Sankt Nikolai im Sausal

market community Sankt Nikolai im Sausal
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Surface:	26.16 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 49 '  N , 15 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 49 '15 "  N , 15 ° 26' 56"  E
Height :	342  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,281 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8505 8504 and 8411 Grötsch (partly) 8521 Waldschach (partly)
Area code :	03185, 03456
Community code :	6 10 33
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Nikolai im Sausal 5 8505 Sankt Nikolai im Sausal
Website:	www.nikolai-sausal.at
politics
Mayor :	Gerhard Hartinger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (15 members)	9 5 1 9 5 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 9 SPÖ : 5 FPÖ : 1
Location of Sankt Nikolai im Sausal in the Leibnitz district
Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus, cemetery and rectory in St. Nikolai
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Flamhof Castle

Waldschach Castle

Sankt Nikolai im Sausal is a market town with 2281 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Austrian state of Styria .

geography

Sankt Nikolai im Sausal is located in the Leibnitz district and is one of the main towns in the Sausal region .

Cadastral communities and localities

The community is made up of ten cadastral communities and eleven localities (area 2016; inhabitants as of January 1, 2020):

Cadastral communities	Localities
Flamberg (331.72 ha) Grötsch (309.32 ha) Lamperstätten (302.30 ha) Mitteregg (227.55 ha) Mollitsch (128.03 ha) Oberjahring (210.18 ha) Petzles (228.22 ha) St. Nikolai im Sausal (402.63 ha) Unterjahring (209.84 ha) Waldschess (268.26 ha)	Flamberg (331) Greith (34) Groetsch (187) Lamperstatten (339) Mitteregg (116) Mollitsch (78) Senior year (197) Petzles (142) Sankt Nikolai im Sausal (304) Under year (107) Forest Chess (446)

Neighboring communities

Two of the seven neighboring communities are in the Deutschlandsberg (DL) district.

Preding (DL)	Hengsberg	Long
Wettmannstätten (DL)
St. Andrä-Höch	Kitzeck	Tillmitsch

history

The local church as an autonomous body was established in 1850.

After Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938 , the municipality became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark . 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Community consolidation

On January 1, 1962, the communities of Flamberg, Grötsch, Mitteregg, Oberjahring and Waldschach became the new community “St. Nikolai im Sausal ”.

Population development

politics

mayor

Gerhard Hartinger (ÖVP) has been mayor since the constituent meeting of the municipal council in April 2015. Hartinger thus succeeded Manfred Edelsbrunner (SPÖ), who was only elected by the local council on October 30, 2014 to succeed Kurt Kada (SPÖ), who headed the community as mayor for almost 25 years.

The community board also includes the deputy mayor Karl Schweinzger (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Manfred Edelsbrunner (SPÖ).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:

• 9 mandates ÖVP
• 5 mandates SPÖ
• 1 mandate FPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
	be right	%	Mand.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	828	55	9	641	44	7th	544	38	6th	456	54	5
SPÖ	551	37	5	764	53	8th	823	58	9	701	54	9
FPÖ	120	08th	1	048	03	0	051	04th	0	145	11	1
Eligible voters	1,940			1,890			1,779			1,587
voter turnout	78%			78%			80%			83%

Tourism association

Together with Großklein, Heimschuh, Kitzeck im Sausal, St. Andrä-Höch, St. Johann im Saggautal, Gleinstätten and Tillmisch, the municipality forms the "Sulmtal Sausal - Südsteirisches Weinland" tourism association. Its seat is in Kitzeck im Sausal.

Parish partnership

An official partnership has existed between St. Nikolai im Sausal and the Italian municipality of Loro Piceno ( Macerata Province ) since August 23, 1986. This goes back to the Second World War , when the Italian soldier Rinaldo Temmel settled in St. Nikolai im Sausal. Temmel never lost contact with his homeland and initiated this partnership with the mayors at the time, Erwin Aistleitner and Mario Verdicchio, which is based on a lively exchange of sport, culture, languages ​​and friendship. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary, a sculpture by local artist Karin Westreicher was set up in the park.

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms was awarded on November 13, 1961 by the Styrian state government with effect from December 1, 1961.

Description of coat of arms :

“In the shield split by red and silver, on the right, three gold butting balls (1: 2). In the left field, split by silver and blue, two diamonds with different colors. "

The right side shows three golden, butting balls in a red field, which indicate the patron of the community, Saint Nicholas . The balls symbolize his legendary breads, which are represented as balls in heraldic art. The split left side shows a rhombus in each of the two fields, which establishes the reference to the Admont Monastery , since in an Admont document from 1160 the church of St. Nikolai zu Admont is mentioned as belonging to. However, at the suggestion of the Federal Chancellery, these are not shown in the original red and silver, but in blue and silver colors.

Culture and sights

Interior of the parish church

The Flamhof around 1820, lith. JF Kaiser

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Nikolai im Sausal

Honorary citizen

• Kurt Kada - Kada was mayor of the community for almost 25 years before stepping down on October 31, 2014. In his era, among other things, the new building of the municipal office, the redesign of the town center, the construction of the sports house and the multi-purpose hall, the construction of the sewage treatment plant and the entire sewage disposal. The high points of his work were the survey of the market community in 2004 and the 850th anniversary celebrations in 2013. Kada was awarded honorary citizenship at a ceremony on November 23, 2014.
• Peter Schachner - 1st Deputy Governor a. D.
• Michael Gruber - entrepreneur
• Josef Strauss - entrepreneur
• Spiritual Councilor Josef Konrad - Pastor from 1978 to 2010
• 2000: Engelbert Zweidick († 2020) - Honorary Kapellmeister of the Musikverein (Kapellmeister from 1958 to 2000)

Web links

Commons : Sankt Nikolai im Sausal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61033 - Sankt Nikolai im Sausal. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• nikolai-sausal.at , official homepage of the market town of St. Nikolai im Sausal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Marktgemeinde St. Nikolai im Sausal: Municipal Council  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 14, 2015).  
4. ↑ Marktgemeinde St. Nikolai im Sausal: Announcements 2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 250 KB; accessed June 15, 2015).  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Marktgemeinde St. Nikolai im Sausal: Gemeindekurier, issue 4/2014  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 7.07 MB; accessed June 15, 2015)  
6. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 323. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 630-631.
7. ↑ Market town of St. Nikolai im Sausal: Partnership with Loro Piceno (Italy) ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2015 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. (accessed June 15, 2015). 
8. ^ Notices from the Styrian State Archives 12, 1962, p. 37.
9. ↑ Parish St. Nikolai im Sausal: The coat of arms of the market parish St. Nikolai im Sausal , accessed on January 21, 2017.