Kainbach near Graz

Kainbach near Graz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Surface:	17.81 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 6 '  N , 15 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '0 "  N , 15 ° 33' 22"  E
Height :	519  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,802 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	157 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	8010, 8044, 8047, 8063, 8301
Area code :	0316, 03133
Community code :	6 06 23
Address of the municipal administration:	Hönigtaler Strasse 2 8010 Kainbach near Graz
Website:	www.kainbach.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Matthias Hitl ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	10 2 2 1 10 2 2 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 10 GREEN : 2 SPÖ : 2 FPÖ : 1
Location of Kainbach bei Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district
Kainbach Castle
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Kainbach is a municipality in the Graz-Umgebung district with 2802 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Austrian state of Styria .

geography

Geographical location

Kainbach is about five kilometers east of Graz in the Eastern Styrian hill country .

Community structure

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

• Hönigtal (810) including bailiff, Gangl, Milchgraben, Neudörfl, Römerweg and Schillingsdorf
• Kainbach (1544) including the exterior Ragnitz and Ragnitz
• Schaftal (448) including Hollergraben, Römerweg, Schaftalberg and Schillingsdorf

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hönigthal, Kainbach and Schafthal.

Neighboring communities

Weinitzen	Eggersdorf near Graz	Eggersdorf near Graz
Graz		Eggersdorf near Graz
Graz	Hard near Graz	Laßnitzhöhe

history

On June 1, 2000, the name of the community was changed from Kainbach to Kainbach bei Graz .

Population development

Source: Statistics Austria

Culture and sights

Every two years Passion Plays take place in the Care Center Barmherzige Brüder von St. John of God instead.

See also:  List of listed objects in Kainbach bei Graz

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The track Straße (B 65) Ragnitz road (L 327) , the honey valley road (L 326) and Schilling Straße (L 368) pass through Kainbach. The south autobahn (A2) can be reached in around 5 km via the Laßnitzhöhe junction, and Weizer Strasse (B 72) is around 5 km away.

The closest train stations are the train station of the neighboring community Laßnitzhöhe and Graz main train station , around 10 km away.

The Graz Airport is about 22 km distance.

Education and Public Institutions

The community is best known for the Johannes von Gott care center of the Barmherzigen Brüder , which is located in the district of Ragnitz, and in which 600 physically and mentally handicapped people are cared for. In 2004 a sanatorium for drug addicts (WALK ABOUT) was added, which is located directly on Riesstrasse (B65).

The elementary school Hönigtal was awarded the Pedagogical Panther  1999.

The waste water of the municipality are in the water treatment plant of the city of Graz in Gössendorf cleaned and then the Mur fed.

politics

mayor

From the municipal council elections in 2000, Manfred Schöninger (ÖVP) was mayor . Matthias Hitl (ÖVP) succeeded him in this position on March 12, 2019.

The community board also includes Vice Mayor Johann Bloder (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Anna Hahn (ÖVP).

Municipal council

After the 2015 municipal council elections, the council will be composed as follows:

• 9 ÖVP ,
• 2 SPÖ ,
• 2 FPÖ ,
• 1 Green Alternative Kainbach and
• 1 Independent citizen list Kainbach bei Graz

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010
	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	761	53	9	822	58	9
SPÖ	229	16	2	262	19th	3
FPÖ	177	12	2	086	6th	1
Green alternative Kainbach	148	10	1	088	06th	1
Independent citizen list Kainbach bei Graz	130	09	1	151	11	1
voter turnout	63%			64%

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms: In green and silver, turned outwards and opposed, a lion with a knocked-out tongue and a horned panther poking flames from the throat, the lion with a pomegranate, the panther with a Teutonic cross in his fore paws; the tails of the animals twisted twice.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from October 1, 1989.

Partner municipality

Kainbach's partner municipality is Băutar in Transylvania in Romania . The decision in principle was passed on December 27, 1989, and in 1996 the folk dance group Ciobanasul from Bautar visited Kainbach.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Josef Plesch († 2018), Mayor of Kainbach near Graz 1984–2000

Personalities associated with Kainbach bei Graz

• Leopold Andres (1866–1950), general , cartographer and geodesist
• Andreas Eder von Kainbach (1576–1652)
• Karl Fischl (1871–1937), architect
• Borisav Milojkovic (1921–1998), magician

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
3. ↑ A look at the community of Kainbach near Graz (PDF; 35 kB)
4. ↑ The winners in 1999 , elternbrief.at
5. ↑ Holding Graz quoted in: Josef Riegler: Chronik der Marktgemeinde Gössendorf . 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Marktgemeinde Gössendorf 2017, pp. 163–165.
6. ↑ The time to change is important . Article dated February 20, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019.
7. ↑ community Kainbach bei Graz: Parish Council (accessed on 19 April 2015)
8. ↑ Communications from the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv 40, 1990, p. 36

Web links

Commons : Kainbach bei Graz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60623 - Kainbach near Graz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Homepage of the community of Kainbach near Graz