Gnas

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market community Gnas
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Southeast Styria
License plate :	SO (from 1.7.2013; old: FB)
Surface:	81.76 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 52 '  N , 15 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '23 "  N , 15 ° 49' 37"  E
Height :	300  m above sea level A.
Residents :	5,985 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8342, 8083, 8091, 8330, 8341, 8343, 8345
Area code :	+43 3151
Community code :	6 23 80
Address of the municipal administration:	Gnas 46 8342 Gnas
Website:	www.gnas.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Gerhard Meixner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (25 members)	21st 2 1 1 21st 2 1 1  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 21 FPÖ : 2 SPÖ : 1 GREEN : 1
Location of Gnas in the district of Southeast Styria
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Vinzenz Hartl, view from Gnas, Feldbach, around 1830

Gnas is a market town with 5985 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the south-east of Styria in the district of Southeast Styria . As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , the municipality has been merged with the municipalities Aug-Radisch , Baumgarten bei Gnas , Grabersdorf , Maierdorf , Poppendorf , Raning , Trössing , Unterauersbach and part of Kohlberg since 2015 and continues to use the name Gnas. The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

geography

Geographical location

Gnas is located about 38 km southeast of Graz and about 10 km south of the district capital Feldbach in the eastern Styrian hill country .

Community structure

The municipal area comprises 27 localities (population in brackets, as of January 1, 2020):

• Aug (88)
• Badenbrunn (101)
• Baumgarten (196)
• Keep (543)
• Ebersdorf (224)
• Fischa (87)
• Glatzental (135)
• Gnas (793)
• Grabersdorf (335)
• Hirsdorf (144)
• Court (67)
• Katzelsdorf (44)
• Katzendorf (186)
• Kinsdorf (123)
• Kohlberg (297)
• Ludersdorf (88)
• Maierdorf (137)
• Oberauersbach (81)
• Obergnas (282)
• Pernreith (111)
• Poppendorf (280)
• Radical (184)
• Raning (487)
• Thien (253)
• Trössing (252)
• Unterauersbach (216)
• Worth (251)

The community consists of 14  cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2017):

• Aug-Radisch (453.36 ha)
• Baumgarten (897.53 ha)
• Ebersdorf (264.85 ha)
• Fischa (406.31 ha)
• Gnas (504.86 ha)
• Grabersdorf (635.38 ha)
• Hirsdorf (268.75 ha)
• Kohlberg II (465.06 ha)
• Maierdorf (661.73 ha)
• Obergnas (676.52 ha)
• Poppendorf (865.23 ha)
• Raning (825.60 ha)
• Trössing (416.59 ha)
• Unterauersbach (795.68 ha)

Incorporations

On January 1st, 1964, the parishes Fischa and Obergnas were merged with Gnas.

Neighboring communities

Sankt Stefan im Rosental	Paldau	Feldbach
Jagerberg		Bad Gleichenberg
Sankt Peter am Ottersbach		Straden

history

Finds prove the settlement of the area for 3000 years. The earliest written evidence is from 891 and is "aqua Knesaha". The name goes back to the Slovenian knez (prince, large landowner). It is based on the designation of a ownership relationship. The field name was transferred to the river and the settlement. The market lore comes from 1229. The funny Dieter settles in a house that was abandoned after the plague, and the plague column still bears witness to this. Kurucs from Hungary and later Turks invaded the country.

The fire of 1822 went down in the history of the market. On June 15, 1822 is first a column of smoke over the nail wrought Seitz. Although people try to extinguish with bucket chains, flying bundles of burning straw from the predominantly thatched , closely spaced houses spread the fire to both rows of houses and the upper market. 55 houses were destroyed, 69 families were left homeless, the master baker's mother died and many were injured. Writings and documents from the market archive were saved before the town hall burned down. The church remained almost completely intact, nine houses were spared. Eight wagons of groceries came from Feldbach the very next day, with the help from neighboring towns, accommodation could be created again by winter. A memorial book lists 782 donors, June 14th is celebrated as a day of remembrance with a procession on the Calvary.

After the Second World War , the British occupation ended in 1955. Streets were paved, later paved. The street space of the place was redesigned. On January 1, 2013, two districts were merged, and on January 1, 2015, ten communities were merged.

Population development

The village of Obergnas from the south

View of Gnas from Raningberg (west view)

Culture and sights

Gnas parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Gnas

• Catholic parish church Gnas hl. Maria
• Calvary Gnas
• In October 2015 the bronze walk-in reform culture "la familia" was erected by the Bolivian Fernando Crespo Camacho, which depicts the gathering of ten parish areas into one - roughly heart-shaped - by four family members using a rope.

societies

• Gnas volunteer fire department
• Obergnas volunteer fire brigade
• Red Cross Gnas
• Catholic youth Gnas
• Children and youth folk dance group Obergnas
• Folk dance group Gnas
• Market music band Gnas
• Oldtimer Club Gnas
• Photo club Gnas
• USV Gnas (sports club)

Economy and Infrastructure

Gnas train station

Gnas is a trading and commercial location with companies in various industries.

traffic

The line of the Landesbahn Feldbach – Bad Gleichenberg runs through the village from Feldbach to Bad Gleichenberg . The trains of the Landesbahn Steiermark run from Feldbach to Gleichenberg and back and stop in Gnas.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consisted of 15 members until the end of 2014.

• After the municipal council elections in Styria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution:
• 9 ÖVP and
• 6 SPÖ.
• After the municipal council elections in Styria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution:
• 11 ÖVP,
• 2 SPÖ,
• 2 Hubert Niederl.

Due to the increased population of the new congregation, there are now 25 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Styria 2015 , the enlarged municipal council has the following distribution:
• 20 ÖVP,
• 3 FPÖ,
• 1 SPÖ and
• 1 green.

mayor

• until 2010 Günther Stangl (ÖVP)
• since 2010 Gerhard Meixner (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The first design of the coat of arms is unknown, as the documents were destroyed in a fire. The Roman-German king and later Emperor Ferdinand I gave the princely market a new coat of arms on January 19, 1552. Since Gnas owned the male line of the extinct Reichenburg family in the first half of the 16th century and they had a blue wolf in their shield, the Gnas coat of arms was designed in this way.

The blazon in the certificate reads: "... a white or silver-colored Schillt in it against the front upper egg ain frontal aine Plawen Wolffs, on his head a yellow or gold color Cron with an open mouth, rotter tongues and his shot feet ..."

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
• 

  Aug-Radisch

• 

  Baumgarten near Gnas

• 

  Grabersdorf

• 

  Kohlberg

• 

  Maierdorf

• 

  Poppendorf

• 

  Raning

• 

  Trössing

• 

  Unterauersbach

All ten predecessor parishes had a parish coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality took effect on May 5, 2018.

The blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

"A blue, red-tongued and gold-crowned wolf, growing in silver from the lower left edge of the shield and jumping to the top right."

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

• 1985: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor
• 2015: Gerhard Meixner (* 1962), Mayor of Gnas

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hans Roth (politician, 1889) (* 1889 in Obergnas; † 1969 in Graz), Austrian politician ( CS , ÖVP ), farmer and innkeeper, member of the Styrian Landtag 1923–1928, member of the National Council 1930–1934, 1945–1959
• Hans Roth (entrepreneur, 1916) (* 1916 in Obergnas; † 2008 in Gnas), Austrian entrepreneur
• Hans Roth (entrepreneur, 1946) , Austrian entrepreneur
• Alois Puntigam (* 1938 in Burgfried), Austrian politician ÖVP
• Gerhard Hirschmann (1951–2019), politician, regional councilor in Styria
• Luis Haas, radio presenter ( Antenne Steiermark )
• Anja Plaschg (* 1990 in Gnas), Austrian musician and singer ( Soap & Skin )

Web links

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

Wikisource: Gnäs in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 62380 - Gnas. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.gnas.gv.at Website of the market town of Gnas
• Gnas.istsuper.com: Everything about Gnas
• A short journey through time in Gnas: Hauptplatz 1920–2015 - Verschiebebild, kleinezeitung.at.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Trössing was the only municipality that belonged to the former Radkersburg district until 2012 .
2. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
3. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 9, Item 3 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the restructuring of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . S. 4. as well as (for the parts of Kohlberg for which a new cadastral municipality is being created) § 5 Abs. 5 Z 1 StGsrG, S. 6.
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ↑ Regionalinformation.zip (Excel file, 1,210 kB); accessed on January 4, 2018
6. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
7. ↑ 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 ]).
8. ↑ From the story of Gnas; Annual Vow Mass on the occasion of the great fire in Gnas: Excerpt from the Heimatbuch: 750 years Gnas community newspaper: Gnaser Regionsrundblick, Marktgemeinde Gnas, issue 2, 2015, published between June 19 and 30, 2015, accessed February 20, 2017. p. 27 and 35.
9. ↑ Thomas Rossacher. This is how communities achieve their merger, kleinezeitung.at, print edition, October 6, 2015, p. 16 f. (Image).
10. ↑ Gnas: A work of art that connects , kleinezeitung.at, September 29, 2015, accessed April 27, 2018.
11. ↑ The market coat of arms at www.gnas.gv.at, accessed on April 26, 2018
12. ↑ 42. Announcement: Granting the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Gnas (political district of Southeast Styria) , accessed on April 24, 2018
13. ↑ Gerhard Meixner new honorary citizen of Gnas January 31, 2015