Bad Blumau

Bad Blumau
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate :	HF (from 1.7.2013; old: FF)
Surface:	37.36 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 7 '  N , 16 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 7 '0 "  N , 16 ° 3' 0"  E
Height :	284  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,615 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8283
Area code :	03383
Community code :	6 22 02
Address of the municipal administration:	Bad Blumau 65 8283 Bad Blumau
Website:	www.bad-blumau-gemeinde.at
politics
Mayoress :	Andrea Kohl ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	8th 6th 1 8th 6th 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 8 FPÖ : 6 SPÖ : 1
Location of Bad Blumau in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Bad Blumau thermal baths

Bad Blumau thermal bath interior view

Detail of the thermal baths designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Homestead in Bad Blumau

Parish church Bad Blumau

Filial church St. Anna (Jobst)

Willow architecture in the Bad Blumau thermal baths

Bad Blumau is a municipality with 1615 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld or the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Eastern Styria , around 25 kilometers south of the district capital Hartberg . The small town is best known for its hotel with thermal bath , the Rogner Bad Blumau , which was designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser .

geography

Geographical location

Bad Blumau is located in the middle of the Eastern Styrian hill country on the small Safen river , just before it flows into the Lafnitz . Because of its location on the thermal line , which can be traced back to the earlier volcanic activity in this area, Bad Blumau is primarily known as a health resort.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following eight localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Bad Blumau (448)
• Beer tree at the Safen (228)
• Jobst (95)
• Kleinsteinbach (304)
• Lindegg (262)
• Loimeth (95)
• Schwarzmannshofen (90)
• Speilbrunn (93)

Bad Blumau comprises the following cadastral communities (area 2001):
Bierbaum (766.27 ha), Blumau (405.41 ha), Kleinsteinbach (500.12 ha), Lindegg (1,658.09 ha), Loimeth (401.05 ha).

Neighboring communities

• in the north: Bad Waltersdorf
• in the east: Burgau , Deutsch Kaltenbrunn ( Burgenland )
• in the south: Fürstenfeld , Großwilfersdorf
• in the west: Großwilfersdorf

traffic

Bad Blumau can be reached via the Thermenbahn , regional bus routes and by car via the A2 motorway , exit Bad Waltersdorf.

history

The first settlement is likely to have occurred in the first century AD. Some grave mounds (for example between Kleinsteinbach and Speilbrunn) bear witness to this. Due to the migration of peoples around 400 AD, Eastern Styria was also repopulated. There was probably no permanent settlement between 400 and 600 AD. Only the Slavs repopulated the area around Blumau again.

As part of the fortification of the eastern border, a belt of castles was built, which also included a castle in Blumau. In the 13th century the castle is called "Plumenenau", which was deserted around 1400, so that no traces can be found today. Around 1480, a Gothic church was built, dedicated to Saint Leonhard , which was in danger of collapsing after a landslide at the end of the 17th century. In 1702/03 the court architect Bartolomäus Ebner built today's parish church of St. Sebastian in the Baroque style.

In 1997 the thermal bath designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser was opened. With this opening a reorientation of the until then mainly agricultural community towards tourism took place. In 2001, Blumau was named a health resort and thus received the right to use the name “ Bad ”. Since 2001, 180 kW of electricity have been generated from the 107 ° C hot thermal water, so that the hotel is also a geothermal power plant .

The prosperity following tourism led to the renovation of numerous old farms and buildings.

In 2009 the construction of the new elementary school began, about the establishment of which there was a survey of the community citizens. As part of the construction of the elementary school, USC Rogner Bad Blumau will also get a new sports facility. This consists of two new grass pitches and a grandstand and will be east of the old arena.

politics

mayor

Franz Handler (ÖVP; Vice Mayor Siegfried Flechel and Treasurer Josef Titz) was the mayor for 16 years until 2020. After the 2020 municipal council elections , he was succeeded by Andrea Kohl (ÖVP), Thomas Erhart and Birgit Gamperl became the treasurer.

Office manager is Johanna Hanfstingl.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and has been made up of mandataries from the following parties since the 2020 municipal council election :

• 8 ÖVP ,
• 6 FPÖ and
• 1 SPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2020			2015			2010			2005			2000
	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	515	51.65	8th	519	51	8th	519	51	9	561	54	9	679	70	12
SPÖ	0104	010.43	1	082	08th	1	093	09	1	088	09	1	044	05	00
FPÖ	378	37.91	6th	304	30th	5	080	08th	1	029	03	0	103	11	01
Bad Blumau citizens' list	not running			103	10	1	110	11	1	073	07th	1	140	14th	02
List of the future of Bad Blumau	not running			not running			211	21st	3	278	27	4th	not running
Eligible voters	1,351			1,304			1.306			1,221			1,152
voter turnout	75.06%			79%			78%			85%			85%

City council election 2020

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

51.65
(+0.16)

37.91
(+7.75)

10.43
(+2.30)

n. k.
(-10.22)

ÖVP

FPÖ

SPÖ

BL

2015



2020



Partner communities

• Göfis in Vorarlberg since the 1980s,
• Ramsau am Dachstein since 2012 and
• Dalmand in Hungary since 2012

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from May 1, 1983. The blazon of the coat of arms reads: "Silver on a red background a lily over 3 acorns, these connected in a cross shape".

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Bad Blumau

• Catholic parish church Bad Blumau : Baroque church, built 1702–1703 by the Graz court architect Bartolomäus Ebner .
• A park, the Thermenpark, was set up along the Safenbach, connecting the village with the thermal baths. The park is designed as a natural meadow landscape. A remarkable part of the park is a willow building that the willow building architect Marcel Kalberer built with young people. The inner dome has a height of eight meters and a diameter of 22 meters.

The 1000 year old Oak Bad Blumau

• The 1000-year-old oak Bad Blumau in the cadastral community of Bierbaum an der Safen. It is generally considered to be the oldest oak in Europe. It has a trunk circumference of 8.75 meters.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1963: Ferdinand Prirsch (1906–1965), Provincial Councilor
• 1983: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor
• 2011: Robert Rogner (* 1941), master builder

Web links

Commons : Bad Blumau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 62202 - Bad Blumau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.bad-blumau.com - Tourism Association
• www.bad-blumau-gemeinde.at Community website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City council election 2020 - results Bad Blumau. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ Municipal council election 2020: ÖVP Bad Blumau relies on young women power. February 24, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Local council elections 2020. Accessed July 31, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Newly elected: the youngest female mayor of Styria rules Bad Blumau. July 31, 2020, accessed July 31, 2020 . 
6. ^ Community of Bad Blumau: Politics (accessed on May 16, 2015)
7. ↑ Municipal council elections in Bad Blumau 2020. In: orf.at
8. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 34, 1984, p. 30
9. ^ Bad Blumau, under Municipality → Tourism → Sights. Retrieved August 7, 2014 . 
10. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (September 18, 1963), p. 6.