Pölfing-Brunn

market community Pölfing-Brunn
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Deutschlandsberg
License plate :	DL
Main town :	Well
Surface:	6.16 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 43 '  N , 15 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '0 "  N , 15 ° 16' 0"  E
Height :	337  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,627 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8544
Area code :	03465
Community code :	6 03 23
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktplatz 1 8544 Pölfing-Brunn
Website:	www.poelfing-brunn.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Karl Michelitsch ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	9 6th 9 6th  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 9 SPÖ : 6
Location of Pölfing-Brunn in the district of Deutschlandsberg
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pölfing-Brunn is a market town with 1627 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria .

geography

location

The municipality of Pölfing-Brunn is located in southern western Styria at the foot of the Koralpe . The municipality is traversed by the White Sulm and extends over an altitude of 313 to 360 meters.

Community structure

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

• Brunn (228.05 ha, 1063 Ew.)
• Jagernigg (197.18 ha, 251 Ew.)
• Pölfing (197.18 ha, 313 Ew.)

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 by 2015, and amalgamation with other municipalities was not planned as part of this reform.

Neighboring communities

	St. Martin in the Sulmtal
Wies
		St. Martin in the Sulmtal

history

The area of ​​Pölfing-Brunn was already settled in Roman times, which is proven by an archaeological site.

The community was called Jagernigg until 1920 .

For the first time the places of the community were mentioned in 1322 as Prunn , Jaegernich and Polvanch . In 1532 the community suffered from the Turkish invasion of Suleyman I. , in 1680 and 1730 from the plague . In 1787 there were already 78 houses with 412 inhabitants in the municipality.

In 1790 coal was mined for the first time in Schönegg . In 1800 the pit dimensions were awarded to Ernst von Purgay. After changing owners of the Schönegger mine, it acquired the Graz sugar refinery in 1836. In 1836 the Laibach spinning factory also mined in Jagernigg and Schönegg. In 1858 the Brunner pits were opened up, and pit dimensions in Jagernigg were assigned at the same time .

Between 1860 and 1872, followed by drilling of four wells and the main shaft in Pölfing-Brunn and the system of six tunnels with an average of 500 meters in length. In 1871, Wenzel Radimsky , owner of the Brunner mines, founded a coal and mining company after acquiring the Schönegger and Jagernigger mines. Trading company (WKHG). Between 1871 and 1873 the “Colonie” workers' settlement was laid out and in 1876 the “Brunn-Schönegg” factory school was built. In 1885 the Graz-Köflacher Railway and Mining Company (GKB) bought the WKHG. In 1889 600 miners from Brunner went on strike.

In 1897, after the main shaft of the Brunner pits collapsed, they were gradually closed. In 1907 Pölfing-Brunn was connected to rail traffic with the opening of the Leibnitz - Pölfing-Brunn ( Sulmtalbahn ) railway. Coal mining took place between 1918 and 1929 using smaller pits. In 1924 the main shaft of Pölfing-Brunner was razed and in 1925 the Bergla shaft was sunk. The Jagernigg plant was opened up in 1932 by the GKB.

During the National Socialist July coup in 1934, the community initially remained quiet, which is why the majority of the crew at the gendarmerie post went to Eibiswald to help free the mayor of Wies, who was held hostage by the Nazis. Late in the evening, however, a truck with putschists appeared in the village and demanded the handover of the gendarmerie post, which was now only occupied by four men. When this was refused, the coup plotters cut the post's telephone line and also occupied the local post office. When the rebels received further reinforcement in the next few hours, the commandant finally decided to hand over the gendarmerie post, whose weapons were stolen. The insurgents, which included a former general director of the GKB , also searched club buildings and private houses and apartments for weapons before they disappeared again. In contrast to most other places in the district, the intermezzo of the attempted National Socialist “seizure of power” here passed without any shootings or bloodshed. 66 people were arrested for participating in the July coup, including quite a few miners, a number of whom were sentenced to lengthy terms.

After the Second World War , the facilities were gradually closed. In 1950 the Jagernigger workforce was transferred to Pölfing-Bergla, and in 1961 100 miners from the Habisch plant , which was closed in 1967, were laid off. In the same year the Sulmtalbahn was also closed. In 1975 the Pölfing-Bergla plant also had to be closed.

In 1958, construction began on today's parish church, which was completed in 1961. The elevation to the parish took place in 1977, the place itself was raised to the market in 1986. After the opening of the mining exhibition tunnel in 1988, the building of the office building and the redesign of the market square followed in 1994. In 1997 the community built a music home, in 2000 the groundbreaking for the terrace settlement and in 2001 for the industrial park followed. In August 2005, the community was affected by a severe flood.

population

Population development

The population development of the municipality of Pölfing-Brunn is a reflection of the eventful mining past of the municipality. The population doubled between 1869 and 1880 due to the newly opened pits and fell by 40% between 1890 and 1900 after pits in Brunn had been closed. The population increased from 1910 to 1971, and has been falling again since then.

Population structure

According to the 2001 census, the community had 1,785 inhabitants. 97.2% of the population had Austrian citizenship. 93.9% of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church, 3.9% were without religious beliefs.

Culture and sights

Parish Church of Mary Queen

See also:  List of listed objects in Pölfing-Brunn

• Parish Church of Pölfing-Brunn
• A witness to the former coal mining in the community was made accessible in 1988 with the Pölfing-Brunn mining gallery . With the help of retired miners, the market town and the cultural association, a scenario of coal mining was recreated in the cellar vaults of the former works school. There are also numerous exhibits from the history of mining.

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces , there were 66 workplaces with 394 employees in the municipality as well as 558 out-commuters and 239 in-commuters. The most important industries are trade, construction and material goods production. There were 46 agricultural and forestry holdings (20 of which were the main occupation), which together farmed 540 hectares (1999).

Pölfing and Brunn as industrial and mining locations on the Wieserbahn , land survey around 1877/78

The traffic is developed via Pölfing Brunnerstraße L 605 and the Graz-Köflacher Bahn .

Together with Eibiswald and Wies, the community forms the "Südliche Weststeiermark" tourism association. Its seat is in Eibiswald.

politics

Municipal council

For a long time, community politics was dominated by the SPÖ . While the party in 2000 was still 48.94% and thus just below the absolute majority of votes, the SPÖ achieved 72.27% of the vote in the 2005 municipal council elections with a plus of 23.33% and thus a two-thirds majority. The SPÖ thus won three mandates from the ÖVP , which shrank from 44.43% to 27.73%.

The FPÖ and the list of names Friedrich Baumrucker, which had not made it to the municipal council in 2000, stopped running in 2005. The mandate relationship in 2005 resulted in 11 mandates for the SPÖ and 4 for the ÖVP.
In January 2008, six SPÖ municipal councilors (including the vice mayor and SPÖ district manager) resigned due to disagreements with the SPÖ mayor.

The municipal council elections on March 21, 2010 resulted in 51.80% (−20.47%) for the SPÖ, 39.49% for the ÖVP (+11.76%) and 8.71% for the first-time candidate list of citizens of Pölfing-Brunn a mandate of 8: 6: 1.

The municipal council elections on January 19, 2014 resulted in 44.32% (−7.48%) for the SPÖ, 37.38% (−2.11%) for the ÖVP and 18.30% for the re-running FPÖ, thus a mandate of 7: 6: 2. The citizens' list was no longer running, the turnout was 74.98%.

In the constituent meeting on February 14, 2014, the ÖVP candidate Karl Michelitsch was elected mayor in a vote. Since then, the SPÖ has provided the vice mayor with Michael Strametz and the community treasurer with Gerhard Schreiner.

The last municipal council election took place in spring 2015. The turnout was 77.47%, the result of the election is:

• SPÖ 384 votes = 35.65% - 5 seats
• ÖVP 535 votes = 49.68% - 8 mandates
• FPÖ 158 votes = 14.67% - 2 mandates

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms was awarded on September 1, 1974, with the coat of arms of the municipality of Pölfing-Brunn being divided into two parts. In the upper area of ​​the coat of arms three blue wave poles are shown on a silver background, the lower area of ​​the coat of arms is marked by the crossed, silver mining symbols " mallets and iron " on a black background.

The wave piles on the upper half of the coat of arms symbolize the three cadastral communities through which the Sulm flows. They also symbolize water in general and the name Brunn. The mining symbols "mallets and iron" in turn represent the close connection to mining , with the black basic color symbolizing coal.

literature

• Ingeborg Radimsky: The miners' colony of Pölfing Brunn 1871-1900. Dipl.-Arb., Graz 1998
• Erich Wozonig (Ed.): Pölfing-Brunn. Local history. Pölfing-Brunn 1984

Web links

Commons : Pölfing-Brunn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• 60323 - Pölfing-Brunn. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Entry on Pölfing-Brunn in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pölfing-Brunn: SPÖ loses the local chief. Kleine Zeitung , February 14, 2014, archived from the original on April 4, 2014 . 
2. ↑ This is how the 15 communities in Deutschlandsberg voted. meinviertel.at , June 29, 2020, accessed on August 18, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Municipal council election 2020 - results Pölfing-Brunn. orf.at , accessed on August 18, 2020 . 
4. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
5. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
6. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
7. ↑ Bernhard Hebert: A Roman site at Jagernigg, Styria. In: Find reports from Austria. Volume 43, year 2004. Vienna 2005. ISSN  0429-8926 ZDB -ID 213982-0 pages 499–506.
8. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 18, 1920 , State Law and Ordinance Gazette for the State of Styria of September 22, 1920, 100th issue, No. 225. P. 369.
9. ↑ Gerald M. Wolf: "Now we are the gentlemen ..." The NSDAP in the Deutschlandsberg district and the July Putsch 1934 (= Grazer Zeitgeschichtliche Studien, Volume 3) StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2008, pages 170f., ISBN 978- 3-7065-4006-3 .
10. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 630.
11. ^ New local council: Losses at SPÖ and ÖVP. Kleine Zeitung , January 19, 2014, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 .