Mortschach

Mortschach
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Spittal an der Drau
License plate :	SP
Surface:	74.73 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 55 '  N , 12 ° 55'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 55 '20 "  N , 12 ° 54' 41"  E
Height :	934  m above sea level A.
Residents :	824 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9842
Area code :	0 48 26
Community code :	2 06 22
Address of the municipal administration:	No. 42, 9842 Mörtschach
Website:	moertschach.gv.at/
politics
Mayor :	Richard Unterreiner (LgM)
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (11 members)	4th 4th 3 4th 4th 3  A total of 11 seats ÖVP : 4 LgM : 4 FPÖ : 3
Location of Mörtschach in the Spittal an der Drau district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Parish church in Mörtschach

Farmhouse

Pilgrimage church Maria in der Au

Mörtschach is a municipality with 824 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Spittal an der Drau district in Carinthia .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the far west of Carinthia in the upper Möll valley . It is bounded in the west by the Schobergruppe , in the east by Sadnig , a foothill of the Sonnblick massif . The village of Mörtschach itself is about 950 m above sea level, the highest mountain in the municipality is the Petzeck with a height of 3283  m above sea level. A.

Mörtschach has a substantial share of the Hohe Tauern National Park .

Community structure

The municipality of Mörtschach with the cadastral municipalities of Mörtschach and Stranach consists of the following localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Branches (31)
• Floodplain (26)
• Lassach (130)
• Mortschach (261)
• Mörtschachberg (5)
• Pirkachberg (38)
• Rettenbach (59)
• Trampling (128)
• Stranach (146)

history

The area was settled in the Middle Ages as a result of gold mining. Subsequently, the first agricultural settlers emerged from the mining miners. Mörtschach was first mentioned in a document in 1256.

The two cadastral communities Mörtschach and Stranach first came to the community of Winklern when local communities were formed in 1850 and only became independent to the local community of Mörtschach in 1898. On the occasion of the municipal structural reform of 1973 Mörtschach was reunited with Winklern for a second time, but split again in 1991 after a referendum in which 78% of the population voted for independence.

The creation of the Hohe Tauern National Park in 1981, whose core area includes the Großglockner and Schober groups, and whose outer zone extends down into the valley, was of great importance for the community, both from an economic - and especially tourist - as well as from an ecological perspective .

The highest school in the federal state of Carinthia ( 1700  m ) was located in the village of Asten (in the Astental ) for a long time , but it had to be closed in 2005 due to austerity measures and falling student numbers.

population

At the time of the 2001 census, Mörtschach had 942 inhabitants, 97.8% of whom were Austrian citizens . This made Mörtschach one of the ten smallest communities in Carinthia. The population has been declining since the 1970s.

In 2001, 96.2% of the population confessed to the Roman Catholic Church and 0.8% to the Evangelical Church, 0.6% were without religious beliefs.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Mörtschach

• The parish church of St. Leonhard in Mörtschach, standing on a hill, was built in 1516.
• The pilgrimage church Maria Hilf in the local area of ​​Auen is a small church with a choir and a two-axis nave with a gable tower. It was built in 1806.
• Lady Chapel
• Wallner Chapel

Economy and Infrastructure

While agriculture used to be the main livelihood in the municipality under difficult conditions, in the last few decades - especially since the opening of the Hohe Tauern National Park in 1981 - tourism has gained increasing economic importance. The number of overnight stays rose from 24,252 in 2008 to 29,216 in 2017.

The Grossglockner road (B 107) connects Mörtschach with neighboring communities Großkirchheim in the north and Winklern the south.

politics

City council and mayor

The municipality council of Mörtschach has 11 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

• 4 ÖVP
• 4 LgM (Richard Unterreiner - List for a joint Mört chess)
• 3 FPÖ

The directly elected mayor is Richard Unterreiner (LgM).

coat of arms

The Mörtschach coat of arms symbolizes the link between natural and cultural areas that is typical for the entire Möll valley. The green background symbolizes nature and the national park, the chain is the attribute of St. Leonhard , patron of the Mörtschach parish church and patron saint of cattle. The Carinthian Tauernflower stylized in the coat of arms , an annual gentian plant, only occurs in alpine altitudes above 1900  m above sea level and is native to the upper Mölltal, among other places.

The coat of arms was awarded to the community on April 25, 1995 with the following blazon : "The silver flower of the Carinthian Tauernflower (Lomatogonium carinthiacum) is enclosed in a green shield by a silver chain border ." The flag is green and white with an incorporated coat of arms.

Web links

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

• Mörtschach community
• 20622 - Mörtschach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Statistics Austria, Demographic Data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 2, 2019 . 
3. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Mörtschach, overnight stays. Retrieved March 2, 2019 . 
4. ^ Province of Carinthia, municipal council election . March 1, 2015, accessed March 4, 2019 . 
5. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 198