Mitterberg (Mitterberg-Sankt Martin municipality)

Mitterberg ( former municipality ) ; Cadastral community Mitterberg
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Liezen (GB = Expositur Gröbming ), Styria
Judicial district	Schladming
Pole. local community	Mitterberg-Sankt Martin
Coordinates	47 ° 27 '1 " N , 13 ° 56' 48" E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '1 " N , 13 ° 56' 48" E
height	791 m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H.	1159 (January 1, 2015)
Building status	540 (April 1, 2020 )
Area d. KG	1,731.35 ha (Dec. 31, 2019)
Post Code	8962 Grobming
prefix	+ 43/3685 (Grobming)
	Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	67207
Counting district / district	Mitterberg (61261 000)
	; Location of the former municipality in the Liezen district (as of 2014)
	Independent municipality until the end of 2014; Locations with OKZ at that time: 15811 Gersdorf, 15812 Mitterberg, 15813 Salza, 15814 Strimitzen, 15815 Tipschern, 15816 Unterlengdorf ; Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Mitterberg is a former municipality in Styria ( Politische Expositur Gröbming or judicial district Schladming in the Liezen district) with 1159 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2015).

geography

The community does not have an actual community center; the individual parts of the community tend towards the various neighboring communities.

Community structure

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

Gersdorf (152) with Kaindorf and Zirting
Mitterberg (846) with mountain, village, Matzling, ratting and footbridge
Strimitzen (46) with Gstatt and Niedergstatt

the three localities Salza, Tipschern and Unterlengdorf were later merged with localities of the same name from the former municipality of St. Martin

The community consisted of the only cadastral community Mitterberg.

history

Mitterberg was first mentioned in 1074 when the Admont Benedictine monastery was founded .

The local community as an autonomous body was established in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community came to the Reichsgau Steiermark, 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Since 2015, the municipality has merged with the municipality of Sankt Martin am Grimming as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform . The resulting new community is called Mitterberg-Sankt Martin .

Mitterberg, together with Gröbming, is a " climatic health resort "

History of the castle, manor and forestry office in Gstatt

In 1394 Gstatt Castle was built as " Probstey " at the foot of the Mitterberg as the seat of the administration for the estates and peasant subjects between Liezen and Schladming.

The lordship was abolished in 1848. In 1892, the Trento shipyard owner Charles François Bardeau, who had already bought Kornberg Castle in 1871 , acquired the Gstatt estate and expanded it from 8,000 hectares to 13,000 hectares. In 1911, Emperor Franz Joseph I elevated him to the rank of count .

During the economic crisis of 1929, the Bardeau family sold the Gstatt forest estate to Count Hieronymus Colloredo -Mannsfeld (1870–1942) from the “Bohemian”, princely branch of the family. His son, Prince Joseph III. (1910–1990), emigrated to Canada as a stateless person after forced labor under the Nazis as well as imprisonment, torture and the expropriation of the Czech family property of Opočno Castle under the Communists, established a new existence there as a fruit and flower farmer and did not move back until 1975 Gstatt property.

In 1988 there was a real division between Kristina Colloredo-Mansfeld (Gstatt Castle with the Mitterberger Forest and the Rohrmoos-Untertal district) and Livia Colloredo-Mannsfeld (Walchen-Prellegg and Schwarzensee districts).