Shelter (municipality)

market community shelter
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Murtal
License plate :	MT (from July 1, 2012; old: JU)
Surface:	159.11 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 4 '  N , 14 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '0 "  N , 14 ° 42' 0"  E
Height :	877  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,760 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8742, 9463
Area code :	03578
Community code :	6 20 42
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 31 8742 Obdach
Website:	www.marktgemeinde-obdach.at
politics
Mayor :	Peter Bacher ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (21 members)	14th 7th 14th 7th  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 14 SPÖ : 7
Location of Obdach in the Murtal district
Municipal Office of Obdach
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Obdach is a market town with 3760 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Murtal district in Styria .

geography

The municipality covers an area of ​​159.11 km² and is located in the valley of the Granitzenbach north of the Obdacher saddle , the transition from the Upper Mur Valley to the Lavant Valley . The municipality extends from the valley to the west to the Seetal Alps with the highest peak, the Zirbitzkogel ( 2396  m ).

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 18 localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Amering (429)
• Barnthal (21)
• Granitzen (150)
• Grossprethal (111)
• Kathal in Obdachegg (126)
• Katschwald (67)
• Kienberg (97)
• Kleinprethal (71)
• Lavantegg (183)
• Mönchegg (180)
• Shelter (1505)
• Obdachegg (239)
• Roetsch (201)
• Sankt Anna holiday development (27)
• Sankt Georgen in Obdachegg (70)
• Warbach (142)
• Winterleiten (128)
• Teats (13)

The community consists of six cadastral communities (area as of 2015):

• Granitzen (3,764.53 ha)
• Kienberg (2,043.69 ha)
• Lavantegg (4,713.68 ha)
• Shelter (514.87 ha)
• Obdachegg (2,091.64 ha)
• Prethal (2780.01 ha)

The community is located in the judicial district of Judenburg .

Neighboring communities

	Judenburg	Weißkirchen in Styria
Neumarkt (District Murau)		Hirschegg-Pack (District Voitsberg)
Mills (District Murau)	Reichenfels (District Wolfsberg, Carinthia)

history

Obdach was first mentioned in 1190 as "Obdah". The name goes back to the Old High German obadah (protective roof). There should have been a place to stop for refreshments on the parcel for travelers on their way to Carinthia. In 1324 Obdach was raised to the market and also had a high court. Obdach was a regionally important trading center on the road over the Obdacher Sattel.

• The political community Obdach was established in 1849/50.
• On January 1, 1970, the municipality of Granitzen was merged with the market town of Obdach.
• Since 2015 it has merged with the former municipalities of Amering , Sankt Anna am Lavantegg and Sankt Wolfgang-Kienberg as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform .

Population development

97.6% of the population had Austrian citizenship. 91.3% of the population committed themselves to the Roman Catholic Church, 1.1% to the Evangelical Church and 1.8% to Islam, 4.7% were without religious beliefs (as of 2001).

The community recorded an increase in population in the second half of the 20th century. The decline in the number of inhabitants since 2000 particularly affects the youth. The number of those under the age of fifteen decreased by 40 percent between 2001 and 2019, while the proportion of those over 65 years of age rose by 34 percent.

Culture and sights

Main square with gate tower

See also:  List of listed objects in Obdach

• Catholic parish church Obdach hl. Aegydius
• Hospital church: owned by the citizenry, from the 1st half of the 15th century.
• Square tower

View of Sankt Georgen in Obdachegg with Großering and Ameringkogel

Natural monuments

• Granitzenbach , which is a natural monument in the upper reaches

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces , there were 99 workplaces with 873 employees in the municipality as well as 519 out-commuters and 463 in-commuters. There were 91 agricultural and forestry holdings (32 of which were the main occupation), which together farmed 3,114 hectares (1999).

The most important industrial company is the ALKO machine factory (above all lawn mowers) with around 250 employees.

traffic

The access to traffic is via Obdacher Straße B 78, which connects the Carinthian Lavanttal with the Murtal. In Obdach there is a train station of the Lavant Valley Railway . Passenger traffic between Zeltweg and Bad St. Leonhard was discontinued in 2010.

education

In Obdach there are two kindergartens, an elementary school and a new middle school.

politics

The municipal council has 21 members.

• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 14 ÖVP and 7 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2014 Peter Köstenberger (ÖVP)
• since 2015 Peter Bacher (ÖVP)

Partner communities

• Kötz has been Obdach's partner municipality in Bavaria since 1990 .

coat of arms

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The re-award took place with effect from January 1, 2016.
The new blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

“In a blue shield over a green shield base between two silver towers with three battlements each and a black openwork arched window each on the ground floor, a two-storey wall with a silver square, openwork round gate with a raised portcullis and two black openwork vertical rectangular windows on each floor; Above the gate a tower with three black openwork arched windows and a golden, undulatingly closed hood with black openwork arched windows, knob and pennant flying off to the left. "

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

• 1881: Johann Freiherr von Vernier-Rougemont (District Captain of Judenburg 1876–1883)
• 1928: ÖR Josef Grogger (Mayor of Obdach 1917–1919)
• 1936: Eduard Schützenauer (doctor)
• 1973: Wolfgang Köle (1919–2018), (medical doctor)
• 1973: Heinrich Köle (1920–2015), (physician)
• 1974: Johann Bammer (1922–2017), (Provincial Council)
• 1974: Alois Kober (1908–1996), (entrepreneur)
• 1982: Ernst Schwartz
• 1984: ÖR Franz Zellnig (Mayor of Obdach 1970–1984)
• 1986: Hans Gross (1930–1992), (Deputy Governor)
• 1998: Herbert Kober (* 1933), (entrepreneur)
• 1998: Kurt Kober (entrepreneur)
• 1998: Willy Kober (entrepreneur)

Sons and daughters of the church

• Rudolf Falb , 1838–1903 (researcher)
• Viktorin Weyer , 1866–1939 (Benedictine abbot of Sankt Lambrecht)
• Ernest Kaltenegger , b. 1949 (politician of the KPÖ )
• Peter Rieser , b. 1950 (politician of the ÖVP )

literature

• Gernot Fournier, Reiner Puschnig: The Obdacherland and its history . Shelter 1990.

Web links

Commons : Shelter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Obdach in der Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 62042 - shelter. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Entry on shelter in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Website of the market town Obdach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
3. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 55 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
4. ↑ General State Law and Government Gazette for the Crown Land of Styria, Issue 21, October 7, 1850, No. 378.
5. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 21, 2013 about the union of the market community Obdach and the communities Amering, Sankt Anna am Lavantegg and Sankt Wolfgang-Kienberg, all political district Murtal. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 6, 2013. No. 149, 35th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . Pp. 680-681.
6. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Obdach, population development. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Obdach, population status and structure. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
8. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Obdach, resident population by age and gender. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Dr Michael Alexander Populorum: Lavanttalbahn Zeltweg Obdach Wolfsberg St. Paul Lavanttal Lavamünd Unterdrauburg Dravograd Wöllern Velence Cilli Celje Railway. June 10, 2018, accessed December 6, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Obdach market town | Educational institutions. Retrieved December 6, 2019 . 
11. ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Obdach. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Obdach. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
13. ↑ 127. Announcement of the Styrian state government of December 10, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Obdach (political district of Murtal) , accessed on January 2, 2016