Hohenthurn

Hohenthurn
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Villach-Land
License plate :	VL
Surface:	27.23 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 33 '  N , 13 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 33 '24 "  N , 13 ° 39' 33"  E
Height :	620  m above sea level A.
Residents :	872 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	32 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9613
Area code :	0 42 56
Community code :	2 07 13
Address of the municipal administration:	Draschitz 33 9613 Hohenthurn
Website:	www.hohenthurn.at
politics
Mayor :	Florian Tschinderle ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (11 members)	5 3 2 1 5 3 2 1  A total of 11 seats ÖVP : 5 SPÖ : 3 EL : 2 FPÖ : 1
Location of Hohenthurn in the Villach-Land district
Hohenthurn with the Dobratsch in the background
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hohenthurn ( Slovenian : Straja vas ) is a bilingual community with 872 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Villach-Land district in Carinthia .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Hohenthurn is located in the Lower Gail Valley and on the northern slopes of the Carnic Alps in southwest Carinthia. In the north the Gail forms the municipal boundary , in the east the Gailitz .

Community structure

Hohenthurn consists of the two cadastral communities Dreulach ( Drevlje ) and Hohenthurn ( Straja vas ) and includes the following six localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

• Achomitz ( Zahomec ) (92)
• Draschitz ( Drašče ) (193)
• Dreulach ( Drevlje ) (125)
• Göriach ( Gorje ) (98)
• Hohenthurn ( Straja vas ) (204)
• Stossau ( Štasava ) (160)

Neighboring communities

	Nötsch in the Gail Valley
Feistritz on the Gail		Arnoldstein
Malborghetto Valbruna	Tarvisio

history

View of Hohenthurn

Rectory and parish church in Göriach

Ski jumping facilities in Achomitz

From the 10th to the 6th century BC A Hallstatt- era hilltop settlement was located near Dreulach . Later a Roman defense tower stood there, which was destroyed around 200 AD. Hohenthurn was first mentioned in 1253 as Göströsdorf .

Since the settlement of the area by the Karantaner - Slavs in the 6th century. and the establishment of the Carantan state in the 7th century, the area of ​​the entire Lower Gailtal and of Hohenthurn is closely linked to Slovenian cultural history and was largely Slovenian-speaking at the beginning of the 20th century. The Lower Gail Valley is known for its unique, originally Slovenian customs (which have themselves incultured numerous supra-regional influences ) and which now have a bilingual regional identity .

The community of Hohenthurn was constituted in 1850, which also included the cadastral communities Maglern / Megvarje, Seltschach / Sovče and Feistritz an der Gail / Bistrica na Zilji. Maglern (1865) and Seltschach (1877) later became part of the Arnoldstein community ; in 1906 Feistritz an der Gail became an independent local community. 1973 Feistritz an der Gail was incorporated again, in 1991 after a referendum again independent.

population

According to the 2001 census, the community of Hohenthurn has 857 inhabitants. 8.3% of them belong to the Slovene-speaking ethnic group .

92% of the community population profess to the Roman Catholic Church , 3% to the Evangelical Church and 2% to Islam , 2.5% are without religious belief. In 1924 all parishes in the Lower Gailtal were run in Slovenian, only two branch churches in the castles Wasserleonburg and Bodenhof were run in German.

The Catholic parish of Göriach / Gorje, to which Hohenthurn belongs, is bilingual, German-Slovenian.

The Slovenian dialect of Hohenthurn / Straja vas is typologically part of the Slovenian dialect group of the so-called Gailtal dialect ( ziljsko narečje or ziljščina ). Numerous phonetic, morphological and lexical archaisms are characteristic.

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also:  List of listed objects in Hohenthurn

• Church of St. Cyriacus in Hohenthurn, first documented mention in 1261, Gothic building
• Parish church Mariae Namen in Göriach, donated in 1312 or 1316, late Gothic building 1489–1516

societies

• The Catholic Slovene Educational Association Zilja (Gail) (Slov. Katoliško slovensko izobraževalno društvo Zila ) for Achomitz and the surrounding area was founded in 1904 to consolidate the Slovene identity. The initiators were Franz Schaubach and Franz Grafenauer , the first long-term president was Franc Kriegl, commonly known as Krieglč, and his son Niko Kriegl succeeded him. The meetings were held in the Hrepec Inn, a club library was kept, a tamburizza orchestra was set up and a rich theater life under the direction of Marija Zwitter was able to flourish until the club was banned by the Nazis. After the war, the association was re-established under the name Slovensko prosvetno društvo Zila .
• The bilingual sports club Achomitz / Športno društvo Zahomc produced the ski jumpers Karl Schnabl (1976 Olympic champion large hill) and Franz Wiegele .

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces, there are 18 workplaces with 66 employees in the municipality and 284 out-commuters. There are 108 agricultural and forestry holdings (16 of them in the main occupation), which together cultivate 2,089 hectares (1999).

Tourism is not insignificant, due to the proximity to the Nassfeld ski area and the Faaker and Pressegger See .

The access to traffic is via the Südautobahn ( A2 ), Gailtal Straße (B 111) and Landesstraße L 27a. There are four volunteer fire departments in the community .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council of Hohenthurn has 11 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

• 5 ÖVP
• 3 SPÖ
• 2 flat share / VS
• 1 FPÖ

Directly elected mayor since 2003 is Florian Tschinderle (ÖVP) who was re-elected in 2015 with 74.62% of the vote.

coat of arms

The eponymous high tower in the coat of arms of Hohenthurn was heraldically depicted as a tinned tower, so it is not modeled on the church tower of Hohenthurn; but it could also allude to the Roman watchtower on the Dert. The pattern of the ornament in the head of the shield is modeled on a ceramic find from the Middle Bronze Age and is intended to express the importance of the prehistoric settlement.

The coat of arms of Hohenthurn was awarded to the community on November 24, 1993 and has the following blazon :

“In a silver shield head in the shade of color, four collapsed rafters adjoining on all sides, each covered with five rings, accompanied at the bottom by half points outside and three whole points each covered with a ring inside; underneath in green a four-pinned, silver, partially black jointed tower, each with a black, rectangular window opening at the top front and bottom rear. "

The flag is green and white with an incorporated coat of arms.

Personalities

• Franc Schaubach (born December 3, 1881 in Draschitz / Drašče, † August 6, 1954 in Črnomelj ), Slovenian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Greater Maribor between 1927 and 1929 .
• Johann Schnabl (born December 26, 1827 Achomitz / Zahomec; † January 24, 1904 Ahomitz), pronounced Slovene, from 1850 mayor of Hohenthurn / Straja vas for over 20 years
• Johann Schnabl, vulgo Hrepec (born September 7, 1897 in Feistritz an der Gail / Bistrica na Zilji; † July 11, 1964 in Ahomitz), pronounced Slovene, candidate of the Koroška slovenska stranka (Carinthian Slovene Party), 1928–1938 mayor of Hohenthurn / Straja vas
• Karl Schnabl (* 1954), ski jumper
• Franz Wiegele (* 1965), ski jumper
• Marco Ventre (* 1975), pop star, radio presenter (ORF Carinthia) and television reporter (ORF)

Web links

Commons : Hohenthurn  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Hohenthurn municipality
• 20713 - Hohenthurn. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ AF Reiterer: Lebenswelt mother tongue, Slovenian and its current perception - a report. In: K. Anderwald , P. Karpf, H. Valentin (eds.): Kärntner Jahrbuch für Politik 2000. Klagenfurt 2000, 340–362.
2. ↑ AF Reiterer: Counting minorities? Methodological and content-related problems of official language counts. In: M. Pandel [ea] (ed.): Conflict of town signs in Carinthia - crisis or opportunity? Vienna 2004, 25–38.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Parish map of the Diocese of Gurk, 1924
5. ↑ http://www.kath-kirche-kaernten.at/pfarren/pfarre/C3042/
6. ↑ List of parishes in the Hermagor / Šmohor deanery
7. ^ Fran Ramovš: Kratka zgodovina slovenskega jezika . Ljubljana 1936.
8. ↑ Tine Logar: Slovenska narečja . Ljubljana 1975
9. ^ Tine Logar: Koroška slovenska narečja In: Enciklopedija Slovenije 5 (Kari – Krei), Ljubljana 1991.
10. ^ Sports club Achomitz / Športno društvo Zahomc
11. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Publisher of the Carinthian Provincial Archives, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p 140
12. ↑ Danijel Grafenauer: Življenje in delo Julija Felaherja in Koroški Slovenci . (Phil.Diss.) Maribor 2009, pp. 160-161
13. ↑ Avguštin Malle: Schaubachhütte, Francesco . In: Enciklopedija Slovenije, Volume 11 (Savs-Slovenska m), Ljubljana 1997, p. 11
14. ↑ Peter Wiesflecker: Hohenthurn, history of a living space and its people . Klagenfurt 2009, p. 212, 217-218, 350.
15. ↑ Peter Wiesflecker: Hohenthurn, history of a living space and its people . Klagenfurt 2009, pp. 231-235.