Hausmannstätten

market community Hausmannstätten
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Surface:	6.78 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 59 ′  N , 15 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 27 "  N , 15 ° 30 ′ 31"  E
Height :	342  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,475 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8071
Area code :	03135
Community code :	6 06 19
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktplatz 1–2 8071 Hausmannstätten
Website:	www.hausmannstaetten.at
politics
Mayor :	Werner Kirchsteiger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (21 members)	14th 3 2 1 1 14th 3 2 1 1  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 14 GREEN : 3 SPÖ : 2 FPÖ : 1 NEOS : 1
Location of Hausmannstätten in the Graz area
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hausmannstätten is a market town with 3475 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) southeast of Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district in Styria .

geography

Town center

Geographical location

Hausmannstätten is located about eight kilometers southeast of the provincial capital Graz in the eastern Styrian hill country on the eastern edge of the Mur valley .

Community structure

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

• Berndorf (355)
• Hausmannstätten (3120) including Dürnberg, Freudenegg and Judendorf

The community consists of the only cadastral community Hausmannstätten.

Neighboring communities

Raaba-Grambach	Vasoldsberg	Vasoldsberg
Gössendorf		Empersdorf
Fernitz-Mellach	Fernitz-Mellach	Empersdorf

history

The local community as an autonomous body was established in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community came to the Reichsgau Steiermark , 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Population development

politics

mayor

Mayor is Werner Kirchsteiger (ÖVP).

The community board also includes Vice Mayor Johann Lendl (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Regina Hermann (ÖVP).

Municipal council

The council is made up by the elections of 2015 as follows:

• 10 ÖVP
• 2 SPÖ
• 2 FPÖ
• 1 Green List of Hausmannstätten

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010
	be right	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	1007	63	10	1104	68	11
SPÖ	0191	12	02	0308	19th	03
FPÖ	0228	14th	02	0089	05	00
Green List Hausmannstätten	0182	11	01	0127	08th	01
voter turnout	65%			69%

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from January 1, 1967.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In a shield divided by green and gold, above three silver plowshares standing side by side, below a red lion growing out of a stone-colored battlement wall."

Since the coat of arms of the founders of the village, the knights of Hausmannstätten, who appear in documents from 1316 to 1457, has not survived, the lion coat of arms of the most important landlords of this area, the von Vasoldsberg family, has been in existence since the 15th century is extinct, included in the municipal coat of arms. This could happen all the sooner as the Vasoldsberg coat of arms was not passed on. The high-altitude castle Vasoldsberg, visible from afar, still gives the landscape a characteristic image today. The three plowshares refer to the blacksmith's workshop Fuchs, which was active in the municipality at the beginning of the 19th century, whose factory-made plows and harrows enjoyed a good reputation in Styria and far beyond.

parish

The altar

Hausmannstätten has been its own parish again since 1964. GR Josef Ament became pastor after the re-establishment. Under his leadership, the parish was one of the first parishes in Styria to have a parish council (PGR). The first PGR chairman was Josef Hubmann. In the baroque parish church of the Holy Trinity from the 15th and 17th centuries, a Gothic group of apostles has been preserved, which is a model of the life-size group of apostles in the cathedral of Wiener Neustadt .

Town twinning

• Pécsvárad , Hungary

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Hausmannstätten

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Due to its proximity to Graz, Hausmannstätten is very conveniently located. The Unterkirchbacherstraße B 73 runs through the community and provides a fast connection to Graz. The south A 2 autobahn can be reached in around five kilometers via the Puchwerk junction on the Graz-Ost autobahn slip road . The Grazer Straße B 67, which can be reached in around four kilometers, and the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9, which is accessible in around seven kilometers via the Kalsdorf junction (194), run close to the municipality .

Hausmannstätten does not have its own train station. The closest one is in Kalsdorf, around five kilometers away, and offers access to the Südbahn with hourly S-Bahn connections to Graz. The central station Graz is around 13 km from home sites. Many bus routes from Graz to the south-east run via Hausmannstätten.

The distance to Graz Airport is around nine kilometers.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Hausmannstätten bypass tunnel took place on April 27, 2005, which became necessary due to the high load (around 20,000 cars per day). Work has been underway on the final construction of the tunnel since December 2009. In the summer of 2012, the tunnel was opened for traffic.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1964: Josef Krainer (1903–1971), Governor of Styria 1948–1971
• 1978: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), Governor of Styria 1971–1980
• Josef Ament (1927–2016), pastor of Hausmannstätten (1964–1996)
• Johann Einfalt († 2019), Vice Mayor of Hausmannstätten 1990–2000

Sons and daughters of the church

• Alois Binder (1857–1933), painter
• Viktor Pratl (1896-1960), politician of the Social Democratic Party , Member of the Burgenland Landtag 1922-1923
• Wolfgang Pucher (* 1939), priest
• Bernd Melichar and Julian Melichar (* 1997) journalists for the Kleine Zeitung

Web links

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

• 60619 - Hausmannstätten. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.hausmannstaetten.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Community Hausmannstätten: Community Board , accessed on April 19, 2015
3. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 18, 1968, p. 134
4. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (July 14, 1964), p. 6.
5. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (April 19, 1978), p. 6.