Grabenwarth

Grabenwarth ( village , former municipality) locality cadastral community Grabenwarth
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg  (VO), Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Ligist
Coordinates	46 ° 59 '5 "  N , 15 ° 13' 40"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 59 '5 "  N , 15 ° 13' 40"  E
height	364  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	189 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	3.35 km²
Post Code	8563 Ligist
Primaries	+ 43 / (0) 3143
Statistical identification
Locality code	16173
Cadastral parish number	63312
Counting district / district	Ligistmarkt (61 612 000)
View from Ligist Castle to Grabenwarth
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Grabenwarth is a village and a locality in western Styria and a cadastral municipality of the market town of Ligist in the Voitsberg district , Styria . The place was an independent municipality from 1850 to 1956.

Place name and geography

The name Grabenwarth refers to the waiting room of a count or an administrator. In the 9th or 10th century such a fortification could have been in Grabenwarth or on the Dietenberg , probably the Dietenburg .

Grabenwarth is in the northeast of the market town of Ligist, northeast and east of the main town Ligist, on the hills east of the L314 on the right bank of Ligistbach and south of the Kainach . In the north-west and north, Grabenwarth borders on the cadastral community of Krottendorf with the village of Krottendorf near Ligist of the community of Krottendorf-Gaisfeld , with the Ligistbach forming the border here. At the confluence of the Ligistbach in the Kainach, the cadastral community of Gaisfeld meets the Grabenwarth area at an acute angle. In the northeast, the Kainach forms the border with the cadastral municipality of St. Johann ob Hohenburg with the village of the same name in the municipality of Söding-Sankt Johann . In the east, the cadastral community of Hallersdorf adjoins the village of the same name and the Rotte Holzberg , with the border being partly formed by the Dittenbergbach in the north and the Lassnitz in the south. In the southeast of Grabenwarth, the Lassnitz represents the border to the cadastral community of Stögersdorf with the Rotten Bubendorf and Rubmannsberg of the market community of Mooskirchen . In the south and southwest is the cadastral community of Steinberg with the scattered settlements of Laßnitz and Steinberg.

The cadastral community of Grabenwarth includes the village of the same name and the locality and Rotte Dietenberg .

history

The oldest traces of settlement in Grabenwarth come from the Neolithic hilltop settlement on the Dietenberg . At the village of Grabenwarth, tools from the Hallstatt period were also found . In 1936, Anton Kremser found a Celtic silver coin from the 1st century BC in his vineyard, an "Antonius" from the period between 138 and 161 AD, and a Roman coin with the image of Emperor Constantine II , who died between 337 and ruled 340. Another Roman coin was found in the vineyard of a certain colleague. Around 1980, a total of six burial mounds , presumably Roman provinces, were discovered, as well as several individual finds that suggest a former villa rustica .

Grabenwarth was probably built in the 10th century as a two-line street village with long strip corridors adjoining the houses . The surrounding area was probably cleared since the 10th or 11th century and settled with scattered houses in block corridors or vineyards . The first documentary mention of the place took place in 1268/69 in the Rationarium Styriae as Gravenwart . Another mention followed in 1755 as Grabenwarth . The people of Grabenwarth belonged to 1848 to various manors, such as to the rule Greißenegg and the official Hohenbourg the rule Hohenburg , the Office division side the reign Lannach , the separately to 1701 designated court office the reign division side and the Office division side the reign Premstätten . The validity of the church was collected by St. Johann ob Hohenburg after the validity had been given to the church by the Hohenburg rule in 1699. The mining rights were raised by the Ligist lordship. The tithe was to be paid to the gentlemen Deutschlandsberg , Greißenegg and Winterhof and the March feed was delivered to the March feed office in Graz . The regional court and judge services for the village took place from the rule of Oberwildon . Grabenwarth belonged to the advertising district of the Ligist rule.

In December 1805, the population of Grabenwarth had to take care of about 50 French soldiers who were billeted in the village. For the period around 1840, there are extensive vineyards in the village. In 1850 was the constitution of the independent community Grabenwarth established free communities. A flood caused severe damage to the village on September 3, 1915. In April 1945 several deserters and partisans around the Grazer Wasyl Weinberger were in the area around Grabenwarth. On January 1, 1956, the municipality of Grabenwarth was merged with the market town of Ligist. In 1993 a biomass cogeneration plant was opened in the village .

Economy and Infrastructure

Grabenwarth is dominated by agriculture, with viticulture also playing a role.

The Grabenwarth water cooperative was founded in 2005 to supply the village with water.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Ligist

The local chapel in Grabenwarth

The Auenstuler pond

There are a total of three listed buildings in the area of ​​the cadastral community of Grabenwarth. The local chapel , consecrated to the Queen of Heaven , was built in 1834 and restored in 1867. It had originally had a measurement license for four trade fairs a year since 1870 , which was expanded to twelve annual trade fairs in 1926. The altar, dated 1625, comes from the chapel of Ligist Castle . A baroque statue of St. Nicholas of Myra was re-gilded in 1865/66 and the chapel has wall paintings created by Franz Weiss . On the Dietenberg there is the listed hillside settlement on the Dietenberg with several recognizable settlement phases as well as the also listed farmhouse Leitnerhans.

In addition to the local chapel, there are several wayside shrines in the village. The Paulikapelle, also called Pankrazikapelle, was built in 1869 and is an arbor picture frame and is located at the fork of the roads to Grabenwarth and Rubmannsberg. In the niche it bears a figure of St. Pancratius with a shield and cross flag, who is surrounded by numerous votive animals and coins. There is also a Lourdes Madonna made of plaster and a statue of the Sacred Heart in the chapel. The Fleckermichlkreuz, used today as a wayside cross, is a two-storey wayside shrine, which houses two oil print pictures from 1986 in the lower niche .

In the northern part of the cadastral community of Grabenwarth there is the Auenstuler pond, a protected part of the landscape with the number GLT 303.

literature

• Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 65-67 .

Web links

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

• 61612 - Ligist. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 65 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 66 .
3. ^ ^{A b c d e} Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 67 .
4. ↑ Federal Monuments Office : Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: www.bda.gv.at. Archived from the original on August 20, 2018 ; accessed on August 7, 2019 . 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.  
5. ^ GIS-Styria : Natural protected areas. In: www.gis2.stmk.gv.at. Retrieved August 7, 2019 .