Kappel am Krappfeld

Kappel is located around 25 kilometers northeast of Klagenfurt . The municipality covers a large part of the Krappfeld as well as parts of the Brückler Bergland, which separates the Krappfeld from the Görtschitztal in the east. The area is mainly drained by the cucumber .

The neighboring communities are, clockwise from the north: Althofen , Guttaring , Klein Sankt Paul , Eberstein , Sankt Georgen am Längsee and Mölbling .

Community structure

The community is divided into six cadastral communities (Dobranberg, Dürnfeld, Krasta, Mannsberg, St. Martin am Mannsberg, Silberegg). The municipality includes the following 39 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Floor (25)
Dobranberg (26)
Durnfeld (40)
Edling (22)
Free Village (1)
Garzern (30)
Gasselhof (10)
Geiselsdorf (4)
Goelsach (25)
Grillberg (13)
Vouchers (0)
Haide (5)
Haidkirchen (9)
Kappel am Krappfeld (392)
Krasta (52)
Land Bridges (10)
Latschach (2)
Lind (46)
Mannsberg (1)
Wall (1)
Moeriach (19)
Pussy (209)
Oberbruckendorf (0)
Passering (462)
Polling (17)
Poppenhof (20)
Rattenberg (6)
Schöttlhof (6)
Silberegg (383)
St. Florian (18)
St. Klementen (14)
St. Martin am Krappfeld (28)
St. Willibald (5)
Unterbergen (12)
Unterpassering (9)
Underside (3)
Windisch (0)
Zedl (0)
Zeindorf (14)

View from Kappel over the Krappfeld, winter 2005

Parish church Kappel am Krappfeld

Mannsberg Castle

history

The fertile area was already relatively densely populated in Celtic and Roman times. The church in St. Martin was built in 991/1023, the Alt-Mannsberg castle in 1065, the parish church of St. Paul in Kappel was first mentioned in a document in 1158.

The place name Kappel goes back to an early and important capella , from which today's parish church of St. Martin emerged, which became an important mother parish in the area. From the 15th to the 18th century, the provosts of St. Bartlmä zu Friesach held the parish and temporarily resided there. With Mannsberg Castle , owned by the Gurk Cathedral Provost from 1627 to 1876, and Silberegg Castle, there are two former mansions in what is now the municipality.

After the March Revolution of 1848, the local parishes of Krasta and Silberegg were initially formed in 1850, which were combined to form Krasta in 1870. In 1958 the community name was changed to Kappel am Krappfeld . The dissolution of the community in the course of the structural reform in Carinthia was prevented by a referendum.

population

According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Kappel had 2,107 inhabitants (2001), 94.2% of whom were Austrian and 1.9% Yugoslav citizens. 86.6% supported the Roman Catholic Church, 3.4% supported the Protestant Church and 2.8% supported Islam. 5.6% were without religious belief.

The population on January 1, 2018 was 1,951.

Attractions

Parish church St. Paulus in Kappel with a Gothic charnel house
Mannsberg Castle , first mentioned in a document from 1065-1075 by the Bishop of Brixen, lies at 691 m above sea level on the spout of a mountain slope
Altmannsberg castle ruins were built almost simultaneously with the castle above. It was inhabited until the 16th century.
Pilgrimage Church of St. Florian
Silberegg Castle in the town of the same name south of Althofen was first mentioned in a document in 1274. The castle-like, three-storey building was erected in its current form in the 16th century.

Economy and Infrastructure

The municipality of Kappel is a typical rural municipality with small businesses. According to the 2001 census, there are 275 employees, 107 of them in construction, in the community and 687 commuters. There are 99 farms (53 of them full-time farmers) which together cultivate 4,703 hectares. Grain cultivation is important. There is a primary school, a kindergarten and two volunteer fire departments .

The Friesacher Straße (B 317) as well as the state roads L82, L83 and L94 lead through the municipality . At the Rudolfsbahn St. Michael – St. Veit are the Passering and Kappel stops.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

8 ÖVP
6 SPÖ
1 FPÖ

Mayor was Martin Gruber ( ÖVP ) from 2009 to 2018 . On April 12, 2018, he moved to the Carinthian provincial government as regional councilor . Since a regional councilor cannot be mayor at the same time, a new election took place on June 24, 2018. Candidates for the office were Gabriele Moser (ÖVP), Josef Klausner (SPÖ) and Heinrich Rattenberger (FPÖ). After none of the three candidates achieved an absolute majority, there was a runoff on July 8, 2018 between the two strongest candidates, Gabriele Moser (ÖVP) and Josef Klausner (SPÖ), with Josef Klausner as mayor with 54.2 percent of the votes was chosen.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In a blue shield on the flanks two golden ears of wheat stake, in between in the base of the shield a silver pinnacle tip covered with a blue rafter, overlaid by a silver miter with flying ribbons."

On the one hand, the municipality's coat of arms alludes to the various former ruling factions in today's municipality: the silver corner in the base of the shield stands “talking” for Silberegg, the tinned tip above it on Mannsberg Castle and the miter on the Gurker or Friesacher Proöpste. The two ears of corn stand for the grain industry, which is economically important for the community to this day, and the blue shield background alludes to the importance of the area as a water reservoir.

The municipality's coat of arms and flag were awarded on September 11, 1995. The flag is blue and white with an incorporated coat of arms.

Partner municipality

Jois in Burgenland

Personalities

Maria Lassnig (1919–2014), painter, born in Kappel
Werner Müller , multiple Enduro European Champion, born in Pölling

Web links

Commons : Kappel am Krappfeld - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Municipality of Kappel am Krappfeld
20512 - Kappel am Krappfeld. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from October 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ orf.at: Two new mayors are elected . Article dated June 22, 2018, accessed June 22, 2018.
↑ Mayor election in Kappel am Krappfeld: ÖVP-Moser clearly secures entry into the runoff election! . OTS notification dated June 24, 2018, accessed June 24, 2018.
^ Orf.at: Klausner new mayor of Kappel . Article dated July 8, 2018, accessed July 8, 2018.
^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 146

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )