Micheldorf

This article describes the municipality of Micheldorf in Carinthia, for other places with this name see Micheldorf (disambiguation) .

Micheldorf
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Sankt Veit an der Glan
License plate :	SV
Surface:	17.02 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 55 '  N , 14 ° 26'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '50 "  N , 14 ° 25' 40"  E
Height :	622  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,000 (Jan 1, 2020)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9322
Area code :	0 42 68
Community code :	2 05 19
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 28 9322 Micheldorf
Website:	www.micheldorf.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Wuttei ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members)	10 SPÖ , 3 we micheldorfer, 2 FPÖ 10 3 2 10 3 2  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 10 we micheldorfer : 3 FPÖ : 2
Location of Micheldorf in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Center of Micheldorf

Micheldorf Church

Hirt brewery

Former blast furnace

Micheldorf is a municipality with 1000 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Sankt Veit an der Glan district in Carinthia .

geography

The community is located south of the city of Friesach in the southern Friesacher Feld on the Metnitz .

Community structure

Micheldorf is divided into the two cadastral communities Micheldorf and Lorenzenberg. The municipal area comprises nine localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Gasteige (48) Gaudritz (0) Gulitzen (156) Shepherd (40) Lorenzenberg (36)

Micheldorf (687) Ostrog (0) Ruhsdorf (7) Schödendorf (26)

history

The church of Micheldorf was first mentioned in a document in 783/785, the branch church on the Lorenzenberg in 1043.

When local parishes were formed in Carinthia, the cadastral parishes Micheldorf and Lorenzenberg were initially assigned to Friesach in 1850 . In 1893, Micheldorf separated from Friesach as an independent local community. As part of a municipal structural reform, Micheldorf was affiliated with Friesach in 1973, but after a referendum in 1992 it is again an independent municipality.

population

At the time of the 2001 census, Micheldorf had 1,201 inhabitants, 95.6% of whom were Austrian and 2.8% Bosnian citizens. 84.3% of the population confessed to the Roman Catholic Church, 3.3% to the Evangelical Church and 2.8% to Islam . 8.4% were without religious belief.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Micheldorf

• The parish church of St. Veit in Micheldorf , mentioned in a document 784/785, is a medium-sized building, originally Romanesque in the nave, which was changed in the 18th and 19th centuries. The tower extension on the west side in Gothic style is marked with the year 1447.
• The branch church of St. Laurentius on the Lorenzenberg, first mentioned in 1043, is an early Gothic building erected on a rock cone.
• A blast furnace built in 1806 has been preserved from the ironworks in Hirt, which was closed in 1873.

Economy and Infrastructure

The leading company and at the same time the most famous company in the community is the Hirt private brewery .

traffic

Micheldorf is on the Rudolfsbahn and Friesacher Strasse .

politics

Municipal council

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

• 10 SPÖ
• 3 we micheldorfer
• 2 FPÖ

The directly elected mayor is Josef Wuttei (SPÖ).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Micheldorf has the following blazon : "In green an oblique left golden, black-backed grate, accompanied above by a golden hop vine with a leaf and two umbels, below by a golden ear growing parallel to the grate."

The municipality's coat of arms and flag were awarded on December 6, 1994. The flag is green and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.

The grate symbolizes the parish patron Laurentius , who, according to legend, was martyred on a grate. The hops cone, which alludes to the traditional brewery, has been adopted from the coat of arms that led the municipality of Micheldorf from 1963 to its incorporation in Friesach in 1973. The cereal ear stands for cultivation in the municipality as well as for the health resort in Agathenhof, where, among other things, the Mayr cure with cereal products is used.

Community partnerships

There are partnerships with the following municipalities:

• Micheldorf in Upper Austria
• Villesse in Friuli ( Italy )

Web links

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

• Micheldorf municipality
• 20519 - Micheldorf. 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. 192