Eibiswald

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market community
Eibiswald
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Coat of arms of Eibiswald
Eibiswald (Austria)
Eibiswald
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Styria
Political District : Deutschlandsberg
License plate : DL
Surface: 152.04 km²
Coordinates : 46 ° 41 ′  N , 15 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ 12 "  N , 15 ° 14 ′ 50"  E
Height : 362  m above sea level A.
Residents : 6,391 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes : 8552, 8553, 8554
Area code : 03466, 03468, 03460
Community code : 6 03 45
NUTS region AT225
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Eibiswald 17
8552 Eibiswald
Website: www.eibiswald.gv.at
politics
Mayor : Andreas Thürschweller ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2020)
(25 members)
18th
6th
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18th 6th 1 
A total of 25 seats
Location of Eibiswald in the district of Deutschlandsberg
Bad Schwanberg Deutschlandsberg Eibiswald Frauental an der Laßnitz Groß Sankt Florian Lannach Pölfing-Brunn Preding Sankt Josef (Weststeiermark) Sankt Martin im Sulmtal Sankt Peter im Sulmtal Sankt Stefan ob Stainz Stainz Wettmannstätten Wies SteiermarkLocation of the municipality Eibiswald in the district of Deutschlandsberg (clickable map)
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Eibiswald (Slovenian Ivnik ) is a market town with 6391 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria . As part of the Styrian community structural reform , it has been merged with the communities of Aibl , Großradl , Pitschgau , St. Oswald ob Eibiswald and Soboth since 2015 . The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

geography

Eibiswald is located in the western Styrian Saggautal at the intersection of the southern Styrian border road B 69 and the Radlpass road B 76. The municipality covers the entire south of the district.

Community structure

Parish church Eibiswald

The community area consists of 26  cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2017) or towns of the same name (inhabitants: as of January 1, 2020):

  • Aibl (349.03 ha; 469 inhabitants)
  • Aichberg (398.59 ha; 417 Ew.)
  • Bachholz (558.70 ha; 64 Ew.)
  • Bischofegg (318.72 ha; 229 Ew. With the districts of Bischofegger Siedlung, Latinberg, Udelsdorf)
  • Eibiswald (238.63 ha; 1413 Ew.)
  • Feisternitz (239.64 ha; 323 Ew. With Lichtenegg)
  • Hadernigg (1,060.02 ha; 162 Ew.)
  • Haselbach (264.57 ha; 287 Ew. With Latin mountain)
  • Hörmsdorf (326.27 ha; 817 inhabitants with Haiden, Höllberg, Hörmsdorfer Kolonie, Rettenberg, Toniberg)
  • Kleinradl (378.52 ha; 56 Ew. With Radlberg, Wutschenberg)
  • Kornriegl (515.92 ha; 30 Ew.)
  • Krumbach (1,474.18 ha; 129 inhabitants with Mauthnereck)
  • Laaken (771.61 ha; 13 Ew.)
  • Mitterstraßen (330.19 ha; 82 Ew.)
  • Upper Latin (267.86 ha; 148 Ew. With Feisternitzberg)
  • Pitschgau (307.36 ha; 164 people with Höllberg, Neuhart, Pitschgauegg)
  • Pongratzen (408.46 ha; 97 inhabitants with Sterzberg)
  • Rothwein (487.62 ha; 26 Ew.)
  • St. Bartlmä (264.34 ha); Location Sankt Bartlmä (14 Ew.)
  • St. Lorenzen (1,230.64 ha); Sankt Lorenzen (182 Ew.)
  • St. Oswald ob Eibiswald (525.76 ha); Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald (286 Ew.)
  • Soboth (3,472.39 ha; 272 people with Glashütte, Krumbach, Laßnighube, Obersoboth, Scharfeck, Untersoboth)
  • Stammeregg (343.63 ha; 345 Ew. With Schwarhofsiedlung)
  • Staritsch (194.07 ha; 92 Ew.)
  • Sterglegg (214.66 ha; 123 inhabitants with Lichtenegg)
  • Wuggitz (272.13 ha; 151 Ew. With Großwuggitz, Lateindorf)

Neighboring communities

Eibiswald is surrounded by eight neighboring communities, including:

Sankt Georgen im Lavanttal (WO) Wies Sankt Martin im Sulmtal
Lavamünd (WO) Neighboring communities Oberhaag (LB)
Dravograd SloveniaSlovenia Muta SloveniaSlovenia Radlje ob Dravi SloveniaSlovenia

history

Name story

The name of the market town of Eibiswald does not come from the yew trees depicted in the coat of arms , but from the personal name Iwein, which the eponymous hero of a Hartmann von Aue novel from around 1200 bears. An unknown knight of this name owned forests in the area.

Eibiswald to modern times

Finds show the first traces of settlement in Eibiswald from the 4th millennium BC. BC ( Neolithic ). Traces of settlement have also been preserved from the following Metal Age and Roman times. From the late 6th century the area of ​​Eibiswald was integrated into the Slavic principality of Carantania , from which numerous field names can be traced back. Bavarian colonization began at the end of the 8th century, and in 860 the Archdiocese of Salzburg received large donations here. After the Hungarian invasions, the land was cleared by submissive peasants under the leadership of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, the Aribones and the Eppensteiners .

The municipality was first mentioned in 1170 in a document for the Leibnitz parish , in which the "ecclesia sancte Mariae sub confinio Raedelach", the later parish church of Eibiswald , was mentioned. In 1265, the castle "Ybanswalde", which was the seat of a regional court, was named for the first time. The market itself does not appear in the documents until 1290 and at that time had 70 houses. The castle Eibiswald, owned by the Wildonier , Tybeiner and Walseer , served temporarily as the seat of the Lord and the market of the district court.

Eibiswald after 1500

Eibiswald around 1820, lith. JF Kaiser

After 1500 the family of those von Eibiswald (noble family) belonged to the rule of Eibiswald . The rich estates enabled the Eibiswalder to expand the castle in the Renaissance style. They shaped the region until the family died out in 1674. The market, however, experienced an eventful history. The economic decline in the 16th century led to a decline in population, and it wasn't until the 17th century that the population grew again. After the male line of von Eibiswald had died out, the castle fell into the hands of different families. After the Counts of Schrottenbach ( Schrattenbach ), the glass manufacturer Ignaz von Purgay bought the property. The Hansa family owned the castle from 1828 to 1883.

Eibiswald around 1877/78: Forest, mining and ironworks shape the representation on the map

In the north of the place was the noble seat "Aichberg". This facility had developed from a farm and became one again in the 18th century. The Aichberger farm reminds of this with its name, it is regarded as the Meierhof of the former Edelhof. The former defense system no longer exists. An enfeoffment with the Schramphnhof am Aichperg is documented for 1427, around 1460 the court was given by Emperor Friedrich III. awarded. In 1572 the farm was called Gschloß Aichperg . In 1598 the facility burned down and was rebuilt with the support of the regional authorities (600  fl ). In the first half of the 17th century the property had an armory and a library of 50 volumes. From 1627 belonged Valid Aichberg the basic rule Eibiswald. In 1693 the complex was described as dilapidated, and around 1780 it is assumed that the farm became a farm again.

After the First World War, the municipality lost important connections when Lower Styria was separated .

In the interwar period, the market town was one of the “crystallization centers” of the NSDAP, which was emerging in Austria as a result of the global economic crisis and the collapse of the local industrial and commercial enterprises that had already taken place in the 1920s . The Styrian municipal council elections of 1932 also brought a Nazi mandate to the Eibiswalder municipal council for the first time.

During the National Socialist July coup in 1934, the market and its surroundings were completely in National Socialist hands and fiercely contested. When the coup gradually collapsed, Eibiswald became a retreat for coup participants from the entire district, so that up to 800 of them were in the market and its immediate vicinity. A total of 95 people had been arrested in the area of ​​the Eibiswald gendarmerie post for participating in the July coup, and an unknown number of other coup participants had fled.

During the Second World War Eibiswald was the scene of partisan fighting.

The Eibiswald District Court was closed on July 1, 2002. Since then, the district court of Deutschlandsberg has been responsible for the communities of the dissolved judicial district .

Population development


Population structure

The average age of the municipality of Eibiswald deviates only slightly from the average for Styria. The proportion of foreigners is very low at 2.1%. 92% of the population are of Roman Catholic denomination.

Culture and sights

Eibiswald
  • Parish church Eibiswald : The parish church Maria im Dorn in Eibiswald was first mentioned in 1170. The church consists of a Gothic building with a Romanesque core and was expanded in the Baroque style in 1678 . In the 18th century the church was also considered a pilgrimage church . The parish once had five branch churches , but today only the pilgrimage church on the Radlpass, which is consecrated to St. Anthony the Hermit . There are also five chapels in the community .
  • Hasewend's Lichtspielhaus : Eibiswald is one of the few small towns in Styria to have its own cinema with 142 seats; the butcher runs these alongside his business.
  • The largest town house in the market, the Lerchhaus, is the oldest market house that has been preserved in its original form. It was built from two houses in the 16th century in the Renaissance style.
  • The formerly listed Roman bridge (only in name, not a building from Roman times) was largely demolished in 2016 and replaced by a concrete structure.
  • Kloepfer and local history museum
  • ÖAV long-distance hiking museum
  • Hora Farm Museum
Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald
Soboth

Economy and Infrastructure

Geological map of Eibiswald, ca.1930

Economic history

In 1653, a hammer mill built by Wolf Max Freiherr von Eibiswald started a certain industrialization. Connected was a scythe and nail production that employed around 30 people. Despite the recognized quality of the scythes produced, production ran into economic difficulties because, on the one hand, the production facilities were not located entirely near Eibiswald, but in the difficult-to-reach Krumbach valley further west, and on the other hand, pig iron had to be brought in from Upper Styria via Graz for further processing . A report based on the business criteria and possibilities of the time, which contained suggestions for improvement and an economic forecast, has been retained.

In 1835 the plant was bought by the state and expanded into a modern steelworks that employed up to a thousand workers. In 1869 it was sold again to private customers, but in 1905 it had to be closed: the transport costs for raw materials and goods had become too high. The upswing of the plant was accompanied by coal mining, which began around 1800 and continued until 1920. In contrast to charcoal, the lignite mined was called “hard coal”, the mines were shown on maps as “Stk.Bgw.”. The "Eisen- und Stahl-Union Eibiswald und Krumbach" had its own factory hospital in Eibiswald from 1870.

There was also a glass factory until 1893, the original production facilities (upper and lower glassworks) in Soboth near the village of St. Vinzenz.

Together with Pölfing-Brunn and Wies, the community forms the “Südliche Weststeiermark” tourism association. Its seat is Eibiswald.

education

First references to a school in Eibiswald are only handed down from the early 17th century. In 1869 the parish school was transferred to state administration. In 1946 a secondary school was also opened. Today there are the following institutions in the community:

  • Parish kindergarten Feisternitz
  • Parish kindergarten east
  • Parish kindergarten West
  • Community kindergarten Pitschgau
  • Community kindergarten St. Oswald ob Eibiswald
  • Elementary school
  • New middle school
  • State vocational school
  • music school

Sports

politics

After Andreas Kremser (ÖVP) resigned from office at the end of 2016, Andreas Thürschweller (SPÖ) was elected mayor in early February 2017.

The last mayor before the municipal merger was Florian Arnfelser (ÖVP) until the end of 2014.

coat of arms

AUT Eibiswald COA.jpg
  • Coats of arms of the previous municipalities

  • Aibl

  • Großradl

  • Pitschgau

  • St. Oswald

  • Soboth

Blazon : Three green yew trees in a gold shield on a black three-mountain.

The coat of arms of the market town of Eibiswald is a talking coat of arms (according to old ideas about the origin of the name) and shows a yellow shield with three green yew trees on three earth- or ash-colored Büheln ( Middle High German designation for hill or hill).

All previous municipalities had a municipal coat of arms. The coat of arms of Eibiswald was confirmed on September 6th, 1579 by Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria . Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, all of them lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The re-award of the coat of arms for the merged community took place with effect from January 1, 2016.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Honorary citizen

literature

  • Werner Tscherne : From Ybanswalde to Eibiswald. The chronicle of the market town. Lerchhaus Verlag Eibiswald 1995, ISBN 3-901463-02-X .
  • Werner Tscherne and Herbert Blatnik: Alt-Eibiswald. A history of the old town houses and their residents. Lerchhaus Verlag, Eibiswald 2000, ISBN 3-901463-12-7 .
  • Helmut-Theobald Müller (ed.), Gernot Peter Obersteiner (overall scientific management): History and topography of the Deutschlandsberg district . ("District topography") Graz-Deutschlandsberg 2005, ISBN 3-901938-15-X . Styrian Provincial Archives and District Authority Deutschlandsberg 2005. In the series: Great historical regional studies of Styria. Founded by Fritz Posch †. Volume 3.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is how the 15 communities in Deutschlandsberg voted. meinviertel.at , June 29, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Local council election 2020 - Eibiswald results. orf.at , accessed on August 18, 2020 .
  3. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
  4. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 2, Item 2 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 2.
  5. ↑ Regionalinformation.zip (Excel file, 1,210 kB); accessed on January 4, 2018
  6. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  7. ↑ a b Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. Pp. 58-59.
  8. ^ Herwig Ebner : Castles and palaces in Styria. Graz, Leibnitz, West Styria. 2nd Edition. Vienna 1981, Birken-Verlag. ISBN 3-85030-028-5 . Pp. 10-11.
  9. ↑ Gerald M. Wolf: "Now we are the gentlemen ..." The NSDAP in the Deutschlandsberg district and the 1934 July putsch (= Grazer Zeitgeschichtliche Studien, Volume 3 ZDB -ID 2261424-2 ) StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2008 , ISBN 978-3-7065-4006-3 , p. 142.
  10. ↑ The most detailed treatise so far on the fighting during the July coup in Eibiswald and all other places in the district can be found in Wolf: Now we are the masters. Pp. 152-178. For what is happening in the market town of Eibiswald cf. ibid., pp. 172-176.
  11. ↑ Ordinance of the Federal Government on the amalgamation of district courts and on the districts of the remaining district courts in Styria (District Courts Ordinance Styria): Federal Law Gazette of the Republic of Austria Part II of February 15, 2002, No. 82/2002.
  12. ↑ letter of Johann Knappitsch: Nix Kultura? In: Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau , August 26, 2016. Volume 89, No. 34, ZDB -ID 2303595-X p. 15.
  13. ↑ Latin Berger Farm Museum vlg. Hoara
  14. ^ The Latin Farm Museum
  15. ↑ Werner Tscherne: A report on the iron works Eibiswald from the year 1821. In: Blätter für Heimatkunde. Published by the Historical Association for Styria. 68th year. Issue 3 Graz 1994. ISSN  0006-4459 . Pp. 50-55.
  16. ^ Hans Jörg Köstler: Steel production in western Styria with special consideration of the second half of the 19th century. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Styria. Festschrift 150 Years of the Historical Association. Volume 91/92, years 2001/02. Graz 2002. pp. 467-510.
  17. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 630.
  18. ↑ bang in Eibiswald: Andreas Thürschweller (SPÖ) is now mayor
  19. ↑ 129. Announcement of the Styrian state government of December 17, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Eibiswald (political district Deutschlandsberg) , accessed on January 2, 2016
  20. ↑ Lill, who was born in Eibiswalder, worked in his hometown as an official of the Sparkasse and from February 1944 was the district leader of the NS district Mureck . Because of his order to kill at least 26 Jewish forced laborers from Hungary, he was sentenced to death by the British military tribunal in Graz in 1947, but later pardoned to 15 years in prison. His brother Harald was head of the NS local group Eibiswald even before the "Anschluss" . See: Franz Josef Schober: Jewish fate on the border. In: Signal (2005/2006), pp. 195–221, here pp. 207–210, accessed on November 11, 2012; Martin F. Polaschek : On behalf of the Republic of Austria! The People's Courts in Styria 1945 to 1955 (= publications of the Styrian Provincial Archives, Volume 23), Graz 1998, p. 92.