Donawitz

This article describes the Leoben district. For the municipality of the same name in the Czech Republic, see Stanovice u Karlových Var .

Donawitz ( district ) locality cadastral community Donawitz
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Leoben  (LE), Styria
Judicial district	Leoben
Pole. local community	Leoben
Coordinates	47 ° 22 '32 "  N , 15 ° 4' 20"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 22 '32 "  N , 15 ° 4' 20"  E
height	556  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	3424 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	623 (2001)
Area  d. KG	8.1 km²
Post Code	8700 Leoben, 8792 St. Peter-Freienstein
Statistical identification
Locality code	15672
Cadastral parish number	60303
Counting district / district	Neudorf - Mallinger settlement ; Donawitz 2, Donawitz 3; Neuwerk , Donawitz 1, Kerpelykolonie , Donawitz 4, Im Tal ; Donawitz Center; On the lowlands (61108 021; 073.074; 080.081.082.083.084; 090; 103)
Cadastral communities of Leoben: (4) Donawitz
Donawitz steelworks of voestalpine
Former municipality until 1938 Source: STAT : Place directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk ; City of Leoben

Donawitz is a district as well as a village and cadastral municipality of the municipality of Leoben in Upper Styria , in the Leoben district of Styria .

The former community is best known for the location of the Donawitz iron and steel works .

geography

Donawitz is just under two kilometers west of the Leoben town center at the entrance to the Vordernberger Bach valley . Coming from the Präbichl in the north, this flows into the Mur from the left , which makes a northward loop in the meanders of the Leoben Basin , so that the valley near Donawitz runs almost in an east-west direction. The place is at an altitude of 620  m above sea level. A.

The village has over 600 buildings with around 4200 inhabitants, around two thirds of them directly in the village. This is also where the steel mill and the Kerpely colony are located . The local area also includes the Rotte Neuwerk right into the valley, the group of houses in the valley , that is the side valley of the Talbach , and parts of the scattered houses on the lowlands above the Talbach on the ridge Schillerhöhe - Galgenberg , the Riedl between Vordernberger Bach and Murtal in the south. The cadastral community also includes this area and runs north of the place with a small extension to the summit of the Bärnerkogel  ( 1044  m above sea level ), one of Leoben's local mountains.

Neighborhoods, cadastral communities and places:

Sankt Peter-Freienstein (O. u. KG, Gem.) Neuwerk	Tollinggraben (O. u. KG, Gem. St. Peter-Freienstein )	Neudorf
Traidersberg (O. u. KG, municipality of St. Peter-Freienstein )		Leoben  (O.) Waasen  (KG)
In the valley  Jassing (O. and KG, Gem. St. Michael iO )	On the lowland	Leitendorf (O. and KG)

history

Donawitz steelworks of voestalpine

The village, first mentioned in 1149 as Tunuize , was already settled in Roman times. The name goes back to the original Slavic * Tonevica (place at the pond / swamp). A grave chapel from the 3rd century is kept in the Graz State Museum Joanneum . The place has been shaped by the iron industry since the Middle Ages. As early as 1314, the place was named as an important trading center for iron , which was extracted from the ore of the Styrian Erzberg in numerous ironworks - called wheel works - in the Vordernbergertal . In 1436 an iron hammer is mentioned here. The upswing begins with the founding of Franzenshütte in 1837 by Franz Mayr , and the connection to the railway by means of the connecting line between the Südbahn and Kronprinz-Rudolfs-Bahn in 1868. In 1881 the Austrian Alpine Montangesellschaft  (OAMG) was founded, to which the Hut Donawitz belonged - from this, together with other plants, VOEST emerged .

In 1938, when large communities were formed all over Austria after the Anschluss , the community of Donawitz also came to Leoben.

The place became world-famous through the Linz-Donawitz process for steel production from the 1950s, today two thirds of the world’s crude steel production is produced using this method. After the crisis of the Austrian and especially the Upper Styrian steel industry in the 1970s / 80s and the switch to special steels and products, Donawitz is once again a flourishing location. The Donawitz steel, rail and wire works , which today belongs to the Metal Engineering Division of the Voestalpine Group, is the largest manufacturer of railroad tracks in Europe.

Personalities

• Anton Linhart (born July 24, 1942 in Donawitz, † May 12, 2013 in Timonium, Maryland), soccer and American football player

literature

• Matthias Wieland, Obersteirischer Kulturbund (Ed.): Donawitz, more than one district of Leoben . Self-published by the Upper Styrian Cultural Association, 1994.
• Susanne Leitner-Böchzelt: Leoben . “The” series of archive images. Sutton Verlag GmbH, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89702-408-3 , chapter 5. Donawitz - heart of the Styrian steel industry , pp. 87–118 - numerous historical photos.

proof

• 61108 - Leoben. Community data, Statistics Austria .

1. ↑ Stadtgemeinde Leoben (Ed.): Statistisches Jahrbuch 2011 . Chapter 2. Population and culture ( pdf  ( 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. , Leoben.at)  
2. ↑ 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. 34 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
3. ↑ In detail in Georg Goeth : Das Herzogthum Steiermark: geographically, statistically and topographically presented and provided with historical explanations . tape 2 . Verlag J. G. Heubner, Vienna 1841, 19th district of Leoben 2. Donawitz tax municipality , p. 313 f . ( Google eBook, full view ).
4. ↑ LD process conquers the world . Roman Sandgruber in Oberösterreichische Nachrichten , March 26, 2008