Oberwölz

Borough

Oberwölz

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Styria

Political District :

Murau

License plate :

MU

Main town :

Oberwölz (city)

Surface:

210.17 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 12 ' N , 14 ° 17' E Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '10 " N , 14 ° 16' 51" E

Residents :

2,934 (January 1, 2020)

Postcodes :

8831, 8832

Area code :

03581, 03587

Community code :

6 14 40

Address of the
municipal administration:

City 4
8832 Oberwölz

Website:

Homepage of the Oberwölz region

politics

Mayor :

Hannes Schmidhofer ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(15 members)

11

3

1

11 3 1

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 11
SPÖ : 3
FPÖ : 1

Location of Oberwölz in the Murau district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

BW

Oberwölz has been a municipality in the Murau district in Styria since the beginning of 2015 . It emerged as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the formerly independent municipalities of Oberwölz Stadt , Oberwölz Umgebung , Schönberg-Lachtal and Winklern bei Oberwölz , with the new municipality also being referred to as the "Stadtgemeinde".

geography

Geographical location

Oberwölz is located north of the Mur Valley in the Wölzertal. The Wölzerbach arises from the confluence of Hintereggerbach and Schöttelbach south of the leisure center and flows into the Mur at Niederwölz . In terms of population, Oberwölz is the smallest town in Styria.

Community structure

The urban area comprises the following 11 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Donkey Mountain (118)
Hinterburg (122)
Krumegg (55)
Mainhartsdorf (339)
Oberwölz (City) (396)
Raiming (289)
Salchau (164)
Schoenberg-Lachtal (415)
Schöttl (97)
Suburb (624)
Winklern near Oberwölz (315)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hinterburg, Oberwölz , Raiming, Salchau, Schönberg , Schöttl and Winklern .

Neighboring communities

	Irdning-Donnersbachtal
St. Peter am Kammersberg		Pusterwald , Pölstal
	Teufenbach-Katsch , Niederwölz , Scheifling	Unzmarkt-Frauenburg

history

In 1007, Emperor Heinrich II donated large parts of the Wölzer and Katschtal valleys to the Bishop of Freising . In the 11th and 12th centuries the area around the castles Rothenfels and Katsch was heavily populated. In 1298 the market in Oberwölz received permission to fortify it with a circular wall. City rights were granted in 1305, and Oberwölz was the center of the Freising Chamber estate.

Population development

Despite the positive birth balance , the population has been decreasing since 1991 because the migration balance is very negative.

Culture and sights

City parish church Oberwölz

Catholic parish church Schönberg-Lachtal hl. Ulrich
Legendary trail legendary Wölzertal
Local museum
Austrian brass music museum

Oberwölz city

Oberwölz city fortifications , the city wall, three city gates and the defense towers are well preserved
Main square: from the Middle Ages
Catholic parish church Oberwölz hl. Martin
Hospital Church (Filialkirche St. Sigismund bei Spital): Built under the Freising Bishop Nicodemus della Scala (1421–1443). According to the inscription under the master builder bust with the name Hans Jersleben, he can be accepted as the builder. After a fire in 1480, the vaulting and the tracery windows were renewed. Remarkable stone carvings on the gallery up to around 1500.

Oberwölz closes

As part of Regionale 12, the city gates were closed for two days on a weekend in June 2012 for a city festival. On Saturdays, those willing to leave were allowed out until midnight, then only emergencies and emergency services were allowed to pass before the gates were reopened on Monday at 3 p.m. under the song Muss i denn, muss i denn out to the Städtele .

The follow-up project was the Kirtag & Nacht , which is held in the city as a Wölzermarkt - typically from 2 p.m. on Saturday - on 10/11. August 2013, on 9/10 August 2014 and on 8./9. August 2015. In 2016 the Wölzermarkt was celebrated only one day on Sunday, August 14 “for organizational reasons”. On August 13th, the MTB Challenge bike race was held under the theme “Oberwölz in motion” from 1 pm and a motocross competition from 5 pm on the main square.

Oberwölz surroundings

Fischsee waterfall , waterfall from the Fischsee into the cirque of the Schöttl Alm
Glattjoch Chapel
Eselsberger Alm
Rest area of the municipality of Oberwölz Surroundings: Built in 2006 near the lindworm station on the legendary Wölzertal circular hiking trail . The granite blocks of the rest area symbolize the 4 cadastral communities Salchau, Schöttl, Raiming and Hinterburg, the water flowing through them represents their connection.

Rest area Oberwölz area
Granite block with the coat of arms of the municipality of Oberwölz Umgebung
History of the rest area

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2011 there were 36 companies in Oberwölz in the production sector employing 162 people, around half in the construction sector and half in the manufacture of goods. The service sector gave jobs to 351 people in 126 companies, forty percent in social and public services, almost twenty percent each in trade and in accommodation and catering.

tourism

In 2018 the municipality had 110,000 overnight stays. One third of the guests were domestic, two thirds were foreigners. More than three quarters of the guests come in winter. In the months of April and November there were fewer than a thousand overnight stays, the months of July and August brought a small off-season with 7000 and 8000 overnight stays.

education

In the municipality there is a kindergarten, an elementary school and a new middle school .

Health and social

A general practitioner is available to provide medical care for the population. A retirement and nursing home offers care for fifty people.

traffic

Street: Oberwölz is located on Glattjoch Street B75, which connects the city with the Murtal.
Public transport: From Oberwölz, the 891 bus goes to Niederwölz or Unzmarkt , where there is a connection to the Südbahn .

sport and freetime

Outdoor pool with water slide, sports pool, children's pool, diving tower
4 tennis courts
2 soccer fields
Skate park
Asphalt curling
Fitness track
High ropes course
Cross-country ski run
Winter sports in the nearby Lachtal ski area

politics

Town hall Oberwölz

The municipal council has 15 members.

With the municipal council elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ. (21 members)
With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ. (15 members)

mayor

2015 Head of Office Martin Hebenstreit
since 2015 Hannes Schmidhofer (ÖVP)

Web links

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

Website of the municipality of Oberwölz
61440 - Oberwölz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Website of the Lachtal ski area

Individual evidence

^ Styrian municipal structural reform .

^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 31, 2013 on the unification of the municipality of Oberwölz Stadt and the municipalities of Oberwölz Umgebung, Schönberg-Lachtal and Winklern near Oberwölz, all of the political district of Murau. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 134, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 636.

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

^ Walter Brunner: Rebellion against will, contributions to the history of the insurrection movement of 1525 in the upper Murtal. (pdf) p. 144 , accessed on December 29, 2019 .

↑ ^a ^b About Oberwölz. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .

^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Oberwölz, population development. (pdf) Accessed December 29, 2019 .

↑ Oberwölz closes - Regional12 project on the weekend in Oberwölz mein district.at, June 26, 2012, accessed January 16, 2017.