Neuberg an der Mürz

This article explains the municipality, the main town and district see Neuberg (municipality Neuberg an der Mürz) .

market community Neuberg an der Mürz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag
License plate :	BM (from 1.7.2013; old: MZ)
Main town :	Village
Surface:	274.6 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 40 ′  N , 15 ° 35 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 1 ″  N , 15 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  E
Height :	732  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,380 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8691, 8692, 8693, 8694
Area code :	+43 3857
Community code :	6 21 44
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 8 8692 Neuberg an der Mürz
Website:	www.neuberg-muerz.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Peter Tautscher ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (15 members)	ÖVP  7,  SPÖ  5,  FPÖ  3
Location of Neuberg an der Mürz in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Neuberg an der Mürz is a market town with 2380 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the political district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag or in the judicial district of Mürzzuschlag in Styria .

On January 1, 2015, the municipality of Neuberg an der Mürz was formed as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform with the municipalities of Altenberg an der Rax , Kapellen , Mürzsteg , and Neuberg .

geography

Naßköhr , an important wetland on the Schneealpe

Neuberg is located in the Upper Mürz Valley and at the foot of the Schneealpe northwest of Mürzzuschlag .

Community structure

On January 1, 2015, the previously independent communities Altenberg an der Rax , Kapellen and Mürzsteg were added to Neuberg as cadastral communities . Since then these have been run as districts of the municipality.

Since then, the community has consisted of six cadastral communities (area as of December 31, 2019):

• Altenberg (5,767.14 ha)
• Frein an der Mürz (2,431.61 ha)
• Chapels (4,463.07 ha)
• Krampen (3,103.07 ha)
• Mürzsteg (8,427.43 ha)
• Neuberg (3,289.64 ha)

The municipal area comprises 22 villages (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Alpl (544)
• Altenberg (250)
• Arzbach (74)
• Dobrein (76)
• Village (238, main town )
• Durrenthal (10)
• Frein on the Mürz (32)
• Greith (32)
• Kaltenbach (2)
• Chapels (424)
• Staples (116)
• Lanau (37)
• Lechen (70)
• Mürzsteg (139)
• Neudörfl (83)
• Niederalpl (12)
• Raxen (43)
• Stake bottom (41)
• Steinalpl (2)
• Bumpers (138)
• Tebrine (4)
• Veitschbach (13)

Counting areas are Alpl-Dorf and Alpl-Dorf-Umgebung for Neuberg (with Krampen), Altenberg an der Rax , Kapellen and Mürzsteg (with Frein).

Neighboring communities

The community has nine neighboring communities, three in Lower Austria and six in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district.

Mariazell	St. Egyd am Neuwalde ( District Lilienfeld ,  Lower Austria )	Schwarzau in the mountains ( District Neunkirchen ,  Lower Austria )
		Reichenau an der Rax ( District Neunkirchen ,  Lower Austria )
St. Barbara in the Mürz Valley	Krieglach    Langenwang	Spital am Semmering Mürzzuschlag

climate

Winter mood in Neuberg (January 2012)

Monthly average temperatures and precipitation for Neuberg an der Mürz Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -1.6 0.3 4.8 10.0 14.9 17.9 20.0 19.7 16.1 10.8 4.0 -0.2 O 9.8 Min. Temperature (° C) -7.0 -5.7 -2.8 1.0 5.7 8.8 10.6 10.4 7.6 3.3 -1.7 -5.4 O 2.1 Temperature (° C) -4.3 -2.7 1.0 5.5 10.3 13.4 15.2 15.0 11.8 7.1 1.1 -2.8 O 5.9 Precipitation ( mm ) 54.0 57.0 64.0 76.0 100.0 127.0 128.0 119.0 82.0 67.0 75.0 64.0 Σ 1,013 Rainy days ( d ) 14th 13 14th 14th 16 17th 16 15th 12 11 14th 14th Σ 170 T e m p e r a t u r -1.6 -7.0 0.3 -5.7 4.8 -2.8 10.0 1.0 14.9 5.7 17.9 8.8 20.0 10.6 19.7 10.4 16.1 7.6 10.8 3.3 4.0 -1.7 -0.2 -5.4 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source:

history

Neuberg around 1830

Mürzsteg around 1830

Former Kapellen station of the Mürzzuschlag-Neuberger Bahn

In 1327 a Cistercian abbey was founded here by Duke Otto the Merry ( Neuberg an der Mürz Abbey ), which was repealed by Joseph II in 1786. It is the only abbey that has largely retained its medieval character. In 1379 the Neuberg partition contract was signed in Neuberg . This set of laws regulated the division of the Habsburg hereditary lands and served as a template for later division contracts. Until the 19th century Neuberg, Mürzzuschlag, Langenwang and Krieglach belonged to the old dean's office in Neuberg, with care positions in chapels and Mürzsteg. After the abolition of the monastery, the administration gradually moved to Spital am Semmering (since the 1973 reform there has only been one for the whole of the Mürz Valley ).

The 19th century was the heyday of the important iron and steel industry around Altenberg and Neuberg, which had been operated by the monastery as a small iron industry from time immemorial. It was with the secularization to the k. k. Styrian religious fund, but already in 1800 to the k. k. Montan-Aerar . In 1869 iron mining was privatized and taken over by the Neuberg-Mariazeller union , then Alpine Montan-A.-G. guided. In the time of the steel works, some innovations came from Neuberg; here was also produced for the kk armaments industry. In Arzbach , the Veitscher Magnesitwerke operated a smaller mine.

When the imperial family was no longer allowed to hunt in the Vienna Woods after the revolution of 1848, the vast forests around Neuberg, which were and are all state-owned, were chosen as a new hunting ground for the hunting-loving monarch. Emperor Franz Joseph rented the secular monastery in 1852 and built his own hunting lodge in the neighboring community of Mürzsteg in 1870. So Neuberg was - for several days a year - the residential city and the scene of many illustrious hunts with prominent guests such as B. the Russian Tsar.

The former tax communities Neuberg and Krampen became an independent political community with the creation of the local communities in 1848/49 . It belonged to the Bruck an der Mur district until 1902 and to the Mürzzuschlag district until 2013 .

After the world wars, the entire Upper Styrian coal and steel industry fell into crisis. Neuberg, in the middle of Vienna's local mountains, became primarily a tourist community. The Mürzzuschlag-Neuberger Bahn was built up to this point in 1876, but was discontinued in 1996/2000.

In the late 1960s to mid-1970s Neuberg became a resort and hunting ground for the German department store king H. Horten and his wife, who thanked them with great financial commitment (organ renovation, new kindergarten).

Population development

The number of inhabitants reached its peak in the former municipality around 1890 with almost 4,000 inhabitants and fell to below 1,330 by 2010. Neuberg is now a migration region with fewer and fewer jobs and an increasing average age.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Neuberg an der Mürz

• Catholic parish church Neuberg an der Mürz Assumption of Mary, former collegiate church
• Former Neuberg Abbey
• Grünangerkirche , former parish church until the abbey was closed
• Mürzsteg hunting lodge
• Catholic parish church Kapellen an der Mürz hl. Margaretha

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  Parish church Neuberg an der Mürz

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  Grünangerkirche Neuberg

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  Parish church Kapellen an der Mürz

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  Mürzsteg hunting lodge

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  Imperial hunting lodge Eisernes Törl on the Schneealpe

nature

• Moore am Naßköhr ( Ramsar Conservation Area)

Events

• Neuberger Kulturtage (concerts)

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

View from the village towards the Schneealpe

Today Neuberg is the most important nature park community in the Mürzer Oberland . There are numerous ways to spend your free time - sporty and cultural. Located at the foot of the Schneealm, Neuberg offers extensive forests and easy-to-hike mountains up to a height of over 2000 meters. There are opportunities for cycling, fishing, playing tennis or horse riding, and a variety of winter sports. A chair lift and three drag lifts are available on Niederalpl in winter, and a natural toboggan run in Veitschbach . Altenberg is a quiet recreational village with a special place and some nature trails. A paragliding and hang-gliding club is located on the Schneealm. The region is also known for its hunting opportunities (roe deer, big game, chamois, wild boar, capercaillie).

traffic

• Road: The B23 Lahnsattelstraße runs through the municipality  , the road from Mürzzuschlag through the upper Mürz Valley and on over the Lahnsattel to the B21 , which connects the Mariazellerland with the Traisental . In Kapellen , the L103 / L135  Preinergscheidstraße branches off to the east , which leads over to the middle Schwarztal near Reichenau an der Rax . To the west in Mürzsteg the L113  Niederalplstraße goes to the B20 (St. Pölten - Mariazell - Seeberg - Kapfenberg).
• Bicycle: The old railway line was acquired by the state in 2009 and released as a cycle path in 2011.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• After the municipal council elections in Styria 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution:
• 7 ÖVP
• 5 SPÖ
• 3 FPÖ

mayor

• since 2005 Peter Tautscher (ÖVP)

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
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  Altenberg

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  Chapels

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  Mürzsteg

All previous municipalities had a municipal coat of arms. With the merger of the municipalities, these coats of arms lost their official validity.

Blazon (coat of arms description): "In golden shield a blue, up to the upper plate edge reaching peak , in a golden, with just such crosses bestecktes unziales M. The tip accompany the top right a blue hunting horn , the top left two diagonally crossed blue hammers ."

The first municipal coat of arms was awarded to Neuberg on December 1, 1962. The new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality took effect on March 10, 2016.

The Maria monogram can be found in the pen. The hunting horn points to the Austrian federal forests that were then located in the monastery , the hammers to the mining operations that have always existed.

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

• 1954: Fritz Matzner (1896–1972), Deputy Governor
• 1964: Helmut Horten (1909–1987), entrepreneur
• Erwin Stepwieser († 2019), Mayor of Neuberg an der Mürz 1960–1975

Sons and daughters of the church

• Heinrich J. Pölzl , visual artist, art mediator and educator
• Herbert Schliefsteiner , animal painter, ornithologist and museum founder

People related to the community

• Hannes Amesbauer (* 1981), politician (FPÖ)
• Hubert Holzer , award-winning chef
• Viktor Kaplan , inventor and engineer (went to elementary school in Neuberg)
• Dieter Kinzer, President of the Styrian Chamber of Notaries
• Heinrich J. Pölzl , academic painter
• Friedrich Reisinger , member of the Federal Council
• Viktoria Schlapfer , world champion (2012) in ice stock sport

literature

• Othmar Pickl : History of the place and monastery Neuberg an der Mürz. Neuberg 1966.
• Rudolf Flotzinger : Neuberg an der Mürz. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 .

Movies

• 2017: Die Kinder der Toten (Film) : As part of the avant-garde festival steirischer herbst , the novel Die Kinder der Toten was filmed by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek in and around Neuberg.

Web links

Commons : Neuberg an der Mürz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62144 - Neuberg an der Mürz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• neuberg-muerz.gv.at Website of the municipality
• Entry on Neuberg an der Mürz in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 21, 2013 on the unification of the market community Neuberg an der Mürz and the communities Altenberg an der Rax, Kapellen and Mürzsteg, all political district Bruck-Mürzzuschlag. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 6, 2013, No. 148, 35th issue , ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 680.
2. ↑ cf. Die Wahlsprengel: Result of the municipal council election on March 22, 2015 (PDF), on neuberg-muerz.gv.at.
3. ↑ Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 kB); accessed on January 10, 2020.
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ↑ mappedplanet.com
6. ↑ Georg Goeth: "The Duchy of Styria: geographically, statistically and topographically presented and provided with historical explanations." Volume 1 (Brucker Kreis, 1st part), Verlag Heubner, 1840, chapter "Steuergemeinde Neuberg", p. 332 and digitized material, Google, full view
7. ↑ KA Redlich, W. Stanczak: “The ore deposits in the area from Neuberg to Gollrad.” In: “Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien”, Volume 15 (“Bergbaue Styria” 10), 1923, pp. 169–206, esp Chapter “Historical part.”, P. 169 ff ( article pdf , uibk.ac.at) - with detailed geological maps.
8. ↑ Magnesite Industry and Mining AG . In: ". Jubiläumsbuch 70 years Veitscher Magnesitwerke" o D. chapter "investments, c", p oA ( Webauszug , veitsch.at).
9. ^ Website Neuberger Kulturtage
10. ↑ Mürzzuschlag - Neuberg: The branch line became the noble cycle path . In: graz.radln.net, ARGUS Steiermark, June 20, 2011, accessed on July 29, 2013.
11. ↑ ^{a b} LGBl. 1962, 34th issue, No. 164; “Communications from the Styrian State Archives” 16, 1966, p. 64.
12. ↑ "29. Announcement of the Styrian state government of February 25, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Neuberg an der Mürz (political district Bruck-Mürzzuschlag) ” . LGbl. 2016/02, accessed October 8, 2016.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Othmar Pickl : "History of the place and monastery Neuberg an der Mürz." Neuberg 1966, p. 257.
14. ↑ notar.at ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
15. ^ Regional media Austria: "Steirischer Herbst" in Neuberg . In: mein district.at . ( mein district.at [accessed on November 21, 2017]).