Krems in Carinthia

Krems in Carinthia
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Spittal an der Drau
License plate :	SP
Main town :	Iron rats
Surface:	207.48 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 55 '  N , 13 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 55 '24 "  N , 13 ° 34' 45"  E
Height :	807  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,661 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	8 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	9861, 9862
Area code :	0 47 35
Community code :	2 06 42
Address of the municipal administration:	No. 35 9861 Eisentratten
Website:	http://www.krems-in-kaernten.at/
politics
Mayor :	Johann Winkler ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members)	6th 5 3 1 6th 5 3 1  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 6 ÖVP : 5 List Krems : 3 FPÖ : 1
Location of Krems in Carinthia in the Spittal an der Drau district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

The former blast furnace in Eisentratten is now the landmark of the municipality of Krems

Evangelical Church Eisentratten

Tauern Autobahn - suspension bridge over Kremsbrücke

Rock formation in the Nockberge National Park

Krems in Carinthia is a municipality with 1661 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Spittal an der Drau district .

geography

The municipality is located in the north of Carinthia on the border with Salzburg and Styria . The municipal area, the fourth largest in Carinthia with an area of ​​207 km², extends over the Katsch and Liesertal valleys and extends deep into the Nock area with the Kremsgraben and Leobengraben. Part of the municipality is located in the Nockberge Biosphere Park .

The main places in the community are Eisentratten, Innerkrems and Kremsbrücke.

Community structure

The community is divided into the seven cadastral communities Eisentratten, Kremsbrücke, Leoben , Nöring, Puchreit, Reitern and St. Nikolai. The municipality includes the following 33 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Densdorf (39)
• Iron rats (312)
• Gamschitz (65)
• Hammer bottom (9)
• Heitzelsberg (86)
• Illwitzen (11)
• Innerkrems (65)
• Innernöring (47)
• Krems Bridge (121)
• Laggen (37)
• Leoben (29)
• Leobengraben (43)
• Lientsch (58)
• Neuhammer (3)
• Oberburgstallberg (25)
• Oberkremsberg (13)
• Pirkeggen (34)
• Plessnitz (62)
• Pressingberg (77)
• Puchreit (92)
• Purbach (16)
• Smoking gossip (2)
• Horsemen (43)
• Sonnberg (79)
• St. Nikolai (35)
• Stone wall (16)
• Unterburgstallberg (30)
• Unterremsberg (39)
• Lower brake bridge (4)
• Front brake (53)
• Front ring (95)
• Wetschenbach (21)
• Winkl (0)

Neighboring communities

• City of Gmünd
• Radenthein
• Kaning
• Bad Kleinkirchheim

history

In 1197 the archbishopric Salzburg castle was called Rauchenkatsch , which was located a little north of Kremsbrücke and was destroyed by an earthquake in 1201.

The oldest church in the municipality, “St. Nikolaus ”in St. Nikolai, was first mentioned in 1351.

Iron ore was mined in Innerkrems from the 14th century . The oldest document about this comes from the year 1399; Archbishop Gregor V of Salzburg awarded Paul von Hamersbach his "Hammer und Plahütten" in it. Around 1400 there was an iron hammer mill in Eisentratten . The first Austrian raft furnace was built in Kremsbrücke in 1541 , and the first blast furnace in Eisentratten - built by Jakob Türgg - was put into operation on August 13, 1566 . His residence "Türggenhaus" is named after Türgg and has been preserved to this day.

After the Krems blast furnace was closed in 1834, a new, 10.64 m high furnace was built in Eisentratten by Count Lodron in 1861, which was in operation until iron ore mining in Innerkrems was stopped in 1883; the decommissioned blast furnace was preserved and is the symbol of the community today.

In 1872 an independent local community Kremsbrücke was separated from the town of Gmünd . From this in turn Eisentratten became an independent municipality in 1902. The latter was enlarged in 1958 by parts of the dissolved municipality of Puchreit. During the municipal structural reform in 1973, Kremsbrücke and most of the municipality of Eisentratten were combined to form the new municipality of Krems in Carinthia. The "Krems" is a side valley of the Liesertal , here the mining and smelting of iron ore began in the late Middle Ages.

Despite the location on the long and important traffic route over the Katschberg, the localities of today's large municipality were and are strongly characterized by agriculture. In the last few decades tourism has played an increasingly important role for the community, mainly due to the Nockalmstrasse and the Nockberge National Park and the Innerkrems ski area.

population

According to the 2001 census, Krems has 2,157 inhabitants in Carinthia, 96.7% of which are Austrian and 1.5% German . 68.2% of the population profess to the Roman Catholic and 28.5% to the Protestant Church, 1.8% are without religious beliefs.

In 1890 the community had 2,734 inhabitants. For a hundred years the population was then constant at around 2,500 people. Since 1980 the population has fallen sharply, by around 200 people per decade. The birth balance is positive, but emigration is much stronger.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Krems in Carinthia

• Former blast furnace in Eisentratten
• Evangelical Church Eisentratten
• Catholic parish church Kremsalpe hl. Andreas
• Nockberge National Park with the Nockalmstraße , the Karlbad and the Zechner-Alm Alpine Farm Museum

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Carinthia in 2003, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP and 5 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Carinthia in 2009 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 SPÖ, 6 ÖVP and 5 BZÖ. (19 members)
• With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Carinthia in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 6 SPÖ, 5 ÖVP, 3 Krems list and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• since ? Johann Winkler (SPÖ)

coat of arms

The newly formed community chose the dominant industrial monument, the Konstantin blast furnace in Eisentratten, as the motif for the coat of arms. The coat of arms and flag were awarded on November 30, 1983, the flag is green and white with an integrated coat of arms.

Partner municipality

The German municipality of Poppenricht in Bavaria is Krems' partner municipality.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Hoffmann (1552–1614), Austrian Benedictine
• Hanns Gasser (1817–1868), sculptor and painter
• Karl Bauer (1834–1895), Protestant pastor and politician
• Josef Mölschl (1929–2019), politician ( ÖVP ) and teacher

Personalities associated with the community

• Hansjörg Lein (* 1953), Evangelical Lutheran pastor and superintendent
• Otmar Striedinger (* 1991), ski racer

literature

• Horst Wilscher: Krems in Carinthia. Church Chronicle. Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-900531-78-2 .

Web links

Commons : Krems in Kärnten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Krems municipality in Carinthia
• 20642 - Krems in Carinthia. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 3, 2019 . 
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the municipality of Krems, population development. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .