Oberwölz city

Oberwölz ( city ) ; locality Oberwölz (city) ( capital of the municipality ) ; cadastral municipality Oberwölz
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Murau (MU), Styria
Judicial district	Murau
Pole. local community	Oberwölz
Coordinates	47 ° 12 '3 " N , 14 ° 16' 56" E Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '3 " N , 14 ° 16' 56" E
height	832 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	396 (January 1, 2020)
Area d. KG	4.64 km²
Post Code	8832
prefix	+ 43/03581
	Statistical identification
Locality code	16005
Cadastral parish number	65507
Counting district / district	Oberwölz City (61 440 000)
	Independent municipality until the end of 2014 ; Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

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With 1001 inhabitants (as of October 31, 2013), Oberwölz Stadt is the smallest town in Styria . It is located in the judicial district or district of Murau . As of January 1, 2015, the municipality has merged with the municipalities of Oberwölz Umgebung , Schönberg-Lachtal and Winklern bei Oberwölz as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform , the new municipality continues to bear the name " Oberwölz ".

geography

Oberwölz is located in the Murau district at the foot of the Wölzer Tauern near the entrance to the Sölkpass .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following two localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

Oberwölz (City) (396)
Suburb (624)

The community consists of the cadastral community Oberwölz.

history

Rothenfels Castle and the town of Oberwölz on a painting in the Fürstengang in Freising

Duke Albrecht I allowed the market to be fortified with a curtain wall in 1298, and Oberwölz was elevated to the status of a town in 1305. The city owed its earlier importance to its role as an iron transshipment point, as well as mining and good mountain passes. The city wall with its defensive towers is well preserved from this period, and the town looks like a village today.

The political municipality of Oberwölz was established in 1849/50. The cadastral municipality of Oberwölz was separated from this original municipality of Oberwölz in 1899 and constituted as an independent municipality of Stadt Oberwölz . The rest of the original community was given the name Umgebung Oberwölz . From this in 1927 the community of Schönberg (now Schönberg-Lachtal ) was separated.

Above the city is the privately owned Rothenfels Castle . From 1007 to 1803 the Wölzer Valley belonged to the Freising Monastery .

population

Population development

politics

Mayor is Johann Schmidhofer (ÖVP), 1st Vice Mayor is Günther Bischof (ÖVP), 2nd Vice Mayor is Otto Rottensteiner (SPÖ). City Office Director is Andrea Spiegl, who is also responsible for bookkeeping, payroll accounting and the senior citizens' home in the municipal administration.

The municipal council consists of 21 members, 14 of whom are the ÖVP , 4 the SPÖ and 3 the FPÖ .

Culture and sights

See: Culture and sights in Oberwölz

Personalities

Peter Ressmann (1965–2010), mountain guide and extreme skier

Sepp Brunner , trainer of the Swiss men's national team

Werner Miedl (* 1955), ÖVP politician

Julius Wess (1934–2007), Austrian theoretical physicist, university professor

Wilfried Zelinka , opera singer, member of the Graz Opera ensemble

Rene-Herbert Heit (* 1987), musical performer, actor, singer

photos

The Neugasse Gate
The Hintereggertor from the 14th century with the city wall
The Freising office building
Yard, gate
Interior view of the St. Martin Church
Marian column
St. Sigismund Hospital Church: Fresco Virgin Mary with Child, St. Koloman and Archangel Michael with soul scales (1420/30)
Exterior view of the St. Sigismund Hospital Church
Oberwölz - Spitalkirche Sheet mask on the organ gallery approx. 1440

literature

Walter Brunner : Oberwölz. Small town - big story . Oberwölz 2005.
Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Dehio Handbuch Steiermark (2nd edition) , Vienna 2006
Leitgeb, Michael: Oberwölz. An attempt at a new way of seeing the historical cityscape . Berlin - Münster - Vienna 2012.

Individual evidence

↑ State of Styria: Final population status on October 31, 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Excel file, 85 kB; accessed on May 2, 2015) @1@ 2

^ 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 )

↑ General State Law and Government Gazette for the Crown Land of Styria, Issue 21, October 7, 1850, No. 378.

↑ Announcement by the head of the Imperial and Royal Styrian Lieutenancy of November 3, 1899 .

↑ Law of June 22, 1927, regarding the separation of the local community of Umgebung Oberwölz in the judicial districts of Oberwölz into the local communities of Umgebung Oberwölz and Schönberg