Sankt Josef (West Styria)

Sankt Josef (West Styria)
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Deutschlandsberg
License plate :	DL
Surface:	13.3 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 55 '  N , 15 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 54 '37 "  N , 15 ° 20' 13"  E
Height :	357  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,619 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8503, 8143
Area code :	03136
Community code :	6 03 26
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Josef 73 8503 St. Josef
Website:	www.st-josef-weststeiermark.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Lindschinger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	12 3 12 3  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 12 SPÖ : 3
Location of Sankt Josef (West Styria) in the Deutschlandsberg district
Saint Joseph from the west
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Josef (West Styria) is a municipality with 1619 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Deutschlandsberg district ( judicial district Deutschlandsberg ) in Styria , Austria . The parish church of St. Joseph, which gave the community its name, is located at 357 m.

geography

The community of St. Josef is located on the Wieserbahn in the western Styrian hill country.

Cadastral communities and localities

The municipality consists of three cadastral communities or towns of the same name (area: as of January 1, 2015, inhabitants: as of January 1, 2020):

• Oisnitz (389.90 ha, 409 Ew.)
• Sankt Josef (West Styria) (674.51 ha, 728 Ew.)
• Tobisegg (265.68 ha, 482 Ew.)

Incorporations

• On January 1st, 1968 Oisnitz and Tobisegg were incorporated. Oisnitz had already formed the former parish of St. Josef bei Stainz with St. Josef by 1920, which was then separated into the communities of Oisnitz and St. Josef bei Stainz.
• The southern part of the Tobisegg cadastral parish belonging to the Preding parish was moved to the Preding parish on January 1, 1969.

The municipality was not affected by the Styrian municipal structural reform , which reduced the number of municipalities in the Deutschlandsberg district from 40 to 15 in 2015. However, as part of this reform, requests were made to join part of the area to the Stainztal community instead of the Stainz community according to the parish affiliation of St. Josef.

Neighboring communities

Lannach		Dobl-Zwaring
Stainz		Dobl-Zwaring
	Stainz	Preding

history

Oisnitz was first mentioned in a document in 1056 as " Odelnisiz " in a transfer of ownership by Emperor Heinrich III. to Bishop Altwin von Brixen ; In the 12th century, six Huben in Oisnitz are named in a document of Duke Ottokar IV .

The community was called St. Josef bei Stainz until 1932, when the name was changed to St. Josef – West Styria .

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Josef (West Styria)

• Rohrbach Castle
• Catholic parish church of St. Joseph

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Stop and loading point Oisnitz-St. Josef at the Wieserbahn

• St. Josef is located on the L 640, which flows into the Radlpass Straße B 76 in the valley basin .
• Except on the road, you can reach St. Josef by bus or the Graz-Köflacher Bahn from Graz . The “Oisnitz” stop was expanded into a goods loading point from 1927 and renamed the “Oisnitz-Sankt Josef” stop and loading point from May 1932.

Established businesses

In addition to some self -marketers who offer wines , oils, sausage products and home-baked bread, there are also fresh and natural products as well as a wood drill factory, which is one of the largest European manufacturers with an annual production of around two million drills.

education

There is an elementary school and a kindergarten in St. Josef .

Population development

The population in the area of ​​the (today's) municipality has been around 1,300 people since the 19th century and only decreased slightly during and after the Second World War . The increase since 1991 is based on a positive balance of migration .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and has been composed of mandataries from the following parties since the 2015 municipal council election:

• ÖVP : 11
• SPÖ : 3
• FPÖ : 1

coat of arms

Since July 1, 1973 the municipality has the right to use a coat of arms.
Blazon (description of the coat of arms): "In the shield, which is divided twice, a silver fish swimming to the left in blue, in the golden middle field a blue carpenter's hatchet, below in green a golden corn on the cob over a golden apple."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1979: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), Governor of Styria 1971–1980

Sons and daughters of the church

• Matthias Macher (1793–1876), doctor and medical writer
• Manfred Kainz (* 1960), politician ( ÖVP ) and entrepreneur

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 - results Sankt Josef (West Styria). orf.at , accessed on August 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ↑ Law of December 18, 1967 on territorial changes of municipalities , Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of December 29, 1967, Part 26, No. 138, p. 188.
6. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of June 12, 1920 , State Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Styria of June 23, 1920, 67th issue, No. 141. P. 245.
7. ↑ Law of December 3, 1968 on territorial changes of municipalities , Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of December 27, 1968, Item 22, No. 164. pp. 173-174.
8. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
9. ↑ West Styrian Rundschau . No. 7, year 2013 (February 15, 2013), 86th year, ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2013, p. 21.
10. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. 201-202, No. 223 .
11. ↑ Announcement of December 3, 1932 , State Law Gazette for Styria of December 23, 1932, Issue 21, No. 73, p. 141.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Gernot Peter Obersteiner: History of St. Joseph West Styria ; Church of 8503 St.Josef, 2004.
13. ^ Statistics Austria, A look at the community of Sankt Josef (West Styria), population development. Retrieved January 29, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Elections. Retrieved January 29, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Sankt Josef  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60326 - Sankt Josef (West Styria). Community data, Statistics Austria .

Historical maps

• The area of ​​St. Josef, Oisnitz and Tobisegg in the regional surveys from 1790 to 1910
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  Josephine land survey , around 1790

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  Oisnitz and St. Josef in the recording sheet of the Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme , around 1879

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  The west of St. Josef (bottom right), around 1879

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  Special map , around 1910 (far left)

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  The area west of St. Josef (far right)