Hüttenberg (Carinthia)

market community Huettenberg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Sankt Veit an der Glan
License plate :	SV
Surface:	134.48 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 56 '  N , 14 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 56 '23 "  N , 14 ° 32' 55"  E
Height :	786  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,366 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	10 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9375
Area code :	0 42 63
Community code :	2 05 11
Address of the municipal administration:	Reiftanzplatz 1 9375 Hüttenberg
Website:	www.huettenberg.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Ofner ( FPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members)	9 FPÖ , 6 SPÖ 9 6th 9 6th  A total of 15 seats FPÖ : 9 SPÖ : 6
Location of Hüttenberg in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district
NW view of the market town of Hüttenberg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hüttenberg is a market town with 1,366 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district in Carinthia , Austria .

The place has been known since ancient times for its ore mountain , from which a large part of the so-called Noric iron came. The iron smelting was stopped at the beginning of the 20th century for economic reasons.

geography

The municipality includes the upper Görtschitztal on the southern foothills of the Seetal Alps . In the north it borders on Styria , neighboring communities are Reichenfels , Bad St. Leonhard and Wolfsberg in the east, Klein Sankt Paul in the south and Guttaring and Friesach in the west.

Community structure

The community is divided into seven cadastral communities (Unterwald, Hinterberg, Knappenberg, Lölling , Sankt Johann am Pressen , Sankt Martin am Silberberg , Zosen). The municipality includes the following 21 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Heinrich Harrer Museum as seen from the Lingkor

Knappenberg

Ruins of the blast furnaces in the booklet

Pilgrimage Church of Maria Waitschach

• St. Andrew's Cross (2)
• Gobertal (4)
• Gossen (104)
• Issue (10)
• Hinterberg (0)
• Huettenberg (347)
• Huettenberg Land (9)
• Jouschitzen (4)
• Knappenberg (214)
• Lichtegg (28)
• Lölling Graben (157)
• Lölling shady side (5)
• Lölling sunny side (126)
• Obersemlach (12)
• Semlach (14)
• St. Johann am Pressen (109)
• St. Martin am Silberberg (76)
• Stranach (17)
• Unterwald (60)
• Waitschach (6)
• Zosen (62)

history

In today's municipal area, the "noric iron" ( ferrum noricum ), valued for its quality, has been mined since pre-Roman times . Hüttenberg, first mentioned in a document in 1266, had been a market since at least the second half of the 14th century (first referred to as such in 1367). The place under the rule of the Salzburg archbishop was 1492 by Emperor Friedrich III. awarded a market coat of arms.

Hüttenberg was constituted as a political municipality in 1850, and in 1865 the local community of St. Martin am Silberberg was attached to it, which was made independent again in 1922/24. During the Carinthian municipal structural reform of 1973, the large municipality of Hüttenberg was created in its current size through the incorporation of St. Johann am Pressen, St. Martin am Silberberg and part of Lölling.

At the beginning of the 19th century, four large mining companies had emerged: the Rauscher company and the Dickmann, Egger and Christallnig trade companies. These four trades merged in 1869 to form the “Hüttenberger Eisenwerk-Gesellschaft” as a stock corporation.

The blast furnaces in the booklet were shut down in 1901 and 1908, as the location could no longer keep up with the more favored Upper Styria and its richer ore deposits and lignite deposits. The later university professor Heinz Meixner worked as a company mineralogist in the mining management of the existing mine. Since the closure of the mining operation in 1978, which reached its peak in World War II , there has been economic decline, population loss and an accompanying aging population. Among other things, the migration of almost all long-established businesses, the closure of the train station and the abandonment of the track.

As part of the Carinthian State Exhibition in 1995 under the motto Grubenhunt & Ofensau , the townscape was extensively revitalized.

population

Population development

The population decline at the beginning of the 20th century coincided with the closure of the blast furnaces. The decrease in the number of inhabitants at the end of the 20th century is reflected in many rural communities that are not close to a city, but is particularly pronounced in Hüttenberg. In addition to a small negative birth balance, there is a strongly negative migration balance .

Citizenship, Religion

According to the 2001 census, Hüttenberg has 1,804 inhabitants, 98.3% of whom are Austrian citizens. 90.6% of the population profess the Roman Catholic and 2.7% the Evangelical Church, 5.7% are without religious beliefs.

Culture and sights

Hüttenberg offers many historical points of contact. Special features include the Heinrich Harrer Museum , the historic blast furnaces in the Heft district and a show mine in the higher-lying Knappenberg. The area around Hüttenberg is one of the most famous mineral deposits in the world. A mineral, Löllingite , is named after the town of Lölling in the municipality of Hüttenberg. The pilgrimage church of Maria Waitschach is located high above Hüttenberg .

The Hüttenberg mountain chapel is over 300 years old and is the oldest chapel in Carinthia and an important cultural institution in the area.

Buildings

• Parish church Hüttenberg , Parish church St. Nikolaus in Hüttenberg, first mentioned in a document in 1425, late Gothic building, renovated several times, especially after fires in the 18th and 19th centuries
• Parish church Lölling
• Barbarasiedlung (Knappenberg)
• Süßenstein Castle
• Lingkor , a Tibetan pilgrimage route

See also:  List of listed objects in Hüttenberg (Carinthia)

Museums

Mining museum in Knappenberg

• Heinrich Harrer Museum
• Helga Riedel doll museum at Reiftanzplatz
• Knappenberg show mine , mining museum and mineral show
• Mine Railway Museum Knappenberg
• Open-air museum booklet
• Blacksmithing and Locksmith Museum Lölling

Natural monuments

• Hörfeld Moor

Regular events

• Hüttenberger Reiftanz , a traditional squire dance that is performed every three years.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

• 9 FPÖ
• 6 SPÖ

The directly elected mayor has been Josef Ofner (FPÖ, previously BZÖ) since the municipal council election in 2009 .

coat of arms

The market Hüttenberg was on June 20, 1492 by Emperor Friedrich III. awarded a coat of arms. The coat of arms was awarded at the time of the occupation of Salzburg possessions by imperial troops between 1481 and 1494 during the “Hungarian War”; In 1489 the fortified Hüttenberg was successfully defended against Hungarian troops. Perhaps on this occasion, Friedrich gave the market the coat of arms, which was followed by King Maximilian 's confirmation of privileges and coat of arms in 1493 . The imperial claim to the Salzburg mining area and the defense against the Hungarians make the interpretation as a "talking" coat of arms ("Hüt´ den Berg") plausible.

The use of the coat of arms and flag was confirmed to the market community by certification or re-award in 1971 and 1973, with the blazon of 1492 being used for the coat of arms .

The official blazon of the coat of arms reads: “ In a black shield an iron spade rock of natural color, which is completely surrounded by a naturally colored battlement wall; In the middle part of a tinned gate tower with a closed golden gate grows a red-clad man with blond hair who strikes with a bare sword. "

The flag is black-yellow-red with an incorporated coat of arms.

Personalities

Monument by Friedrich Münichsdorfer in the town center

Sons and daughters of the church

• Paula Wallisch (1893–1986), politician and resistance fighter
• Jean Egger (1897–1934), painter
• Dolores Viesèr (1904–2002), writer and storyteller
• Hans Leb (1909–1961), poet, painter, graphic artist, architect by profession, born in the district of Knappenberg
• Heinrich Harrer (1912–2006), explorer, born in the Knappenberg district
• Johannes Gradenegger (1932–2009), politician (SPÖ)

Personalities associated with the community

• Friedrich Münichsdorfer (1828–1874), mountain manager and historian

literature

• Friedrich Münichsdorfer: History of the Hüttenberger ore mountain . 1870
• Provincial Museum for Carinthia (publisher): 2500 years of iron from Hüttenberg - a monograph on mining history , Klagenfurt 1981
• Friedrich H. Ucik, Gerhard Niedermayr: Hüttenberg in Carinthia . 1991
• Hans-Jörg Köstler: The ironworks in Heft near Hüttenberg (Carinthia) . Styria, 1994
• Pit hunt and furnace pig . Exhibition catalog for the state exhibition, 1995
• Evelin Pirker, Dietmar Wanko: Die Norische Region , pp. 8–31, Styria, 1995, ISBN 3-222-12349-7

Web links

Commons : Hüttenberg (Kärnten)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Hüttenberg in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Market town of Hüttenberg

• 20511 - Hüttenberg (Carinthia). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Hüttenberg, population development. Retrieved February 14, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
4. ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2016 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. 
5. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 142.