Hitzendorf (Styria)

market community Heat village
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Surface:	48.88 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 2 '  N , 15 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 2 '7 "  N , 15 ° 18' 3"  E
Height :	383  m above sea level A.
Residents :	7,220 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8151, 8052, 8054, 8113, 8144, 8561
Area code :	03137
Community code :	6 06 65
Address of the municipal administration:	Hitzendorf 63 8151 Hitzendorf
Website:	hitzendorf.gv.at
politics
mayor	Andreas Spari ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (25 members)	15th 5 3 2 15th 5 3 2  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 15 SPÖ : 5 GREEN : 3 FPÖ : 2
Location of Hitzendorf in the Graz-Umgebung district
View from Rohrbach-Steinberg to the main town of Hitzendorf with the parish church .
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hitzendorf is a market town in the Graz-Umgebung district in western Styria ( Austria ) with 7220 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). On January 1, 2015, the formerly independent municipalities of Attendorf and Rohrbach-Steinberg were incorporated as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform.

geography

The Lieboch near Hitzendorf

location

The place Hitzendorf is located in the middle Liebochtal and the eastern Södingtal , about ten kilometers west of Graz . In the west, the municipality is traversed by a ridge that separates the Liebochtal from the Södingtal, while in the east another chain of hills marks the transition to the Graz Basin . The Lieboch flows through the local area of ​​Hitzendorf west of the main town. A few smaller streams flow into the Lieboch within the municipal boundaries. The highest point of the municipality is located between Liebochtal and Thaler pool Forst Kogel with a height of 621  m above sea level. A.

geology

The place was built on a terrace from masses of valley rubble deposited in the Quaternary . This terrace rises to the hills that were formed in the Young Tertiary .

Community structure

The market community of Hitzendorf has consisted of ten cadastral communities with a total of 23 villages since 2015 (area: as of December 31, 2017; population as of January 1, 2020):

• The cadastral community of Hitzendorf with an area of ​​1,374.63 hectares comprises six localities:
  • Hitzendorf (1079)
  • Höllberg (226)
  • Holzberg (204) including Höllgraben and Kürbisberg
  • Oberberg (319)
  • Neureitergg (225)
  • Niederberg (335)
• The cadastral municipality of Berndorf with an area of ​​469.31 ha comprises three localities:
  • Altenberg (123)
  • Altreiteregg (237)
  • Berndorf (447) (with district Austria )
• The cadastral municipality of Mayersdorf with an area of ​​498.06 hectares comprises two localities:
  • Doblegg (172)
  • Mayersdorf (177)
• The Michlbach cadastral community with 58.26 ha has no other villages except Michlbach (40)

Michlbach is an exclave as it is enclosed by the communities of Sankt Bartholomä and Stallhofen .

• The cadastral municipality of Pirka-Söding with 77.16 ha has no other villages except Pirka (75)

The former community Attendorf consisted of the cadastral communities Attendorf (855.18 ha); Mantscha (466.90 ha); and Schadendorfberg (242.40 ha) and comprised the following eight villages:

• Attendorf (366)
• Attendorfberg (307)
• Mantscha (540) including Wolfgang
• Muhlriegl (133)
• Riederhof (264)
• Schadendorfberg (74)
• Soedingberg (56)
• Stone (322)

The former municipality of Rohrbach-Steinberg comprised two cadastral communities or localities of the same name:

• Rohrbach (491.07 ha, 841) including Aich, Neudorf, Neudorfberg and Rochberg
• Steinberg (349.48 ha, 658) including the mayor-Kortschak-Siedlung, Neusteinberg-Premesberg, Peter Rosegger-Siedlung

Neighboring communities

The community of Hitzendorf is surrounded by nine neighboring communities, the location without taking the Michlbach exclave into account is:

Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth	Saint Bartholomew	Thal
Stallhofen district Voitsberg		Graz
Söding-Sankt Johann District Voitsberg	Dear	Seiersberg-Pirka Haselsdorf-Tobelbad

history

Hitzendorf around 1830

The area was probably settled as early as the Paleolithic , which is suggested, for example, by around 100,000 year old finds from the Dragon's Cave near Mixnitz . The first evidence of a settlement in today's municipal area is a burial mound in Altreiteregg from the time between 2400 and 1800 BC , which is attributed to the Illyrians . Chr., Ie, from the Neolithic period ,. From the Bronze Age to the Fund v of a bronze ax from the period around 1000. Known. Around 400 BC The area was conquered by the Celts and became part of the Noricum kingdom . The Noriker tribe also settled in the Hitzendorfer area, which suggests some Roman gravestones with Celtic names. Due to the large number of barrows, one can assume that the area was probably quite densely populated.

When the Cimbri and Teutons invaded Noricum in the 2nd century BC, the Noricans called on their friendly Romans for help. After the Romans in 113 BC Having lost the battle at Noreia BC , they gradually extended their border until 14 BC. BC to the Danube , so that today's Hitzendorf became part of the Roman Empire. Roman citizens settled in larger towns, which Hitzendorf probably already belonged to at that time, and built estates. The Roman immigrants, however, probably formed only a thin layer over the original, Illyrian-Celtic population.

The first written mention of Hitzendorf comes from around 1140 and is "Hizinchdorf". The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Hizo . The basic rule by Rein , the rule Eggenberg and the pin Stainz were lifted 1848th In 1850 today's political community was established.

In 1952, the neighboring municipality of Rehregg in the northwest was partially connected to Hitzendorf. In 1967 the Hitzendorf was raised to the market. The former rural social structure has changed in recent decades, many residents are now commuters to the city of Graz .

In the community and its surroundings there are a number of small, economically not mineable ore and coal deposits that belong to those of the Graz Paleozoic. They have been thoroughly examined.

Population development of the municipality (territorial status 2015)

year	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1923	1934	1939
Residents	4103	4168	4047	4055	4007	3958	4115	3851
year	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2017
Residents	4152	4268	4674	5103	5704	6374	6867	7121

Source: Statistics Austria

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Due to its proximity to Graz, Hitzendorf is well connected in terms of transport. The south autobahn A2 can be reached in around eight kilometers via the Mooskirchen junction (200). The Packer Road B70 can be reached in about five kilometers.

Hitzendorf does not have its own train station. The closest train station is Söding -Mooskirchen, about six kilometers away. There is access to the Graz-Köflach Railway in the direction of Köflach and Graz . The central station Graz is about 14 km away.

The distance to Graz Airport is about 20 km away.

The shortest route from Graz- Wetzelsdorf to Hitzendorf is via Steinberg- (Landes) Strasse L 301. This road originally ran in NE-SW direction and crossed the valley through the center and later became its own 600 m further south-east , a slightly elevated route, which enabled the slow-traffic-friendly, sidewalk-free redesign of the town center, which, together with a central parking lot, is often used car-free for street parties on weekends.

Infrastructure

There is a police station in Hitzendorf , which is subordinate to the Graz-Umgebung District Police Department. It is locally responsible for the municipalities of Thal, Sankt Bartholomä, Stiwoll and Hitzendorf, with the exception of the cadastral municipality of Mantscha, which belongs to Hitzendorf and is looked after by the police station Seiersberg-Pirka.

The effluents of the community are partially in the water treatment plant of the city of Graz in Gössendorf cleaned and then the Mur fed.

Health and social

• Doctors: In the market town of Hitzendorf, general practitioners and specialists in dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine, ophthalmology and optometry, internal medicine and neurology offer their services.
• Pharmacy: Hitzendorf has had its own pharmacy since 2005.
• Nursing home: Caritas Styria operates a nursing home in the village.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Hitzendorf

• Altenberg Castle , built at the end of the 17th century
• Reitergg Castle , built at the end of the 17th century on the ridge between Söding and Liebochtal; shown on the 8 Schilling postage stamp from 1976
• Schütting Castle in Neureiteregg, expanded into a castle at the end of the 18th century
• Tausendlust Castle , built in the 16th century

Museums

In the village of Altreiteregg is the Porsche Diesel Tractor Museum by Gerhard Lackner, the largest Porsche tractor collection in Austria with 27 restored tractors on an area of ​​approx. 400 m².

Galleries

Hitzendorf has two galleries and art studios. In the Christian Gollob gallery there are water sculptures made of stone by the artist Christian Gollob . The second gallery, Robert W. Wilfing, belongs to the painter and stainless steel artist of the same name.

church

The Hitzendorfer parish Maria zu den Drei Feichten was first documented in 1450. In 1699 a large part of the place with the church and all written records was destroyed by fire. In the 17th century, the first single-nave church was extended by two side chapels. The main altar dates from 1888 and is neo-Gothic in style. There are also two statues by Hans Brandstetter in the church .

politics

Municipal council

The area in the Josephinische Landesaufnahme , around 1790 (top left)

Since the municipal council elections in 2010, the mandate distribution has been:

• 12 ÖVP - provided the mayor and the 1st vice mayor
• 7 SPÖ - provides the 2nd Vice Mayor
• 2 Citizens list Hitzendorf with a heart (HEART)

In the new municipal council with 25 mandates, the distribution is:

• 12 ÖVP
• 9 SPÖ
• 2 FPÖ
• 1 greens
• 1 NEOS

mayor

Mayor was Simone Schmiedtbauer (ÖVP) until the end of 2014 . She was elected on June 6, 2014 as the successor to former mayor Franz Höfer.

From April 30, 2015, Simone Schmiedtbauer (ÖVP) was again mayor of the now enlarged community, 1st Vice Mayor is Günther Kumpitsch (FPÖ), 2nd Vice Mayor is Heribert Uhl (SPÖ).

In April 2019, Andreas Spari (ÖVP) succeeded Schmiedtbauer, who ran as the Styrian top candidate for the European elections in Austria 2019 and was elected to the European Parliament.

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
• 

  Attendorf

• 

  Hitzendorf
  (until 2014)

• 

  Rohrbach-Steinberg

All three predecessor communities each had a community coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015.

The municipal coat of arms was awarded by the Styrian state government with effect from September 1, 1964. Since each municipality only needs one coat of arms and the previous Hitzendorfer coat of arms showed three hills (which can be interpreted as the three old communities), the local council has unanimously decided to apply for the previous Hitzendorf municipal coat of arms as a new coat of arms from the State of Styria. The re-award took place on November 15, 2015.
The blazon reads:

"In a gold shield on a green three-mountain topped with a silver lily, three green spruces."

Town twinning

• Belvárdgyula , since 1997

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1960: Josef Krainer senior (1903–1971), Governor of Styria 1948–1971
• 1882: Josef Sohn, head of the elementary school for 34 years

Sons and daughters of Hitzendorf

• Hans Brandstetter (1854–1925), sculptor and wood carver
• Rupert Roth (1903–1978), politician of the ÖVP , member of the National Council 1949–1961
• Erwin Schwentner (* 1945), ceramic artist
• Fritz Zweigelt (1888–1964), grape breeder

Personalities associated with Hitzendorf

• Daniel Brauneis (* 1986), soccer player
• Paul Pizzera (* 1988), cabaret artist, grew up in Hitzendorf

literature

• Bruno Brandstetter: The Hitzendorf market. Local history and house book . Self-published by the municipality of Hitzendorf, 1984, DNB  881279307 .

Web links

Commons : Hitzendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60665 - Hitzendorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• hitzendorf.gv.at Website of the municipality
• Entry on Hitzendorf in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 28, 2013 about the unification of the market community Hitzendorf and the communities Attendorf and Rohrbach-Steinberg, all political district Graz-Umgebung. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 12, 2013. No. 161, 36th issue. ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 691.
2. ↑ Bruno Brandstetter: The market Hitzendorf. Local history and house book . Self-published by the municipality of Hitzendorf, 1984, p. 8-9 .
3. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2017, accessed on January 4, 2018
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ↑ Bruno Brandstetter: The market Hitzendorf. Local history and house book . Self-published by the municipality of Hitzendorf, 1984, p. 9-10 .
6. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 50 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
7. ^ Leopold Weber: The lead-zinc ore deposits of the Graz Palaeozoic and their geological framework. (= Archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute . Volume 12). Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-900312-72-9 . (PDF file; 29 MB)
8. ↑ Population development 1869–2014, Attendorf community , accessed on June 14, 2015
9. ↑ Population development 1869–2014, Hitzendorf community , accessed on June 14, 2015
10. ↑ Population development 1869–2014, Rohrbach-Steinberg community , accessed on June 14, 2015
11. ↑ Holding Graz quoted in: Josef Riegler: Chronik der Marktgemeinde Gössendorf . 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Marktgemeinde Gössendorf 2017, pp. 163–165.
12. ^ Hitzendorf community, services, doctors and pharmacies. Retrieved June 22, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Caritas Styria, Our Offers, Nursing Homes. Retrieved June 22, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Leisure tips Hitzendorf. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
15. ^ Gallery art studio. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
16. ^ History of the parish church. Retrieved September 29, 2016 . 
17. ↑ The time to change is important . Article dated February 20, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019.
18. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: Hitzendorf: Successor for mayor is certain . Article dated February 17, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019.
19. ↑ Mayoral election in Hitzendorf . Article dated April 10, 2019, accessed April 11, 2019.
20. ↑ New local chief Andreas Spari is Hitzendorf's new mayor . Article dated April 10, 2019, accessed April 11, 2019.
21. ↑ 93. Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 22, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Hitzendorf (political district Graz-Umgebung) , accessed on October 28, 2015