Peggau

market community Peggau
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Surface:	11.25 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 12 '  N , 15 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '23 "  N , 15 ° 20' 39"  E
Height :	410  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,335 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8120
Area code :	03127
Community code :	6 06 32
Address of the municipal administration:	Grazer Strasse 20 8120 Peggau
Website:	www.peggau.info
politics
Mayor :	Hannes Tieber (home list Peggau)
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	10 3 2 10 3 2  A total of 15 seats Home list : 10 SPÖ : 3 ÖVP : 2
Location of Peggau in the Graz-Umgebung district
Peggau as seen from Deutschfeistritz
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Castle ruin Peggau, lithograph by JF Kaiser around 1830

The Badlwandgalerie, built in 1843/44, is a monument of the Austrian Southern Railway Company.

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  Lurgrotte Peggau "Prinz"

The Lurgrotte, an Austrian natural monument.

The Peggau-Deutschfeistritz station is the starting point of the Übelbacherbahn.

The town hall (former Gasthaus Hochhuber) of Peggau is a listed building.

Peggau is a market town with 2335 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) north of Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district in Styria ( Austria ).

geography

Geographical location

Peggau is located about 15 km north of the provincial capital Graz in the Middle Mur Valley on the edge of the Grazer Bergland . Peggau is separated from the neighboring municipality of Deutschfeistritz by the Mur .

Expansion of the municipal area

The municipality stretches from the banks of the Mur to the mountains of the mountain Stocks Tanneben up m to the 910th In the municipality is the Peggauer Wand , a steep, cave-rich wall.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises two cadastral communities or towns with the same name (area 2016, population as of January 1, 2020):

• Friesach (259.90 ha, 242 Ew.) Including Hiening and Lantschbauer
• Peggau (861.07 ha, 2093 Ew.) Including Badl, Hinterberg, Mautbichl and Obertrumm

Neighboring communities

Frohnleiten	Frohnleiten	Semriach
Deutschfeistritz		Semriach
Deutschfeistritz	Burr grain	Semriach

history

Numerous finds, starting from the Stone Age, have been recovered from the caves in the area. Bronze Age finds from the Badlhöhle as well as a Roman Age hill settlement on the Kugelstein document a continuous settlement.

An early medieval Carolingian burial ground dates from around 800 AD , which was cut and partially exposed in 1987 during canal excavation work.

It was first mentioned in a document around 1050. The original spelling is Peka or Peckach , the name could be derived from the Slovenian word peč , which means “ rock” or “cave” from Pötsche .

The castle and the lordship were owned by the Lords of Peggau (Peckach) , who later also acquired Pfannberg Castle and called themselves Counts of Pfannberg . Around 1270 the castle was destroyed by King Ottokar II Przemysl .

Around 1301 there was already a road toll, which was not released until 1800. Until 1740 there was also a water toll on the Mur for raftsmen. Market rights were granted before 1576. However, this is the first secured date.

On his famous walk to Syracuse in 1802 , the German travel writer Johann Gottfried Seume came through Peggau. He wrote:

“In Vienna, and everywhere along the way, it was said that the Presburger Post had been attacked, plundered and the postillon and the conductor killed. The same thing happened at Pegau, not far from Graez. […] Bey Röthelstein complained a compatriot, with whom I walked a mile, about the damage caused by the wolves and lynxes that came down from the mountains. The snow was high and the cold was cutting, and I hurried to Pegau […] But the quarters were so sad that I had hardly come across them on the whole trip. "

- Johann Gottfried Seume : Walk to Syracuse in 1802

The Badlwandgalerie was built from 1843 to 1844 , in whose vaults the southern railway and above it the Reichsstraße ran.

In 1893 the first gravel works (today W&P) was opened. From 1894 there was intensive research into the Lurgrotto .

After the First World War , intensive phosphate mining took place in the Badlhöhle and the Peggauer wall caves as part of the Austrian cave fertilizer campaign . A total of 86 railway wagons could be funded.

From August 17, 1944 to April 2, 1945, a branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp was set up on expropriated property belonging to the Vorau Abbey near Hinterberg . At the foot of the Peggauer Wand , a tunnel system was put into operation for the underground relocation of parts of the aircraft parts and armor production of the Thondorf plant of Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG . A memorial was erected in 1955 and a memorial was inaugurated on March 24, 2006. ( 47 ° 11 ′ 53.7 ″  N , 15 ° 21 ′ 34.4 ″  E )

On July 15, 1975, a devastating flood caused great damage in the municipality. During this flood, the climbing systems in the Lurgrotte were also destroyed. The tour through the cave to Semriach had to be stopped.

Population development

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Peggau is very well connected in terms of traffic. The Bruck expressway S 35, which can be reached via two junctions, runs through the municipality . This takes about two kilometers to the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 via the Deutschfeistritz junction (165) and the Grazer Straße B 67.

In Peggau, the Peggau-Deutschfeistritz station is on the southern railway . From the train station there are hourly express train connections S1 to Graz and Bruck an der Mur . In addition, the local railway Peggau – Übelbach of the Styrian State Railways branches off from the main line as S11, it runs every hour to Übelbach .

The Graz Airport is 30 kilometers away.

Established businesses

The stone processing facilities are visible from afar. a. on finished plaster from the company Wietersdorfer & Peggauer ("w & p"), ​​which emerged from the companies Kern and MM. Your quarry occupies a significant area north of the entrance to the Lurgrotte.

Tourism association

Together with Deutschfeistritz, Gratkorn, Gratwein-Straßengel, Peggau and Übelbach, the municipality forms the "Region OberGraz" tourist association. Its seat is in Deutschfeistritz.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Peggau

Churches

• The altarpiece of the Catholic Church in Peggau was painted by Johann Cyriak Hackhofer around 1700 and has been preserved to this day.
• The Protestant Peace Church was built in 1906 by Otto Bartning .

Buildings

• The Badlwandgalerie was part of the route of the Südbahn in the Badlwand area. After the route has been laid, it is in the process of decay.
• Peggau Castle

Natural monuments

• The most famous destination in Peggau is the Lurgrotte . One- and two-hour tours as well as adventure tours are offered on the well-secured path.
• The Repolust cave is located north of Peggau in Badlgraben. Here you can find the oldest traces of human existence in Austria (around 300,000 years).
• The Badlhöhle is also located in the Badlgraben.
• The Mitterbach waterfall below the castle ruins.

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  Lurgrotte Peggau

politics

mayor

Peggauer community board (since October 4, 2017): Peter Weber (left), Hannes Tieber (middle), Franz Mandl (right)

Mayor of the municipality is Hannes Tieber (home list Peggau). The entrepreneur (Tieber GmbH) was elected mayor on October 4, 2017, after serving as a local councilor for 13 years.

The community board also includes Vice Mayor Franz Mandl (home list Peggau) and the community treasurer Peter Weber (SPÖ).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and, according to the results of the 2015 municipal council election, consists of mandates from the following parties:

• 8 Peggau home list
• 3 SPÖ ,
• 2 ÖVP and
• 2 FPÖ .

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
Home list Peggau	609	52	8th	699	57	9	804	63	10	822	64	11
SPÖ	240	20th	3	233	19th	3	265	21st	03	201	16	02
ÖVP	144	12	2	158	13	2	202	16	02	130	10	01
FPÖ	180	15th	2	109	09	1	not running			125	10	01
KPÖ	not running			025th	02	0	not running			not running
voter turnout	66%			73%			77%			81%

coat of arms

Blazon :

“In a red shield there is a pole-like, right-turned, black-winged eagle's claw. The shield is surrounded by an architecturally designed silver edging decorated with gold and blue on the edges. ”(Award document of September 5, 1901)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of Peggau

• Johann Georg Fellinger (1781–1816), officer and writer
• Georg Gimpl (1887–1947), pastor, politician of the Christian Social Party , member of the Constituent National Assembly 1919–1920, member of the National Council 1920–1927
• Karl Kriso (1887–1972), university professor
• Hans H. Walser (* 1920), medical historian

Personalities associated with Peggau

• Anton Lanner (1882–1924), politician, member of the National Council 1920–1923, member of the Federal Council 1923–1924
• Walter Rentmeister (1894–1964), politician of the NSDAP , member of the state parliament of Lower Austria 1932–1933
• Barbara Taufar (* 1943), diplomat and writer, reports in her autobiography "The Rose of Jericho" about her childhood in Peggau

literature

• Market town of Peggau: Festival year 2004 . Published for the 950th anniversary
• Franz Wild: On the postal history of Peggau . Issued by the stamp exchange association Peggau-Deutschfeistritz-Ubelbach

Web links

Commons : Peggau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60632 - Peggau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Lurgrotte Peggau: Lurgrotte Peggau Official website (accessed on April 27, 2015)
• ARGIS Archeology Service: Middle Paleolithic storage area in the Lurgrotte-Peggau (Styria) (accessed on April 27, 2015)
• Defense structures in Austria: Peggau castle ruins (accessed April 27, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Heinz Dieter Pohl: Keyword Peggau. In: Bergnames (in 2.), (accessed March 10, 2011).
4. ^ Johann Gottfried Seume: Walk to Syracuse in 1802 , freely available online at [1] , pages 48, 56
5. ↑ www.obergraz.at
6. ^ Community of Peggau: BürgermeinsterHannes Tieber , accessed on December 1, 2017
7. ↑ community Peggau: Parish Council (accessed on 27 April 2015)