Maria Wörth
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Maria Wörth
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| Basic data | ||
| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Carinthia | |
| Political District : | Klagenfurt-Land | |
| License plate : | KL | |
| Main town : | Maria Wörth / Reifnitz | |
| Surface: | 17.41 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 37 ' N , 14 ° 10' E | |
| Height : | 450 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 1,608 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Population density : | 92 inhabitants per km² | |
| Postal code : | 9082 | |
| Area code : | 0 42 73 | |
| Community code : | 2 04 19 | |
| NUTS region | AT211 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Wörthersee-Süduferstraße 115 9081 Reifnitz |
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| Mayor : | Markus Perdacher ( ÖVP ) | |
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Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members) |
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| Location of Maria Wörth in the Klagenfurt-Land district | ||
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 The Maria Wörth peninsula with a view from the Pyramidenkogel |
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| Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria | ||
Maria Wörth ( Slov .: Otok ) is a municipality with 1608 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Klagenfurt-Land district in Carinthia . The eponymous church was mentioned in a document as early as the 9th century as "Maria Werd".
geography
The village of Maria Wörth is located on a peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Wörth , about 14 km west of Klagenfurt . The municipality extends in hilly terrain with a high proportion of forest for several kilometers along the lake shore. The Wörthersee-Süduferstraße connects the westernmost village Unterdellach with the south-eastern end of the Wörthersee, where the rural area borders the city of Klagenfurt.
Community structure
The community is divided into the two cadastral communities of Maria Wörth and Reifnitz. The following eight localities are assigned to them (population figures as of January 1, 2020):
- Maiernigg ( Majernik ) (28)
- Maria Wörth ( Otok ) (150)
- Oberdellach ( Zgornje Dole ) (55)
- Raunach ( Ravne ) (133)
- Reifnitz ( Ribnica ) (821)
- St. Anna ( Šentana ) (61)
- Sekirn ( Sekira ) (283)
- Unterdellach ( Spodnje Dole ) (77)
Neighboring communities
| Techelsberg | Pörtschach | Krumpendorf |
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Klagenfurt | |
| Schiefling on Lake Wörthersee | Keutschach am See |
history
After missionaries from the diocese of Salzburg came to present-day Carinthia in the middle of the 8th century, the subsidiary Maria Wörth was founded from San Candido by the diocese of Freising on the island in Lake Wörth from around 830 onwards . The peninsula, on which the Gothic pilgrimage church is located today , was an island until 1770, which can still be recognized by the Slovenian name for the place, because "Otok" means "island" .
Around 875 a church of St. Mary was built on the highest point of the island, in which the relics of the martyrs Primus and Felicianus were buried. Starting from the property on the island, several churches were founded in the area in the second half of the 10th century. Maria Wörth was first mentioned in a document in 894.
Bishop Otto I. von Freising founded a second collegiate foundation in Carinthia between 1146 and 1150 in Maria Wörth . Another, smaller church, which still exists today under the name Rosenkranz- or Winterkirche, was consecrated in 1155. Both churches burned down in 1399, but were rebuilt. Around 1500 the diocese of Freising had lost its influence in Carinthia. The provost's office fell to the Millstatt Abbey and was dissolved in 1598 when it was taken over by the Jesuit order . After the abolition of the Millstätter monastery by the Jesuit ban of 1773 and after the St. Paul monastery was reopened in 1809 , Maria Wörth and the rule of Leonstein near Pörtschach were handed over to this monastery .
With the Glanfurt in 1770 an artificial outflow of the Wörthersee was created, the water level of the lake sank and Maria Wörth became a peninsula.
When the political communities were constituted in 1850, the cadastral community of Maria Wörth became part of the local community Schiefling am Wörthersee and the cadastral community of Reifnitz became part of the local community of Keutschach . It was not until 1903 that the Maria Wörth community was formed from the two. In 1938 Maria Loretto and a few larger sea parcels had to be ceded to Klagenfurt.
In 1971 and 1972 two films were made in Maria Wörth and the surrounding area ( Always anger with Reverend and Reverend turns a blind eye ). The Roman Catholic Church of Maria Wörth is the church of the film priest.
population
According to the 2001 census, the community of Maria Wörth has 1,258 inhabitants, of which 93.5% are Austrian, 3.3% German, 1.2% Bosnian and 1.0% Croatian citizens.
80.6% of the community population profess to the Roman Catholic Church , 7.2% to the Evangelical Church and 1.0% to Islam . 7.8% of the population have no religious beliefs.
Culture and sights
- The parish and former collegiate church of St. Primus and Felician is located on the highest point of the peninsula. The late Gothic church with a Romanesque core in its current appearance was probably built under Bishop Waldo von Freising (ruled 884–906), first mentioned in a document in 894, and served as a translation of the relics of the martyrs Primus and Felicianus . From the end of the 9th century it was the original parish and mission center of the Freising diocese in Carinthia. Due to its romantic location on the lake, the church is one of the most popular confirmation and wedding churches in Carinthia.
- The Winter Church (also known as the Rosary Church) is located to the west and a little below the parish church and is a small building surrounded by a cemetery wall in the style of the early medieval choir square churches. It is assumed that the consecration of a St. Mary's Church, mentioned in a document in 1155, affects today's Winter Church, but this is not certain. At the beginning of the 16th century the church was provided with a burr cross vault ; the arched sacrificial niche to the right of the portal bears the year 1524.
- The Reifnitz Castle ("Klein Miramar") built in 1898 is located on a promontory on the northern edge of the Reifnitz Bay.
- The Villa Schwarzenfels in Maiernigg was built and inhabited as a holiday villa by the Viennese architect Friedrich Theuer in 1893/94. The two-storey villa in the late historical style "old German direction" is in a dominant position on a bastion-like terrace above the lake.
Economy and Infrastructure
The economy of Maria Wörth is dominated by summer tourism (around 330,000 overnight stays). In the much frequented seaside resort there is also a landing stage for the Wörtherseeschifffahrt .
politics
Municipal council
The council of Maria Worth has 15 members and consists since the municipal elections in 2015 were as follows:
Mayor is Markus Perdacher (ÖVP).
coat of arms
The coat of arms, which was awarded to the municipality on February 14, 1983, contains several components from the history or the characteristics of the municipality. The blue background, the golden wave cut and the fish symbolize the location on Lake Wörthersee and the prosperity that tourism has brought. The golden lily cross expresses the cultural charisma of the Freising Mission Center, the church or the collegiate chapter and the Jesuit Fathers. The triangular shield, which in Carinthia only occurs in communities of knightly origin, is unusual.
The blazon of the coat of arms is as follows:
- "In a blue triangular shield above a golden wavy cut a golden lily cross, in the base of the shield a horizontal golden fish."
The flag is blue and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.
Town twinning
Personalities
- Adolf Heinrich Bercht (1875-1940) was the owner of Reifnitz Castle and mayor of the state capital Klagenfurt from July 13, 1926 to May 31, 1931 and found his final resting place in the family crypt in Maria Wörth.
- Nikolaus Lanner (* 1932); Politician, mayor of Maria Wörth; Member of the Federal Council and member of the Carinthian State Parliament.
Web links
- Maria Wörth parish
- 20419 - Maria Wörth. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 188.
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