Heimschuh

Heimschuh
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Surface:	18.51 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 44 '  N , 15 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '48 "  N , 15 ° 28' 48"  E
Height :	280  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,965 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8451
Area code :	03452
Community code :	6 10 16
Address of the municipal administration:	Heimschuh 143 8451 Heimschuh
Website:	www.heimschuh.at
politics
Mayor :	Alfred Lenz ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (15 members)	9 2 4th 9 2 4th  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 9 SPÖ : 2 FPÖ : 4
Location of Heimschuh in the Leibnitz district
Parish church hl. Sigismund
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Heimschuh is a municipality with 1965 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Styria .

geography

Heimschuh is located in the Sulmtal in the Leibnitz district in the Austrian state of Styria .

Community structure

On January 1, 1968, the community of Nestelberg was incorporated.
Since then the community has consisted of five cadastral communities

• Heimschuh (714.66 ha)
• Kittenberg (123.22 ha)
• Muggenau (279.42 ha)
• Nestelberg near Heimschuh (351.22 ha)
• Unterfahrenbach (381.84 ha)

The six towns are (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Heimschuh (1028)
• Kittenberg (39)
• Muggenau (114)
• Nestelberg (267)
• Pernitsch (108)
• Unterfahrenbach (409)

Neighboring communities

Kitzeck in Sausal	Tillmitsch
		Leibnitz
Big small		Gamlitz

history

In 1144 the place is mentioned for the first time as "Haimitsach". The name goes back to the Old High German personal name Haimo and Old High German scahho ('single standing forest'). The parish church of St. Sigismund is mentioned as early as 1170. From 1381 to 1453 there was evidence of a noble family at the site. 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.

Population development

Culture and sights

Guardian Angel Heimschuh

See also:  List of listed objects in Heimschuh

Economy and Infrastructure

energy

In 2019 Heimschuh founded an "energy community". Excess electricity generated in the community from photovoltaic systems is not fed into the grid, but is temporarily stored in a separate electricity storage facility. Instead of just 30% as before, up to 70% of the electricity generated can be used again. In addition, the network charges will be reduced. It is planned in the future to trade the stored solar power directly between producers and consumers and, as a community, even become independent of electricity.

Tourism association

Together with Großklein, Gleinstätten, Kitzeck im Sausal, St. Andrä-Höch, St. Johann im Saggautal, St. Nikolai im Sausal and Tillmisch, the "Sulmtal Sausal - Südsteirisches Weinland" tourism association. Its seat is in Kitzeck im Sausal.

politics

Mayor is the builder Alfred Lenz (born December 18, 1962, ÖVP).

The community board also includes the deputy mayor Gerhard Knippitsch (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Silvia Hubmann (FPÖ).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:

• 9 mandates ÖVP
• 4 mandates FPÖ
• 2 mandates SPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	670	55	9	851	74	11	842	69	11	652	57	9
SPÖ	184	15th	2	298	26th	04th	372	31	04th	209	18th	3
FPÖ	360	30th	4th	not running			not running			244	21st	3
The green	not running			not running			not running			031	03	0
Eligible voters	1,682			1,638			1,603			1,412
voter turnout	73%			73%			77%			81%

coat of arms

Blazon : "In the blue shield a golden post covered with a sword (mark of St. Sigismund - parish patron), which is accompanied on the right and left by a silver, outward-pointing wing (guardian angel parish)."

Partner municipality

After an intense friendship had developed between official representatives across borders for years, the municipal council meeting on December 14, 2011 unanimously decided to enter into an official municipal partnership with the Lower Styrian municipality of Bistrica ob Sotli (now Slovenia) until 1918 . The official ceremony was celebrated as part of the Guardian Angel Festival on September 2, 2012. The celebration was attended by, among others, the member of the National Councilor Josef A. Riemer and the members of the Styrian Landtag, Peter Tschernko and Detlef Gruber, as well as the president of the association "Austrian-Slovenian Friendship" Ivanka Gruber.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Ernst Driver († 2020), director of the Heimschuh elementary school 1959–1988

Web links

Commons : Heimschuh  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 61016 - Heimschuh. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 99 , accessed on February 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 51 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
5. ↑ Environment: Heimschuh starts energy community on steiermark.orf.at, accessed on September 19, 2019
6. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 323. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 630-631.
7. ↑ ^{a b} community Heimschuh: Parish Council , accessed on June 10, 2015
8. ^ Community Heimschuh: The community coat of arms , accessed on June 10, 2015