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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Styria

Political District :

Graz area

License plate :

GU

Surface:

11.73 km²

Coordinates :

46 ° 58 ′ N , 15 ° 20 ′ E Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 27 " N , 15 ° 20 ′ 15" E

Height :

334 m above sea level A.

Residents :

5,225 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

445 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

8501

Area code :

0 31 36

Community code :

6 06 29

NUTS region

AT221

Address of the
municipal administration:

Packerstrasse 85
8501 Lieboch

Website:

www.lieboch.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Stefan Helmreich ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2020)
(21 members)

16

5

3

1

16 5 3 1

A total of 25 seats

ÖVP : 16
SPÖ : 5
GREEN : 3
FPÖ : 1

Location of Lieboch in the Graz-Umgebung district

The parish church of Lieboch in May 2016

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Lieboch is a market town with 5225 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in western Styria , 16 kilometers southwest of Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district .

geography

Geographical location

Lieboch is located in the flatter part of the western Styrian hill country. Three brooks flow through the local area: the Liebochbach , the Lusenbach and the Arkenbach. All three flow into the Kainach in the extreme southwest of the municipality . In the east, Lieboch has a small share of the Kaiserwald .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following three localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Lieboch (3266) and Einöd
Schadendorf (953)
Spatenhof (1006)

The community consists of the cadastral community of Lieboch.

Neighboring communities

Söding-Sankt Johann	Heat village	Haselsdorf-Tobelbad
Mooskirchen		Premstätten
Mooskirchen	Lannach	Dobl-Zwaring

history

Straightening of the Kainach River in the 1930s

The area in which today's Lieboch is located belonged in pre-Christian times to the Celtic kingdom of Noricum and from the 1st century AD to the Roman province of the same name. During the migration period in the 5th and 6th centuries, Ostrogoths or Byzantines as well as Lombards ruled - at least nominally - over the remnants of the still resident Christian Celto-Roman population.

After most of the Longobards withdrew in 568, Slavs (Alpine Slavs ) gradually immigrated during the early 7th and 8th centuries at the latest, and were subsequently Christianized from Salzburg. The place name "Lieboch" comes from this Slavic period. It is possibly derived from the Slavic person or family name "Liubócha" and not from "ljub", as was often assumed in the past, which means "lovely".

The Slavs, as they had become dependent on the Duchy of Bavaria, were followed by larger groups of Bavarians in the late 8th and 9th centuries , who settled in the area around Lieboch ( Kainachtal ) - this is evident from the newly founded groups at this time Places with the typical Bavarian ending “ing” (e.g. “ Zwaring ”, “Fading”, “ Söding ”). By the 12th century at the latest, the partly Slavic population in and around Lieboch had been assimilated or "Germanized" by these Bavarian immigrants.

During the times of the Bavarian colonization of the country (9th-11th centuries), the town center was probably expanded to include further farms (including on today's Packerstraße). At the same time, further settlements were founded in the neighborhood. In this way, today's districts of Schadendorf and Spatenhof were created. The Kanzlerhof and the so-called Dörfl mit der Mühlau are also likely to have emerged only a little later.

The first known written mention of Lieboch dates back to the year 1138. Although it is more likely to be the present-day community of St. Bartholomä in the Liebochtal than today's Lieboch, this point marks a turning point. At that time Lieboch was owned by the Archbishops of Salzburg . The local farms (at least 26 can be traced back to the High Middle Ages) came as fiefs to various secular landlords. The immediate administration was at times probably carried out by the Knights von Parneck, who lived in Spatenhof.

The place gained greater importance and population through the construction of the Graz-Köflach railway in the second half of the 19th century. Since the railway lines to Köflach ( Köflacherbahn ) and to Wies-Eibiswald ( Wieserbahn ) separate in Lieboch, the place is a small railway junction. At the beginning of the 20th century, the railway company sold properties near the route to its employees, which promoted settlement.

In the 1930s, the Kainach river was regulated and straightened in the area of the Lieboch community for the purpose of flood protection. This was accompanied by a loss of most of the alluvial forests that were still in existence at the time.

The growing importance of Lieboch went hand in hand with the increased settlement of industrial companies as a result of the motorway construction ( south motorway ) in the early 1970s. Since then, the infrastructure (water, sewer, electricity, roads, building yard, ...) has been constantly expanded and improved in order to meet the increased demands of the time.

An important milestone in the development of the community was the survey of the market community. This was carried out by the Styrian state government on February 19, 1979 and was also evident in the management of the coat of arms.

The Lieboch community was not affected by the structural reform of the Styrian community .

Spatenhof district

Gasthaus Erregger (junction Radlstrasse - Doblerstrasse) in the late 1950s or early 1960s

Spatenhof forms the eastern part of the Lieboch municipality. The name goes back to a certain Spath or Spätt who owned half of the settlement around 1414. Spatenhof was previously known as Parneck . The Knights of Parneck can be traced back to the 12th century and are likely to have sat on their farm (located on today's Bahnhofstrasse in the area of the farm called Spathsimi). Particularly hit by the plague year of 1348, the previously flourishing settlement was effectively wiped out. The new beginning is attributed to the Spath family - a name that is still common today.

Over the centuries, the medieval farming village developed into an important settlement. The most important manors were Premstätten, Hornegg and Lannach. In 1785 Spatenhof became part of the tax community of Lieboch. Today Spatenhof is well developed thanks to the railway, Radlpassstraße and the southern motorway. The Lieboch commercial and industrial area is located in Spatenhof.

Schadendorf village

Schadendorf is in the west of the municipality and has its own history. First mentioned around 1268/69 as Silkynstorf , the name probably reminds of the Bavarian founder called Seitti or Sitto . The original founding courtyard is on the site of the property vlg. Look for Mülleranderl. The village developed from the five medieval farm estates, which lost its formal independence with the creation of the Josephine tax community in Lieboch in 1785. At that time, three manors (Ligist, Premstätten and Großsöding) were wealthy in the village.

Schadendorf remained in the area of the mother parish Mooskirchen even after the foundation of the pastoral care office (parish) Lieboch, as did the school district. Only in the 20th century was Schadendorf oriented towards Lieboch in these points as well. Only the outermost farms have remained with the Mooskirchen parish to this day.

parish

Historical photo of the center of Lieboch with the old church in the background

In 1714 Laurentius Hueber set up a first (private) chapel at the Chancellor's court. The population tried to break away from the mother parish of Mooskirchen and to get their own parish, which was rejected by the responsible bishop in 1733.

Only in the course of the Josephine parish regulation was a separate pastoral care office approved for Lieboch by decree of June 18, 1785. The first church was created from a small manor house through a reconstruction carried out by the community. The first pastor, Emeram Anton Lidl, began his service in 1786. Today's municipality belonged to the pastoral care area, with the exception of the Schadendorf district. As was customary at the time, a parish school was also set up, from which today's elementary school developed.

Formally, however, Lieboch only became an independent parish on October 4, 1892. The parish boundaries were revised several times in the area of Schadendorf. Since 1958, a large part of Schadendorf has come to the parish of Lieboch, only a few farms had voted to remain with the parish of Mooskirchen.

Today's parish church (patron saint: Franz Xaver ) was built after lengthy renovation plans in 1966/67 as one of the first post-conciliar churches in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council in place of the old building from 1636.

Geological history

In the Liebochgraben and its surroundings there are a number of small ore and coal deposits that are no longer economically viable and belong to those of the Graz Paleozoic . They have been thoroughly examined.

Population development

Culture and sights

TEML interior view

Sculpture by Manfred Wakolbinger (2003) at Lieboch train station (2008)

Technical Railway Museum Lieboch (TEML)

In the former boiler house of the Lieboch train station, the Lieboch Technical Railway Museum was opened on September 4, 2004 after a total renovation . Here exhibits from the history of the railway and the history of the Graz-Köflacher Bahn are shown. The largest exhibit is a GKB steam locomotive, the GKB 56.3115, which is located in the middle of the exhibition room, which can also be used for events.

Buildings

The new church was built in 1965 and was received controversially among the population.

movie theater

The Dieselkino company operates a six- screen cinema in the Lieboch industrial estate .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Historical photo of Lieboch train station

The market town is very well connected in terms of transport. The Lieboch junction (194) of the Süd Autobahn (A2) is located in the municipality . The Packer Straße (B 70) from Graz to Klagenfurt and the Radlpass Straße (B 76) from Lieboch to Deutschlandsberg also lead through the municipality.

In Lieboch there is a train station of the Graz-Köflacher Railway . In the village, the route divides to Köflach and to Deutschlandsberg and Wies-Eibiswald. There are hourly S-Bahn connections in both directions and to Graz . There are also regular bus connections to Graz. Since December 2010 the Graz – Wies-Eibiswald has been run via the Südbahn and Koralmbahn instead of via Lieboch as before.

The Graz Airport is around 12 kilometers away.

Established businesses

There are two horticultural companies to the west of the village.

There are several restaurants along the town's central street.

There is a furniture store in the south-east, east of the B70 and north of the A2, and the Lieboch business park connects along the motorway to the top of the curve .

media

Liebocher Nachrichten (ambitious community newspaper ), ZDB -ID 2606362-1

Public facilities

A police station of the federal police , belonging to the district police command Graz-Umgebung, has been established in the village . She is responsible for the communities of Lieboch and Haselsdorf-Tobelbad. There is also a local Red Cross office in Lieboch . The Lieboch branch has 2 ambulances and is under the direction of the Graz-Umgebung District Rescue Command, which is stationed in Seiersberg .

education

The market town of Lieboch has a kindergarten with a crèche, an elementary school and a music school. Adult education courses are also offered in the event hall.

politics

mayor

Mayor since April 21, 2015 is Stefan Helmreich (ÖVP)

The community board also includes the first vice mayor Simon Gruber (SPÖ), the second vice mayor Eva Maria Theiler (Greens), community treasurer Andreas Moser (FPÖ) and Josef Sundl (SPÖ).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 21 members and has been composed of mandates from the following parties since the 2015 municipal council election :

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
Political party	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
SPÖ	1096	41	10	1219	45	11	1279	50	11	1180	52	11
ÖVP	0751	28	06th	0860	32	07th	0885	35	07th	0717	31	07th
FPÖ	0489	18th	04th	0136	05	01	0129	05	01	0243	11	02
The Greens Lieboch	0207	08th	01	0188	07th	01	0260	10	02	0141	06th	01
Dear new	0058	02	00	0184	07th	01	not running			not running
We are Lieboch	0070	03	00	not running			not running			not running
BZÖ	not running			0032	01	00	not running			not running
Common sense Lieboch	not running			0065	02	00	not running			not running
voter turnout	65%			72%			74%			76%

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from October 1, 1978.

The coat of arms of Lieboch, which was designed on the occasion of the survey of the market town in 1979, shows in the middle a golden crayfish (as they were previously fished for consumption from the Kainach) on a red background with a cross in its pincers. A mill wheel can be seen at the bottom left (red on gold, stands for the Mühlau district), and a spade at the bottom right (also red on gold, stands for the Spatenhof district).

Town twinning

Croatia Ilok ( Croatia )

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Benno Siegfried Artner († 2020), doctor

Sons and daughters of the market town

Matthias Konrad (* 1943), politician (SPÖ), former mayor of Leoben (1994–2014)

Others

The Graz-Köflach Railway has a 1864 tank locomotive series EWA IIId named after Lieboch.

Web links

Commons : Lieboch - collection of images, videos and audio files

60629 - Lieboch. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Lieboch rectory

Historical maps

The Lieboch area in regional surveys from approx. 1789 to 1910
Lieboch in the Josephinische Landesaufnahme around 1790
Lieboch (bottom left) around 1872
The west of Lieboch around 1878, recording sheet of the state survey
The Kainach valley east of Lieboch, around 1878
The west of Lieboch (top right) in the Francisco-Josephine land survey , approx. 1910
East of Lieboch (top left)

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Hermann Baltl : Styria in the early Middle Ages. Verlag Leykam, Graz 2004, ISBN 3-7011-7485-7 , pp. 46, 79.
↑ F. Lochner v. Hüttenbach: Styrian place names. Verlag Leykam, Graz 2008, ISBN 978-3-7011-0116-0 .
^ Hermann Baltl: Styria in the early Middle Ages. P. 101.
^ Heinrich Purkarthofer : Fading in the Kainachtal. On the problems and methods of research into the history of settlement in the topographic district of Graz-Umgebung. In: Gerhard Pferschy: settlement, power and economy. Festschrift Fritz Posch for his 70th birthday. Publications of the Styrian regional archive. Volume 12. Graz 1982. No ISBN. Pp. 23-44.
^ Fritz Freiherr Lochner von Hüttenbach: Early medieval names in Styria. In: Hermann Baltl: Styria in the early Middle Ages. Verlag Leykam, Graz 2004. ISBN 3-7011-7485-7 . Pp. 159-162.
↑ Franz Lambauer: 850 years Lieboch: 1138-1988 (commemorative), p. 10
↑ Walter Plaschzug: The Kanzlerhof in Lieboch . Books on Demand publisher. Gütersloh 2009. ISBN 3-8334-9204-X .
↑ Walter Plaschzug: The Fleminger and the court in Dörfl in Lieboch . In: Zeitschrift des histor. Association f. Styria. Born 99. Graz 2008.
↑ Walter Plaschzug: Liebocher history (n) . Hartung-Gorre publishing house, Konstanz 2013, ISBN 3-86628-433-0 .
↑ Walter Plaschzug: Liebocher history (n) . Hartung-Gorre publishing house. Constance 2013. ISBN 3-86628-433-0 . Pp. 369-382.
↑ Walter Plaschzug: Liebocher history (n) . Hartung-Gorre publishing house. Constance 2013. ISBN 3-86628-433-0 . Pp. 301-311.
↑ Walter Plaschzug: Liebocher history (n) . Hartung-Gorre publishing house. Constance 2013. ISBN 3-86628-433-0 . Pp. 75-98.
^ Leopold Weber: The lead-zinc ore deposits of the Graz Palaeozoic and their geological framework. Archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 12, Vienna 1990. ISBN 978-3-900312-72-5 . (PDF; 29 MB)
↑ Railway Museum ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on kultur.steiermark.at @1@ 2
↑ dieselkino.at - Cinema / Info Dieselkino Lieboch
↑ News on rail and road. Kleine Zeitung , April 26, 2010, archived from the original on October 21, 2014 .; accessed on June 15, 2020
^ Website of the market town of Lieboch Municipality Board (accessed on February 13, 2018)
↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 29, 1979, p. 31.
↑ Kleine Zeitung (June 4, 2020), p. 41.