Kötschach-Mauthen
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market community Kötschach-Mauthen
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Carinthia | |
| Political District : | Hermagor | |
| License plate : | HE | |
| Main town : | Kötschach | |
| Surface: | 154.91 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 40 ′ N , 13 ° 0 ′ E | |
| Height : | 705 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 3,346 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Postal code : | 9640 | |
| Area code : | 04715 | |
| Community code : | 2 03 07 | |
| NUTS region | AT212 | |
| UN / LOCODE | AT KEU | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Kötschach 390 9640 Kötschach-Mauthen |
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| Mayor : | Josef Zoppoth ( SPÖ ) | |
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Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (23 members) |
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Kötschach-Mauthen is an Austrian market town in the Hermagor district in Carinthia with 3346 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).
Kötschach-Mauthen is a climatic health resort .
geography
Geographical location
The community is located 34 km west of Hermagor ( Šmohor ) at the transition from the Upper Gailtal ( Ziljska dolina ) to the Lesachtal . It is the starting point of the roads to the north over the Gailbergsattel , south over the Plöckenpass , west into the Lesachtal over Maria Luggau to Sillian and east over Hermagor to Arnoldstein .
Community structure
Kötschach-Mauthen is divided into the four cadastral communities of Kötschach, Mauthen, Strajach and Würmlach.
The municipal area includes the following 31 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Aigen (14)
- Buchach (7)
- Dobra (5)
- Dolling ( Dolniče ) (8)
- Gailberg (8)
- Ghent Chess (14)
- Gratzhof (10)
- Courtier (23)
- Kosta (11)
- Kötschach ( Koče ) (1488)
- Kreuth ( Rut (e) ) (62)
- Kreuzberg (13)
- Krieghof (7)
- Kronhof (14)
- Lasa ( Laz ) (250)
- Lanz (9)
- Mahlbach (8)
- Mandorf (27)
- Mauthen ( Muta ) (733)
- Nischlwitz (8)
- Passau (2)
- Plöcken (0)
- Plon (13)
- Podlanig (39)
- Sittmoos (16)
- St. Jakob im Lesachtal (80)
- Strajach ( Srejah ) (86)
- Willow Castle (58)
- Wetzmann (22)
- Würda (0)
- Würmlach ( Bumlje ) (311)
Other locations are the hamlets of Kienzle , Maierle and Vorhegg .
Neighboring communities
| Oberdrauburg | Dellach in the Drautal | |
| Lesachtal |
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Dellach |
| Plöckenpass | Paularo |
history
The current municipality was already before the 2nd century BC. Settled. A Venetian rock inscription was found on the Würmlach Alm , which is one of the oldest written monuments in Austria. A Roman road led across the Plöckenpass , on which a settlement called "Loncium" is said to have been located in the area of today's Mauthen. From this head station, a Roman watchtower on Plöckner Rain (above the second serpentine of Plöckenstrasse) could only be uncovered in 1886. Further excavations on Maria-Schnee-Hügel and in the foundations of the pilgrimage church there brought to light remains of the wall, which could also come from the ancient Loncium. The name Mauthen goes back to the old German "muta" (= toll) and this is in turn a loan word from the Gothic "mota" (= customs).
In the Middle Ages, the region experienced an economic boom due to the mining of iron ore, gold, silver and lead. Most of today's localities were first mentioned in the Middle Ages: Mauthen 1276, Höfling 1300, Kötschach 1308, Podlanig 1374, Würmlach 1374 and St. Jakob 1376. Laas (1510), Mandorf (1521) and Gentschach ( 1590). The district court was moved to Mauthen as early as 1319, proof that the place was already of great importance back then.
On June 20, 1478, Ottoman horsemen led by Omar ben Bekr made the breakthrough into the upper Gail valley and the overrun villages such as Kötschach were set on fire.
In 1485, Bishop Pietro von Caorle traveled over the Plöckenpass on behalf of the Patriarch of Aquilea to exercise episcopal functions in the Gailtal and East Tyrol. His companion Paolo Santonino mentions in his travel diaries that the bishop repeatedly moved into "the beautiful town of Mauthen".
Emperor Charles V distinguished the Mauthen market on March 25, 1524 by awarding it a coat of arms. The coat of arms represents a wounded bear in a blue-yellow field.
In 1618 a major fire destroyed many buildings and numerous valuable documents pertaining to the site. The region has belonged to the County of Ortenburg since the 16th century . In the hamlet of Hammerle there was a blast furnace owned by the Count von Ortenburg, and in 1714 the craftsmen di Gaspero built hammer works there and in Wetzmann, to which the place name goes back.
In 1809 Napoleonic troops moved over the Plöckenpass to Mauthen and incorporated the whole of Upper Carinthia into the kingdom of Illyria created by Napoleon . Some names still come from this time, such as the “Mageseng” (magazine) on the Kreuztratte at the Plöckenpass . In 1813 the French withdrew.
In 1823 Kötschach was hit by such a severe flood disaster that you could only get inside the church by crawling. In 1886 and 1902 major fires caused severe damage in Kötschach, and in 1903 another major fire struck the Mauthner.
During the First World War , Mauthen was the closest stage to the Plöckenpass, with numerous supply columns, field hospitals and bathing establishments. Mauthen was shot at 34 times by the Italian artillery, as were Kötschach and other neighboring towns. After Italy entered the war, the army command decided to build the Gailtalbahn beyond Hermagor to Kötschach-Mauthen, which started operating in 1916.
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Carinthian referendum , Kötschach was formally promoted to market in 1930 .
In 1958, Kötschach and Mauthen were merged to form a dual place Kötschach-Mauthen; In the course of the community reform in 1973, the incorporations of places in the upper Gailtal and in the lower Lesach valley expanded the place to a large municipality.
population
Population development
Citizenship, Creed
According to the 2001 census, Kötschach-Mauthen had 3,613 inhabitants. Of these, 95.0% were Austrian, 1.2% German and 0.9% Turkish citizens. 89.1% of the population confessed to the Roman Catholic , 6.6% to the Evangelical Church and 1.3% were of Islamic faith, 1.8% of the population without religious belief.
Culture and sights
- Pittersberg castle ruins
- Weidenburg castle ruins
- Mandorf Castle
- Weidenburg Castle
- The parish church of Kötschach is a late Gothic hall church and is also called Gailtal Cathedral . First mentioned in a document in 1399, it was given its present-day appearance through a new building from 1518 to 1527. The builder was Bartlmä Firtaler . The church appears today as a three-aisled late Gothic hall, the southern aisles of which are significantly narrower because parts of the previous building were included in the new building. The west gallery extends over the three naves. The vault is a reticulated vault made of looped rib stars with three-leaf ends. The classical high altar from 1833 comes from Franz Stauder.
- Parish church of Mauthen
- Parish church St. Jakob in the Lesachtal
- The Museum 1915-18 in the town hall of the market town was opened in 1992. The exhibition documents the mountain war of 1915–1918 on the front not far from Körtschach-Mauthen.
- Mussen nature reserve
- Mauthner Klamm as a natural monument
Economy and Infrastructure
Kötschach-Mauthen is a central place in the upper Gailtal and at the same time the gateway to the Lesachtal . Wood processing and the production of heat exchangers are of great regional importance. In addition to traditional businesses, tourism and gastronomy play a role in both winter and summer. Kötschach-Mauthen is a climatic health resort. The community has a modern indoor and outdoor swimming pool ("Aquarena"), the largest in the Upper Gailtal / Lesachtal region. The district of Mauthen also bears the title of Mountaineering Village of the PES .
Traditional handicrafts such as blacksmithing have been preserved in this village since 1877 until today. The blacksmith's art of the artistic blacksmith Leopold Durchner is sought after from northern Italy to Scandinavia. Thanks to the Alpen Adria Energie , the place has become energy self-sufficient.
The LKH Laas is located in Laas , a state hospital with a medical department and a department for the chronically ill.
The AWP and the TAL separate in Würmlach . There has been a biogas plant here since 2005 . The gas is fed into the thermal power station in a pipeline to Kötschach .
The Gailtalbahn was discontinued with the 2016/2017 timetable change between Hermagor and Kötschach-Mauthen. Since then, Kötschach-Mauthen has only been connected to public transport by buses. The Gailtalbahn Betriebs GmbH and the "Verein Gailtalbahn" would like to continue operating the disused railway line as a connecting railway in the future and offer trips with bicycle trolleys in the summer. Special trains are also planned for special occasions.
energy
Kötschach-Mauthen is one of the 24 municipalities in Austria (as of 2019) that received the highest award in the e5 municipal energy project. The e5 community project aims to promote the implementation of a modern energy and climate policy at community level.
politics
The municipal council of Kötschach-Mauthen has 23 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :
Walter Hartlieb (SPÖ) was directly elected mayor for the 2015 municipal council elections . After his resignation on May 19, 2020, Josef Zoppoth (SPÖ) was elected mayor by the local council on May 28, 2020.
coat of arms
Emperor Charles V distinguished the Mauthen market on March 25, 1524 by awarding it a coat of arms. The coat of arms represents a wounded bear in a blue-yellow field.
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Count Georg von Ortenburg gave Mauthen a market coat of arms on May 5, 1619. The crowned lion is the coat of arms of Jakob Villinger von Schönenberg , accountant and from 1514 general treasurer of Emperor Maximilian I ; Villinger had received the palace and rule of Pittersberg from Maximilian I in 1502 . His coat of arms can also be found in the vault of the branch church of Laas. In the back part of the coat of arms there is a bleeding brown bear, which is reminiscent of an apparently sensational hunting accident in which the bear, fatally hit, is said to have pulled a tree with the last of its strength.
The Mauthen coat of arms officially expired in 1958 when Mauthen was united with Kötschach, but was re-awarded to the market town on July 20, 1975 with the following blazon :
- “In the split shield in front in red a gold crowned and armored silver lion; in the back in blue with a golden oblique left bar, a brown bear bleeding from a chest wound, which, reaching behind it, tries to tear down a green tree. "
The flag is blue-yellow-red with an incorporated coat of arms.
Personalities
- Oswald Nischelwitzer (1811–1894), Mayor of Mauthen, member of the Landtag and Reichstag, President of Parliament after the transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy
- Josef Klaus (1910–2001), Austrian politician (ÖVP), Governor of Salzburg (1949–1961), Austrian Federal Chancellor (1964–1970)
- Franz Pichler-Mandorf (1885–1972), Austrian politician (SPÖ), mayor of Klagenfurt
- Ignaz Tschurtschenthaler (1890–1954), Austrian politician (ÖVP)
- Heidulf Gerngross (* 1939), Austrian architect, artist and editor of the ST / A / R
- Sissy Sonnleitner (* 1953), Austrian cook, restaurateur and author
- Heimo Zobernig (* 1958), Austrian artist
- Richard Kaplenig (* 1963), Austrian artist
- Gerfried Sitar (* 1968), Austrian clergyman in the St. Paul Abbey in Lavanttal , episcopal vicar of the Gurk diocese, author and exhibition organizer
literature
- Karl Klaus: Kötschach-Mauthen, Plöcken and the surrounding area . Self-published by the author
- H. Dolenz: Late antique tower in Mauthen . Vienna 1940
- FC Keller: excavations near Mauthen . Carinthia I, Jb 1886
- H. Koban: The Veneter and Roman Roads near Mauthen, remarks about Loncium and the lost Veneter stone . Carinthia I, born 1948
Web links
- Market town of Kötschach-Mauthen
- Tourist office Kötschach-Mauthen
- 20307 - Kötschach-Mauthen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Legally recognized climatic health resorts in Austria ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at www.oehkv.at, accessed on June 7, 2015
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ^ Heinz Held: DuMont art travel guide. Carinthia and Styria . DuMont, Cologne [1981] 3rd edition 1985, p. 252.
- ↑ Kunstschmiede Leopold Durchner in Echt Kärnten ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ e5 communities in Austria as of March 2019
- ^ New mayor in Kötschach-Mauthen - market town of Kötschach-Mauthen. Retrieved June 14, 2020 (Austrian German).
- ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 158.
