Chapels (Neuberg an der Mürz municipality)

Kapellen ( village ) locality cadastral community Kapellen district
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag  (BM), Styria
Judicial district	Mürzzuschlag
Pole. local community	Neuberg an der Mürz
Coordinates	47 ° 38 '48 "  N , 15 ° 37' 49"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '48 "  N , 15 ° 37' 49"  E
height	703  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	424 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	180 (addresses 2018 )
Area  d. KG	44.61 km²
Post Code	8691 chapels
prefix	+ 43/3857 ( Neuberg )
Statistical identification
Locality code	15918
Cadastral parish number	60509
Counting district / district	Chapels (62144 003)
Main town of Kapellen until 2014 Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Kapellen is a place in the Upper Mürz Valley in Styria, as well as a locality and cadastral community in the municipality of Neuberg an der Mürz in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district .

1849-2014 Kapellen formed an independent community . Since then it has been run as a district of the municipality.

geography

Kapellen is located about 37 kilometers northeast of Bruck an der Mur , 5 km northwest of Mürzzuschlag . It is located on the upper reaches of the Mürz in the Mürzsteg Alps , part of the Northern Limestone Alps . In the west rises the Veitschalpe  ( 1981  m above sea level ), in the north the Schneealpe  ( 1903  m above sea level ), in the northeast the Raxalpe  ( 2007  m above sea level ).

The village of Kapellen is located downhill from Mürz 4 km south-east of Neuberg at the confluence of the Altenberger Bach in the Mürz, on both sides of the river in a widening to around 700  m above sea level. A. Height. As an independent village, the place comprises around 180 addresses with around 430 inhabitants, including the two small localities Auhof further down Mürzabrück and Bärntal east above. After Alpl , Kapellen is the second largest town in the municipality.

The cadastral chapels with 4461  hectares and well 13 ¹ / ₂   km across much broader: It extends east and north across the Great disc  ( 1473  m above sea A.. And) Trattekogel  ( 1565  m above sea A.. ,) along the Lower Austrian border over the Preiner Gscheid  ( 1070  m above sea level ), around the Dreimarkstein  ( 1948  m above sea level ) to Gamseck  ( 1857  m above sea level ) and down into the anterior Altenbergertal . This means that most of the Rax Plateau belongs to the Kapellen area, the highest point in the area is the Heukuppe at 2007  m above sea level. A. To the south, the Dietlergraben between Mahdtalkogel  ( 1228  m above sea level ) and Kreuzschober  ( 1410  m above sea level ) to the Farrenboden saddle (approx.  1400  m ), already on the Rosskogel via Langenwang , belongs to it.
This cadastral area also includes the villages of Stojen and Raxen in the direction of Preiner Gscheid, including some huts on the Rax.

The B23 Lahnsattelstraße , the road of the upper Mürz Valley, leads through the village  , then continues over the Lahnsattel to the B21 , which connects the Mariazellerland with the Traisental . To the east, the L103 / L135  Preinergscheidstraße goes over into the middle Schwarztal near Reichenau an der Rax .

Kapellen is located in the Mürzer Oberland Nature Park .

Neighboring locations

Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities:

Neuberg  (KG) ∗	Altenberg  (KG) Greith  (O, KG Altenberg)	Schwarzau im Gebirge  (KG, Gem.  Schwarzau i.Geb. , District Neunk. ,  Lower Austria ) Klein- and Großau  (KG,  Gem.Reichenau adRax , District Neunk. ,  Lower Austria )
Lechen  (O, KG Neuberg) Hirschbach (O Lechen) ∗		Bumpers  (O) Prein  (KG, Gem.  Reichenau adRax , Bez. Neunk. ,  NE ) Bärntal
Hönigsberg  (KG, Gem.  Langenwang )	Auhof        Kohleben  (O, Gem.  Mürzzuschlag ) Eichhornthal  (KG, Gem.  Mürzzuschlag )	Schöneben-Spital  (KG, Gem.  Spital a.Sem. ) Mürzzuschlag  (KG, Gem.  Mürzzuschlag )

^∗ KG Neuberg extends to the southwest on the border of Langenwang

history

A spearhead from the last interglacial period (183,000 to 118,000 BC) was found in the white lead pit near chapels. The whole area was then covered by a dense jungle, the Cerewald . Only the peaks of the Rax and the Schneealm were not forested. This forest was closed until the Middle Ages.

The "Chapels" of St. Margaretha on the upper Mürz, which was certainly founded at least in the 12th century, was first mentioned on April 16, 1329. In 1460, the church and the associated goods became the property of Neuberg Abbey . After this monastery was dissolved in the course of the Josefin reforms , Kapellen became an independent local curatie in 1786 and an independent parish in 1859.

Former parish

Kapellen (former parish)
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Bruck an der Mur (until 1902) / Mürzzuschlag  (MZ, until 2013), Styria
Judicial district	Mürzzuschlag
Coordinates	47 ° 40 '  N , 15 ° 40'  E
surface	44.61 km²
Statistical identification
Community code	61304
Counting district / district	Chapels (61304 000)
1849–2014, then part of Neuberg an der Mürz ; Cadastral parish : chapels; Localities: Kapellen (main town), Raxen , Stojen Source: STAT : Directory of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Chapels south of the Rax around 1877 (recording sheet of the land survey )

The former tax community of Kapellen became an independent political community with the creation of the local communities in 1848/49 . It belonged to the Bruck an der Mur district until 1902 , then to the Mürzzuschlag district , and after 2013 briefly to the new Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district. Since 2015 Mürzsteg is within the Styrian municipality of structural reform , together with the formerly independent municipalities also Altenberg an der Rax and Mürzsteg in the community Neuberg incorporated.

The former municipality corresponds to the cadastral municipality that still exists today, with the villages of Kapellen , Raxen , Stojen .

Neighboring communities were last starting from the north in a clockwise direction: in Lower Austria: Schwarzau im Gebirge , Reichenau an der Rax ; in Styria: Spital am Semmering , Mürzzuschlag , Langenwang , Neuberg an der Mürz and Altenberg an der Rax .

politics

The municipal council last had 9 members, the distribution of seats since the municipal council election in 2010 was 5  SPÖ , 4  ÖVP .

The last mayor was Reinhard Tesch ( SPÖ ) until December 31, 2014 .

coat of arms

Blazon (description of the coat of arms): A growing silver Gothic chapel wall filling the shield , structured in the shade of color by four buttresses that are stepped twice, the outer pillars of which meet the edges of the shield ; a two-lane tracery window pierced in blue in the flanks, a fallen silver dragon in the central red pierced window .

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from June 1, 1996. It represents the eponymous local church and the saint attribute of Margaret , the conquered dragon. With the congregation merger, it became obsolete as such.

Culture and sights

Parish church Kapellen an der Mürz

See also:  List of listed objects in Neuberg an der Mürz

• Catholic parish church Kapellen an der Mürz hl. Margaretha

Web links

Commons : Chapels  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Heinrich Purkarthofer: The Styrian municipal coats of arms awarded in 1994, 1995 and 1996. In: Mitteilungen des Steiermärkisches Landesarchivs 47, 1997, p. 56 ( full article, p. 35–60, pdf , landesarchiv.steiermark.at).
2. ↑ Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 21, 2013 on the unification of the market community Neuberg an der Mürz and the communities Altenberg an der Rax, Kapellen and Mürzsteg, all political district Bruck-Mürzzuschlag. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 6, 2013. No. 148, 35th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 680.