Hartl (Styria)

Hartl
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate :	HF (from 1.7.2013; old: HB)
Surface:	33.82 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 10 '  N , 15 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 10 '20 "  N , 15 ° 54' 42"  E
Height :	430  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,106 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8224, 8265, 8272
Area code :	03334, 03176
Community code :	6 22 70
Address of the municipal administration:	Hartl 185 8224 Hartl
Website:	www.hartl.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Hermann Grassl ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	14th 1 14th 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 14 FPÖ : 0 SPÖ : 1
Location of Hartl in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pilgrimage church in Auffen

Interior of the pilgrimage church

Hartl is a municipality with 2106 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria ( Austria ). Since 2015 it has been merged with the communities of Großhart and Tiefenbach near Kaindorf as part of the Styrian community structural reform , the new community continues to use the name "Hartl".

geography

Geographical location

Hartl is located in the east Styrian hill country approx. 12 km south of the district capital Hartberg and approx. 35 km east of the provincial capital Graz . The municipality is traversed by the Nörningbach in the valley of the same name, which flows into the Pöllauer Safen near Sebersdorf and which drains the municipality with its tributaries.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following five localities or cadastral communities of the same name (residents: as of January 1, 2020; area: as of January 1, 2015):

• Großhart (512 Ew.) KG Hart (758.71 ha)
• Hartl (779 Ew., 1,474.05 ha) with Frauenhofen, Frauenhofengraben, Gfangen, Hochstadl, Kundegraben, Langstrasse, Nörning, Rohrgg and Weixelberg
• Neusiedl (128 Ew., 305.97 ha)
• Obertiefenbach (454 inhabitants, 403.81 ha)
• Untertiefenbach (233 Ew., 439.46 ha)

Neighboring communities

Stubenberg	Pöllau	Kaindorf
Feistritztal		Ebersdorf
Grosssteinbach		Bad Waltersdorf

Population development

politics

mayor

For mayor in the inaugural meeting of the Municipal Council on April 20, 2015 Hermann Grassl (ÖVP) has been selected. Grassl became mayor of Hartl on December 22, 1986 and held this position until December 31, 2015. After the municipalities were merged, he was appointed government commissioner . At the time of the election, at the age of 26, he was Austria's youngest mayor. Vice Mayor is Hans-Peter Spindler (ÖVP).

The community board also includes the deputy mayor Josef Radl (ÖVP / Großhart) and the community treasurer Anton Peheim (ÖVP / Tiefenbach), which means that the two former communities are also represented on the board.

Municipal council

The parish council was expanded from 9 to 15 members through the parish merger. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council elections , this consists of mandataries from the following parties:

11

1

3

11 1 3 

A total of 15 seats

• ÖVP : 11
• SPÖ : 1
• FPÖ : 3

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010
	Large community			Hartl			Great hard			Tiefenbach
	Voice	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	1043	71	11	597	42	9	349	81	8th	349	70	6th
SPÖ	0151	10	01	049	08th	0	082	19th	1	150	30th	3
FPÖ	0274	19th	03	not running
Eligible voters	1,789			690			526			578
voter turnout	84%			96%			83%			88%

Political party	2005			2000			1995			1990
	Hartl
	Voice	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	568	92	9	497	92	9	516	92	9	500	94	9
SPÖ	052	08th	0	042	08th	0	042	08th	0	033	06th	0
Eligible voters	675			618
voter turnout	95%			94%			97%			99.8%

Regional policy

The community belongs to the LEADER region of East Styria and has been part of the Kaindorf ecoregion since 2007 .

On November 20, 2011, the eligible voters of the communities of Dienersdorf , Ebersdorf , Großhart , Hartl, Hofkirchen bei Hartberg , Kaindorf and Tiefenbach bei Kaindorf voted on whether these seven communities should be merged into one larger community as part of the community structural reform (implemented in 2015) . With a total turnout of 65.66%, 3351 valid votes were counted. Of these, only 436 voters (13%) voted for a merger of the municipalities, while 2915 voters (87%) voted against a merger. This clearly rejected the plans of the Styrian state government .

coat of arms

Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In green and silver a double- bar inner board set opposite each other with needled pine cones ."

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

As a result of the amalgamation of the municipalities, the municipal coat of arms - like those of Großhart and Tiefenbach - is no longer valid since January 1st, 2015. This must be re-awarded by the Styrian state government.

Local chapel in Oberiefenbach

Front of the Angel Chapel in Hartl

Kneipp tower, Auffen

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Hartl is away from the main roads. The south autobahn A2 from Vienna to Graz is about eight kilometers away and can be reached via the Sebersdorf / Bad Waltersdorf junction (126). On the northern outskirts of the municipality, Wechsel Straße B 54 runs from Hartberg to Gleisdorf . It is about seven kilometers from the center of the municipality.

Hartl has no rail connection. The nearest train station is around eight kilometers away in Bad Waltersdorf and offers access to the Thermenbahn with two-hour regional train connections to Vienna and Fehring .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Hartl

The Angel Chapel in Hartl was built in 2004 and 2005 and consecrated on October 9, 2005. The chapel, which in its architecture is reminiscent of the pilgrimage church of Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp by Le Corbusier in France, quickly became the spiritual center of the community.

Web links

Commons : Hartl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62270 - Hartl. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Community website
• Entry on Hartl in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local council election 2020 - results Hartl. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
2. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 31, 2013 about the union of the communities Großhart, Hartl and Tiefenbach near Kaindorf, all political district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 133, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . S. 635, in the version of the change (name "Großhartl" in the future municipality name replaced by "Hartl") by the announcement of the Styrian state government of March 27, 2014 , with which the announcement about the union of the communities Großhart, Hartl and Tiefenbach at Kaindorf, all Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district is changed. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of April 11, 2014. No. 44. S. 1.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
5. ↑ ^{a b} community Hartl: Parish Council (accessed on 22 May 2015)
6. ↑ Common good in focus - Hermann Grassl has been mayor of Hartl for exactly 20 years. ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Wiener Zeitung : A total of 87 percent of the Eastern Styrian communities surveyed were against merger , November 20, 2011. ( Memento of November 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Communications from the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv 40, 1990, p. 35
9. ↑ Website of the Hartl community , accessed on February 10, 2020.