Maria Lankowitz

Maria Lankowitz is a place of pilgrimage and a market town with 2,771 inhabitants (1 January 2020) in the West Styria west of Köflach and the district capital Voitsberg , as well as a former mining community in the coal mining area Köflach -Voitsberg.

geography

Pilgrimage Church of Maria Lankowitz

The place Maria Lankowitz is located around the pilgrimage church of the same name and connects directly to the local area of the eastern neighboring municipality of Köflach. The municipal area covers 104.25 km² and extends over the Kemetberg to the Alten Almhaus , a transition over the mountains of the Stubalpe into the upper Murtal . The highest point is the 1706 m above sea level. A. high Wölkerkogel .

Community structure

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

Hochgößnitz (167)
Kemetberg (207)
Kirchberg (205)
Maria Lankowitz (1688)
Niedergößnitz (258)
Salla (246)

The community consists of six cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2018):

Gößnitz (3,099.99 ha)
Kemetberg (1,165.58 ha)
Kirchberg (787.07 ha)
Lankowitz (441.22 ha)
Salla (2,473.83 ha)
Scherzberg (2,461.20 ha)

Neighboring communities

Maria Lankowitz is surrounded by seven neighboring communities, three of which are in the Murtal (MT) district.

Sankt Margarethen near Knittelfeld (MT)		Kainach near Voitsberg
Lobmingtal (MT) Weißkirchen in Steiermark (MT)		Köflach
Hirschegg pack	Precious scrap

history

Finds from the 1st to 4th centuries show a Roman settlement on the Franziskanerkogel above today's town. On the same hill are the remains of the Primaresburg , a fortification from the 10th century that was built by the Eppensteiners . The name of the place is derived from Old Slavonic ( Lancowice (pronounced: Lonkowizze) = place on the Uferaue , see also Lankwitz and Lanke (toponym) ).

The Maria Lankowitz church was first mentioned in a document in 1415. The decision of Emperor Friedrich III brought an upswing for the area around the little church . To commission Georg Gradner with the construction of the castle, monastery and church. These buildings are still today the central structures of the place (in several modifications). The castle has been a branch of the Graz-Karlau prison since the middle of the 19th century as the Maria Lankowitz prison .

In the 20th century, the history of the place is shaped by coal mining in the pits around Piberstein. Since the mining operations were shut down, efforts have been made primarily to gain a profile as a tourist community.

On January 1, 2015, the municipalities of Gößnitz and Salla were incorporated as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria .

Municipal council

The distribution of seats in the municipal council is as follows after the last municipal council election in 2015:

4 ÖVP
6 SPÖ
3 FPÖ
2 "Maria Lankowitz New"

Kurt Riemer ( SPÖ ) has been mayor since 2015 .

badges and flags

Goessnitz

Maria Lankowitz
(until 2014)

Maria Lankowitz and Gößnitz had their own coat of arms until the end of 2014. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new municipal coat of arms was awarded by the Styrian state government with effect from July 10, 2017.
The new blazon reads:

"In the shield that is split and divided by a silver thread at the top right in red a silver lock with a bay protruding to the right, a central dome-topped clock tower, eight black perforated windows and a round gate, at the top left in silver a miner leaning on his left knee, in the light of the Miner's lamp with a mallet in his right hand to strike the silver contoured rock growing in from the right, pulling out a silver lime tree with four leafy branches, topped with a golden statue of the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus shining brightly. "

The municipal flag has three stripes in the colors yellow-black-green with the coat of arms.

The municipal coat of arms was first awarded on March 15, 1900. The description of the coat of arms was then:

“A shield framed in gold, half lengthwise and crosswise by a gold thread. In the upper right blue field the image of Lankowitz Castle appears on the green lawn with its bay annexes on the right, its domed clock tower and its entrance gate carved in stone, decorated with columns and elevated with stone coats of arms. In the upper left black field a miner appears in a subterranean shaft, extracting coal from the bills of his miner's lamp with a mallet and iron. In the lower silver half of the shield, a natural, leafy linden tree rises out of the green turf that rises from the edge of the foot, in whose branches the miraculous statue of Our Lady with the Infant Jesus appears in radiance, and at the foot of which rests a natural plow on the right. The shield is surrounded by an architecturally designed dark bronze border. "

Culture and sights

Lankowitz Museum in the castle

Buildings

Church of Maria Lankowitz : The church is one of the pilgrimage churches in western Styria, it is dedicated to the " Visitation of Mary " and has existed since the middle of the 15th century. At that time the church was connected to a Franciscan monastery . 1678–1681 the church was given its present appearance by Jakob Schmerlaib . In 1712 a side chapel was added, the high altar with statues of St. Joachim , St. Anna , Zacharias and Elisabeth dates from 1767. The church is enriched by rich furnishings from the 17th and 18th centuries and frescoes by the Italian painter Felix Batazutti adorned. In the church there is a Gothic statue of the Virgin Mary from the 15th century, which is said to have miraculous work.

Maria Lankowitz Monastery : The Franciscan monastery is located north of the church, it dates from the years 1656 to 1665, the church is looked after from the monastery.

The Antonius Chapel from around 1660 was built at the same time as the wall of the cemetery, its altar dates from 1770. In the chapel there is a large votive picture of Count Sigmund Friedrich Herberstein .

The portal of the churchyard dates from the beginning of the 19th century, the statues next to it from the 18th century, the wayside shrine in front of the church is dated 1658.

There are eight statues of saints from around 1730 on the access road to the church.

The Lankowitz castle was built from 1440 under Georg Ritter Gradner. In 1459 it went to Emperor Friedrich III, in 1460 to Andreas Greißenegger . After further changes of ownership, it was set up as a penal institution from 1855.

The ruins of Klingenstein Castle west of the village of Salla date from around 1400.

The statue of the Madonna on the Wölkerkogel was created in 1954 by the sculptor Alfred Schlosser .

Sports

The football club FC Lankowitz won the Steirer Cup in 2014 and 2015 . He has played in the Styrian regional league since 2016 .

From 1994 to 1998, Maria Lankowitz was the venue for the WTA Maria Lankowitz women's tennis tournament . In addition, the Xentis Triathlon takes place every year at Lake Piberstein .

Economy and Infrastructure

The economy today is mainly geared towards tourism. The pits of the former brown coal opencast mine are now used as bathing lakes. There is also a golf course, hiking trails and a small ski area. In summer you can see the Lipizzaners grazing on the alpine meadows of the Stubalm .

The agricultural college in Maria Lankowitz-St. Martin is called " Hanns-Koren-Schule ".

Personalities

Honorary citizen

1965: Anna Stölzle, teacher
1980: Adalbert Sebastian (1919–2004), Deputy Governor
1984: Hans Gross (1930–1992), Deputy Governor

Sons and daughters of the church

Anton Hafner (1912–2012), painter and composer
Erwin Hohenwarter (* 1947), soccer player
Johannes Kleinhappl (1893–1979), Catholic priest and professor of moral theology
Gerhardt Moswitzer (1940–2013), sculptor
Johann Schadenbauer (* 1937), composer, conductor and former military bandmaster
Angelus Steinwender (1895–1945), clergyman, resistance fighter
Stefanie Werger (* 1951), musician

Historical maps

Maria Lankowitz in the west of Köflach, recording sheet of the state survey , around 1877/78
The Pack is located in the south of Maria Lankowitz

Web links

Commons : Maria Lankowitz - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

61632 - Maria Lankowitz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
maria-lankowitz.at Homepage of the community

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019

↑ Georg Holzer: Slawisch - Die Slavia submersa ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 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. , PDF file, 2005, accessed April 21, 2016. @1@ 2

^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of December 12, 2013 about the unification of the market community Maria Lankowitz and the communities Gößnitz and Salla, all political district Voitsberg. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 20, 2013. No. 172, 37th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 713.

↑ 56. Announcement of the Styrian state government of June 22, 2017 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Maria Lankowitz (political district Voitsberg) , accessed on June 29, 2017

↑ Entry on Maria Lankowitz on the website kommunalflaggen.eu

^ Announcements from the Styrian State Archives 13, 1963, p. 78

^ Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Styria (excluding Graz). Topographical inventory of monuments, published by the Federal Monuments Office. Vienna 1982. ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 . Pp. 279-281.

↑ www.golf-marialankowitz.at

↑ www.steiermark.com ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Homepage
↑ Weststeirische Volkszeitung (June 26, 1965), p. 8.
↑ FSV 05.de - online archive of 1. FSV Mainz 05. Retrieved on August 10, 2018 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019