Kraig

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Kraig (village)
locality
cadastral community Kraig
Kraig (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Sankt Veit an der Glan  (SV), Carinthia
Judicial district Sankt Veit an der Glan
Pole. local community Frauenstein
Coordinates 46 ° 48 '44 "  N , 14 ° 22' 2"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '44 "  N , 14 ° 22' 2"  Ef1
height 630  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 436 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 135 (2001)
Area  d. KG 13.14 km²
Post Code 9311f1
Statistical identification
Locality code 01477
Cadastral parish number 74513
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; KAGIS
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436

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Kraig is a village in Carinthia and the main town of the Frauenstein community . The place with 436 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) was an independent municipality from 1899 to 1973. The cadastral community Kraig with other localities covers an area of ​​13.14 km².

Geographical location

Kraig is 630  m above sea level. A. Altitude in the hilly landscape of the Wimitzer Mountains in Central Carinthia, about five kilometers north of the district capital St. Veit an der Glan . About 500 meters south of the village, near the hamlet of Seebichl, is the Kraiger See . The cadastral municipality covers the southeast of the municipality of Frauenstein between Mellach in the north and Hunnenbrunn in the south. Other localities within KG Kraig are Pörlinghof, Sand and Überfeld as well as some smaller settlements.

history

Church and Propsteihof in Kraig in Carinthia in a representation by Valvasor 1688

A rampart and stone ax finds on the Kulm near Kraig indicate an early settlement of the area. A rampart and Stone Age finds were also found on the Seebichlkopf, and there were finds from the Bronze Age in the local area . Numerous Roman relief and inscription stones were discovered in the area of ​​the parish.

The place was mentioned in a document in 1091 as Kriwig and 1164 as Chriwig . The place name Krivice can on the one hand be interpreted as a settlement of the Kriwa or the Krummen, on the other hand "crooked" could also refer to the area.

In the Middle Ages, silver was mined in the Kraig area.

When the local communities were constituted in 1849/1850, Kraig was initially part of the Pfannhof community together with the cadastral communities Pfannhof, Leiten and Meiselding. This expired in 1899 when it was divided into the now independent municipalities of Kraig and Meiselding . As part of the municipal structural reform in Carinthia in 1973 , the previously independent municipalities of Kraig, Schaumboden and Obermühlbach became the new municipality of Frauenstein. In the Frauenstein coat of arms, the heraldic three mountain in the shield foot reminds of the three old communities.

Buildings

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. Statistics Austria, Directory of Carinthia 2001, p. 98
  3. Hartwagner, p. 128
  4. ^ Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian community arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 102.