Grosswöllmiß

Großwöllmiß ( scattered settlement , former municipality) ; locality ; cadastral community Großwöllmiß
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Voitsberg (VO), Styria
Judicial district	Voitsberg
Pole. local community	Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg
Coordinates	47 ° 0 '54 " N , 15 ° 8' 30" E Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '54 " N , 15 ° 8' 30" E
height	610 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	186 (January 1, 2020)
Area d. KG	5.61 km²
Post Code	8580 Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg
Primaries	+ 43 / (0) 3140 (Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg)
	Statistical identification
Locality code	16205
Cadastral parish number	63317
Counting district / district	St.Martin a. Wöllmißbg. (61 621 000)
	; The farm known as carpenter weavers with the address Großwöllmiß No. 22
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Großwöllmiß is a village in western Styria and a scattered settlement and cadastral community of the municipality of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg in the Voitsberg district , Styria . The place was from 1850 to January 1952 an independent municipality which was named Großwölniß when it was founded.

Place name and geography

The part of the name -wöllmiß probably comes from the area of today's Germany and probably has the same origin as the name of the Wöllmisse plateau near Jena . The basic form of the name could be the Germanic * walmisō , from which the Old High German walm for humming up and the Middle High German walm for walmen are derived. The name originally referred to the Wöllmißbach and later transferred to the settlement. The large part of the name serves to distinguish it from the neighboring Kleinwöllmiß .

Großwöllmiß is located in the northwestern part of the municipality of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg, on the elevations between the Gößnitzbach in the north, the Teigitsch in the south and west and the Wöllmißbach in the east. In the northwest, north and northeast, the municipality of Voitsberg borders with the two cadastral communities Kowald and Arnstein and the Rotte Teigitschgraben on Großwöllmiß, with the Gößnitzbach and Teigitsch forming part of the borders. In the east, the Teigitsch forms the border to the municipality of Krottendorf-Gaisfeld with the cadastral community of Krottendorf and the market town of Ligist with the cadastral community of Unterwald . In the southeast, south and southwest is the cadastral municipality of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg of the municipality of the same name, with the Teigitsch also forming part of the border here. The cadastral municipality of Kleinwöllmiß , which also belongs to Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg, is located in the west, with the Wöllmißbach marking the border here.

In the area of the cadastral community Großwöllmiß, in addition to the village of the same name, there are also the statistically recorded individual farms Görifastl, Jauk, Schwaiger, Sonneisner, Stumpf and Tischlerweber. In the north-west of the cadastral community the Gößnitzbach flows into the Teigitsch. Landesstraße L 348, the Teigitschgrabenstraße between Gaisfeld and Kreuzberg, runs through the northern part of the cadastral community .

history

Today's Großwöllmiß was built between the 11th and 13th centuries in a high-medieval clearing area. The original settlement consisted of several individual courtyards with deserted corridors . The first documentary mention was made in 1782 as Mertner Wöllmes . Further mentions were made around 1790 as Groß Welmiß and finally in 1900 as Großwöllmiss .

The inhabitants of the place belonged to different rulers until the abolition of the manors in 1848. For example, the Office Leon Roth the reign Leon Roth and the rookie-Office of the rule of division side . The subjects owed interest to the Lordship of Greißenegg and Krems . The court grain went to the Obervoitsberg rulership . Großwöllmiß belonged to the advertising district of the Greißenegg estate.

In 1850, with the constitution of the free municipalities, the independent municipality of Großwölniß was founded. The forest on the Kogel near the Sonneisner farm burned on March 12, 1913. In a severe storm with torrential rain on September 14, 1923, fields and meadows were destroyed, as well as several roadways and bridges. On January 1, 1952, the municipality of Großwölniß was merged with the municipality of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg to form the municipality of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg.

Economy and Infrastructure

Großwöllmiß is characterized by agriculture and forestry. In 1950 there was also a clog maker in town.

Culture and sights

The remains of the defensive wall of Alt-Leonroth Castle

The carpenter's chapel

In the area of the cadastral community Großwöllmiß there is a listed building with the castle ruins Alt-Leonroth . This castle was built in the 12th century on the road leading through the Teigitschklamm to the Pack and was left to decay from the 15th century. The ruin consists of two remains of the former defensive wall as well as the still recognizable foundations of the castle buildings.

There are also several small religious monuments in the village. For example the carpenter's weaver's chapel , also known as the parish chapel , which was built in 1856 and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary . In October of the same year a way of the cross was erected and consecrated in the chapel .

politics

Former community leaders and mayors

1852 Anton Reis
1868 & 1870 Georg Ferner
1880 & 1881 Heinrich Fuchs
1884–1894 at the latest Anton Schörig
1895–1907 Anton Jauk
1907-1919 Gustav Wancura
1919–1934 Johann Christof
1934–1938 Josef Formayer
March 13, 1938-21. March 1938 August Marek
March 21, 1938 – September 1938 Anton Kuttner
September 1938 – December 1938 Matthias Klug
December 1938 – May 1945 Josef Formayer
May 1945 – May 1946 Johann Formayer
May 1946–1951 Simon Hanus

literature

Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 82-83 .

Web links

Commons : Großwöllmiß - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 350 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 82 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 83 .
↑ Federal Monuments Office : Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF) In: www.bda.gv.at. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .
^ Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 13 .

[Topographie350-1] Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 350 .

[Topographie82-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 82 .

[Topographie83-3] A ^b ^c Walter Brunner (Ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 83 .

[BDA-4] Federal Monuments Office : Styria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. (PDF) In: www.bda.gv.at. Retrieved February 4, 2020 .

[Topographie13-5] Walter Brunner (ed.): History and topography of the Voitsberg district . tape 2 . Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv, Graz 2011, p. 13 .