 2013.
  6. ^ Announcements of the Styrian State Archives 13, 1963, p. 72
  7. 41. Announcement of the Styrian state government of March 10, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Gleisdorf (political district Weiz) , accessed on March 19, 2016
  8. Gleisdorf small region. State of Styria - Office of the Styrian Provincial Government, archived from the original on November 19, 2012 ; Retrieved April 10, 2013 .
  9. ^ Gleisdorf. SOLARSTADT GLEISDORF - The sun in the heart. (No longer available online.) In: 8staedte.at. 8Städte The East Styrian city cooperation, archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; accessed on August 22, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.8staedte.at
  10. Weiz-Gleisdorf energy region. In: energieregion.at. Retrieved August 22, 2014 .
  11. Smart Urban Region Weiz-Gleisdorf. (No longer available online.) In: smartcities.at. Archived from the original on August 26, 2014 ; accessed on August 22, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smartcities.at
  12. european smart cities. In: smart-cities.eu. TU - Vienna University of Technology, Department of Spatial Planning, accessed on August 22, 2014 .
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  14. ^ Franz Arnfelser: Gleisdorf in old and new times Leykam, Graz 1928
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  35. Feistritzwerke photovoltaics
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  39. Press release of the ÖBB from September 12, 1999
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