Grafenbach-St. Valentine

market community Grafenbach-St. Valentine
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Lower Austria
Political District :	Neunkirchen
License plate :	NK
Main town :	Grafenbach
Surface:	13.96 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 41 ′  N , 16 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	430  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2.211 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	158 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2632
Area code :	02630
Community code :	3 18 11
Address of the municipal administration:	Ernst-Gruber-Strasse 1 2632 Grafenbach-St. Valentine
Website:	www.grafenbach.at
politics
Mayoress :	Sylvia Kögler ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (21 members)	14th 6th 1 14th 6th 1  A total of 21 seats SPÖ : 14 ÖVP : 6 FPÖ : 1
Location of Grafenbach-St. Valentin in the Neunkirchen district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Grafenbach-St. Valentin (also Grafenbach-Sankt Valentin ) is a market town with 2211 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria .

geography

Grafenbach-St. Valentin is located southwest of Ternitz in the valley of the Schwarza in the industrial area in Lower Austria . The area of ​​the market town covers 13.9 square kilometers. 51.54 percent of the area is forested.

Community structure

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

• Göttschach (169)
• Grafenbach (851)
• Ober-Danegg (149)
• Penk (235)
• St. Valentin-Landschach (807)

The cadastral communities are Grafenbach, Oberdanegg, Penk and St. Valentin-Landschach.

Neighboring communities

Ternitz		Wimpassing in the Black Valley
Enzenreith		Wartmannstetten
Altendorf		Warth

Incorporations

On January 1st, 1967 the communities Grafenbach and St. Valentin-Landschach became the community Grafenbach-St. Valentin folded. On January 1, 1972, the municipalities of Ober-Danegg and Penk became Grafenbach-St. Valentin incorporated.

history

Grafenbach, St. Valentin, Danegg and the other districts of the municipality, around 1873 (recording sheet of the 3rd regional recording )

In ancient times the area was part of the province of Noricum - the church of St. Valentin is located near a Roman settlement. There is also a burial ground from the 9th century near St. Valentin. The place Grafenbach is first mentioned in a document of the Margrave of Styria, Ottokar III .: After an exchange of goods with the Rein monastery , the possessions of the monastery in Grafenbach fell to the St. Lambrecht monastery in 1147 . This exchange was supposed to be reversed as early as 1159, but St. Lambrecht refused. The Lords of Pottendorf later owned goods in Grafenbach, but details are not known. In any case, in 1495 Albrecht von Pottendorf was awarded all of Grafenbach's goods by arbitration.

Parish of St. Valentin

In 1158 Archbishop Eberhard von Salzburg gave the provost Romanus von Gurk the parish of St. Lorenzen in Flatz. The St. Valentin chapel as part of the St. Lorenzen parish was also affected by this award, but the chapel has not yet been mentioned here. St. Valentin was first mentioned in a document in 1204 as a branch of the parish Flatz, St. Lorenzen, as Pope Innocent III. confirmed the parish of St. Lorenzen with the chapels of St. Valentin, St. Johann and other chapels to Gurk Monastery on October 21, 1204. A document from 1208 also names St. Valentine's chapel , a location is not given. From this it can be concluded that the chapel existed here in front of a settlement and was probably built to enable people living far away from Flatz to attend the service.

The Formbach service register, written around 1340, names St. Valentin as a parish for the first time in connection with the pastor there, who owned a house in Neunkirchen. From the land register of the parish St. Lorenzen from 1352 it finally emerges that St. Valentin had been a parish for a long time at that time, although it still had branch duties to the mother parish of St. Lorenzen. In summary, there was a chapel of St. Valentine at the beginning of the 13th century and by 1340 it was already a branch parish.

In the High Middle Ages, the district of St. Valentin comprised the following villages: St. Valentin, Landschach, Ober Danegg, Penk, Altendorf, Köttlach, Putzmannsdorf, Göttschach and Grafenbach. In addition, there were areas in the Lichtenau and on the Kienberg to Ödenkirchen, which were then called St. Valentin-Dispersed. In 1614 the parish of St. Lorenzen including St. Valentin, St. Johann and Würflach came to the Rein monastery through an exchange of Gurk. Just a few years later, in 1617, the parishes again changed pastors by swap and went from Rein to the Cistercian monastery Neukloster in Wiener Neustadt , which was merged with Stift Heiligenkreuz in 1880 , so that the parish St. Valentin is now looked after by Heiligenkreuz.

The first chapel of St. Valentin was a rectangular hall building with a drawn-in, transversely rectangular or longitudinally rectangular choir with a straight end, as has been determined by archaeological research. This building was a "unit type" of the area, but especially the parish of St. Lorenzen, where it can be traced for St. Lorenzen itself, St. Johann and St. Valentin. Another thing they have in common is the location of the church buildings, as they are all on heights such as hills or slopes. St. Valentin is also located around 20 m above the valley floor on a slope.

In modern times there was a St. Barbara brotherhood at the parish church of St. Valentin, which also covered the costs for the restoration of the entire church from 1717 to 1726. The brotherhood also contributed 46 guilders to finance the bell, which was newly acquired in 1731/32. In 1773 a St. Barbara altar was finally erected.

During restoration work in 1911, early Gothic frescoes were also discovered in the church choir.

Population development

religion

According to the 2001 census data , 75.9% of the population are Roman Catholic and 2.8% Protestant . 4.6% are Muslims , 0.6% belong to Orthodox churches . 13.3% of the population have no religious denomination.

politics

The municipal council has 21 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ and 7 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ, 4 ÖVP, and 2 citizens' forum Grafenbach-St. Valentine.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ and 6 ÖVP.
• With the municipal elections in Lower Austria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 13 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Lower Austria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• 1993-2005 Herbert Kautz (SPÖ)
• 2006-2010 Rupert Schwarz (SPÖ)
• since 2010 Sylvia Kögler (SPÖ)

Culture and sights

Parish church of St. Valentin-Landschach

See also:  List of listed objects in Grafenbach-St. Valentine

• Catholic parish church St. Valentin-Landschach hl. Valentine

economy

In 2001 there were 56 non-agricultural workplaces, agricultural and forestry operations 46 according to the 1999 survey. According to the 2001 census, the number of people in employment at the place of residence was 1034. In 2001 the activity rate was 45.98 percent.

Sports

In terms of sport, there are three notable clubs:

The SC Grafenbach is very successful in the field of football and is 7-time defending champion in the Sparkasse Hobby League. When it comes to volleyball you can exercise to the BVC Grafenbach. The RC Grafenbach is very successful in cycling.

Personalities

• Herbert Kautz (1945–2005), politician
• Anna Posch (* 1992), actress

Web links

Commons : Grafenbach-St. Valentin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• 31811 - Grafenbach-St. Valentine. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The official spelling is specified or represented in the law on the division of the State of Lower Austria into municipalities, LGBl.No. 1030–94 of December 9, 2011 and on Statistics Austria: A look at the municipality
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ Wolfgang Haider-Berky, Ödenkirchen, in: Our home 1/2004 pp. 4–23, here p. 18
4. ↑ Topography of Lower Austria, Vol. 3, pp. 619–620
5. ↑ Haider-Berky, Ödenkirchen p. 17; Willibald Leeb, St. Valentin am Forst. Monthly newspaper of the Alterthumsvereines Wien 1912 pp. 123–129, 131–137, 142–143, here p. 124f.
6. ↑ Haider-Berky, Ödenkirchen p. 18; Leeb, St. Valentin p. 125
7. ↑ Leeb, St. Valentin pp. 127-129
8. ↑ St. Valentin-Landschach, in: Dehio. The art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube 2 ed. vom Bundesdenkmalamt (2003) pp. 2061–2063, here 2061; Leeb, St. Valentin p. 133
9. ↑ Helmut Windl, finds from the charnel house of St. Valentin-air chess, pol. District Neunkirchen. MAG 103 (1973) 61f.
10. ↑ Haider-Berky, Ödenkirchen p. 17
11. ↑ Leeb, St. Valentin p. 143
12. ↑ Leeb, St. Valentin p. 123
13. ^ Result of the local council election 1995 in Grafenbach-St. Valentine. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 30, 2000, accessed on June 20, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2000 in Grafenbach-St. Valentine. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, February 4, 2005, accessed on June 20, 2019 . 
15. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Grafenbach-St. Valentine. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, March 4, 2005, accessed on June 20, 2019 . 
16. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Grafenbach-St. Valentine. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, October 8, 2010, accessed on June 20, 2019 . 
17. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Grafenbach-St. Valentine. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, December 1, 2015, accessed on June 20, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Grafenbach-St. Valentine. Office of the Lower Austrian State Government, January 26, 2020, accessed on January 26, 2020 .