Mölbling

Mölbling
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Sankt Veit an der Glan
License plate :	SV
Surface:	48.77 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 52 '  N , 14 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 51 '42 "  N , 14 ° 26' 47"  E
Height :	585  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,309 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	27 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	9330, 9312, 9300, 9341
Area code :	0 42 62
Community code :	2 05 20
Address of the municipal administration:	Mölbling No. 16 9330 Althofen
Website:	www.moelbling.at
politics
Mayor :	Bernd Krassnig ( FPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members)	10 FPÖ , 5 SPÖ 10 5 10 5  A total of 15 seats FPÖ : 10 SPÖ : 5
Location of Mölbling in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mölbling is a municipality with 1309 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district in Carinthia .

geography

Geographical location

Mölbling is located around 27 km north-northeast of Klagenfurt . The community is located on the western edge of the Krappfeld and in the Wimitzer mountains . The area is drained by the Gurk , which runs through the eastern edge of the municipality and into which the Tatschgerbach flows, which itself receives several side streams, such as the Welsbach and the Meiseldinger Bach.

The neighboring communities of Mölbling are, clockwise from the north: Strasbourg , Althofen , Kappel am Krappfeld , Sankt Georgen am Längsee , Frauenstein and Gurk .

Community structure

Mölbling is divided into five cadastral communities (Dielach, Gunzenberg, Meiselding, Rabing, Rastenfeld). The municipality includes the following 29 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Mine ditch (35)
• Breitenstein (21)
• Brugga (160)
• Dielach (52)
• Drasenberg (31)
• Eixendorf (7)
• Gaming (35)
• Gerach (0)
• Gratschitz (14)
• Gunzenberg (17)
• Kogl (4)
• Mail (19)
• Meiselding (349)
• Mölbling (190)
• Pirka (28)
• Rabing (30)
• Notch field (18)
• Ringberg (18)
• St. Cosmas (5)
• St. Stefan am Krappfeld (34)
• Stone (14)
• Stoberdorf (15)
• Stragance (47)
• Treffling (41)
• Chatschg (14)
• Unterbergen (50)
• Under deca (45)
• Wattein (9)
• Welsbach (7)

history

The church in St. Stefan was first mentioned in 1131, the church in Meiselding in 1216.

Until 1848, today's municipal area belonged to the Freiberg and Hochosterwitz regional courts. In 1850 the municipality Rabing was established from the cadastral municipalities Rabing, Rastenfeld and Gunzenberg, which was renamed Mölbling in 1956. In 1973 Mölbling was expanded to include a large part of the dissolved local community of Meiselding.

In 1893 Carl Freiherr Auer von Welsbach acquired Rastenfeld Castle . In the nearby town of Welsbach, he built buildings for his inventions ( gas glow tube , osmium lamp, pyrophoric alloys).

population

Mölbling has 1273 inhabitants (2001), 97.2% of whom are Austrian citizens. The largest towns are Meiselding with 288, Mölbling with 169 and Brugga with 131 inhabitants. 90.5% of the population indicate their religious affiliation as Roman Catholic, 3.1% Protestant, 0.9% Islamic. 4.3% are without religious belief.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Mölbling

• Bergwerkgraben (derelict silver mine)
• Parish church hl. Stefan in St. Stefan am Krappfeld
• Pilgrimage Church of St. Kosmas
• Filial church hl. Michael in Treffling
• Parish church hl. Florian in Gunzenberg
• Parish church hl. Andreas in Meiselding
• Rastenfeld Castle , first mentioned in a document in 1241, octagonal building from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century and north of it Welsbach Castle , a two-storey building in late historical style, built for the industrialist Carl Auer von Welsbach 1898 to 1900
• Gurkbrücke near Mölbling, three-arched baroque stone vaulted bridge (old federal road 17, today Meiseldinger Landstrasse 66)

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census, there are 141 employees in the municipality and 437 out-commuters. There are 84 farms (including 39 full-time farmers), which together farm 4,434 hectares (1999).

The federal road 317 and the state roads 66, 66a and 67b run through the municipality .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

• 10 FPÖ
• 5 SPÖ

The directly elected mayor is Bernd Krassnig (FPÖ).

coat of arms

In Mölbling's coat of arms, the silver, gridded disc with the eight knots alludes to the invention of the incandescent gas light by the most famous township citizen Carl Auer von Welsbach; the number of speckles could also be an allusion to the eight churches in the parish area. The soaring silver wolf goes back to a seal from Heinrich des Raspen from 1333, whose Rastenfeld Castle was an important local center of power. The silver torch was taken from the heart shield of the manufacturer Auer von Welsbach.

The official blazon of the coat of arms reads: “Above a semicircular growing, black slanted silver disk, a green arched strip with eight silver spines; above in green a soaring, silver, red-tongued and red-armored wolf with hanging tail, holding a silver torch in his front paws. "

The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the community on January 5th, 1994. The flag is green and white with an incorporated coat of arms.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Lore Brunner (1950–2002), actress

Personalities associated with the community

• Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), chemist and entrepreneur

Web links

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

• Mölbling community
• 20520 - Mölbling. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from May 25, 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. 
3. ↑ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 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. 
4. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 196