Ilz (Styria)

market community Ilz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate :	HF (from 1.7.2013; old: FF)
Surface:	39.3 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 5 ′  N , 15 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	300  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,779 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8262, 8265
Area code :	+43 3385
Community code :	6 22 71
Address of the municipal administration:	Ilz 58 8262 Ilz
Website:	www.ilz.at
politics
Mayor :	Rupert Fleischhacker ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (21 members)	A total of 21 seats Community list Team Friedheim : 9 ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 1
Location of Ilz in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Ilz, main square with Marian column, rectory and parish church in the background
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Ilz is a market town with 3779 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria . As part of the Styrian community structural reform , it has been merged with the community of Nestelbach im Ilztal since 2015 , the new community continues to use the name Ilz. The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

geography

It is located on the left bank of the Ilz , in the one kilometer wide, fertile Ilztal, 43 km east of Graz , 19 km east of Gleisdorf and 13 km west of Fürstenfeld .

Community structure

Cadastral communities	Area in hectares Dec. 31, 2018	Localities	Inhabitants January 1st, 2020
Buchberg	92.66	Buchberg near Ilz	108
Dambach	107.61	Dambach	96
Dörfl	223.72	Dörfl	161
Eichberg N.	250.79	Eichberg near Hartmannsdorf	78
Hochenegg N.	426.08	Hochenegg	343
Ilz	214.71	Ilz	1212
Kalsdorf	281.99	Kalsdorf near Ilz	69
Kleegraben	334.17	Kleegraben	232
Leithen	540.81	Leithen	86
Mutzenfeld N.	185.06	Mutzenfeld	62
Nestelbach N.	495.93	Nestelbach in the Ilztal	544
Nestelberg N.	84.68	Nestelberg	128
Neudorf	483.63	Neudorf near Ilz	502
Reigersberg	203.66	Reigersberg	158

^N = former municipality of Nestelbach in the Ilztal

Incorporations

On January 1, 1968, the municipalities of Buchberg bei Ilz, Ilz, Kalsdorf bei Ilz, Kleegraben, Mutzenfeld, Neudorf bei Ilz and Reigersberg were merged, and on the same day Eichberg bei Hartmannsdorf, Hochenegg and Nestelbach in the Ilztal.

Neighboring communities

One of the seven neighboring communities is in the district of Südoststeiermark , three in the district of Weiz .

Gersdorf an der Feistritz (WZ)	Grosssteinbach
Sinabelkirchen (WZ)		Großwilfersdorf
Hartmannsdorf Market (WZ)	Ottendorf an der Rittschein	Riegersburg (SO)

history

View of Ilz at sunset

Ilz was mentioned for the first time in a court document that Herbord von Fullnstein (Herbort von Füllenstein), headess of Bishop Bruno von Olmütz , issued on October 14, 1265 in Graz. A witness is named in it: Dominus Wernherus de Ylnz, probably the vicar of the place.

The economic conditions of the place were largely determined by the hop cultivation, which began at the end of the 18th century by the lords of Feistritz and Kalsdorf and was later taken up by the citizens of Ilz. In addition, the fruit growing in this area developed to great importance, the "Ilzer Weinler" bred here became one of the most popular apple varieties.

After the first hardship of the post-war years had been overcome, the municipality was able to set out to give the market a modern face with determined planning. At the same time, the renovation of the townscape was tackled. The construction of a secondary school, begun in 1947, was finally completed as one of the municipality's most important projects in the years 1957 to 1961 with the construction of the new secondary school. Ilz now has a kindergarten, elementary and secondary school with afternoon care and a music school. (As of March 2012)

In terms of space, Ilz has expanded considerably since 1945, especially to the west and north: Industry, trade, transport and agriculture are, as always, the economic basis of the place. But the face of the market has changed significantly over the past twenty years.

Lignite was mined in the Ilz area until 1964. In the 2012/13 school year, the Ilz secondary school became a new middle school.

The market town once operated a thermal bath project ("Steirertherme"), which was discontinued for financial reasons.

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The market town of Ilz from the south

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Ilz

Buildings

Parish Church of St. James

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  Parish Church of St. James d. Ä.

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  Interior of the parish church

The old church from the 12th or 13th century was replaced by a new building between 1653 and 1671 because it was dilapidated. From 1910 this was completely rebuilt and expanded according to plans by Johann Baltl (Graz city architect). The church is 41 m long, the nave 14 m wide. The priest's choir still consists of old buildings (1671).

In 1919/20 the church was repainted, designed by the school councilor Ludwig von Kurz zum Thurn and Goldenstein , executed by the brothers Johann, Alexander and Anton Walter from Ilz. In 1928 and 2004 the church got a new organ. In 1992 an interior renovation of the church took place, the redesign of the chancel was planned by the architects Hermann Eisenköck from Graz.

In 2010 the parish church received new bells, which were consecrated on September 19, 2010 by Diocesan Bishop Egon Kapellari .

Castles

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  Feistritz Castle around 1830,
  Lith. Institution JF Kaiser, Graz

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  Feistritz Castle near Ilz,
  west side with residential tower

• The Feistritz Castle is located north of Ilz on the Feistritz . The residential tower was built around 1200. The castle was in dire straits in the 1980s. The castle has been renovated and adapted by the current owners since 1984.
• Kalsdorf Castle is to the east of the village .

Museums

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  Kalsdorf Castle near Ilz with the surrounding area

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  Ilz Local History Museum

• The Ilz Heimatmuseum was a school project (1982) combined with an exhibition. This gave the impetus for the establishment of the Ilz Local History Museum. According to the principle of “growing from below”, the farm building behind the town hall was renovated without an association, but with the help of the entire town and the community, a show tunnel was created by the local miners and a museum was set up, which was opened in 1991. With the main focus of the historical and cultural development of the Ilz market and its surroundings, the self-defined task is connected, above all, to be a museum for the own population.
• The museum is complemented by the Ilz Museum Gallery, which regularly shows special exhibitions in two rooms of the town hall and makes its contribution to Ilz cultural life.

Virgin Mary statue on the Marian column (1666)

Tourism / events

• For hikers, Ilz offers the "Ilzer-Rosenapfelwanderweg".
• The annual market town festival takes place in September, and there is also an Ilzer market run.
• Since December 1983, the "Theater in Ilz", an amateur theater group that emerged from the rural youth and led by its initiator Johann Prenner, has been showing sophisticated comedies, boulevard and theater classics at the end of each year. Thereby came u. a. Pieces by Johann Nestroy , Ferdinand Raimund or Ephraim Kishon for performance. The classics The Master Boxer or The Robbery of the Sabine Women , Boeing-Boeing and Neil Simons Barefoot in the Park were also on the program. Occasionally there was also enthusiastic reception at summer theater performances of The Little Prince or The Woman Devil .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Ilz is located on the Südautobahn (exit 138) and on Gleisdorfer Straße B 65 and is the starting point for Gleichenberger Straße B 66.

Established businesses

Magna Powertrain has an assembly plant for axle components in Ilz. The plant was built in 2000/01. In 2009 the plant had around 450 employees.

politics

Parish council

Mayor is Rupert Fleischhacker (ÖVP). The parish council includes:

• Stefan Wilhelm, 1st Vice-Member.
• August Friedheim, 2nd Vice-Member.
• Klaus Konrad, community treasurer
• Michael Kriendlhofer, board member

Municipal council

Since the municipal council elections in 2015, the council has been composed as follows:

• 10 seats ÖVP
• 10 seats community list Team Friedheim
• 1 seat of the SPÖ

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
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  Ilz

• 

  Nestelbach in the Ilztal

Both previous municipalities had a municipality coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015.

The municipal coat of arms for Ilz was awarded in 1982 by the Styrian state government. The re-award took place on September 18, 2015.
The new blazon is:

"In a red shield there is a blue, silver-framed diagonal right-hand wave bar, spanned in the middle by a silver-brick two-bay bridge and accompanied by a silver heraldic rose each above and below."

Town twinning

• Ruderting , Bavaria

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1980: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), governor
• 1982: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor

Sons and daughters of the market town

• Hugo Raimund von Lamberg (1833–1884), Governor of Salzburg 1872–1880
• Friedrich von Horn Fitz-Gibbon (1919–1958), ethnologist
• Josef Jandrisits (* 1949), musician and composer
• Klaus Konrad (* 1965), politician (SPÖ), 2005 to 2010 member of the Styrian Landtag , member of the Austrian Federal Council since 2010

Personalities associated with Ilz

• Boris Bukowski (* 1946 as Fritz Bukowski), musician, grew up in Ilz
• Karl Fischer (1918–1963), politician and resistance fighter , initially buried at Vienna's south-west cemetery, since March 25, 1991 in Ilz
• Maria Fischer (1897–1962), silk winder and resistance fighter , initially buried in Vienna's south-west cemetery, also since March 25, 1991 in Ilz
• Maximilian Rottauscher von Malata (1846–1921), naval officer and author , died in Ilz
• Hartmut Skerbisch (1945–2009), artist , died in Ilz

literature

• Karl Mayr: Ilz. A home book. Ilz 1965

Web links

• 62271 - Ilz. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Commons : Ilz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local council election 2020 - results Ilz. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
2. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
3. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 4, Item 4 of the law of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014, No. 31, year 2014, ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 3.
4. ↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip  (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
6. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
7. ^ Website of the Ilz parish , accessed on March 1, 2014.
8. ^ Website of the Ilz market town ( Memento from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 14, 2019.
9. ↑ Theater in Ilz on www.vulkanland.at ( Memento of 9 March 2014 Internet Archive ), accessed on 14 November of 2019.
10. ↑ "Magna is building another plant in Styria" , Pressetext Austria dated August 28, 2000, accessed on April 22, 2014.
11. ↑ "Half a year of short-time work for Lannach and Ilz" derstandard.at of January 21, 2009, accessed on April 24, 2014.
12. ↑ The new parish council of the Ilz market town ( Memento from April 16, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on November 14, 2019.
13. ↑ 67. Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 10, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Ilz (political district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld) , accessed on September 18, 2015
14. ↑ ^{a b} Date of burial according to written information from the Ilz parish office on May 19, 2015.