Feistritz ob Bleiburg

market community Feistritz ob Bleiburg Bistrica nad Pliberkom
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Völkermarkt
License plate :	VK
Surface:	54.19 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 33 '  N , 14 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '25 "  N , 14 ° 45' 34"  E
Height :	550  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,200 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9143
Area code :	0 42 35
Community code :	2 08 05
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Michael 111 9143 Feistritz ob Bleiburg
Website:	www.feistritz-bleiburg.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Hermann Srienz ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (19 members)	8th 6th 5 8th 6th 5  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 8 REGI : 6 LFA : 5
Location of Feistritz ob Bleiburg Bistrica nad Pliberkom in the Völkermarkt district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Feistritz ob Bleiburg ( Slovenian : Bistrica pri Pliberku ) is a bilingual market town with 2200 inhabitants located in the Völkermarkt district in Carinthia (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Geographical location

Filial church St Katharina am Kogel

Octagonal wayside shrine in Gonowetz

The community extends between the Jaunfeld and the Petzen massif of the Karawanken . The eponymous village Feistritz is about 5 kilometers from the Austrian - Slovenian border. The river of the same name flows through the municipality, the only larger standing body of water is the 3.5 hectare Pirkdorfer See .

Community structure

Feistritz ob Bleiburg is divided into the four cadastral communities Unterort ( Podkraj ), Feistritz ( Bistrica ), Sankt Michael ( Šmihel ) and Penk ( Ponikva ). The municipality includes the following 15 localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

• Dolintschitschach ( Dolinčiče ) (57)
• Feistritz ob Bleiburg ( Bistrica nad Pliberkom ) (296)
• Gonowetz ( Konovece ) (336)
• Hinterlibitsch ( Suha ) (48)
• Hof ( Dvor ) (219)
• Lettenstätten ( Letina ) (135)
• Penk ( Ponikva ) (185)
• Pirkdorf ( Breška vas ) (93)
• Rischberg ( Rišperk ) (0)
• Ruttach-Schmelz ( rod ) (12)
• St. Michael ob Bleiburg ( Šmihel pri Pliberku ) (532)
• Tscherberg ( Črgoviče ) (97)
• Lower Libich ( Podlibič ) (63)
• Suburb ( Podkraj ) (105)
• Angle ( feces ) (22)

Neighboring communities

Eberndorf	Bleiburg	Bleiburg
Globasnitz		Mežica
Eisenkappel-Vellach	Črna na Koroškem

history

Numerous traces of prehistoric settlement have been excavated in the municipality, such as a bronze tool from the urn culture (approx. 1000 BC), cremation graves from the Hallstatt period , and a fortified settlement on the Katharinakogel (7th to 5th centuries BC) . Around 100 AD there was a Roman road on the Petzen slope.

Feistritz was first mentioned in a document from 1261 as Veustricz . In 1473, when the Turks first invaded Carinthia, they set up their main camp in Pirkdorf.

The municipality, which was founded in 1850, was assigned the parts of the municipalities of Schwarzenbach and Mießberg that had not fallen to Yugoslavia after the First World War. 1973 Feistritz was incorporated into Bleiburg, after a referendum the community became independent again in 1991. On August 28, 2008 Feistritz ob Bleiburg was raised to a market town.

population

population

According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Feistritz ob Bleiburg has 2,128 inhabitants, 96.4% of whom are Austrian and 1.5% Bosnian citizens. 64.5% belong to the German-speaking and 32.7% to the Slovene-speaking ethnic group .

Religions

92.9% of the community population profess to the Roman Catholic Church , 1.3% to the Evangelical Church and 1.1% to Islam . 2.9% have no religious beliefs.

The Catholic parish of Sankt Michael belongs to the Bleiburg deanery. Today it is bilingual. The parish church of St. Michael / Šmihel pri Pliberku includes the branch churches Hof / Dvor, Rinkolach / Rinkole, St. Katharina am Kogl / Sv. Katarina, and Wackendorf / Večna vas.

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also: List of listed objects in Feistritz ob Bleiburg

• Parish church of St. Michael ob Bleiburg
• St. Katharina am Kogel has a dominant position in the Jauntal and was once the administrative seat. It goes back to the year 1404.

Slovenian cultural history

With the immigration of the Slavs and the consolidation of the Carantan state, but at the latest with the Christianization of the Karantans, the Slovenian cultural history begins in the municipality, especially since the oldest written monuments already attributed to Slovene, the Freising monuments were created for the purposes of Christianization (their oral Basis after the middle of the 9th century, written down towards the end of the 10th century).

On July 31, 1870, the first of a series of large political gatherings under the name of Tabor with over 9,000 participants was held in Feistritz / Bistrica . The participants called for the implementation of Article 19 of the catalog of fundamental rights of the so-called December constitution from 1867, that is, the equality of language in schools, in offices and in court. They saw the only possibility of realizing these basic rights in the areas of southern Carinthia, which at that time were almost exclusively inhabited by Slovene, in a union of the Slovene crown lands in a separate administrative unit within the monarchy. The related program of the Trdnjava (German: fortress) support association was Zedinjena Slovenija (German: United Slovenia). According to the parish chronicle, the last Tabor meeting also took place in the parish, this time at the Church of St. Katharina am Kogel in 1914, which was attended by 4,000 people.

Towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Slovenian associations flourished in and around the community, partly as a reaction to the increasing pressure to Germanize. The Slovenian Kyrill and Method School Association Družba sv. Cirila in Metoda founded a number of branch associations in the Jauntal : Bleiburg and surroundings in 1888, Sankt Kanzian am Klopeiner See and surroundings in 1888, Pribelsdorf and surroundings in 1890, Völkermarkt in 1893, Loibach and surroundings in 1902.

The first Slovenian choral society "Gorotan" was founded in 1890 and the Tamburizza Choir was founded in 1903. In St. Michael ob Bleiburg there was also one of the oldest Slovenian savings and loan funds (founded in 1888) and a milk cooperative. On April 2, 1908, the Hranilnica in posojilnica in Bleiburg was founded, which played an important role in the economic - and as a sponsor - in the cultural life of the people and the region and still has it today.

During this time, the flourishing of Slovenian singing in church choirs and associations also made an important contribution to linguistic culture, because anyone who practiced singing in choirs was also proficient in the written Slovene language.

societies

• Slovenian cultural association KPD Šmihel . The Slovenian cultural association KPD Šmihel , which was founded on December 16, 1906 under the name Slovensko katoliško izobraževalno društvo za Šmihel in okolico (Slovenian Catholic Educational Association for Saint Michael and the surrounding area) is one of the actors in the community's cultural life . An essential goal of the association was to do educational work to strengthen the cultural identity. The first chairman, Ivan Tominc, was also the mayor, as was his successor, Jurij Rudolf. The main areas of activity were educational lectures, theater and the club library. The outcome of the Carinthian referendum led to the expulsion of the Slovenian intelligentsia and was a severe blow to cultural life in all of southern Carinthia. But in Sankt Michael ob Bleiburg, the Slovenian cultural association began resuming its activities in 1922 and in 1923 staged the well-known play Miklova Zala , which is a metaphor for the oppression and the cultural demands of the Slovenes. With the "Anschluss" of Austria , the pressure against the Slovenes , which had already grown steadily in the First Republic , increased even more and so after the attack on Yugoslavia in April 1941, all Slovenian cultural life was banned, all associations were dissolved and their belongings either destroyed or confiscated . But very soon after the Second World War , cultural work began to flourish again. Theater, tamburizzamusic and singing formed the main pillars of the efforts to achieve cultural coexistence. In 1969 the premises of the new parish hall were acquired and inaugurated in 1970 with a play. In the same year the activity of the Slovenian music school Glasbena šola began . In the same year, under the management of Karl Gril, the puppet show began, which enjoyed great success. In 1999 the association hosted the international puppet festival ANIMA and thus became the center of the professional world.

• Art cycle path association

Regular events

• Od Pliberka do Traberka - tradicionalna čezmejna srečanja pevskih zborov (From Bleiburg to Traberg - a traditional cross-border meeting of choirs), every year in March

Economy and Infrastructure

Mahle Filtersysteme Austria

According to the 2001 census of workplaces, there were 61 workplaces with 1,420 employees as well as 604 out-commuters and 1,164 in-commuters in the municipality. There are 136 agricultural and forestry holdings (30 of which are the main occupation), which together cultivate 3,940 hectares (1999).

With the Mahle Filtersysteme Austria GmbH plant in St. Michael, the municipality owns the second largest production facility in Carinthia. The plant primarily produces for the automotive industry and employs around 1,800 people (as of 2005).

Another important local employer is the Petzen Bergbahnen GmbH , which operates the gondola lift on the Petzen , the chair lift and, in winter, the associated slopes , cross-country trails and ski lifts .

Bleiburger Straße (B 81) leads through the northern villages of the municipality .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 19 members and has been composed as follows since the last municipal council election in 2015 :

• 8 SPÖ
• 6 Feistritz regional list - regionalna lista Bistrica
• 5 List for everyone

The directly elected mayor is Hermann Srienz (SPÖ).

coat of arms

In the municipality's coat of arms, the wave bar symbolizes Feistritz. The golden crown stands for the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus (Kralj Matjaž) who, according to legend, will sleep inside the Petzen and will bring about a golden age after his awakening. The golden scales are the attribute of the Archangel Michael , parish patron and namesake of the main town of the community.

The official blazon of the coat of arms of Feistritz ob Bleiburg reads: "In the green shield there is a golden, obliquely left wavy bar, at the top accompanied by a royal crown, at the bottom by a scale."

The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the municipality on October 23, 1992. The flag is green and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.

Web links

Commons : Feistritz ob Bleiburg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Community of Feistritz ob Bleiburg
• 20805 - Feistritz ob Bleiburg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, pp. 15, 137, 168 , accessed on February 16, 2019 . 
3. ^ AF Reiterer: Lebenswelt mother tongue, Slovenian and its current perception - a report. In: K. Anderwald , P. Karpf, H. Valentin (eds.): Kärntner Jahrbuch für Politik 2000. Klagenfurt 2000, 340-362.
4. ↑ AF Reiterer: Counting minorities? Methodological and content-related problems of official language counts. In: M. Pandel [ea] (ed.): Conflict of town signs in Carinthia - crisis or opportunity? Vienna 2004, 25-38.
5. ↑ cf. List of parishes in the Bleiburg / Pliberk deanery
6. ↑ Štefan Singer: Cultural and Church History of the Deanery Bleiburg, Klagenfurt / Celovec 1979 (reprint)
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
8. ↑ J. Jež: Opombe h zgodovini Slovenskega naroda A Casa brižinskih somenikov. In: Monumenta Frisingensia = Brižinski spomeniki: la prima presentazione in Italia dei Monumenti letterari Sloveni di Frisinga del X-XI secolo coevi alle prime tracce steps della lingua italiana: con traduzione dei testi cenni di storia degli Sloveni e dati sugli Sloveni in Italia / Janko Jež; prefazione ed appendici storiche di Paolo G. Parovel; [a cura di Ariella Tasso-Jasbitz e Paolo G. Parovel]. Trieste, Firenze 1995, 91-105.
9. ^ A. Malle: Tabori na Koroškem. In: ZČ 41 (1987) 599-622.
10. ↑ glej: Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
11. ↑ Enciklopedija Slovenije, Lemma: “Družba sv. Cirila in Metoda ”, Volume 2, Ljubljana 1991, pp. 363-364.
12. ↑ Andrej Vovko "Slovenski Branik" o koroških podružnicah CMD. In: Koroški koledar 1985 (Klagenfurt / Celovec 1984) 155-165.
13. ↑ Posojilnica Bank Pliberk / Bleiburg: Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
14. ↑ Posojilnica is a sponsor of the handball club Aich / Dob: Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
15. ↑ glej: Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
16. ↑ http://www.kunst-radweg.at/
17. ↑ http://www.jskd.si
18. ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
19. ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
20. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 86.