Stainach-Pürgg

Stainach-Pürgg is located in the Ennstal in the Austrian state of Styria . The municipality is bordered by the Enns in the south, and in the north it extends to the main ridge of the Dead Mountains . The highest point in the municipality is the Grimming ( 2351 m ), the highest free-standing mountain in Europe, in the west.

Community structure

The municipality of Stainach-Pürgg emerged as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the municipalities of Stainach and Pürgg-Trautenfels, which were dissolved at the end of 2014 .

The municipality includes the following seven localities (residents in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Niederhofen (60) with stone
Pürgg (163)
Stainach (1884)
Trautenfels (134)
Lower Castle (279)
Untergrimming (127)
Zlem (173)

The community consists of four cadastral communities (area 2016):

Neuhaus (1,454.20 ha)
Pürgg (662.41 ha)
Stainach (1,025.88 ha)
Zlem (4,166.94 ha)

The place houses a department of the agricultural district authority .

Neighboring communities

	Hinterstoder , Kirchdorf an der Krems district , Upper Austria
Bad Mitterndorf		Wörschach
Mitterberg-Sankt Martin	Irdning-Donnersbachtal	Aigen in the Ennstal

history

Trautenfels Castle

The castle Grauscharn (also Gruscharn, Slavic grusch = rubble) stood on the rocky ridge of the "Purgstallhöhe" in the Middle Ages . In 1160 this was the palatinate castle of Margrave Ottokar III. and thus the center of power for the county of Ennstal. The village "Gruscharn", which had formed within sight of the castle, was finally called Stainach from 1659. The local community of Stainach was established as an autonomous body in 1850.

From the area of the former Grauscharn Castle, only the Johanneskapelle , which was built in the 12th century, remains today . The style of their wall paintings indicates that they were created around 1160/65, which requires the existing building.

As early as 1183, the church and castle on the castle stables are attested. Pürgg goes back to this parish and was initially the seat of archdeacons (archpriests). The parish district once reached far beyond Aussee . In 1490 the parish came to the St. George Knights , in 1599 to the Jesuits of Graz .

Since 1958, the then independent town of Stainach has also been the seat of its own parish.

The construction of the Ennstalbahn in 1875 opened up today's districts of Stainach and Trautenfels with their own train stops. The stop in Trautenfels was closed in 2007. With the construction of the Ausseerbahn in 1877, a train stop was also built in Pürgg and the Stainach train station (now called Stainach-Irdning) became a railway junction.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, today's municipal area became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark, from 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria. Since then, the municipality has belonged to the federal state of Styria.

The municipality of Stainach-Pürgg in its current form did not emerge until the beginning of 2015. As part of the Stainach municipal structural reform , the previously independent municipalities of Stainach and Pürgg-Trautenfels were merged.

coat of arms

Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
Stainach
Pürgg-Trautenfels

Both previous municipalities had a municipality coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality took effect on April 5, 2016.

Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In a silver shield studded with eight red roses, a black panther, growing out of a red mountain covered with a step pyramid of three carved silver stones."

The coat of arms contains elements from the Pürgg-Trautenfelser, awarded in 1979, and the Stainach coat of arms, awarded in 1985. The black panther stands for the former Margrave Palatinate on the Pürgg and the red roses from the Trauttmannsdorff coat of arms for Trautenfels Castle. In the lower area there is the Stainach step pyramid made of three silver stones on a red background, which goes back to the coat of arms of the Steinach family used in 1293.

Culture and sights

Johanneskapelle on the left , behind on the right the Pürgg parish church in front of the Grimming

economy

In addition to tourism, the food industry is an important economic factor in the municipality.

Trautenfels Castle and the picturesque village of Pürgg attract numerous tourists and day trippers. The area is also popular with mountaineers who set off from here on mountain tours on the Grimming , the Dead Mountains and the Niedere Tauern mountains to the south . In Wörschachwald there is a small winter sports area and the Spechtensee , a popular excursion destination. It is therefore not surprising that the community has numerous inns and hotels.

Companies

Ennstal Milch KG, dairy (Maresi etc.)
Landena KG, food industry

traffic

The place is home - with the Stainach-Irdning station - an Austrian railway junction, here the Salzkammergutbahn meets the Ennstalbahn . There is also a stop for the Salzkammergutbahn in the village of Pürgg.

An important road junction can be found in the village of Trautenfels. This is where the main connection route from Salzburg to Graz ( Ennstal Straße B 320) meets Salzkammergutstraße B 145, which leads into the Salzkammergut .

education

Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Stainach

politics

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The municipal council has 15 members.

With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.

mayor

since 2015 Roland Raninger (ÖVP)

Movies

Pürgg has been the setting for television films several times.

Personalities

Adolf Adam (1918–2004), computer scientist and statistician
Grete Dierkes (1882–1957), actress and singer
Robert Gattinger (1902–1980), painter and graphic artist
Gregory V (972–999), first Pope from today's Austria
August Plocek (1928–2013), artist
Karl von Winckler (1912–1988), entrepreneur and businessman
Barbara Wolfgang-Krenn (1969–2019), politician

Web links

Commons : Stainach-Pürgg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

61267 - Stainach-Pürgg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
www.stainach-puergg.gv.at , website of the market town of Stainach-Pürgg

Individual evidence

^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 24, 2013 on the unification of the market community of Stainach and the community of Pürgg-Trautenfels, both political district of Liezen. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 130, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 634.
↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017
↑ Johanneskapelle Pürgg on the website of the community of Stainach-Pürgg, accessed May 3, 2014
↑ 30. Announcement of the Styrian state government of February 25, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Stainach-Pürgg (political district Liezen) , accessed on April 16, 2017
↑ A new coat of arms for our community ; Community newspaper March 2016, accessed April 16, 2017
^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Stainach-Pürgg. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Stainach-Pürgg. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
↑ Roland Raninger Ennstalwiki
↑ Filming location Pürgg-Trautenfels
↑ Martin Mandl: Film shoot in Pürgg and Altaussee: A village defends itself - the secret of Altaussee. In: Small newspaper . April 20, 2018, accessed December 11, 2019 .

[1] Styrian municipal structural reform .

[2] Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 24, 2013 on the unification of the market community of Stainach and the community of Pürgg-Trautenfels, both political district of Liezen. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 130, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 634.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-3] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[4] Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed February 19, 2017

[5] Johanneskapelle Pürgg on the website of the community of Stainach-Pürgg, accessed May 3, 2014

[6] 30. Announcement of the Styrian state government of February 25, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Stainach-Pürgg (political district Liezen) , accessed on April 16, 2017

[7] A new coat of arms for our community ; Community newspaper March 2016, accessed April 16, 2017

[StmkGrw2015_61267-8] Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Stainach-Pürgg. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 23, 2020 .

[StmkGrw2020_61267-9] Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Stainach-Pürgg. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .

[10] Roland Raninger Ennstalwiki

[11] Filming location Pürgg-Trautenfels

[kleinezeitung5407626-12] Martin Mandl: Film shoot in Pürgg and Altaussee: A village defends itself - the secret of Altaussee. In: Small newspaper . April 20, 2018, accessed December 11, 2019 .