Shepherds

Shepherds
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate :	HF (from 1.7.2013; old: HB)
Surface:	32.37 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 29 '  N , 16 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '39 "  N , 16 ° 6' 43"  E
Height :	601  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,349 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8244, 2870, 2871
Area code :	03339
Community code :	6 22 47
Address of the municipal administration:	Dorfstrasse 7/3 8244 Schäffern
Website:	www.schaeffern.at
politics
Mayor :	Thomas Gruber ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	14th 1 14th 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 14 FPÖ : 1
Location of shepherds in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Parish church in Schäffern
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schäffern (top left) around 1878 (recording sheet of the state survey )

Baernegg castle ruins

Styrian side of the border stone, which marks the triangle

Tower of the ruined St. Niklaus Church

Schäffern with 1349 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) is a municipality in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld . It is the easternmost municipality in Styria ( Austria ).

geography

Geographical location

Schäffern is about 39 km north of the district capital Hartberg at the foot of the Wechsel . The Hunchback World begins east of Schäffern . The municipality is bounded in the north and east by Lower Austria (municipality of Hochneukirchen-Gschaidt ), in the south by Burgenland (municipality of Oberschützen ) and is therefore at the northeastern end of the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district in the triangle of three countries .

The municipality is largely drained by the tributaries of the Pinka , a tributary of the Raab . The Zöbernbach rises in the far north of the municipality and flows into the Güns at Lockenhaus .

Since Schäffern is only on the eastern edge of the change, it has only a few outstanding elevations. The highest point in the municipality is the Hartberg (913 m) in the north, the highest point in the east is the municipality block (744 m).

Community structure

The municipality of Schäffern is made up of five cadastral municipalities : (area 2016):

• Anger (667.39 ha)
• Elsenau (871.87 ha)
• Götzendorf (441.19 ha)
• Knolln (606.84 ha)
• Schäffern (647.40 ha)

With the municipal council resolution of November 13, 2012, the new villages of Karnegg, Neussing and Elsenau took place . The municipality consists of ten localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Anger (90)
• Elsenau (274) with Karnegg
• Goetzendorf (135)
• Guggendorf (151)
• Haberl (50)
• Karnegg (81)
• Knolln (62) with Hartberg
• Neussing (22)
• Schäffern (435) with Neussing
• Hospital (49)

Counting groups are:

• 62247000 shepherds
• 62247001 Sparberegg (Note: Götzendorf was part of the Sparberegg municipality until 1967)

Neighboring communities

Schäffern has only one neighboring municipality in Styria, two are in the Burgenland district of Oberwart (OW), three in the Lower Austrian districts of Neunkirchen (NK) and Wiener Neustadt (WB).

Mönichkirchen (NK)	Zöbern (NK)	Zöbern (NK)
Pinggau (HF)		Hochneukirchen-Gschaidt (WB)
Pinggau (HF)	Wiesfleck (OW)	Oberschützen (OW)

geology

The municipality is a mountain and hill country made of crystalline rock with slab gneiss deposits as well as mica schist and serpentine . The surface consists of shallow, loamy brown earth .

climate

The temperature in the municipality varies between −2 ° C in winter and +18 ° C in summer. Over the year, between 500 mm and 1200 mm of precipitation falls. By inversions greater temperature differences can occur at higher elevations.

history

With the exception of the area around the Spital settlement, which belonged to the Johannitern in Fürstenfeld , what is now the community area belonged to Vorau Abbey when it was founded in 1163. However, the area fell to the Lords of Schildgraben as early as 1170, who opened up the northeastern part of Styria and built Bärnegg Castle near Elsenau. But they lost the castle and the surrounding land due to their participation in the aristocratic conspiracy against Frederick III. and could not recapture it until the middle of the 16th century.

The current cadastral communities of Elsenau and Götzendorf are first mentioned in 1316 as Puschenaw and Göczingsdorf . The other towns, including shepherds, were first mentioned in 1521.

Due to the location of the community in the border area with Hungary , the villages not only suffered from the reconquest by Frederick III, but also from the attacks of the Turks in 1532 and the Kuruzen in 1706. After that, the situation in the municipality has calmed down, with the exception of the two world wars.

On January 1, 1968, the municipality of Sparberegg, consisting of the cadastral municipalities of Sparberegg and Götzendorf, was merged with the municipality of Schäffern. On January 1st 1969 the cadastral community Sparberegg came from Schäffern to Pinggau.

Population development

politics

City council election 2020

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mayor

Thomas Gruber (ÖVP) has been the mayor since April 24, 2015, succeeding Josef Winkler (also ÖVP).

The community board also includes the Vice Mayor Martin Prenner (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Franz Osterbauer (ÖVP).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members:

• 14 mandates ÖVP
• 1 mandate FPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2020			2015			2010			2005			2000			1995			1990
	be right	%	M.	be right	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	835	92.78	14th	837	88	14th	863	85	13	759	75	12	714	78	12	756	81	13	567	62	10
FPÖ	065	7.22	01	not running			not running			not running			089	10	01	not running			not running
SPÖ	not running			115	12	01	154	15th	02	252	25th	03	112	12	02	091	10	01	098	11	01
Citizen List	not running			not running			not running			not running			not running			090	10	01	248	27	04th
voter turnout	82.36%			86%			89%			90%			87%			91%			93%

coat of arms

Blazon :

Of blue, green and red with silver counter battlements afford divided , in the green field silvery a border bear with knocked-out tongue and black collar with silver chain departing.

The bear is the heraldic animal of the Perner zu Perneck (Bärnegg) .

With effect from January 1, 1992, the Styrian state government gave the municipality of Schäffern its own coat of arms.

Tourism association

Together with Friedberg, Pinggau and Dechantskirchen, the community forms the Wechselland tourism association . Its seat is in Schäffern.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Schäffern has hardly any through traffic, but is still well connected, as the A 2 south autobahn from Vienna to Graz runs through the municipality. It can be reached via the connection points Aspang-Markt (exit 81), Schäffern (exit 87) and Friedberg / Pinggau (exit 95). The Steinamangerer Straße B 63 from Pinggau to Pinkafeld is approx. 4 km from the southern municipality around Götzendorf, the Wechsel Straße B 54 from Pinggau to Wiener Neustadt approx. 10 km from the northern municipality around Schäffern.

There is no railway line running through the municipality. The alternate path from Aspang-Markt to Friedberg affects the western edge of the municipality . It can be reached via the diving-Schaueregg stop (about two kilometers from the western municipality) or from Aspang train station (about ten kilometers from the northern municipality). The railway line offers regional train connections every two hours to Vienna in the north and to Hartberg in the south.

The Graz Airport and the airport Wien-Schwechat are each around 100 km away.

Established businesses

The community is predominantly agricultural and, with around 130 farms, is one of the largest agricultural communities in the district.

The Arcturus publishing house is based in the village of Elsenau. He has specialized in the publication of books on naturopathy , esotericism and astrology .

education

There is a primary school in Schäffern.

Culture and sights

The chancel of the Schäffern parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Schäffern

• Catholic parish church Schäffern Hll. Peter and Paul: A parish was mentioned in 1277. The church in its current form was built in 1777 and last renovated in 1996.
• The castle Bärnegg at Elsenau is from one tower fall.
• Apart from the church tower, no remains of the Nikolauskirche in Elsenau have survived.
• In Schäffern there is a war cemetery from the Second World War for the fallen in the contested change area.
• Part of the Willersdorfer Gorge lies in the area of ​​the triangle on Schäffern municipality.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Josef Zingl (1883–1965), politician of the CS and ÖVP , member of the Styrian Landtag 1920–1930, member of the National Council 1930–1934, member of the Federal Council 1946–1949

Web links

Commons : Schäffern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62247 - Shepherds. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Homepage of the municipality (schaeffern.steiermark.at)
• Homepage of the parish Schäffern

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Postcode 8243 and 7421 to 8244  ( 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. at www.schaeffern.at, accessed on May 1, 2017  
2. ↑ Local council election 2020 - results Schäffern. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017
4. ↑ Styria State Law Gazette No. 61/2013 (approval)
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
6. ↑ Styria State Law Gazette No. 138/1967
7. ↑ Styria State Law Gazette No. 164/1968, the land concerned was determined by ordinance Styria. State Law Gazette No. 163/1969
8. ↑ Local council election in Schäffern 2020. In: orf.at
9. ↑ Community information 2/2015. (PDF) Schäffern community, April 24, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2016 . 
10. ^ Kleine Zeitung of April 28, 2015: All SP candidates rejected the mandate , accessed on April 29, 2015
11. ^ Community Schäffern: local council , accessed on May 27, 2015
12. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Purkarthofer: The Styrian municipal coats of arms awarded in 1991 and 1992. In: Mitteilungen des Stmk. Landesarchivs 42-43 (1992/1993), appendix, p. 57 ( full article, p. 45–64 , landesarchiv.steiermark.at; there p. 13).
13. ^ A "bear made of sheet metal", a former wind vane of Bärnegg Castle from the 1850s, can be found in the collection of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, today the Styrian State Archives. Information in Mittheilungen des Historisches Verein für Steiermark , Vol. 4 (1853), list of gifts received by the association , G. Altertümer , No. 138, p. 40 ( digitized, Google, complete view ; start of list p. 14 ).
14. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 327. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 632.