Mürzzuschlag

Borough Mürzzuschlag
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag
License plate :	BM (from 1.7.2013; old: MZ)
Surface:	51.31 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 36 '  N , 15 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '27 "  N , 15 ° 40' 23"  E
Height :	670  m above sea level A.
Residents :	8,347 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8680, 8682
Area code :	03852
Community code :	6 21 43
Address of the municipal administration:	Wiener Straße 9 8680 Mürzzuschlag
Website:	www.muerzzuschlag.at
politics
Mayor :	Karl Rudischer ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2020) (25 members)	12 5 3 3 2 12 5 3 3 2  A total of 25 seats SPÖ : 12 FPÖ : 5 KPÖ : 3 ÖVP : 3 GREEN : 2
Location of Mürzzuschlag in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district
Mürzzuschlag as seen from the Pretul , in the background the Schneealpe
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mürzzuschlag against Semmering, lith. Around 1830, JF Kaiser, Graz

Mürzzuschlag is a town in the district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag and the seat of the court of the same judicial district in the northeast of Styria ( Austria ) with 8347 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2020). Mürzzuschlag was the district capital of the former district of Mürzzuschlag until the district merger in 2013 . As part of the structural reform of the municipality in Styria , Mürzzuschlag was merged with the municipality of Ganz on January 1st, 2015 .

geography

Mürzzuschlag is a small town on the Mürz River at 670 meters above sea level. Mürzzuschlag is the last town before the natural border with Lower Austria , the Semmering . In the northeast is the Edlach district, in the southwest Hönigsberg.

climate

Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Mürzzuschlag Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 1.0 3.5 7.6 12.7 18.0 20.9 23.0 22.6 18.1 13.1 5.7 0.8 O 12.3 Min. Temperature (° C) -6.7 -5.6 -2.2 1.4 6.2 9.4 11.2 11.0 7.6 3.6 -1.1 -5.3 O 2.5 Temperature (° C) -2.9 -1.3 2.3 6.7 11.8 14.9 16.9 16.2 12.2 7.6 2.0 -2.2 O 7.1 Precipitation ( mm ) 63 60 87 66 111 139 144 136 98 70 70 72 Σ 1,116 Humidity ( % ) 67.8 57.7 53.8 48.9 51.4 52.8 51.4 51.2 54.7 57.7 68.1 74.7 O 57.5 T e m p e r a t u r 1.0 -6.7 3.5 -5.6 7.6 -2.2 12.7 1.4 18.0 6.2 20.9 9.4 23.0 11.2 22.6 11.0 18.1 7.6 13.1 3.6 5.7 -1.1 0.8 -5.3 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source: ZAMG average climate values ​​1981 - 2010

Community structure

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

• Auersbach (128)
• Edlach (142)
• Eichhorn Valley (22)
• Whole (134)
• Hönigsberg (1680)
• Coal life (43)
• Lambach (128)
• Mürzzuschlag (5831)
• Pernreit (81)
• Schöneben (158)

The community consists of six cadastral communities (area as of 2015):

• Auersbach (945.30 ha)
• Eichhornthal (512.23 ha)
• Whole (747.48 ha)
• Lambach (336.85 ha)
• Mürzzuschlag (1,920.88 ha)
• Schöneben-Ganz (667.73 ha)

history

Mürzzuschlag and the surrounding area around 1876 (recording sheet of the state survey )

Mürzzuschlag around 1900

Mürzzuschlag in 2004

• See: Mürzzuschlag market fortification

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1227. According to folk etymology, the name comes from the fact that the Mürz strikes (makes a kink) towards the lower Mürz Valley, but in reality it is more likely derived from the Slavic field name Muriza Slaka . In 1360 Mürzzuschlag received iron rights from Duke Rudolf . This guaranteed the right to the sole production of small iron between Leoben and Semmering. Johann HA Bleckmann bought the old hammer mills in 1862 and founded Phönix-Stahlwerke , then Schoeller-Bleckmann Stahlwerke , today's Böhler Bleche GmbH . The world's first stainless steel was developed in 1912 by engineer Max Mauermann in the Bleckmann works.

The minstrel Ulrich von Liechtenstein was on a trip from Venice to Bohemia the term "murzuslage" in his poem Mrs. service mentioned.

Viktor Kaplan , the inventor of the Kaplan and high-speed turbine, was born here in 1876, and Elfriede Jelinek , Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1946.

Mürzzuschlag received city rights in 1923. Mürzzuschlag was a working class town. Since the decline of the steel industry, the municipality has taken numerous cultural initiatives.

Johannes Brahms wrote his fourth symphony in Mürzzuschlag from 1884 to 1885, which is why there is now a Brahms Museum there. Toni Schruf , one of the first skiers in Central Europe and host of the Hotel Post, grew up in Mürzzuschlag. Eugenie Walter, better known as the actress and character actress Jenny Jugo , was born here in 1905. Among other things, she played the role of Queen Victoria in the girl years of a queen in 1938 .

From February 5 to 8, 1931, the only workers winter sports Olympics took place in Mürzzuschlag . According to the current state of research, more than 560 worker athletes took part in the competitions organized by the Austrian Workers' Sports Association. Competitions were held in cross-country skiing, downhill skiing, ice hockey, curling, speed skating, figure skating, ice dancing, cross-country skiing and obstacle running.

The southern line with the Mürzzuschlag station was opened in 1844, the local line Mürzzuschlag – Neuberg in 1879. According to the plans of the designer Carl Ritter von Ghega , the mountain railway from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag via the Semmering was put into operation in 1854. The Semmering Railway is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site . In order to document the connection between the city and this important route, the Mürzzuschlag Southern Railway Culture Station and the Southern Railway Museum were opened on June 19, 2004 in a former installation of the Mürzzuschlag train conveyor .

Population development

Since the steel crisis in the 1980s, the city ​​has been affected by strong migration to the Graz area and the surrounding area .

politics

The municipal council consists of 25 seats: 12 SPÖ , 3 ÖVP , 5 FPÖ , 3 KPÖ , and 2 Greens .

mayor

• 1960 to 1983 Franz Kotrba (SPÖ)
• 1983 to 1987 Winfried Seidinger (SPÖ)
• 1987 to 1997 Franz Steinhuber (SPÖ)
• 1997 to 2007 Walter Kranner (SPÖ)
• since 2007 Karl Rudischer (SPÖ)

coat of arms

Of the two previous communities, only Mürzzuschlag had a community coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, this lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new municipal coat of arms for the merged community took place on October 20, 2016.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

“A red shield, traversed on a green shield base by a silver, square-walled, five-fold tinned city wall with a half-raised iron portcullis in the black perforated round arched gate opening; Growing out of the wall and silver cuboid two towers, each triple tinned and each pierced by a pointed arch window, a silver ball between them, on the right an angle hook, on the left a pair of pliers. "

Town twinning

• Berlin, Treptow-Koepenick (Germany)
• Arusha (Tanzania)
• Blansko (Czech Republic)
• Chillán (Chile)
• Pengzhou (People's Republic of China)

Culture and sights

The listed "Old Council Castle"

Reception building in Mürzzuschlag train station

See also:  List of listed objects in Mürzzuschlag

• Catholic parish church Mürzzuschlag hl. Kunigunde
• Catholic parish church Hönigsberg for the crucified Savior
• kunsthaus muerzzuschlag : modern cultural event center. History of origin: A Franciscan monastery built between 1648 and 1654 was dissolved by a patent from Emperor Joseph II in 1799 and demolished in 1972. Only the church belonging to it remained standing. This was converted into a modern cultural event center, the kunsthaus muerzzuschlag. The Kunsthaus was opened on the occasion of the 1991 state exhibition "Sport - Sinn und Wahn".
• Brahms Museum: Dedicated to the musician Johannes Brahms.
• Winter sports museum: The world's largest and first winter sports museum is located in Mürzzuschlag. It houses the most comprehensive collection of winter sports historical exhibits.
• Southern Railway Museum : A museum dedicated to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Semmering Railway , built by Carl Ritter von Ghega .

Events

• United Games: Mürzzuschlag has been the Austrian venue for the United Games since 1998 . Every year 50 to 100 young people from all over the world come to the city for this youth exchange to carry out projects on various topics for a week. In 2007 the United Games brought the 1st European Youth Congress to the city.

economy

The industrial city and the VÖEST plant located here as the largest employer with almost 3,000 employees suffered a steady decline. Today only around 500 people work at Böhler Bleche , which means that Mürzzuschlag continues to be an important industrial location. Since 2000, business relocations have been supported in the Mürzzuschlag business park and start-up center (WGM).

In terms of tourism, the city, together with the municipalities of Langenwang and Krieglach, form the “ Waldheimat -Steirischer Semmering ” tourism association , whose headquarters are in Mürzzuschlag.

education

• Polytechnic School Mürzzuschlag, Pedagogical Panther  2008
• Herta-Reich-Gymnasium
• Commercial academy Mürzzuschlag

Sports

In 1893, on the initiative of the innkeeper Toni Schruf, the first alpine ski race in Central Europe was held on the nearby Stuhleck.

The Ganzsteinschanzen are the oldest facilities of this kind in Central Europe.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

from 1945:

• 1955: Dr. Hans Ferbar (1890–1967), Vice Mayor
• 1956: DDDr. Alfred Schachner-Blazizek (1912–1970), District Captain, Deputy Governor.
• 1956: Fritz Matzner (1896–1972), Deputy Governor.
• 1956: Franz Reinbacher (1879–1967), Vice Mayor
• 1957: Ing. Alfred Küffel (1883–1967), City Planning Director
• 1960: Josef Freiberger (1890–1973), mayor
• 1966: Theodor Hüttenegger (1901–1982), founder of the Winter Sports Museum
• 1981: Josef Moser (1919–2003), Federal Minister
• 1983: Hans Gross (1930–1992), Deputy Governor.
• 1985: Franz Kotrba (1924–2011), mayor
• 1985: Franz Tirnthal (1923–2005), Vice Mayor
• 1992: Kurt Jungwirth (1929), Deputy Governor.
• 2000: Josef Pillhofer (1921–2010), academic sculptor
• 2005: Heinz Veitschegger (1940), Vice Mayor

sons and daughters of the town

• Franz Bach (1886–1943), paleontologist and teacher
• Franz Berghold (* 1948), doctor
• Erwin Bohatsch (* 1951), painter of the new savages
• Helmut Brenner (1957–2017), musicologist and historian
• Christian Brünner (* 1942), university professor and politician
• Adolf Brunnlechner (1863–1960), painter, graphic artist and art historian
• Walter Buchebner (1929–1964), writer
• Wolfgang Buchner (* 1946), painter and sculptor
• Harald Darer (* 1975), writer
• Dietmar Ganshofer (* 1961), singer of the pop band " Die Paldauer "
• Werner Geier (1962–2007), music journalist and producer
• Heinz Grabner (* 1942), politician and city planning director
• Andreas Gruber (* 1995), soccer player
• Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer (* 1955), classical philologist
• Peter Hochegger (* 1949), entrepreneur, PR consultant
• Walter Hölbling (* 1947), university professor and poet
• Elfriede Jelinek (* 1946), writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature
• Jenny Jugo (1904–2001), actress
• Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), engineer and inventor of the Kaplan and high-speed turbine
• Lara Köck (* 1986), politician
• Abundus Kuntschak (1753–1822), Austrian clergyman and the abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Rein
• Ernst Lachs (1904–1980), director of the Vienna Control Office
• Hella Lendl (1905–2004), politician and member of the state parliament
• Hannes Liebmann (* 1956), actor
• Karl List (1902–1971), musician, folk song collector, editor of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
• Wolf Lotter (* 1962), journalist and author
• Siegfried Mattl (1954–2015), historian
• Heinz Mayer (* 1946), lawyer
• Elmar Mayer-Baldasseroni (* 1977), writer and scientist
• Arnd Meißl (* 1968), politician
• Wolfgang Pollak (1915–1995), linguist
• Josef Pommer (1845–1918), folk song researcher
• Walter Posch (* 1954), politician
• Stefan Pöttler (* 1967), political advisor
• Franz Preitler (* 1963), writer
• Herta Reich (1917–2012), the only surviving Austrian on the Kladovo transport, mother of Ronny Reich
• Friedrich Reisinger (* 1962), politician
• Rudolf Sanzin (1874–1922), locomotive designer
• Alfred Schachner-Blazizek (1912–1970), politician
• Peter Schachner-Blazizek (* 1942), politician
• Friederike Scharfegger († 1996), table tennis player
• Toni Schruf (1863–1932), ski pioneer
• Günter Singer (* 1967), filmmaker, private security and military entrepreneur
• Josef Straßberger (* 1946), politician
• Rudolf Tirnthal (1925–1991), politician
• Werner Wigelbeyer (1937-2018), politician (ÖVP)
• Johannes Wildner (* 1956), conductor
• Sepp Zeilbauer (* 1952), decathlete

Personalities associated with the city

• Claudio Arrau (1903-1991), pianist
• Edmund Josef Bendl (1914–1984), teacher and author
• Johann HA Bleckmann (1826–1891), entrepreneur
• Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), composer
• Josef Gamsjäger (1904–1996), politician
• Peter Hirsch (1915–1989), politician
• Franz Hervay Edler von Kirchberg (1870–1904), first district captain of Mürzzuschlag
• Ewald König (* 1968), politician and entrepreneur
• Josef Pillhofer (1921–2010), sculptor
• Astrid Plessl (* 1984), memory athlete
• Hary Raithofer (* 1965), moderator, pilot
• Willi Scharf (1896–1971), geologist

literature

• Stefanie Kraul: Workers Winter Sports Olympics 1931 in Mürzzuschlag - an unknown Olympiad. In: Norbert Müller, Manfred Messing, Holger Preuß (eds.): From Chamonix to Turin. The Winter Games in the focus of Olympic research. Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-89784-994-1 , pp. 159-179.

Web links

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

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

• 62143 - Mürzzuschlag. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Municipality website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
4. ↑ Simon Pirchegger: The Slavic place names in the Mürz area . Leipzig 1927.
5. ↑ 123. Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 6, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Mürzzuschlag (political district Bruck-Mürzzuschlag) , accessed on October 20, 2016
6. ↑ The dying city of the workers on diepresse.com
7. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 326. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 631-632.
8. ↑ Pedagogical Panther 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , lsr-stmk.gv.at (pdf; 575 kB).
   The Pedagogical Panther 2008 , elternbrief.at (pdf; 63 kB). A panther for the best ( memento from October 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . In: kleinezeitung.at »Styria» Graz district »Graz , June 11, 2008.
   
9. ^ Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class to Prof. Ronny Reich. (No longer available online.) Institute for Old Testament Studies and Biblical Archeology, 2012, archived from the original on February 20, 2016 ; Retrieved January 21, 2013 . 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.