Scheifling

market community Scheifling
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Murau
License plate :	MU
Surface:	57.24 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 9 '  N , 14 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '2 "  N , 14 ° 24' 40"  E
Height :	762  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,138 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8811
Area code :	03582
Community code :	6 14 44
Address of the municipal administration:	Amtsplatz 1 8811 Scheifling
Website:	www.scheifling.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Gottfried Reif ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 9 SPÖ : 5 FPÖ : 1
Location of Scheifling in the Murau district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Scheifling is a market town with 2138 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district or district of Murau in Styria . On January 1, 2015, as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria, the formerly independent municipality of Sankt Lorenzen bei Scheifling was incorporated.

geography

Scheifling is about 19 km east of Murau .

Community structure

The municipal area comprises five localities or cadastral communities of the same name (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020; area: as of December 31, 2018):

• Feßnach (119 inhabitants, 2,957.33 ha)
• Lind near Scheifling (537 Ew.), KG Lind (1,001.11 ha)
• Puchfeld (163 inhabitants, 756.48 ha)
• Sankt Lorenzen bei Scheifling (320 Ew.), KG St. Lorenzen (488.31 ha)
• Scheifling (999 Ew., 537.25 ha)

Incorporations

The community of Lind bei Scheifling, established in 1849/50, was merged with the community of Scheifling on January 1, 1952. The former municipality of Sankt Lorenzen bei Scheifling was incorporated on January 1st, 2015.

Neighboring communities

• Niederwölz (Murau district)
• Oberwölz (Murau district)
• Unzmarkt-Frauenburg ( Murtal district )
• Neumarkt in Styria (Murau district)

history

Scheifling was first mentioned in 973 under the name "Sûblich". It is based on a Slavic source word * svibica (' near the scrub' or ' near the cherries'). Until the 20th century, the lowest part of the Feßnachgrabens was called “in the Scheifling”. The field name was transferred to the settlement.

The personal names of the residents of Scheifling are documented from around 1030. The majority of all names are Slavic . The document proves that Styria was still predominantly Slavic in the Middle Ages.

The political community Scheifling was established in 1849/50.

Population development

Culture and sights

Scheifling parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Scheifling

• Catholic parish church Scheifling hl. Thomas

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces , there were 90 workplaces with 759 employees in the old municipality as well as 450 out-commuters and 557 in-commuters, in 1999 there were 50 agricultural and forestry operations (13 of them in the main occupation), which together farmed 4,164 hectares.

traffic

The community is located on Friesacher Straße B 317, in Scheifling the Murtal Straße B 96 branches off into the upper Murtal.

Scheifling can be reached publicly by train through the station of the same name on the Rudolfsbahn . The Murtalbahn with the Lind-Scheifling stop also runs through the municipality.

education

In the community there are three kindergartens (a parish kindergarten, a community kindergarten and a curative education kindergarten), an elementary school, a new middle school and a music school (branch office).

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, 2 FPÖ, 1 We constructive and 1 LWP - Free List for Scheifling Werner Prieler.
• With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

• January 1, 2015 to April 22, 2015: Michael Puster (SPÖ), government commissioner
• since April 23, 2015: Gottfried Reif (ÖVP)

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
• 

  Sankt Lorenzen near Scheifling

• 

  Scheifling

Both predecessor parishes had parish coats of arms. The community of Scheifling was awarded a coat of arms on October 29, 1976 with effect from January 1, 1977. The blazon (description of the coat of arms) read:

"In a shield, split from red to green by a golden crook, in front two crossed silver hammers, behind two crossed silver shovels with the leaves up."

A knight family living here in the Middle Ages called themselves "von Scheuflich" and had two crossed shovels in their coat of arms. The two hammers refer to the former scythe and hammer mills, the crook to the Archdiocese of Salzburg.

The community of St. Lorenzen bei Scheifling was awarded a coat of arms on June 20, 1988 with effect from July 1, 1988. The blazon (description of the coat of arms) read: "In red over a golden counter battlement a golden grate filling the upper half of the shield."

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, these coats of arms became invalid from January 1st, 2015. With effect from November 5, 2019, the Styrian state government awarded the merged community a new coat of arms. The new blazon reads:

"In the shield, divided by green and silver in pewter cut, a hammer and a shovel crossed diagonally above in silver, a red grate horizontally below."

In this way, elements from both coats of arms of the predecessor communities were combined in the new community coat of arms.

Community partnerships

• Scheifling has had a community partnership with the community of Königheim near Tauberbischofsheim in Baden-Württemberg since 1971 .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1975 Johann Stadlober, former mayor
• 1978 Hanns Bammer, regional councilor
• 1978 Friedrich Niederl , governor

Sons and daughters of the market town

• Detlef Gruber (* 1952), politician of the SPÖ , member of the Styrian state parliament
• Gernot Jurtin (1955–2006), soccer player for SK Sturm Graz and in the national team
• Günther Kaltenbacher (* 1957), politician of the SPÖ, member of the Federal Council 2000–2010
• Daniel Offenbacher (* 1992), soccer player
• Eduard Pumpernig (1920–1992), ÖVP politician , member of the Federal Council 1974–1985
• Gernot Sick (* 1978), soccer player for the Grazer AK and in the national team

literature

• Walter Brunner : Festschrift 1000 Years of Scheilfing . 1978 ( gemeinde24.at [PDF; accessed on August 4, 2020]).

Web links

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

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

• 61444 - Scheifling. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of December 19, 2013 on the unification of the market community Scheifling and the community Sankt Lorenzen bei Scheifling, both political district Murau. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 30, 2013. No. 190, 38th piece, ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 765; in the version of the change (part of the name "Sankt Lorenzen" deleted from the future municipality name) by the announcement of the Styrian state government of March 27, 2014, with which the announcement about the unification of the market community Scheifling and the community Sankt Lorenzen bei Scheifling, both political district Murau , will be changed. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of April 11, 2014, No. 41, p. 1.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019
4. ^ Ordinance of the Styrian state government of December 18, 1951
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. 42 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
6. ↑ General State Law and Government Gazette for the Crown Land of Styria, Issue 21, October 7, 1850, No. 378.
7. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Scheifling. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Scheifling. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on June 29, 2020 . 
9. ↑ My Mayor | Scheifling. Retrieved January 12, 2020 . 
10. ↑ LGBl. 1976, Issue 18, No. 74.
11. ↑ Activity report of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv for 1976 (pdf; 2.20 MB), p. 31, accessed on December 3, 2015.
12. ↑ 86. Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 24, 2019 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Scheifling (political district of Murau) , ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on October 30, 2019.
13. ^ Community of Königheim | Partner municipalities |. Retrieved January 12, 2020 .