Grödig

Within the Salzburg region, Grödig is located in Flachgau on the southwestern edge of the Salzburg basin. It is located at the foot of the Untersberg , at the Salzburg- Süd junction of the Tauern Autobahn .

Community structure

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

Eichet (285) including Baderbauer and Holznergütl
Glanegg (2213) including Fürstenbrunn and Untersberg
Grödig (3800) including Gartenau and hanging stone
Sankt Leonhard (1093) including the dragon hole

The community consists of the cadastral communities Glanegg and Grödig.

Neighboring communities

Wals-Siezenheim		Salzburg (statutory city)
Grossgmain		Anif
Bischofswiesen ( district Berchtesgd.Ld. , BY , DE )	Schellenberger Forst ^∗ ( Gemfr. Geb. , BY , DE )	Hallein ( District Hallein )

^∗State forest, then Marktschellenberg , district Berchtesgd.Ld.

history

Origin of name

The origin of the name - first mentioned ad crethica [ecllesia] ( Notitia Arnonis 790) - there are two common options: Friulian cret means "the rock", Italian crett means "the crack, the crevice, the crevice" (connection with the Untersberg and its Mining is close); the name should therefore date back to the Roman times of Iuvavum .

St. Leonhard: The church is dedicated to St. Leonhard of Limoges (patron saint of animals). (According to Koch-Sternfeld, the original names for "the quiet valley of St. Leonhard" were Tuval and Grafengaden .)
Eichet: Oak forests in the Glan moor, the farmers had to give up acorns as fiefs in the Middle Ages, the name is more common in the neighborhood (e.g. Eichet near Loig )
Glanegg: After the Glan , Celtic glann "water", egg "pure" (but here there can also only be a reference to Glanegg Castle, egg "corner, rock, landmark" or reinterpretation)
Fürstenbrunn: Prince archbishops got their water from the well in this district

Early history

Stone Age: No finds except for a few spearheads; no signs of settlement
Bronze Age: First large settlement in the south of Grödig, burial mounds near the cemetery: these were explored in 1941 and 1953. Weapons, vessels and jewelry were found.
Iron Age: No finds; Relocation of the settlement area towards Hallein due to salt mining
Roman times: Grödig particularly important due to the Untersberg marble . Finds: graves, coins, weapons, Roman stone in the cemetery wall (erected in 202 AD).
482: Death of St. Severin , invasions of the Baiuwaren , evacuation of the Roman citizens by Odoacer , but many residents stayed in Grödig. The graves from this time no longer had grave goods.
6th and 7th centuries: Grödig becomes important for the Baiuwaren (2nd sound shift: This was only implemented in areas with a high number of Baiuwaren, see Adnet , Kuchl )

Local history

790: First documented mention in the Notitia Arnonis . In this document, Bishop Arno lists the possessions of the Salzburg Church . Grödig is listed under ad crethica ecllesia cum territorio .
Middle Ages: Little known. Grödig was subordinated to the Abbey of St. Peter and administered by it.
1136: Tunnel through the Mönchsberg, start of work on the Almkanal , which was supposed to supply water for the city of Salzburg, under Master Albert
1143: Completion of the first section of the Alm Canal
1150: Grödig becomes a parish
1260: the piercing stretch from Grödig to the Almkanal
1525: Peasant uprisings : Although some peasants formed, the uprisings in Grödig went largely unnoticed.
1645: The Glanegg Castle was rebuilt under Archbishop Marcus Sitticus
1809: Father Joachim Haspinger (next to Andreas Hofer leader of the peasant uprisings in Tyrol) penetrates to Grödig. In the neighboring town, however, Bavarian troops are forming, and the peasants withdraw
1848: A parish becomes Grödig
1869: The Almkanal serves as a source of energy for many businesses and factories: 13 companies
1886: Opening of the Salzburg – Hangender Stein local railway , which was initially operated as a steam tram and initially ended at the St. Leonhard-Drachenloch station. Other stops in the municipality were Grödig and St. Leonhard-Gartenau. Later the line was electrified and mostly referred to as the Red Electric . It was also extended to Berchtesgaden.
1907/08: Further construction to Hangender Stein , the following year it was linked to the Berchtesgaden – Hangender Stein local railway , the so-called Green Electricity
First World War: One of the largest POW camps in Austria-Hungary is being built in Grödig, around 40,000 (mostly Russian) prisoners. Today the Russian cemetery commemorates the camp.
Interwar period: emergency money; since the state put too much paper money into circulation, many people hoarded their coins. To remedy this shortcoming, many churches got "their own money".
Nazi regime and World War II: November 17, 1944 Bomb attack: 65 people killed
1953: The tram was finally shut down and the station was demolished
1959–1961 Construction of the Untersbergbahn , a technical masterpiece at the time

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality is described :

Red over silver divided , is above a forward introverted silver (weißmarmorner) wasserspeiender lion's head , which pours into five blue rays in the lower shield box.

The five rays are intended to represent the five districts of Grödig.

Community partnerships

There is a partnership with the Rio Negro Conservation Area , the region around the Rio Negro (Amazon) .
The community of Grödig has been a member of the Climate Alliance since 1990 . As part of the e5 program for energy-efficient communities , it has been awarded “eeee” (as of 3/2012) and the European Energy Award (eea).

politics

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The community council has a total of 25 members.

With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2004, the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 GVP - Grödiger People's Party and party-free BGM. Hemetsberger, 9 SPÖ, 2 GABL - Grödig, and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 VP + Pf, 8 SPÖ, 3 FPÖ, and 2 GABL.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2014 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and non-party members, 6 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, and 2 GABL.
With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg in 2019 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP and non-party members, 7 SPÖ, 2 GU, and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

1964–1983 Fritz Schorn (SPÖ)
1983–1999 Dieter Engels (SPÖ)
1999–2019 Richard Hemetsberger (VP + Pf)
since 2019 Herbert Schober (VPuPF)

economy

energy

Grödig is one of the 24 municipalities in Austria (as of March 2019) that were awarded the highest award of the e5 municipal energy project. The e5 community project aims to promote the implementation of a modern energy and climate policy at community level.

Culture and sights

Parish church of Grödig

Pilgrimage Church of St. Leonhard

Glanegg Castle with manor fountain
Roman stone from Grödig
Catholic parish church Grödig Annunciation
Pilgrimage Church of St. Leonhard
Untersberg Museum with ball mills in Fürstenbrunn, Untersberg marble quarries
Radio museum
Columns of memory in the fracture of the jaw
Grödig war memorial
Nepomuk fountain in St. Leonhard
St. Christophorus fountain on the market square in Grödig
Spielberg fountain in Grödig
Grödiger peasant theater

nature

Untersberg with its wealth of caves (in particular the Kolowrats cave on the Dopplersteig below the Zeppezauerhaus ) and its well-known legendary circle, the St. Leonhard cable car
With the exception of the settlement area, the entire municipal area belongs to the Untersberg landscape and plant protection area ( LSG 51 , PSG 1 ), which is part of a protection association via the Berchtesgadener Land biosphere reserve (adjacent development zone), which continues into Pongau and Pinzgau and to the northwest. The Leopoldskroner Moos landscape protection area continues in Salzburg .

Sports

With the Untersbergbahn , Grödig has a small insider ski area, which is particularly popular among alternative skiers and tourers in the area when there is an avalanche.

The football club SV Grödig has played in the Austrian Bundesliga since the 2013/14 season and qualified third in the table for the qualifying round for the 2014/15 Europa League . After relegation in 2015/16, the club started again in the Regionalliga.

Grödig is located on the Salzhandelsweg cycle path that circles the Untersberg and a little west of the Tauern cycle path that leads along the Salzach.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Victor Band (1897–1973), member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP
Adi Macek (1939–1993), football player
Friedrich Mayr-Melnhof (1924-2020), politician (ÖVP)
Harald Krassnitzer (* 1960), actor
Genia Kühmeier (* 1975), soprano
Tobias Rieser (* 1988), DJ

People related to the community

Karlheinz Böhm (1928–2014), lived in the village and died here

Honorary citizen of the community

1968: Adolf Zückert, Major d. R.
2019: Richard Hemetsberger, Mayor of Grödig 1999–2019

Web links

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

Community website
50314 - Grödig. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld : History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 3. Lindauer, Munich 1815, p. 130 ( online in the Google book search).
↑ Fritz Schorn . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
↑ Dieter Engels . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
↑ Richard Hemetsberger . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
↑ e5 communities in Austria as of March 2019
↑ Untersberg landscape protection area in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg
↑ Untersberg plant protection area in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg
↑ http://www.salzburg.com/wiki/index.php/Radwanderweg Radwanderweg, Salzburg-wiki, accessed April 4, 2016.
↑ http://www.fahr-radwege.com/Untersberg.htm Around the Untersberg, fahr-radwege.com, accessed April 4, 2016.
↑ https://www.sn.at/salzburg/politik/abtretender-groediger-ortschef-zum-ehrenbuerger-ernannt-70125439 , accessed on May 16, 2019.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[Sternfeld3Bd-2] Joseph Ernst von Koch-Sternfeld : History of the Principality of Berchtesgaden and its salt works. Volume 3. Lindauer, Munich 1815, p. 130 ( online in the Google book search).

[3] Fritz Schorn . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

[4] Dieter Engels . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

[5] Richard Hemetsberger . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

[6] 5 communities in Austria as of March 2019

[7] Untersberg landscape protection area in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg

[8] Untersberg plant protection area in the nature reserve book of the State of Salzburg

[9] ttp://www.salzburg.com/wiki/index.php/Radwanderweg Radwanderweg, Salzburg-wiki, accessed April 4, 2016.

[10] ttp://www.fahr-radwege.com/Untersberg.htm Around the Untersberg, fahr-radwege.com, accessed April 4, 2016.

[11] ttps://www.sn.at/salzburg/politik/abtretender-groediger-ortschef-zum-ehrenbuerger-ernannt-70125439 , accessed on May 16, 2019.