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| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Carinthia | |
| Political District : | Völkermarkt | |
| License plate : | VK | |
| Surface: | 74.86 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 42 ' N , 14 ° 44' E | |
| Height : | 484 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 3,428 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 46 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 9112 | |
| Area code : | 0 42 33 | |
| Community code : | 2 08 08 | |
| NUTS region | AT213 | |
| UN / LOCODE | AT GRI | |
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Handles 5 9112 handles |
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| Mayor : | Josef Müller ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (23 members) |
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Griffen ( Slovenian Grebinj ) is a market town with 3428 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Völkermarkt district in Carinthia in Austria .
geography
Geographical location
The community is located in the Jauntal between the Klagenfurt Basin and the Lavant Valley .
Community structure
Griffen is divided into nine cadastral communities (the Slovenian counterparts after Zdovc in brackets): Griffnerthal, Großenegg (Tolsti Vrh), Haberberg (Gabrje), Kaunz (Homec), Kleindörfl (Mala vas), Pustritz (Pustrica), St. Kollmann (Šentkolman ), Wölfnitz (Golovica), Wriesen (Brezje).
The municipal area comprises 35 localities (in brackets the Slovenian equivalents according to Zdovc and the number of inhabitants as of January 1, 2020):
- Altenmarkt (Stara vas) (235)
- Enzelsdorf (Encelna vas) (192)
- Erlach (Olše) (108)
- Gariusch (Gorjuše) (33)
- Gletschach (Kleče) (49)
- Griffen (Grebinj) (792)
- Griffner community (Grebinjska Gmajna) (119)
- Großenegg (Tolsti Vrh) (52)
- Slides (Gruča) (34)
- Haberberg (Gabrje) (84) including Wriesnig
- Kaunz (Homec) (111)
- Kleindörfl (Mala vas) (31)
- Klosterberg (Kloštrske Gore) (3)
- Langegg (Dolga Brda) (46)
- Lichtenwald (15)
- Limberg (Limberk) (19)
- Lind (Lipa, Šmatija) (97) with a stonemason
- Upper municipality (Zgornja Gmajna) (0)
- Poppendorf (Popendorf) (148)
- Pustritz (Pustrica) (201)
- Rakounig (Rakovnik) (200)
- Intoxication (Ravež) (79)
- Salt Mountain (Žavška Gora, Na Žalcu) (10)
- St. Kollmann (Šentkolman) (93)
- St. Leonhard an der Saualpe (Šentlenart) (14)
- Schloßberg (degree) (149)
- Griffen Abbey (Grebinjski Klošter) (5)
- Tschrietes (Čretež) (22)
- Untergrafenbach (Spodnja Kneža) (14)
- Untergreutschach (Spodnje Krčanje) (120)
- Unterrain (Breg) (50)
- Wallersberg (Vašinje) (201)
- Wallersdorf (37)
- Wolfnitz (Golovica) (32)
- Wriesen (Brezje) (33)
history
The market town of Griffen is one of the oldest settlement areas in Carinthia. Archaeological finds from the Griffen stalactite cave , below the castle hill of Griffen, show that people lived here more than 20,000 years ago.
From the end of the 6th century there was an immigration of Slavs to the area . Since the establishment of the Carantan state in the 7th century, the area around Griffen has been closely linked to Slovenian cultural history. The Slovenian historical dialect spoken in the area is ascribed to the Jauntal dialect (Slov. Podjunščina ).
The oldest known documentary mention of the village as "Criuina" comes from the year 822, when property there was transferred to the Innichen monastery . The settlement was built around the now dilapidated Griffen Castle , which was built by the Bamberg bishops around 1100 and has been expanded again and again since then. It secured the important transition from the Klagenfurt Basin over the Griffnerberg to the Lavant Valley . Griffen was expressly mentioned as a market for the first time in 1237 and belonged to the Bamberg Monastery from 1007 to 1759 .
As a political municipality, Griffen was founded in 1850 and expanded in 1858 by Haberberg and Kaunz, between 1869 and 1876 the neighboring municipality of Ruden also belonged to the municipality. During the community reform in 1973, the cadastral communities of Wölfnitz and Pustritz were incorporated.
The interwar period was like in the whole of southern Carinthia - alongside general social tensions and social disintegration - especially characterized by ethnic intolerance exclusivist territorial claims history. After 60,000 Slovenes had already been deported from the occupied Slovenian / Yugoslavian Lower Styria after the Nazi occupation in 1941, Slovenes from Carinthia were also deported to the Griffener area as planned in April 1942, which subsequently led to organized armed resistance, especially on the Saualpe , which contributed significantly to the military liberation from the reign of terror and to the rebuilding of Austria. The writer Peter Handke , who himself comes from Altenmarkt / Stara vas near Griffen and is the son of a Carinthian Slovenian mother and a German Wehrmacht soldier, gives many testimonies in his work about the existential questions that arise from this intellectual environment.
At the end of the Second World War, a stalactite cave ( Griffen stalactite cave ) was discovered in the castle hill , which was opened to the general public in 1956. In addition to fossil animal bones, Stone Age tools have also been found here, which show that the Neanderthals sought refuge in the cave 20,000 - 100,000 years ago.
The Premonstratensian Monastery of Griffen, founded in 1236 and closed in 1786, is located away from the village.
population
According to the 2001 census, the market town of Griffen has 3,677 inhabitants, 96.4% of whom are Austrian and 1.6% Bosnian citizens. 95.0% of the population indicate German as the colloquial language, 1.3% Slovenian.
94.9% of the community population profess to the Roman Catholic Church , 1.0% each to the Protestant Church and Islam , 1.7% are without religious belief.
The old parish church / Stara farna cerkev in Griffen monastery and its subsidiary churches Gletschach / Kleče and Wallersberg / Vašinje are run in two languages, German-Slovenian, in Griffen, which is subordinate to the Völkermarkt deanery .
Attractions
Cadastral municipality Griffnerthal:
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Griffen castle ruins : Griffen castle was sold to Max Thaddäus Graf Egger in 1759, then passed to the barons of Helldorff and finally in 1937 into the possession of the Leitgeb family in Kühnsdorf . After the Second World War, the Leitgeb family sympathetically secured the greater part of the walls and let the forest in the castle area be cut. Since then, the remains of this castle, which is comparable in size to Strasbourg and Landskron, have stood out fantastically into the landscape. At the beginning of 2000, the castle ruins including the stalactite cave inside the castle hill became the property of the market town of Griffen.
The ruins on the Schlossberg could no longer be seen from the valley. Under strict conditions of the Federal Monuments Office and the nature conservation authority, development, protection and wall renovation work was carried out in 2000 and 2001. By 2004 Griffner citizens, associations and companies had volunteered over 4,500 hours. In 2002 and 2004 a new footpath was created, the restaurant "Schlossbergschänke" opened in the west tower, the lighting of the castle hill was installed, an event stage was built and an exhibition room was built. - Catholic parish church hll. Peter and Paul
- Griffen pen , former Premonstratensian pen
- Catholic branch church hl. Thomas: in the cadastral community of Großenegg
- Catholic branch church hl. Nikolaus am Windischen Weinberg: in the cadastral community of Haberberg
- Catholic parish church hl. Martin with fortified cemetery and Karner and vicarage: in the Kaunz cadastral parish
- Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary and cemetery and rectory: in the Pustritz cadastral community
Cadastral parish St. Kollmann:
- Catholic branch church hl. Matthew
- Catholic branch church hl. Koloman
- Ehr (e) negg castle with gardens
Cadastral municipality of Wölfnitz:
- Catholic parish church hl. Michael in Wölfnitz an der Saualpe
- Filial church St. Leonhard an der Saualpe
- Catholic branch church hl. Margaretha and cemetery
Natural monuments
- Stalactite cave Griffen : The Griffner stalactite cave in the Burgberg has been considered the "most colorful" show cave in Austria since it was opened for tourism in 1956 due to its splendor of colors. During excavations in the cave, scientists discovered the bones of Ice Age animals and the oldest Stone Age traces (approx. 40,000 BC) of human settlement in Carinthia.
Culture
- Peter Handke permanent exhibition in Griffen Abbey, which was redesigned in 2016 by Katharina Pektor.
- In the 1990s, the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser's plans to redesign the main square in his style caused a sensation, but they were not implemented for cost reasons.
- Traditional costume band Markt Griffen
- mixed choir handles
- various village communities and volunteer fire brigades in Greutschach-Kaunz, Griffen, Pustritz, Langegg and Enzelsdorf
- Asylum seekers 'home on the Saualm : The village of Wölfnitz housed the controversial and controversial asylum seekers' home on the Saualm.
nature
- Granitztaler Mostwanderweg: Starting from Sankt Martin im Granitztal (market town of Sankt Paul im Lavanttal ) one of the three variants of this path leads over the Grutschen. Every year on May 1st, the Granitztal flower hike is organized.
- Weiberwinkel on the Grutschen: The Griffen district of Grutschen is located on a southern branch of the Saualpe , between the Granitztal in the east and the Wöfnitzbach in the west. The Weißenegger Berg rises further to the south . The following legend is told in this forest clearing: “Many years ago, two girls went home from dancing on the night from Shrove Tuesday to Ash Wednesday. One was happy and sang, the other was thoughtful and prayed. When the two parted ways, a terrifying fellow was already waiting for the singing girl. The highwayman attacked the unsuspecting creature, and after a brief resistance, it died that night. Later it was learned that the attack was carried out because of a spurned love. For a long time one saw traces of this incident. But other raids also took place here. For example, the farmer J. Baumgartner, commonly known as Themel, was attacked here around 1900. His dog saved his life. ”Today there is a forest chapel that was built in 2001 by the farmer and bricklayer Gerhard Karisch.
politics
City council and mayor
The municipal council consists of 23 members and has been composed of mandates from the following parties since the 2015 municipal council election :
The directly elected mayor is Josef Müller (ÖVP).
coat of arms
The coat of arms of Griffen shows "In gold a black, bloody cut off griffin's claw." The use of a market seal in Griffen has been handed down since 1592, without any award or confirmation being provable. Due to the similarity with the coat of arms of Villach , one assumption about the origin of the motif is that the Bamberg bishops sought to found the city after founding the Griffen monastery in the 13th century; the Premonstratensian monastery, which existed from 1236, had a griffin in the coat of arms. The Greifenklaue can also be interpreted as an allusion to the place name ( Greif means grife in Middle High German ), even if its actual origin has other roots and goes back to a pre-Slavic name for a river mouth.
The coat of arms was confirmed to the community on November 20, 1969 and at the same time a flag was awarded, which shows the colors black-yellow-red with an incorporated coat of arms.
Personalities
- Siegfried Josef Bauer (* 1930) space researcher at the University of Graz
- Hans Widrich (* 1936), Press Officer of the Salzburg Festival
- Ingvild Birkhan (* 1940), philosopher and women's researcher
- Gebhard Arbeiter (1944–2015) trade unionist, federal councilor and member of the Carinthian state parliament
- Peter Handke (* 1942), writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature 2019, born in Altenmarkt
- Klaus Graf (* 1958), film producer
Web links
- Market town of Griffen
- 20808 - handles. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Griffen Castle , in Carinthia No. 3 from January 15, 1831
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Paul Zdovc: Slovenska krajevna imena na avstrijskem Koroškem, razširjena izdaja. The Slovenian place names in Carinthia , Ljubljana 2010.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 60-61, No. 85 .
- ↑ See list of parishes in the deanery Völkermarkt / Velikovec on Wikipedia
- ↑ Peter Handke permanent exhibition in Stift Griffen. Retrieved July 28, 2020 (Austrian German).
- ↑ the Carinthian regional government ( 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.
- ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from November 18, 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.
