Heiligenkreuz am Waasen
market community Heiligenkreuz am Waasen
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Basic data | ||
Country: | Austria | |
State : | Styria | |
Political District : | Leibnitz | |
License plate : | LB | |
Surface: | 26.37 km² | |
Coordinates : | 46 ° 57 ' N , 15 ° 35' E | |
Height : | 329 m above sea level A. | |
Residents : | 2,825 (January 1, 2020) | |
Postcodes : | 8081, 8072, 8412 | |
Area code : | 03134, 03135 | |
Community code : | 6 10 52 | |
NUTS region | AT225 | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Marktplatz 2 8081 Heiligenkreuz am Waasen |
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politics | ||
Mayor : | Franz Platzer ( ÖVP ) | |
Municipal Council : (2015) (15 members) |
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Location of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen in the Leibnitz district | ||
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria |
The market town of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen is located between eastern and southern Styria about 20 km south of Graz in the Leibnitz district and has 2825 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).
Since January 1, 2015, it has been merged with the municipality of Sankt Ulrich am Waasen as part of the structural reform of the municipality in Styria , the new municipality continues to use the name “Heiligenkreuz am Waasen”.
geography
Geographical location
The community is located on the western edge of the Stiefingtal in the north of the Leibnitz district.
Community structure
The municipality includes the following four localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Felgitsch (532)
- Heiligenkreuz am Waasen (1474)
- Ortisei am Waasen (793)
- Wutschdorf (26)
The municipality consists of the following cadastral communities and other districts (area 2016):
- Felgitsch (798.12 ha), with Götzau, Götzauegg, Großfelgitsch, Großfelgitschberg, Kleinfelgitsch and Kleinfelgitschberg
- Heiligenkreuz am Waasen (741.59 ha), with Bärndorf, Handlgraben, Mirsdorf, Prosdorf, Prosdorfberg and Steinegg
- St. Ulrich am Waasen (637.18 ha), with Aschnull, Farching, Glaueregg, Grabenberg, Turning, Turningberg and Turningtal
- Wutschdorf (455.45 ha), with Krottendorf, Lichtenwiesen, Rosental and Tropbach
Community consolidation
In 1963 the communities of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen and Felgitsch were merged. In 2015 the communities of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen and St. Ulrich am Waasen were merged.
history
Heiligenkreuz was first mentioned in 1265 in the princely land register of Styria. A separate parish can be traced as early as 1271.
In 1849, as a result of the revolution of 1848, the municipal self-government was formed. In 1984 the community was raised to the market.
On December 31, 2015, a fire that was discovered at 1.30 p.m. and extinguished by 8 p.m. caused the local wood chip heating power plant to fail. It supplies around 500–600 citizens and some public institutions. As early as the following New Year's Day at 3:00 am, an oil boiler that had been procured as a replacement was put into operation for an expected 4–6 weeks.
Population development
Culture and sights
Parish church
The parish church was built in four phases. Today's eastern side chapel is a late Gothic component and has a keystone indicating the year 1547 as the year of construction. Nothing remains of the baroque nave with two bays and two side chapels from 1684. The builder Johann Georg Stengg built the four- story tower in 1746. From 1891 to 1894, the church was extensively rebuilt in the neo-renaissance style by Robert Mikovics . The old baroque nave was torn down and replaced by one with five bays. In addition, galleries, groin vaults and wall pillars were built. The one-bay choir has a straight end.
The cartilage-style high altar from the 17th century comes from Maribor, now Slovenia, and was installed in 1894. In the Gothic chapel there is a baptismal font with the figure of St. John Nepomuk . The rest of the furnishings come from the time of the renovation. The bell was cast by Franz Anton Weyer in 1721. Next to the parish church is the three-storey rectory, which was occupied in 1790.
Calvary Church
The Kalvarienbergkirche is dedicated to the Sorrowful Mother . It is a single-aisled building with a single-tower facade and was built by Johann Georg Stengg in 1756. The interior has an almost square floor plan, a flat altar niche and a curved singing gallery. At the altar there is a lamentation group with angels from 1762. Behind it, angels with the arms of Christ , God the Father and a view of Jerusalem are depicted on a fresco . The pulpit and the image of the Immaculate Conception date from the third quarter of the 18th century.
Economy and Infrastructure
Tourism association
Together with Allerheiligen bei Wildon, St. Georgen an der Stiefing, Ragnitz, Pirching am Traubenberg and Empersdorf, the community forms the “Stiefingtal” tourist association. Its seat is in Heiligenkreuz am Waasen.
The TVB organizes the “Stiefingtaler Schmankerltage” every Wednesday in July and August and has its own shopping voucher, “Stiefingtaler”, which can be used to pay in the region.
leisure
Many hiking trails lead from the village (325 m above sea level) into the near and far surroundings on the hills (up to 484 m), from which you can see far into the east and south of Styria (Pirchingberg).
The place is a summer tourist destination and has facilities such as private rooms, inns, farm holidays, tennis courts, bowling alley, sports field, riding facilities, children's playground, public library, petrol stations, car repair shops, shops, hairdresser, Raiffeisenkasse, Sparkasse, post office, etc .; Catholic Church, pharmacy, doctors in town. There is also a public bathing pond with an attached wine tavern (Lipizzaner Franzl).
politics
mayor
Franz Platzer (ÖVP) was elected mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council in April 2015 . Platzer was elected mayor of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen for the first time in 1997 and held this position until December 31, 2014. As the previously independent municipality of Sankt Ulrich am Waasen was incorporated as a result of the Styrian municipal reform, the mayor lost his function. From January 1, 2015 until the new mayor was elected, Platzer continued to run the merged municipality as government commissioner .
From 2015 to 2020, the community board also included the deputy mayor Rudolf Frühwirth (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Norbert Felgitscher (ÖVP). After the 2020 municipal council elections, Thomas Weinzerl (ÖVP) was elected Vice Mayor and Gerhard Hirschmann (FPÖ) was elected municipal treasurer at the constituent meeting on July 23, 2020 .
Chronicle of the mayors of Heiligenkreuz
1848-1861 | Joseph Uhl |
1861-1874 | Johann Putz |
1874-1881 | Schemmerl |
1881-1886 | Johann Putz |
around 1886 | Karl Mayer |
1902 | Josef Sitzwohl |
1902-1908 | Felix Winkler |
1908-1916 | Josef Weinzerl |
around 1916 | Johann Zingauer |
1919 | Vincent Merry |
1919-1945 | Rudolf Platzer |
1945–1968 | Leonhard Weinzerl |
1968-1992 | Johann Weinzerl |
1992-1997 | Franz Bammer |
since 1997 | Franz Platzer |
Municipal council
The municipal council consists of 15 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:
Political party | 2015 | 2010 | 2005 | 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
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Fusion community |
Holy Cross |
Ortisei | Holy Cross |
Ortisei | Holy Cross |
Ortisei | |||||||||||||||
be right | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | |
ÖVP | 1067 | 68 | 11 | 707 | 63 | 10 | 157 | 29 | 3 | 612 | 57 | 9 | 277 | 56 | 5 | 693 | 68 | 11 | 142 | 30th | 3 |
SPÖ | 238 | 15th | 2 | 220 | 19th | 3 | 194 | 36 | 3 | 284 | 27 | 4th | 221 | 44 | 4th | 139 | 14th | 2 | 252 | 54 | 5 |
FPÖ | 271 | 17th | 2 | 119 | 11 | 1 | not running | 69 | 6th | 1 | not running | 97 | 10 | 1 | 73 | 16 | 1 | ||||
Non-partisan list | not running | 85 | 8th | 1 | not running | 100 | 9 | 1 | not running | 91 | 9 | 1 | not running | ||||||||
Citizen List Kickmaier | not running | not running | 187 | 35 | 3 | not running | not running | not running | not running | ||||||||||||
Eligible voters | 2,295 | 1,484 | 633 | 1,355 | 612 | 1,287 | 570 | ||||||||||||||
voter turnout | 70% | 77% | 86% | 79% | 84% | 81% | 84% |
coat of arms
Heiligenkreuz am Waasen was granted the right to use a municipal coat of arms in 1959 by the Styrian state government .
Ortisei was granted the right to use the municipal coat of arms with effect from November 1, 1961. The coat of arms description read:
- "In the divided shield, the upper field of silver and black is diagonally square, the lower blue field is covered with a silver fish."
Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, both coats of arms lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015.
The reassignment to the merged community took effect on June 15, 2016.
The (changed) blazon reads:
- "In a green shield a silver diagonal right-hand bar, accompanied at the back by a golden cross with angular rays, at the front by a slanted golden ear."
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- Frieder Konrad († 2020), headmaster i. R.
Personalities associated with the community
- David Miesmer (* 1983), actor and speaker
- Gerhard Hirschmann (* 1993), politician
literature
- DEHIO Styria (excluding Graz). Edited by Kurt Woisetschläger and Peter Krenn. Schroll, Vienna 1982.
Web links
- 61052 - Heiligenkreuz am Waasen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- www.heiligenkreuz-waasen.gv.at Website of the community
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of the Styrian state government of December 12, 2013 on the unification of the market community Heiligenkreuz am Waasen and the community Sankt Ulrich am Waasen, both political district Leibnitz. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 20, 2013. No. 173, 37th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 713.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
- ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
- ↑ The heating power station went up in flames , on steiermark.orf.at on December 31, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2015.
- ↑ After a fire in the heating plant, the oil stove provides warmth again , on kleinezeitung.at on January 1, 2016, accessed on January 1, 2016
- ↑ DEHIO Styria p. 173f.
- ↑ DEHIO Styria p. 174
- ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 321. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 630.
- ↑ a b Municipality of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen: Municipal Board ( Memento from March 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 10, 2015)
- ↑ Waltraud Fischer: Mayor Franz Platzer unanimously appointed for 6th term of office. August 4, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Heiligenkreuz am Waasen municipal council. In: heiligenkreuz-waasen.gv.at. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
- ^ Community of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen: History ( Memento from March 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 10, 2015
- ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 12, 1962, p. 45
- ↑ 62. Announcement of the Styrian state government of June 2, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Heiligenkreuz am Waasen (political district Leibnitz) , accessed on June 17, 2016