Leibnitz

This article deals with the Styrian city of Leibnitz. For other meanings see Leibnitz (disambiguation) .

Borough Leibnitz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Surface:	23.53 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 47 '  N , 15 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 46 '59 "  N , 15 ° 32' 42"  E
Height :	275  m above sea level A.
Residents :	12,437 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8430, 8435, 8451, 8462
Area code :	03452
Community code :	6 10 53
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 24 8430 Leibnitz
Website:	www.leibnitz.at
politics
Mayor :	Helmut Leitenberger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (31 members)	16 8th 4th 2 1 16 8th 4th 2 1  A total of 31 seats SPÖ : 16 ÖVP : 8 FPÖ : 4 GREEN : 2 BFL : 1
Location of Leibnitz in the Leibnitz district
Panorama over Leibnitz and Wagna to the east
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Leibnitz is a city in the Austrian state of Styria with 12,437 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) and the district capital of the district of the same name . As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , it has merged with the former municipalities of Kaindorf an der Sulm and Seggauberg since 2015 , and continues to use the name Leibnitz. The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

geography

Leibnitz is located in southern Styria, about 33 km south of Graz between the Mur and Sulm rivers in the Leibnitzer Feld . The highest elevation in the municipality is 496  m above sea level. A. high Kreuzkogel above the Sulmtal.

Community structure

The municipality comprises eight localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Grotto courtyard (195)
• Kaindorf (2393)
• Kogelberg (97)
• Leibnitz (8834)
• Oberlupitscheni (145)
• Rettenbach (104)
• Schoenegg (139)
• Seggauberg (530)

The community area is divided into nine cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2018):

• Altenmarkt (131.61 ha)
• Grottenhofen (263.17 ha)
• Kaindorf an der Sulm (208.70 ha)
• Kogelberg (183.27 ha)
• Leibnitz (463.14 ha)
• Oberlupitscheni (273.13 ha)
• Rettenbach (60.49 ha)
• Schönegg (189.02 ha)
• Seggauberg (579.40 ha)

Neighboring communities

	Tillmitsch	Gralla
Heimschuh		Wagna
	Gamlitz	Ehrenhausen on the Weinstrasse

climate

Leibnitz 1971-2000
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     31   3 -5     39   6th -4     53   11 0     62   16 4th     88   21st 9     111   24 12     117   26th 14th     120   26th 13     89   21st 10     75   16 5     73   8th 0     50   4th -4 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: http://www.zamg.ac.at/fix/klima/oe71-00/klima2000/klimadaten_oesterreich_1971_frame1.htm

Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Leibnitz 1971–2000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.8 6.2 11.3 15.9 21.2 24.1 26.0 25.5 21.3 15.5 7.9 3.5 O 15.1 Min. Temperature (° C) -5.4 -3.9 -0.2 3.8 8.6 12.0 13.5 13.2 9.7 5.0 -0.2 -3.9 O 4.4 Temperature (° C) -2.1 0.1 4.5 9.0 14.2 17.4 19.0 18.3 14.2 9.0 3.0 -0.9 O 8.9 Precipitation ( mm ) 30.9 39.3 52.9 61.7 88.3 111.1 116.9 119.6 88.6 75.0 73.2 50.3 Σ 907.8 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2.9 4.2 4.7 5.6 6.8 7.1 7.6 7.3 5.8 4.5 3.1 2.5 O 5.2 Rainy days ( d ) 5.2 5.6 6.4 8.0 10.4 11.0 10.4 9.6 8.0 6.3 7.8 5.9 Σ 94.6 Source: http://www.zamg.ac.at/fix/klima/oe71-00/klima2000/klimadaten_oesterreich_1971_frame1.htm

history

The earliest written document is from 970 and reads "civitas Lipnizza". The name goes back to the old Slavic Lipъnica (linden settlement).

Population development

Economy and Infrastructure

Leibnitz is primarily known as a wine, culture, school and shopping city. There are restaurants and hotels near the main square. The Leibnitzer Feld is used intensively for agriculture. Traditionally, the cultivation of kukuruz (ugs. Also called “woaz”) and pumpkins , from which Styrian pumpkin seed oil is made, predominate here . With the closure of the Hermann barracks in 2007 as part of the army reform, Leibnitz's 46-year military tradition as a garrison town came to an end.

The surrounding hills are used as wine-growing areas. There are taverns on them , most of them in the nearby communities of Kitzeck and Gamlitz .

Public transport and accessibility

Leibnitz train station with the bus station in the foreground (before the renovation)

Leibnitz station after the renovation

Leibnitz is connected to the Styrian rapid transit network with hourly connections to Graz main station and Spielfeld-Straß . The interval is compressed at peak times. Two pairs of Eurocity trains run to Vienna and Ljubljana and Zagreb via Maribor . The Leibnitz train station was rebuilt by 2012 to a modern transport station. The Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 leads directly past Leibnitz.

Leisure time

In the winter season there is an ice rink, in the summer the municipal outdoor pool with a campsite and sports facility, tennis courts and mini golf course is open. Leibnitz also has a city library and a cinema. A service and shopping center was realized from 2007 on Wasserwerkstraße. Concerts, gospels and film screenings take place regularly in the “Leibnitz Cultural Center” . The “Marenzihaus” has established itself as a facility for cabarets , jazz and readings. The biggest events are the autumn festival with a parade on Sunday, the Leibnitz Wine Week with the hobby artist market and the day of the Styrian sparkling wine.

The main square was redesigned as part of the 2004 state exhibition with the theme "The Romans in Styria".

Southern Styria in the vicinity of Leibnitz is criss-crossed by cycle paths, with Leibnitz from Graz being connected to the Mur cycle path via an optional branch . The Sulmradweg, which partly runs along the route of the historic Sulmtalbahn , leads westwards for bike tours, for example to Gleinstätten .

Schools and education

The city of Leibnitz has developed into a school center since the 1960s. Two kindergartens look after the youngest. Two elementary schools , two new middle schools , an expiring secondary school and a polytechnical school form the spectrum of compulsory schools. At secondary schools there is the Leibnitz Commercial School and the Leibnitz Commercial Academy as well as the BG and BRG Leibnitz. The Franz Koringer Music School is responsible for musical training. The higher technical college in Kaindorf also covers the vocational school area.

• HTBLA Kaindorf

Tourism association

Tourism Association South Styria with the communities Leibnitz, Gleinstätten , Grossklein , Heimschuh , Kitzeck iS, St.Andrä iS, St. Johann iS , St. Nikolai / Dr. , St. Nikolai / S., St. Veit idS, Wagna . The seat is in Leibnitz.

Culture and sights in Leibnitz and the surrounding area

Temporary art project "Crash" at Leibnitzer Hauptplatz (2013)

See also:  List of listed objects in Leibnitz

• Leibnitz Monastery

• Art project crash at Leibnitzer Hauptplatz: In 2013, a temporary art object was installed as part of the 100th anniversary of the city ​​of Leibnitz . The artist Werner Reiterer apparently let a car crash into the Marian column. The campaign cost 30,000 euros and was ended prematurely after the car was victim of an arsonist on November 17th.
• Seggau Castle with walled-in “Roman stones”, also used as a conference center
• The 381 m high Frauenberg with the Frauenberg Church and the Temple Museum is of archaeological importance, as finds have shown that there has been a settlement since the Neolithic Age . The temple district is described as one of the most prominent testimonies of Roman culture in Austria and has been scientifically investigated.
• Grottenhof Nature Park Center (Regioneum), Kaindorf an der Sulm
• Sulmsee amusement park
• Silberberg wine school with educational wine trail
• On the Kreuzkogel, next to the observation tower built in 1849 on the summit, there is the Silberbergwarte , a few meters high 1871 solidly masonry lookout point, which is located north of the viticulture school on the wine trail.
• Municipal Bad Leibnitz

In the area and the neighboring communities

• The Roman city and Roman museum Flavia Solva in the market town of Wagna
• Retzhof Castle offers congresses, workshops and cultural events in the market town of Wagna
• Roman cave and guard house near the cave in Aflenz, Wagna
• 17 pleasure spots in the region "The best locations. Southern Styria", Leibnitz - Wagna
• Sausal Wine Route
• Klapotetz Wine Route
• South Styrian Wine Route
• Kitzeck im Sausal , the highest wine-growing town in Europe

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  The listed town hall in Leibnitz

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  Main square with Marian column

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  City parish church

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  Leibnitz Autumn Festival with Thanksgiving Parade, 2008

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  Perchtenlauf in Leibnitz city center, November 2009

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  Seggau Castle

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  Pilgrimage Church Frauenberg

politics

mayor

The employee Helmut Leitenberger (SPÖ) was elected mayor of the enlarged municipality of Leibnitz in the constituent meeting with the votes of all 31 municipal councils on April 20, 2015 . Leitenberger, who took office for the first time in 2005, was mayor of the formerly smaller town until December 31, 2014. Due to the structural reform of the municipality , he lost this status on January 1, 2015, but continued to run the municipality as government commissioner and was confirmed in his office by the election in April 2015.

The community board also includes the first vice mayor Helga Cernko (SPÖ), the second vice mayor Gerald Hofer (ÖVP), the financial advisor Alfred Pauli (SPÖ) and the city ​​councilors Johann Hoffmann (SPÖ), Johann Hutter (ÖVP) and Daniel Kos (FPÖ) .

List of mayors of Leibnitz

Since the city elevation there have been 14 mayors and three government commissioners in Leibnitz. Before the city elevation, this office held ten people, Ignatz Forster headed the community three times with interruptions and Leo Klein twice with interruptions.

Mayor since the city was raised Term of office Surname job 1901-1913 Franz Holzer District Doctor 1913 - Feb. 15, 1917 Emmerich Assmann Manufacturer Feb 28, 1917 - Jan 7 1932 Theodor Jäger Lawyer April 24, 1932 - July 25, 1933 Alfred Obsieger Federal railway official 1933 - June 1934 Arnold Mader 1 Upper Government Council July 1934 - March 1938 Ignaz Forstner 1 hotelier 1938-1945 Alfred Obsieger Federal railway official i. R., full-time mayor June 11, 1945 - April 1946 Walter Zach City Councilor April 1946 - April 23, 1950 Josef Vollmann City mason May 13, 1950 - April 21, 1965 Anton Fettinger Senior councilor in retirement April 1965 - December 31, 1977 Franz Augustin Head of court Jan. 1 1978 - Aug 31, 1983 Hans Stoisser Furniture manufacturer and member of the state parliament Aug 31, 1983-1991 Wolfried Filek-Wittinghausen State official 1991-1995 Franz Vollmann City builder May 2, 1995-2005 Hans Kindermann Entrepreneur 2005 - Dec 31, 2014 Helmut Leitenberger employee Jan. 1 - April 19, 2015 Helmut Leitenberger 2 since April 20, 2015 Helmut Leitenberger 1 Government commissioner 2 Government commissioner until the new election in March 2015

Mayor before the city elevation Term of office Surname job 1801-1822 Valentin Kaspar 1822-1829 Joseph Stigler 1829-1832 Max itchy 1832-1836 Ignatz Forstner Master dyer 1836-1840 Joseph Stigler 1840-1861 Ignatz Forstner Master dyer 1861-1873 Leo Klein Lawyer 1873-1874 Ignatz Forstner Master dyer 1874-1875 Alfons Seredinsky Manufacturer 1875-1879 Franz Gruber Leather master 1879-1882 Leopold Stramitzer Lawyer 1882-1886 Leo Klein Lawyer 1886-1889 Otmar Russheim pharmacist 1889-1895 Ludwig Herrmann Master plumber (verification master) 1895-1901 Leopold Stramitzer Lawyer

Municipal council

The municipal council has 31 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:

• 16 seats SPÖ
• 8 mandates ÖVP
• 4 mandates FPÖ
• 2 mandates The Greens
• 1 mandate for the Leibnitz Citizens' Forum

Municipal council elections

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

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49.95%
(-6.39  % p )

24.11%
(-4.11  % p )

12.48%
(+ 8.16  % p )

6.10%
(+1.00  % p )

5.54%
(-0.49  % p )

SPÖ

ÖVP

FPÖ

GREEN

BF-LV

2010



2015



choice	Eligible voters	votes cast	valid votes	invalid votes	voter turnout
Local council election on March 22, 2015	9,761	5,974	5,922	52	61.20%
Local council election on March 21, 2010	6.221	4,532	4,494	38	72.85%
Local council election on March 13, 2005	5,873	4.153	4.126	27	70.71%
Local council election on March 19, 2000	5,372	4,054	4,008	46	75.47%

Election results

Party / list	March 22, 2015			March 14, 2010			March 13, 2005			March 19, 2000
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
SPÖ	2958	49.95	16	2532	56.34	15th	1854	44.93	11	0979	24.43	06th
ÖVP	1428	24.11	08th	1268	28.22	07th	1886	45.71	12	2259	56.36	16
FPÖ	0739	12.48	04th	0194	04.32	01	0166	04.02	01	0314	07.83	02
Green	0361	06.10	02	0229	05.10	01	0220	05.33	01	0202	05.04	01
Citizens' Forum Leibnitz (BFL)	0328	05.54	01	0271	06.03	01	not running
NEOS	0108	01.82	00	not running
LIF	not running									0069	01.72	00
Leibnitz Active Heinz Gutmann	not running									0100	02.50	00
We for Leibnitz	not running									0085	02.12	00

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
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  Kaindorf an der Sulm

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  Leibnitz

• 

  Seggauberg

All three predecessor communities each had a community coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality took effect on April 25, 2016.
The blazon reads:

"A blue shield, traversed by a six-tinned silver ashlar wall standing on a green shield base, underlaid with a towering golden church with three Gothic, black openwork tracery pointed arched windows between four pilaster strips on the long side and an open, black-open Gothic door on the left Side wall; the gable roof, which is equipped with a golden button and a finial at both ends, is provided in the center with a hexagonal roof turret with a Gothic tracery pointed arched window, the pointed roof of which also has a golden button and a finial. "

Town twinning

• Gumpoldskirchen , Lower Austria
• Mira , Italy
• Pedra Badejo , Cape Verde

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1976 Franz Wegart (1918–2009), Deputy Governor

sons and daughters of the town

• Wilhelm Zöhrer (1871–1936), abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht
• Rigobert Possek (1873–1937), ophthalmologist
• Konradin Ferrari d'Occhieppo (1907-2007), astronomer
• Karl Wolf (1910–1995), philosopher and educator
• Leopold Kretzenbacher (1912–2007), folklorist
• Klaus Kada (* 1940), architect
• Manfred Josel (* 1944), drummer
• Manfred Schubert-Zsilavecz (* 1961), pharmaceutical chemist
• Thomas Muster (* 1967), tennis player
• Sigi Feigl (* 1961), saxophonist, jazz musician and concert organizer
• Andrea Wenzl (* 1979), actress

Personalities associated with Leibnitz

• The noble family "von Leibnitz" (extinct), see Friedrich III. from Leibnitz
• Karoline Marenzi, see Marenzi
• Karl Morré (1832–1897), folk poet and member of the Reichstag, ran a farm in Leibnitz
• Franz Koringer (1921–2000), director of the music school, composer
• Emmerich Assmann (born January 8, 1926 - † May 3, 2005), former industrialist, politician

Historical maps

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  Sausal and Leibnitz around 1790, Josephinische Landesaufnahme

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  Leibnitz belonged to the Marburger Kreis (yellow) until the middle of the 19th century , the border to the Grazer Kreis (red-brown) ran in the Murtal at Teufelsgraben, depiction around 1855

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  Sausal, Leibnitz, Unterlauf von Laßnitz and von Sulm, 1879, recording sheet of the 3rd regional survey

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  Special map sheet 5255 Leibnitz and Wildon , 1894/1914

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  General map of Central Europe sheet 33 ° 47 ° Graz, 1893

Web links

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

Wikisource: Leibnitz in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 61053 - Leibnitz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Entry on Leibnitz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• www.leibnitz.at Website of the city of Leibnitz
• Website Tempelmuseum Frauenberg

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 5, Item 1 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip (1,221 KB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019
5. ↑ 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. 35 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
6. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. 27/2019 of July 5, 2019
7. ↑ Bernhard Schrettle, Jörg Fürnholzer, Stephan Karl, Stella Tsironi: The Roman temple district on the woman near Leibnitz. In the series: Find reports from Austria. ISSN  0429-8926 ZDB -ID 213982-0 . Material booklet A 21. Publisher: Federal Monuments Office. Editing: Nikolaus Hofer. Berger Verlag, Vienna 2014. ISBN 978-3-85028-673-2 .
8. ↑ wine school Silberberg silberberg.at
9. ↑ Lookout points and lookout towers on G'sund.net
10. ↑ ^{a b} Our Leibnitz, May / June 2015 edition: Constituent meeting of the municipal council  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF document, 4.05 MB; accessed on June 11, 2015)
11. ↑ Mayor of Leibnitz. (PDF; 55 kB) City of Leibnitz, archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; accessed on December 11, 2019 (original website no longer available). 
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Leibnitz district - final result. 29 of 29 municipalities were counted. State of Styria, March 23, 2015, accessed on December 11, 2019 . 
13. ↑ ^{a b} Stadtgemeinde Leibnitz: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: election results 2010 )
14. ↑ ^{a b} Stadtgemeinde Leibnitz: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: election results 2005 )
15. ↑ ^{a b} Stadtgemeinde Leibnitz: ( page no longer available , search in web archives: election results 2000 )
16. ↑ 46. ​​Announcement of the Styrian state government of April 7, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the city of Leibnitz (political district Leibnitz) , accessed on April 27, 2016