Mönichwald

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Mönichwald (former municipality) ( capital of the municipality )
Historical coat of arms of Mönichwald
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Mönichwald (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Hartberg-Fürstenfeld  (HF) district, Styria
Pole. local community Waldbach-Mönichwald   ( KG  Karnerviertl / Schmiedviertl )
Locality Carnerviertel / Schmiedviertel
Coordinates 47 ° 26 '50 "  N , 15 ° 52' 57"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '50 "  N , 15 ° 52' 57"  Ef1
height 574  m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H. 864 (January 1, 2014)
Building status 357 (2001 f1)
surface 35.29 km²
Postcodesf0 8252, 8251, 8253 Mönichwald
prefix + 43/3336 (Waldbach)
Statistical identification
Counting district / district Mönichwald (62279 001)
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Location of the former municipality in the district
Community 1850–2014, part of Waldbach-Mönichwald since January 1, 2015
Source: STAT : Ortverzeichnis ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk
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Mönichwald is a former municipality with 867 inhabitants (as of October 31, 2013) in northeast Styria in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld . As part of the Styrian community structural reform , it has been merged with the community of Waldbach since 2015 , the new community is called Waldbach-Mönichwald . The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG. A challenge to the merger, which the community of Waldbach had brought to the Constitutional Court , was unsuccessful.

geography

Geographical location

Mönichwald is located in Joglland at the foot of the Wechsel, approx. 18 km north of the district capital Hartberg . The municipality is traversed by the Lafnitz and drained by its tributaries. The municipality stretched through the Carnerviertel north of the Lafnitz to the Hochwechsel , which at 1743 m is the highest point in the municipality. Another mountain in the municipality is the Steirerkogel (1051 m).

Former parish structure

The Mönichwald community consisted of two cadastral communities (area 2015):

  • Karnerviertl (2274.08 ha)
  • Schmiedviertl (1254.44 ha)

The two corresponding localities were (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Carnival Quarter (543)
  • Blacksmith Quarter (279)

Neighboring communities

Rettenegg
(Weiz district)
Aspangberg-
Sankt Peter

(Neunkirchen district, Lower Austria)
Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel
Waldbach Neighboring communities Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel
Waldbach Riegersberg Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel
Mönichwald Church

history

From the early settlement to the founding of Mönichwald

Various individual finds such as hatchet and flat hatchet or perforated hammers from various serpentines prove the presence of people in the Lafnitztal as early as the 4th to 3rd millennium BC. It is assumed that the people immigrated from the east and south-east, along the valleys of the rivers Mur , Raab , Feistritz and Lafnitz in the 4th millennium BC . The pass roads over the Wechsel and the Fischbacher Alps were probably already used in the early days. However, due to its harsh conditions, the municipality area was probably not heavily populated, neither by the Romans nor by the Slavs who immigrated to Styria in the 6th century . When in 1043 under Emperor Heinrich III. The territories of Eastern Styria that were lost during the Hungarian invasions in the first half of the 10th century were regained, Margrave Arnold II of Wels-Lambach was awarded the border areas - including the Mönichwald area.

With the extinction of the Wels-Lambach line after 1050, the Counts of Formbach inherited these areas. After they founded the Benedictine monastery Formbach in Bavaria in 1094 , they gave it extensive forest holdings in what is now northeastern Styria. That piece of forest, which is located between the Weißenbach in the west - the Weißen Lafnitz -, the Schwarzenbach in the east - the Schwarzen Lafnitz - and today's Lafnitz in the south and completely covers the current municipality of Mönichwald, was a gift from Count Ekbert III . and took place between the years 1148 to 1158. After the monks of Formbach, the forest was initially (1163) Munichwalt - "Monk in the forest" -, later called Mönichwald and remained in its possession until the abolition of the monastery as part of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in 1803 , but was administered from the Provost Gloggnitz . The forest was cleared soon after the donation; the church was consecrated personally by Archbishop Eberhard I of Salzburg on December 17, 1163 and Mönichwald was made a parish. The parish census document is at the same time the oldest documented mention of the place name and the third oldest document in the archives of Vorau Abbey .

Medieval sources

Medieval land records from Mönichwald from 1338 and 1343 are among the earliest in Eastern Styria. This shows, among other things, that there were around 80 subjects subject to interest at the time . Most of these were farmers, but there are also several craftsmen with little land ownership. Conclusions about the cultivation of the community area allow the also recorded taxes in kind that had to be paid by the individual farmers. Accordingly, rye and oats and, to a lesser extent, flax were grown. Particularly noticeable are the high poppy taxes, which were probably enough to supply the entire manor of the Gloggnitz provost. Pigs (“pig service”), castraune (castrated sheep rams ), a slaughter ox and cheese had to be delivered and robots had to be performed. Two centuries later, in 1548, of which another land register has been preserved, little has changed here, apart from the fact that pig money had to be paid instead of pigs.

16th and 17th centuries

Turkish wars and incursions

In 1529 and 1532 the area was ravaged by Turkish troops who penetrated deep into Styria. 79 Mönichwalder tried to fend off the Turks with Paidnhanter , Dusägge , pork spit , half spit and helmet , three of them also had a rifle. Nevertheless, the damage was considerable, several courtyards in the community area were victims of fires and robbery, people were kidnapped, beaten to death and - including the pastor - shot.

From 1603 , Turkish-Tatar troops penetrated as far as Radkersburg and Mureck . At the end of May 1605 the Heiducken came as a surprise under Gergely Nemethy . In June they besieged Hartberg and attacked Aichberg Castle , whose owners, the Steinpeiß lordship , had fled to Vorau Abbey . There and in the forests behind it, the population of Mönichwald and other surrounding villages also sought refuge.

When the Turks moved towards Vienna in 1683 and the Kuruzzen also attacked Eastern Styria, part of the Mönichwald population fled to Festenburg Castle together with Pastor Benedikt Schnurer . The access roads to the Hartberg district were pegged with wooden barriers, as were streets and paths over the change. A chartake was built on the pass from Mönichwald . When the Turks set Aspang on fire, the hooks on the change were reinforced twice and three times. The attackers were, however, stopped in the Kringwald east of Vorau by a contingent of farmers, citizens and soldiers.
When the Hungarian rebels under Franz Rákóczi invaded Eastern Styria in 1704–1709, Mönichwald was not in direct danger, but the male population was repeatedly drafted into border guards.

reformation

The Reformation practically did not take place in Mönichwald. On May 15, 1528 a visitation commission noted that the Mönichwalder were one in faith. Only the pastor himself seems to have deviated a little from his faith, as a warning letter from the provost Benedikt von Perfall suggests from 1607: In it the pastor is warned that he should finally make a priestly way of life. He is said to have negatively influenced a Vorau canon and the pastor from Wenigzell by inviting them several times to the Mönichwalder Pfarrhof tavern for "nuns täding" with women choirs from Kirchberg am Wechsel . The threat of harsh consequences seems to have worked, since nothing more about it appears below. Bishop Martin Brenner had the Ulrich chapel built in 1588, the lower part of which served as an ossuary.

18th century

Tobacco smuggling and peasant uprising in 1730

With the beginning of the taxation of tobacco consumption in Styria in 1678, the sole right to import was given to two Venetians in the absence of other applicants. Tobacco smuggling from Hungary to Styria began to flourish. As a countermeasure, tobacco riders were used to track down the smugglers. However, there were repeated attacks by tobacco riders on the population and harmless travelers or returning home-cut wage workers, while the smugglers in armed groups of ten to fifteen men were mostly able to go their way unmolested. It was officially known that Mönichwalder were also among the smugglers, and so, at the behest of the tobacco publishers, several suspects were summoned by the pastor for an interrogation on December 2, 1730, to which the tobacco publishers and their helpers also came. After only a few of the accused had appeared, a group of 60-70 men and women, armed with truffles , morning stars , maces and some rifles and led by a mercenary , surrounded the rectory and demanded the arrested persons to leave. After the rebellious peasants had besieged the rectory for five hours, their colleagues were released. The uprising was investigated from January 1731, after which 50 - 60 soldiers were requested from the Inner Austrian Court War Council. A delegation from the Guido Starhemberg Regiment came , with the help of which the suspects were finally arrested on May 7, 1731. Of the deserving death for all offenses (and thus for the heavy loaded ringleaders) competent provincial judge based in Thalberg proposed in April and on 10 May 1732 by the Emperor confirmed sentences were low given the threat of the death penalty: the three worst convicts had each one Doing public work in iron for a month and finally accepting fifteen carbachia pranks. In addition, however, there was the payment of the process costs, which was also imposed.

According to the records, only one person from Mönichwald was executed at the responsible execution site in Dechantskirchen , the high court for the Thalberg district court.

Subdivision of the municipal area

In 1705 there is a division of Mönichwald into Rotten in the land register of the Gloggnitz rule . The land register of 1770 knows the same division, but the Rotten were now called quarters. Accordingly, there was the Saagerrott (Saager or Grabnerviertel), which was named after the court vulgo in the saga; from Georg, Josef and Franz Khärner and their three farms in Karndorf the Khärner Rott (Kärnerviertel) got its name; The namesake for the Dörffler Rott (Derfler Viertel) were the courtyards of Johannes, Benedikt and Hans Dörfler in Dörfl, for the Grueber Rott (Gruber Viertel) the court of Josef Gruber in Wetzelberg; the Schmidt Rott is named after the blacksmith in Reifegg and the Münichbauer Rott (Mönichbauernviertel) after the farm known as mini farmer. Even before the census in 1770, the quarters were divided into only two numbering sections, the Carnerviertel and the Schmiedviertel. The Karnerviertel was formed from Saager-, Khärner- and Münichbauerrott and the Schmiedviertel from the Dörfler- and Gruberrott. This classification and naming was later also adopted for the tax and cadastral communities. House numbers were also assigned for the first time in 1770.

In 1771 the country was divided into advertising districts for the purpose of recruiting soldiers for the Habsburg army. Mönichwald belonged together with Ratten , Sankt Jakob im Walde and Waldbach to the Thalberg advertising district. Only temporarily (1798-1810) Mönichwald was a separate advertising district, to which Waldbach belonged.

The school house built in 1878

Start of school operations

In 1704 the first parish school was founded in Mönichwald. Figures on the number of pupils are available from 1779, when eight boys and six girls attended classes that year. In 1784 there were 17 out of 46 school-age children. In 1818, the pastor cites the lack of clothing, the inability of the people of Söll to give the children bread to go to school, and the need for the children to work on the farm and in the pasture as reasons for the poorly attended classes . Classes were first held in the rectory or in the inn "Zur Taverne" and in the house of the Hold family, from 1770 in the schoolmaster's house and from 1788 in the upper part of the Ulrich's chapel, which was abandoned by Emperor Joseph II , while the lower part of the ossuary remained . After the introduction of the Reich Primary School Act in 1869, the new school building at Ledererbachbrücke was opened in 1878.

19th century

When the Formbach monastery was dissolved in 1803, the Mönichwald estate was conscripted as a state estate and taken over into the Austrian domain administration. The dominium was separated from the parish and withdrawn from the arar . The former subjects were left with the forest and the Alps with the condition that they preserve the church and the parish building, provide the pastor with firewood, construction and fence wood free of charge, and bear all costs for necessary structural repairs to parish buildings. This lapel of February 1, 1809 was signed by 76 Mönichwalders.

The March Revolution of 1848 was followed by numerous changes in the administration and in the Austrian constitution. The administration of Mönichwald was taken over by the community chairman and committee, whose tasks included issuing marriage permits. In Mönichwald these were only given to couples who had land to ensure that the children could be looked after (“political marriage consensus”). The old-age and pension provision for destitute, disabled people worked by assigning them to the Mönichwalders who owned them (proportionally according to their assets) for accommodation and meals ("deposit system").

From 1860 there were the first elected community representatives. Until 1897 the right to vote was census , which excluded workers, servants, small owners and chastisers.

The 1932-1936 construction of the Ledererbach

From 1770 to 1848 the nearest post office was in Ilz - the entire Hartberg district was outside the state postal service at that time. Only the k. Established in Hartberg in 1796 and in Friedberg in 1839 . k. Collections of letters made communication possible. When the postal services were also upgraded as a result of the revolution, post offices were established in Friedberg, Hartberg, Pöllau and Vorau, which is responsible for Mönichwald.

In 1874 the writer Gustav Jäger described Mönichwald in his book Der Wechsel . Among other things, he mentions the brief digging for pebbles in the south of Mönichwald. He also describes the eating and drinking habits of the Mönichwalder, according to which at the time they hardly ever drank Styrian, but mainly Hungarian wine ( Mordbrenner ), while Schmarrn and egg dishes played the main role on the plates. Jäger's notes served as a template for the Styrian Lexicon published by Joseph A. Janisch in 1885 . At that time there were 118 houses in the municipality, with only ten in the village itself.

Cemetery gate with a memorial for the fallen Mönichwalder of the First World War

20th century

First World War and the interwar period

In the First World War , 31 of the dead were Mönichwalder. In 1919 the "Homecoming Association" was founded. When the first war memorial dedicated to the fallen was erected is unknown, but it was already in ruins in 1923 , according to the parish chronicle. This monument was renewed in 1924 and existed for three decades. In 1954 a new memorial was built inside the brick cemetery gate, on the walls of which there are plaques with the names of those who died in the First World War.

In November 1911 the advance fund association for the local community Mönichwald was founded and in 1927 joined the Raiffeisen Association . After a two-and-a-half hour downpour flooded the Lafnitz on July 5, 1920, so that all bridges up to Rohrbach were destroyed and meadows and fields were muddy, Mönichwald was cut off from traffic for several weeks. After unsuccessful efforts in 1919 to found the Mönichwald volunteer fire brigade , it finally succeeded in 1924. In 1927 the first fire station was built and in 1928 an engine sprayer was added to an old driving syringe .

In 1931 the elementary school was expanded from two to three classes and a post office was set up instead of the post office. From 1932 to 1936 the Ledererbach was regulated, and up to 72 workers were employed.

In the summer of 1932, Pastor Johann Fahrtegg first described the hanging of posters, pictures and leaflets of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Hitler movement) in Mönichwald in the parish chronicle . He also complains that summer guests understand how to filter their party opinions into the Catholic population . Mayor Andreas Höllerbauer, newly elected on April 24, 1932, granted honorary citizenship on July 9, 1933 to Konstantin Kammerhofer from Hartberg, a German national , whereupon he was removed from office. His successor was Leo Berger vulgo Spitzer.

Pastor Fahrtegg also reports on events such as the raising of swastika flags and similar German national decorations or a swastika fire on Holy Saturday. He left Mönichwald in 1936. His successor, Johann Müller, stated in 1938 that the waves of political struggle in Mönichwald were very high and that around a third of the largely rural population welcomed Hitler's seizure of power with great joy. A pastor's wooden hut was destroyed and replaced by a Hitler oak . When the village square was renamed Adolf Hitler-Platz, the Nazi women enthusiastically plaited wreaths, the pastor stayed away from the event and the Vorau canon, Hartmann Lorenz, did not keep his promise to come. Pastor Müller was initially banned from school, was expelled by the Gestapo on April 14, 1939 and was also banned from the district. Immediately after the Anschluss , Mayor Leo Berger was replaced on March 13, 1938 by Andreas Höllerbauer vulgo Annerl in Dörfl.

Soon after the connection, the state road was built over the change, which was initially planned as a section of the southern motorway. The promise of this company, which would bring jobs and transport connections, as well as the prospect of improvements in the agricultural sector were probably also reasons for the above-average number of yes-votes of 99.98% in the entire Hartberg district in the “referendum” on April 10, 1938.

Second World War

With the opening of the second Allied air front on August 13, 1943, acts of war in Mönichwald during World War II were observed for the first time . The British and US Army bombing groups and fighter planes starting in Foggia flew over Styria for almost all missions; by day that of the US Army, by night the British units. On February 22, 1944, an American bomber was shot down in the municipality of Wenigzell. The plane (Ju52) in which u. a. the German officer Eduard Dietl was sitting, crashed on June 23, 1944 at the Hochwechsel. The first bomb dropped on Mönichwalder municipality on July 16, 1944 shortly after the Sunday service, another four followed on July 25. In November of the same year ten evacuated Hungarian refugee families arrived in Mönichwald, who were taken in by some farmers.

At Easter 1945 the 3rd Ukrainian Front of the Red Army , which captured Styria like a pincer, came closer. Newly formed troops of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht tried to defend the change and Semmering area as well as the Lafnitz border. When the news came at noon on April 7th that the Russians had already taken Bruck an der Lafnitz , the local population fled directly from eating to the mountains. In the early afternoon Mönichwald was occupied by the Russians and the school bridge was blown up. Pastor Josef Resch, who had been in office since November 1939, and his employees, who had spent the night in Weißenbach, came back the next day and waited - alone among the Russians - in the village to persuade the population to return. On April 10, the pastor noticed a clear nervousness among the Russians, at midnight the place was retaken by German soldiers. After three days of fighting, during which the pastor fled from farm to farm in the direction of Waldbach, reading masses, Mönichwald was again in Russian hands. After the town was again conquered by the Germans on April 25, it remained under their control until the end of the war. The fighting continued meanwhile and dragged on to the Wetterkoglerhaus on the Hochwechsel, 45 houses were set on fire. At the end of the war Mönichwald had 34 civilian casualties to mourn, 14 of them were shot after being abducted. There were 29 Mönichwalder killed in the war and 8 missing.

Occupation 1945 to 1955

Mönichwald initially remained under Russian occupation . After Styria was assigned to the British occupation troops in July, the last Russian soldiers withdrew on August 2, 1945. The first municipal council after the war was formed on May 17, 1945 under the mayor Leo Berger. In August 1947 storms destroyed the entire harvest. The Association of Comradeships, which was newly founded after the end of the war, campaigned for those who died in the last weeks of the war, who were buried throughout the municipality and its surroundings, to be reburied in a common war cemetery. In 1950 and 1951 a war cemetery for German soldiers was inaugurated on the Hoch- and Niederwechsel and a Russian grave memorial on the Vorauer Schwaig. A total of 161 soldiers were reburied. There are 47 soldiers in the cemetery on Hochwechsel, located at 1,738 meters above sea level, in the municipality, and it is the highest war cemetery in Styria.

From 1946 the schoolhouse was rebuilt and opened on September 1, 1948 with three classes. In 1950, Governor Josef Krainer was made an honorary citizen. In 1948 the Raiffeisenkasse Mönichwald emerged from the advance payment association . On May 8, 1950, Andreas Höllerbauer was elected mayor. In July 1953 floods caused enormous damage again.

1955 to 2000

The Mayor Ferdinand Ganster, elected on April 16, 1955, awarded District Captain Dr. Erwin Stibenegg was granted honorary citizenship on November 20, 1955. In September 1955 the settlement between Bruck and Demmeldorf was given the place name Neudörfl , but this was changed to Neudorf near Mönichwald on February 29, 1956 . In the same year the street lighting in Mönichwald was produced and the construction of a new fire station started. In 1958 the Mönichwald Tourist Association was founded. In 1959 the townscape was embellished with benches and flower boxes and a community freezer was put into operation. After the previous municipal councils were entirely provided by the ÖVP , two representatives of the SPÖ moved into the municipal council for the first time in 1960 . On April 15, 1962, Provincial Councilor Ferdinand Prirsch was made an honorary citizen.

In the course of the 800th anniversary in 1963, u. a. the plague cross was rebuilt and consecrated by Abbot Koloman Holzinger and the new municipal coat of arms was handed over in a pontifical office with Auxiliary Bishop Leo Pietsch . Also in 1963 Pastor Hermann Wieser was granted honorary citizenship. The local lighting was expanded, the old parish hall renovated and a public lavatory built. Mayor Ferdinand Ganster was confirmed in the municipal council election on May 8, 1965, but resigned his mandate in March 1966. He was followed by Heribert Schwengerer, who was elected in the new election on May 9, 1966. In 1967 Mönichwald was integrated into the compulsory school district of the Waldbach secondary school.

On August 8, 1970, in the course of severe storms and floods across Austria, there were several mudslides from the Wechsel, which cut off Mönichwald from the outside world and without electricity. During the night, a huge earth mud buried the house of the Benak family of craftsmen in the blacksmiths district, broke through the brick wall of the children's room and buried two of the four children under itself.

On June 18, 1970, Josef Schwengerer took over the office of mayor. During his term of office, the construction of the new office building, decided in 1968, fell, which in addition to the municipal offices also houses the post office, the Raiffeisenkassa and a storage hall above the crypt chapel. The Raiffeisenkassa co-owns more than a quarter of the building. The construction of the Waldbach secondary school, which opened in 1971, was co-financed with 25 percent by the Mönichwald community. Because of the high debts that both construction projects entailed, a manual and train service was agreed, on the basis of which, in addition to all house driveways that opened up at least three properties in the sparsely populated area, other important connections in the municipality were paved. The tasks, which are very difficult with inclines of up to 40 percent, were also supported by six road cooperatives founded between 1949 and 1976. In order to prevent the increasingly out-of-town population from moving away, the first multi-party residential buildings were built - the Rottenmanner Haus at the entrance to the village and the Breineder village settlement. The local bypass and sewer system including biological sewage treatment plant were created, the tourism businesses adapted to the increased expectations of tourism and private initiatives embellished Mönichwald with flowers, and a park was created in the center of the village. The elementary school teacher and later director Maria Seper, who played a key role in the beautification , received honorary citizenship in 1977, together with Governor Friedrich Niederl .

In 1972 Mönichwald took part in the flower decoration competition "Most beautiful flower village in Styria" and reached 3rd place. Spurred on by the success in the Styrian competition and at the urging of Johanna Radits and Erna Schwengerer, Mönichwald also applied for the European flower decoration competition Entente Florale Europe and in 1984 was European winner. The signposting of the Mönichwald access roads, previously rejected by the authorities, has now been approved. The award also became the occasion of the first Mönichwald village festival in August 1984, which has been held regularly since then. In 1985 the people of Mönichwald secured an entry in the Guinness Book of Records with the longest apple strudel in the world: it was 238.75 meters long. In 1986 the “First Joglland Flower Parade” took place, which has been repeated every two years since then. In 1987 the first Krapfenkirtag took place. Its tenth anniversary in 1997 brought two more entries in the Book of Records: the largest donut buffet with 10,000 donuts and 100 different types of donut, and the largest Schnurkrapfen in the world with a diameter of 2.51 meters. In addition, Mönichwald won three second places in 1986, 1988 and 1994, and third place in the Styrian flower decoration competition in 1985 and 1999. In 1989 the recreational lake was handed over to its destination as part of the first lake festival.

An attraction of the Seefest 1991 was the "First Bartolympiad" with participants from Belgium, Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden and Austria, as well as the world record set by the winner, Birger Pellas from Sweden, for the longest mustache, which is 3.083 meters.

Population development

Mönichwald (top left) around 1878 (recording sheet of the state survey )
date Residents
1869 844
1880 891
1890 851
1900 853
1910 901
date Residents
1923 868
1934 950
1939 934
1951 888
1961 918
date Residents
1971 923
1981 1,034
1991 1,065
2001 975
2013 867

Culture and sights

The plague cross, rebuilt in 1956
  • Catholic parish church Mönichwald Hll. Peter and Paul
  • Plague cross near Hofstätter: The original plague cross, erected in 1723 and overturned in 1956, was the work of Johann Hackhofer and was probably a follow-up work to the high altar sheet of the Mönichwalder parish church created in 1722. Only one sketch of him made in the second half of the 19th century exists, the is kept in the Stiftsarchiv Vorau. In its place, a new wayside shrine was created based on the previous model as part of Mönichwald's 800th anniversary celebration. The construction was carried out by master builder Singer from Hartberg, the artistic design was in charge of Adolf Osterider . In the east the wayside shrine shows a representation of the Mother of God, in the north the plague patrons Rochus and Sebastian and in the south the weather patrons Johannes and Paulus.

Sports

On the south side of the Hochwechsel at 1000 to 1300 m above sea level there is a small winter sports area with four ski lifts and a slope length of 3.8 km which can be reached from Mönichwald.

In summer there are numerous hiking trails in Mönichwald in the Wechsel area. There are three managed alpine huts in the municipality: Mönichwalder Schwaig (1200 m), Kaltwiesenhütte (1400 m) and Wetterkoglerhaus (1743 m; at the summit of the Hochwechsel).

Regular events

  • Since 1986 the Krapfen kirtag has been held on the 3rd Sunday in July . Around 100 different types of donuts are sometimes baked on site. In 1997 the longest split donut in the world was baked - it was 2.51 m long.
  • The Mönichwalder Triathlon with 350 m swimming , 14.5 km cycling and 7 km running has taken place every July since 1999 .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Mönichwald is located on the state road through the upper Lafnitz valley and thus away from the main roads. The Wechsel Straße B 54 from Wiener Neustadt to Hartberg is about eleven kilometers away, the Weizer Straße B 72 from Weiz to Krieglach about 17 km.

Mönichwald is not connected to the railway network. There is no train station within ten kilometers.

The Graz Airport and the airport Wien-Schwechat are both about 100 km away.

education

There is an elementary school in Mönichwald . The secondary schools are located in Waldbach .

politics

Municipal council

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party 2005 2000 1995 1990
be right % Mandates be right % Mandates be right % Mandates be right % Mandates
ÖVP 361 57 6th 339 57 9 445 69 11 455 68 11
SPÖ 230 36 3 200 34 5 131 20th 3 113 17th 2
FPÖ 41 6th 0 58 10 1 68 11 1 40 6th 1
Unity of the Mönichwalder 60 9 1
voter turnout 85% 82% 89% 94%

After the population had fallen below 1000, Mönichwald had only nine municipal councils since 2005.

mayor

The last mayor was Josef Freiberger (ÖVP), and vice mayor Dietmar Prenner (ÖVP).

coat of arms

AUT Mönichwald COA.jpg

On July 1, 1963, the municipality of Mönichwald was granted the right to use its own coat of arms by the Styrian state government.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In the silver shield on the green floor, a black monk striding to the right between two green spruce trees."

The model for this was the talking coat of arms , which is depicted in the parish church and in the sacristy and was part of the Formbach monastery coat of arms from the middle of the 17th century.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

There are no sources for the period before 1922.

  • before 1922: Johann Schantl, pastor from 1893 to 1922
  • 1925: Prosper Berger (1876–1953), Augustinian canon, provost of the Vorau Abbey 1920–1953, "For the Mönichwalder born on the 25th anniversary of the priesthood"
  • 1950: Josef Krainer (1903–1971), governor
  • 1955: Dr. Erwin Stibenegg, district captain
  • 1962: Ferdinand Prirsch , Provincial Councilor "Due to the merits in the construction of the armory, the purchase of a fire engine and the Langegg forest road construction."
  • 1963: Hermann Wieser, pastor "For his services to the renovation of the parish church."
  • 1977: Friedrich Niederl , governor
  • 1977: Gerhard Rechberger, pastor
  • 1977: Maria Seper, director of the elementary school
  • 1979: Anton Peltzmann , Provincial Councilor
  • 1982: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor

Honorary ring bearer

  • 1980: Helmut Kreuzwirth, disaster control officer for the state of Styria
  • 1983: Johann Gruber, national champion in ice stock throwing
  • 1984: Josef Kogler, district captain
  • 1988: Karl Weihs, head of the state's municipal department
  • 1990: Josef Schwengerer, mayor from 1970 to 1990

literature

  • Ferdinand Hutz: Local history Mönichwald . Edited by Peter Gernot Obersteiner (2006). Available from the municipal office.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. State of Styria: Final population status on October 31, 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Excel file, 85 kB; accessed on May 2, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.statistik.steiermark.at
  2. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
  3. Section 3, Paragraph 4, Item 6 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.
  4. recognition G 44 / 2014-20, V 46 / 2014-20 of the Constitutional Court of 23 September 2014 available on the Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria (RIS).
  5. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  6. ^ The history of the Mönichwald elementary school. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 4, 2013 ; Retrieved on December 3, 2013 (This is shown here differently than in the local chronicle, which speaks of the rectory as the place of instruction on page 241). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.volksschule-moenichwald.at
  7. ^ Stefan Karner: Styria in the Third Reich 1938–1945 . 3. Edition. Leykam, Graz 1986, ISBN 3-7011-7302-8 , pp. 69, 219, 487 (The Styrian average was 99.87%, whereby 40,000 Styrians were excluded from voting despite meeting the requirements (minimum age, “Aryan”).).
  8. Storm: 2 children suffocated under the debris . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . August 11, 1970, p. 5 .
  9. Erna Schengerer: Krapfenkochbuch: 200 proven and new recipes . Pichler, Verlagsgruppe Styria, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-85431-571-1 , p. 8-9 .
  10. ^ Ferdinand Hutz: Mönichwald . Ed .: Mönichwald community. Graz 2006, p. 142 .
  11. Ferdinand Hutz: Vorau Abbey in the 20th Century , Vol. 1. Vorau 2004, p. 31.