Dechantskirchen

Dechantskirchen
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:	29.08 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 25 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '0 "  N , 16 ° 1' 1"  E
Height :	531  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2.011 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8241
Area code :	03339
Community code :	6 22 65
Address of the municipal administration:	Dechantskirchen 34 8241 Dechantskirchen
Website:	www.dechantskirchen.at
politics
Mayoress :	Waltraud Schwammer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	11 4th 11 4th  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 4
Location of Dechantskirchen in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Dechantskirchen is a municipality with 2011 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Austria and is located in the federal state of Styria , court district Fürstenfeld and in the political district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld . On January 1, 2015, Dechantskirchen was expanded to include a part ( cadastral municipality of Schlag) of the neighboring municipality of Schlag near Thalberg , which had existed until then, as part of the municipal structural reform .

geography

Geographical location

Dechantskirchen is located in the northeast of the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district and also in Styria. The community is located approx. 15 km north of the district capital Hartberg . It lies at the foot of the foothills east of the Mur . The highest elevation in the municipality is the Hochkogel (1,314 m), the southernmost one-thousand-meter peak in the Wechsel . The municipality is crossed by some outflows of the change, which are all directly or indirectly tributaries of the Lafnitz .

Community structure

The community consists of the three cadastral communities Dechantskirchen, Hohenau, Kroisbach and Schlag or the following eight localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Bergen (108) with the three houses squad
• Burgfeld (122) with Höttling
• Dechantskirchen (634)
• Hohenau am Wechsel (105) with the scattered settlement Jockl in the courtyard
• Kroisbach (394) with killer
• Limbach (25)
• Schlag bei Thalberg (390) with fiefdom and Thalberg settlement
• Stögersbach (233)

Incorporations

On January 1, 1967, the community of Hohenau am Wechsel was incorporated into Dechantskirchen.

Neighboring communities

Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel	Pinggau	Friedberg
		Friedberg
Rohrbach an der Lafnitz	Grafenschachen	Pinkafeld

history

Dechantskirchen (bottom right) around 1878 (recording sheet of the state survey )

Due to the large number of standing menhirs and some known underground passages ( earth stables ), it can be assumed that there were human settlements as early as prehistoric times, i.e. 3000 to 1500 BC. In the municipality of Dechantskirchen.

Two tombstones, carved from marble, bear testimony to the settlement of the area around Dechantskirchen in Roman times, even if it is not much that the fragments walled in on the old cemetery wall east of the church reveal. The first passed down only the name of a certain Masculus MASCULO , the second was a tombstone for Calvisius, the son of Calventius CALVISIO CALVENTI (i filio). Both are the upper fragments of a stele and were found by the then chaplain Sales Prugger in 1846. The tombstone for Masculus is decorated with eagles, dolphins and palmettes. The second tombstone depicts a man in Roman clothing, a headless woman with a pomegranate and an armored soldier.

No structural remains have been preserved from the Slavs who immigrated at the end of the 6th century . At the end of the 8th century, the municipality became part of the Franconian Empire . However, it fell to the Hungarians at the end of the 9th century , before Henry III in 1043 . was recaptured. The community area first came to the Margraves of Wels-Lambach and soon to the Counts of Formbach and was until then a huge forest landscape.

The village of Dechantskirchen was first mentioned in a document in 1155, when Archbishop Eberhard I of Salzburg awarded the Admont Monastery two hubs. This written certificate of the place name reads "in villa Techanschirche". The name means a dean ( althd. Tëhhan) subordinate church . As early as 1163, the village came to Vorau Abbey on the occasion of its foundation by Margrave Ottokar III. As a result, the place changed hands frequently.

The village of Stögersbach is mentioned for the first time in 1396, while Kroisbach is mentioned for the first time as Chreuspach as early as 1381 . In the 14th century, the colonization of the municipality was completed.

Population development

Since 1981 there has been a negative migration balance , which was offset by a strongly positive birth balance until 2001 .

Culture and sights

Parish church Dechantskirchen

Thalberg Castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Dechantskirchen

• Parish church Dechantskirchen
• Thalberg Castle

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Dechantskirchen is located at Wechsel Straße B 54 and has a good connection to Hartberg in the south and Wiener Neustadt in the north as well as to the neighboring communities of Pinggau and Friedberg . The south autobahn A2 from Vienna to Graz can also be reached after about eight kilometers via the Friedberg-Pinggau junction (95).

In Dechantskirchen there is a train station for the thermal baths that has been downgraded to a stop . This offers regional train connections to Vienna and Hartberg every two hours .

Graz and Vienna airports are each approx. 100 km away.

politics

Municipal council

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010 1)			2005			2000			1995			1990
	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	933	67	10	955	65	2)	599	52	8th	632	61	9	739	68	10	672	62	9
SPÖ	342	24	04th	456	31	2)	445	39	6th	411	39	6th	353	32	5	414	38	6th
FPÖ	123	09	01	056	04th	2)	098	09	1	not running			not running			not running
voter turnout	81%			84%			85%			84%			90%			93%

¹⁾ The amalgamation of municipalities that has now taken place was reflected in the election results.
^{2) In the} case of merged municipalities, the fictitious comparison vote shows the total number of votes from the original municipalities. Therefore, mandate comparisons are not possible.

mayor

Mayor is Waltraud Schwammer (ÖVP), Vice Mayor is Johann Zinggl (ÖVP).

coat of arms

With effect from November 1, 1974, the community of Dechantskirchen was awarded a coat of arms.
Blazon : "In a shield divided diagonally from green to silver, a golden ear of wheat crossed with a silver sickle in a pole, and a red crown with a green palm branch at the bottom."

Tourism association

Together with Friedberg, Pinggau and Schäffern, the community forms the “ Wechselland ” tourism association . Its seat is the municipality of Schäffern.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The former community and today's cadastral community Hohenau am Wechsel has appointed the following honorary citizens:

• Pastor Alexander Mauerhofer, 1927
• District Captain Dr. Adolf Rochelt, 1932
• Otto von Habsburg (1912–2011), 1934
• Pastor Norbert Wurst, 1948
• Former Mayor Josef Groller, 1955
• District Captain Dr. Erwin Stibenegg, 1955

sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Reitmeier (1888–1977) came from Dechantskirchen and worked as a pastor and organizer in Treze Tílias (Dreizehnlinden), Brazil

Connected to the community

• Ottokar Kernstock (1848–1928), Austrian poet and priest, 1873–1889 chaplain in Dechantskirchen
• Reinhold Lopatka , ÖVP politician

Web links

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

• 62207 - Dechantskirchen. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local council election 2020 - results Dechantskirchen. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Section 5 (2) of the law of December 17, 2013 on the restructuring of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . Pp. 4-5.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ 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 ]).
5. ↑ A look at the community of Dechantskirchen. (PDF) Statistics Austria, accessed on June 19, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 327. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 632.