Jauntal
| Jauntal | ||
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 Wasserhofen, in the background the bridge over the Völkermarkt reservoir, Völkermarkt and the Saualm |
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| location | Carinthia | |
| Waters | Drau , Vellach , Gurk ; Klopeiner See , Turnersee | |
| Geographical location | 46 ° 35 '2 " N , 14 ° 41' 22" E | |
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| particularities | Part of the Drau valley | |
The Jauntal ( Slovenian Podjuna ) is the name of the Drautal between the Vellach estuary near Goritschach (east of Klagenfurt ) to Schwabegg . It covers the eastern part of the Klagenfurt basin and is largely located in the Völkermarkt district .
geography
In addition to the Drau and Vellach, the valley is also traversed by the Gurk, which flows into Stein . In the Jauntal are the Klopeiner See and the Turnersee as well as the cities Völkermarkt and Bleiburg . The Jauntal is accessed by the railway lines of the Jauntalbahn and the Drautalbahn .
In the area below, the valley widens to the Jaunfeld .
Names
The name Jauntal is derived from the ancient Roman settlement Juenna near Globasnitz , which in turn was probably named after a Celtic tribal god Jouenat. In his play Immer Noch Sturm, Peter Handke speaks poetically of “Jaunfeld” and thus describes the open character of this valley.
history
The first finds go back to the Neolithic, from the Middle Bronze Age a settlement becomes more tangible. Immigrant Celts was added.
In the Middle Ages there was a county of Jauntal . Their area extended beyond today's Jauntal after a toll station at Hohenmauten to Javnik (Jaunegg) and Ožbalt (St. Oswald im Drauwald) in the municipality of Podvelka (Podwölling) . The course Wölka (Velka) -Tschermenitzen (Črmenica) -Graben is assumed to be the boundary line, east of it was the Mark on the Drava .
One of the largest contiguous forest areas in today's Jauntal is the Dobrowa . The word means “oak forest” in Slovenian (from altslaw. Dǫbъ “oak”).
Settlement area
The Jauntal belongs to the traditional core area of the settlement area of the Carinthian Slovenes . The Caritas. Team lifestyle. opened the first bilingual workshop for the handicapped within this region in Globasnitz with the workshop Florian , to which cognitively handicapped adults from Slovenia commute every day.
Agriculture
Since buckwheat has a long tradition in this settlement area - it was mentioned in a document as early as 1442 - it was included in the register of traditional foods as Jauntaler Hadn .
Bridges and Power Plants
The Jauntal Bridge became known nationwide through its use as a platform for bungee jumping since 1991. The 96 m high bridge was built from 1959 to 1962 and opened in 1964 as a single-track railway line. It is advertised as the highest railway bridge in Europe, which is wrong (see Mala Rijeka Viaduct ). The footpath and cycle path built for commuters between the municipalities of Ruden in the north and Bleiburg in the south is about four meters below the rail level and is attached to the riveted steel frame on the underwater side - i.e. to the south-east. From 2020 to 2021, a new supporting structure for the double-track, electrified operation of the Koralm Railway (from 2023) is to be pushed onto the Jauntal Bridge while retaining the concrete supports .
Bunge jumping is expected to be interrupted in 2022 and should then be possible from April 2023 from both sides, i.e. upstream and downstream, as two wider (4.50 m) footpaths and bike paths are planned.
The new road bridge , which was originally called the Lippitzbach Bridge and is located around 3,800 m upstream of the Jauntal Bridge , was opened to traffic in December 2005. The bridge has a maximum height of 96 m and a length of 455 m. The width is 12.85 meters, 2.5 meters of which is a bike path. 2009 was Lippitzbachbrücke on Jörg Haider Bridge renamed.
Another 300 m upstream is the old Lippitzbach bridge , an iron truss bridge that was built in 1895/96 and blown up in the course of the Carinthian defensive battle in winter 1918/19. In 1921 it was restored. Due to the construction of the Schwabegger Drau power station, about 10 km downstream, the bridge had to be raised twice. The parabolic girders of the bridge rest on brick abutments and central pillars. In 1995 the iron bridge was restored.
The Schwabeck run-of-river power plant, named after the town of Schwabegg, is located about four kilometers above the municipality of Lavamünd. It was built from 1939 to 1943 and rebuilt in 1995. The building has no public footpath or bike path to cross the Drau.
At Stein im Jauntal, the shell of the longest railway bridge over the Drau was completed on April 14, 2014 after the 600 m long and 18,000 t heavy reinforced concrete structure had been pushed in. For the time being, it will be used by construction site traffic for the construction of the adjacent sections of the Koralm Railway , before it will receive its railway equipment for the final expansion (by 2020).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Glaser: Early Christianity in the Alpine region: an archaeological journey of discovery . Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg / Graz 1997, ISBN 3-7917-1562-3 , p. 96 .
- ^ Franz Glaser: The Roman settlement Iuenna and the early Christian churches on Hemmaberg . History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1982, OCLC 441816845 , p. 11 .
- ↑ Jauntaler Hadn . Entry No. 77 in the register of traditional foods of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism . Retrieved February 15, 2013
- ↑ Compulsory break for bungee jumpers orf.at, June 14, 2017, accessed June 14, 2017.
- ↑ Longest railway bridge over the Drau completed. In: orf.at , April 14, 2014.