Katsch on the Mur

Katsch an der Mur locality Katsch cadastral community
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Murau  (MU), Styria
Judicial district	Murau
Pole. local community	Teufenbach-Katsch
Coordinates	47 ° 9 '7 "  N , 14 ° 16' 40"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '7 "  N , 14 ° 16' 40"  E
Residents of the village	533 (January 1, 2020)
Area  d. KG	14.41 km²
Post Code	8842 Katsch on the Mur
Statistical identification
Locality code	15988
Cadastral parish number	65208
Counting district / district	Katch an der Mur (61446 002)
Former parish 1850–1967; 1968-2014 at Gem. Frojach-katsch (formerly ZSp 61403 001..) Source: STAT : gazetteer ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Katsch an der Mur is a place in the upper Murtal in Styria as well as a locality and cadastral municipality ( Katsch ) of the municipality of Teufenbach-Katsch in the Murau district .

geography

Katsch (location component )
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Murau , Styria
Pole. local community	Teufenbach-Katsch   ( KG  Katsch)
Locality	Katsch on the Mur
Coordinates	47 ° 8 ′ 33 "  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 58"  E
height	770  m above sea level A.
Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Katsch an der Mur (61 446 002)
In the OVZ 2001 without identification; consists of Oberdorf and Unterdorf Source: STAT : Ortverzeichnis ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

The place is located 9 kilometers east of Murau down the Murau , and 6 km west of the valley from the municipality capital Teufenbach , at the entrance of the Katschtal of the Niedere Tauern , which flows into the Murtal from the northwest. To the west rises the Stolzalpe ( 1817  m above sea level ) of the Schladminger Tauern , to the east of the Pleschaitz  ( 1797  m above sea level ) the Wölzer Tauern ; these mountains are also counted together as part of the Murberg range . South of the Murtal opposite is the Blasenkogel  ( 1602  m above sea level ), which is already one of the Gurktal Alps .

The local situation Katsch extends over unspecific about 2 km in the valley entrance, good part left on Katschbach , along the L501  Katschtalstraße on the 760- 800  m above sea level. A. Height. The place is formed from the lower village , ^∗ which is already on the edge of the Murtal and below the Katsch ruins , and the upper village ^∗ Katschtalinward on the Hinterburgbach . To the west of the Murtal are the houses on the Sonnseite .

The village of Katsch an der Mur and the Katsch cadastral community , with 1,441  hectares and around 550 inhabitants (January 1, 2020: 533), also includes the slopes on both sides: to the left in the Katschtal are the scattered Giant houses on the slope of the Pleschaitz Vorgipfels Koppe  ( 1,527  m above sea level). A. ), and Gal [ l ] berg am Köpfl  ( 1376  m above sea level ) north of the Hinterburggraben. The cadastral border reaches the Pleschaitz summit. On the right in the valley are the scattered houses Göglburg and the Rotte Priel with the church of St. Lorenzen ob Katsch , the cadastral area extends to the eastern summit of the Laaser Höhe  ( 1442  m above sea level ), the foothills of the Stolzalpe on the murtal side. In the south the area ends on the Mur.

Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities:

Althofen      Peterdorf (both O and KG, Gem.  St. Peter a. Kbg. ) ∗∗ Creek	Hinterburg  (O and KG, district of  Oberwölz ) Gallberg	Raiming  (O and KG, Gem.  Oberwölz ) ∗∗∗ Giants
Göglburg		Sunny side
Saurau Triebendorf  (O and KG, municipality of  Murau )	Haselbach	Frojach (O and KG) ∗∗∗

^∗There are two lower villages in the municipality , zu Frojach and zu Katsch, the Frojacher Oberdorf is the place called Frojach itself.

^∗∗ In the Katschtal the town of Althofen is closer, Peterdorf behind.

^∗∗∗The KG and community of Niederwölz hardly border on Pleschaitz, where KG Frojach intervenes.

History, infrastructure and sights

Katsch Castle, above the Murtal with the Häsern Unterkatsch, with a view of the Katschtal (Vischer: Topographia Ducatus Stiriae , 1681)

Katsch is a station on the Roman Murtalstraße , an important local Roman road with a connection to the Neumarkter Sattel to Carinthia as well as the Sölkpass into the Ennstal ( Via Julia Augusta Virunum - Ovila ) and into the Lungau ( Virunum - Iuvavum ). It ran on the left side of the valley below the ruins, parts of the slopes there are well preserved and are under monument protection, especially around Pux. In 1926, a settlement with a burial ground was found in Murfeld south of Unterdorf , presumably an estate.

Katsch is first mentioned in 982 as Chaczi or Chats . Since the place became an important trading center from the middle of the 11th century, it is later mentioned several times as Chatissa . To what extent the place name is related to the Katschberg in Lungau is unclear. Up until the 12th century there was probably only a single manorial estate here, but there are already 5 houses in records for 1305.

The Katsch Castle is documented from the 9th century and belonged to a Carolingian royal estate in the Mur, Wölzer, Katsch and Rantental area in the then Carantanic Styria, which was bequeathed to the Diocese of Freising in 1007 by the Archdiocese of Salzburg . The lords of Pris , who also sat on Pux, were enfeoffed, their administrators later called themselves Herren von Katsch. In 1207 the rule went to the Stubenberger (whose administrators also called themselves von Katsch ). The castle is said to have been destroyed by a strong earthquake in 1201 , as the Gesta of the Salzburg archbishops reported at the time, but this should have meant Rauchenkatsch Castle in Carinthia. Because of its dominant location for the traffic routes, it was often fought over and later changed hands several times. It only fell into disrepair in the early 19th century. The Katsch dominion comprised the current village of Katsch and the area of ​​the current municipality of St. Peter am Kammersberg . Katsch still belongs to Frojach today .

The Romanesque branch church St. Lorenzen ob Katsch , above the town in Priel, is mentioned in a document in 1260. It has belonged to the parish of St. Peter am Kammersberg from time immemorial . The Kropfmoar in the upper village, the former main hostel of the Saumfahrer , exists today as a baroque building from the 16th century and is also a listed building. From the early modern era on there was a copper hammer (Pfannhammer) here at Katschbach . In 1832 an iron hammer was built above the Hinterburgbach estuary, which was initially headed by the Styrian mining pioneer Peter Tunner .

With the creation of the local communities after 1848/49 , Katsch became an independent community .

As of 1 January 1968, the community was in the municipality structural reform with Frojach to the municipality Frojach-Katsch merged , municipal seat was Frojach. As of 1 January 2015, as part second municipality structural reform also Teufenbachstrasse to set, and the community Teufenbach-Katsch emerged, bringing the municipal office after Teufenbach migrated.

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  Katsch castle ruins

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  War memorial

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  Kropfmoarhaus

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  St. Lorenzen ob Katsch

literature

• Walter Brunner : Frojach-Katsch: Diversity and unity of the long history of a small living space. 2005.
• Sepp Genta: Chatissa-Katsch. A contribution to the history of Katsch. 1957. (The only edition is kept in the Katsch elementary school)

proof

• 61446 - Teufenbach-Katsch. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ↑ ^{a b} In the list of places 2001 without settlement identification ; but listed in the Austrian map as a place; GIS Steiermark gives "Dorf <2000", but this applies to most of the more closed, small towns (the latter both accessed on September 8, 2019).
2. ↑ Wolfgang Klestil: Roman grave fields of the 1st to 3rd centuries. in Noricum. On the state of research, the structures and the Romanization using selected examples. Diploma thesis Univ. Vienna, January 2013 ( pdf , othes.univie.ac.at); there especially grave fields in today's Styria , 14.4. Katsch p. 107 f; Appendix catalog of the sources: Katsch , p. 235 ff; Plate 18, Fig. 2 Katsch, site plan (pdf p. 277); and p. 55; also:
   W. Schmid: settlement and grave field of Chatissa-Katsch in Upper Styria- In: ÖJh 25, 1929, pp. 97–148;
   Sigrid Ehrenreich: The Katsch burial ground in Styria. Re-recording of the finds. In: Find reports from Austria 32, 1993, pp. 9–40.
3. ↑ Lit. Sepp Genta: Chatissa - Katsch. 1957.
4. ^ Kurt Klein  (edit.): Historical local dictionary . Statistical documentation on population and settlement history. Ed .: Vienna Institute of Demography [VID] d. Austrian Academy of Sciences . Styria part 2, Katsch an der Mur , p. 76 ( online document , explanations . Suppl . ; both PDF - oD [updated]). Special references:  Althof, 1160, 1305: Lit. Brunner: Frojach-Katsch. 2005.
   
5. ↑ ^{a b c d} Katsch , burgen-austria.com; Katsch castle ruins , wehrbauten.at (both accessed September 8, 2019); see also Katsch , ruine.at (photos)
6. ↑ Katschberg 1201. In: ZAMG: Geophysik → Historical earthquakes in Austria (accessed September 8, 2019).
7. ↑ Klein : Historical local dictionary . Ed .: VID. Styria Part 2, Former Herrschaft Katsch , S. 76 ( online document - oD [update]).
8. ↑ St. Lorenzen ob Katsch . kirchen-fuehrer.info (accessed September 7, 2019).
9. ↑ Parish of St. Peter am Kammersberg. (accessed September 7, 2019).
10. ↑ Section 9 (1) of the law of December 18, 1967 on the change of territory of municipalities. LGBl. 139/1967 (eReader, ALEX Online ).
11. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 7, Item 1 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria (Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). LGBl. No. 31/2014 (pdf, ris.bka ).