Pinggau

This article describes the place Pinggau. For the river of the same name (old name), see Pinka .

market community Pinggau
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate :	HF (from 1.7.2013; old: HB)
Surface:	59.09 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 27 '  N , 16 ° 4'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '38 "  N , 16 ° 3' 51"  E
Height :	527  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,138 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8243, 8240, 2872, 7423
Area code :	03339
Community code :	6 22 33
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 1 8243 Pinggau
Website:	www.pinggau.steiermark.at
politics
Mayor :	Leopold Bartsch ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (21 members)	16 4th 1 16 4th 1  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 16 SPÖ : 4 FPÖ : 1
Location of Pinggau in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

The market town of Pinggau with 3164 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) is located in north-eastern Styria ( Austria ) in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld at the foot of the change .

geography

Pinggau is located approx. 20 km north of the district capital Hartberg in the northeast of the district. The municipality is traversed by the Pinka , a tributary of the Raab . The Pinka rises in the extreme northwest of the municipality, which is drained by numerous tributaries.

Pinggau is bounded in the north by the change and has its highest elevations there with the Niederwechsel (1,669 m), the Irrbühel (1,423 m), the Windhag (1,395 m) and the Hochkogel (1,314 m). To the east, the municipality drops off towards the Pinka. Pinggau has grown together with its neighboring town Friedberg . The municipal boundary between the two town centers is therefore very confusing and is not clearly visible to outsiders.

The municipality borders in the north on Lower Austria ( Mönichkirchen ) and in the south on Burgenland ( Pinkafeld ).

Community structure

Pinggau is made up of eight cadastral together (as of 15 May 2001) :

Cadastral parish	Area (ha)	further districts
Baumgarten	975.58	Koglreith, Pichlhöf, Rosenbichl
Haideggendorf	327.70	Schäffernsteg
Pinggau	221.34	-
Schaueregg	1955.07	Glashütte , Tränktörl
Sinnersdorf	272.61	-
Sparberegg	703.78	-
Tanzegg	527.53	Lafnitzdorf, Schäffernsteg
Wiesenhöf	915.70	Brandstatt, Dirnegg, Styrian diving

The municipality is made up of the following localities (residents in brackets, as of January 1, 2020):

• Baumgarten (119)
• Dirnegg (188)
• Haideggendorf (236)
• Koglreith (87)
• Pinggau (1334)
• Schaueregg (261)
• Sinnersdorf (258)
• Sparberegg (175)
• Styrian diving (183)
• Tanzegg (106)
• Wiesenhof (191)

The main town of Pinggau forms a closed settlement area with the villages of Dirnegg, Haideggendorf and Wiesenhöf.

Together with Friedberg, Dechantskirchen and Schäffern, the community forms the “ Wechselland ” tourism association . Its seat is the municipality of Schäffern.

Neighboring communities

Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel	Aspangberg-Sankt Peter , Mönichkirchen	Shepherds
Friedberg , Dechantskirchen		Shepherds
Friedberg	Pinkafeld	Wiesfleck

history

Pinggau, Friedberg in the background. Around 1820, lith. JF Kaiser

An early toll booth proves that Pinggau was an old road junction and that the neighboring town of Friedberg was only built to protect it. Nevertheless, Pinggau and its church were first mentioned in 1377.

When the community was formed in 1849, the community area encompassed the current extension from Schaueregg in the north to Sinnersdorf on the former Hungarian border in the south. The exception is the cadastral municipality of Sparberegg , which came to Pinggau from Schäffern on January 1, 1969 .

The leadership of the designation market community was awarded on June 11, 1931 by the Styrian state parliament.

Population development

As of 2018, there are 407 secondary residences in the market town of Pinggau.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Pinggau is described as follows:
“A golden shield in which the scene of the lamentation of the body of Christ removed from the cross is depicted on a golden pedestal. Three saints seated behind the corpse: in the middle the Mother of God, on the right the Apostle John, on the left Mary Magdalene. The Mother of God, dressed in a red robe, a blue gold-trimmed cloak, a white main scarf and a neck scarf of the same color, supports the erect upper body of Christ's body with her right hand and holds his left arm with her left hand. St. John, dressed in a green robe with gold cuffs and a red, gold-trimmed cloak, supports Christ's head with both hands. St. Mary Magdalene, clad in a red-green robe and her head covered with a white cloth, holds in her right hand a golden vessel for anointing oil; her left arm is straightened. The shield is surrounded by an ornamented, bronze-colored border. "

politics

The municipal council has 21 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Styria in 1990, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 1995, the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 7 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Styria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 ÖVP, and 5 SPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 17 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ, and 1 FPÖ.

fusion

A merger of the communities of Pinggau and Friedberg, whose town centers have been forming a closed settlement area for decades, failed as part of the Styrian community structural reform in 2015.

mayor

• since 1999 Leopold Bartsch (ÖVP)

Culture and sights

Parish church Pinggau - pilgrimage church Maria Hasel

See also:  List of listed objects in Pinggau

• Catholic parish church Pinggau Painful Mother of God - pilgrimage site Maria Hasel: The church was named after a legend: Shepherds are said to have found a picture of Mary in a hazel bush on the Pinka. This was later moved to the neighboring church, which was first mentioned in 1377 and is decorated with frescoes by Johann Cyriak Hackhofer . Next to the church is the well chapel, built in 1698, with a stone Pietà from 1717. With its flowing healing spring, the place is a spiritual place of power for many praying people.
• Music: The Pinggau market music band was founded on August 28, 1932. The highlight of the musical year is the spring concert, the musical home of the association is the "House of Music", which opened in summer 2009. As of 2020, the band has around 60 members.

Personalities

• Hans-Peter Schuh (* 1956): trumpeter of the Vienna Philharmonic and full professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
• Gernot Ymsén-Kerschbaumer (* 1983): orienteer

Sports

• The natural swimming lake is refilled annually in spring. Two large biotopes purify the water naturally.
• In 1947, Pinggau founded the soccer club FC Pinggau / Friedberg together with the municipality of Friedberg.
• Pinggau has been the annual venue for the Bosch Super Plus Rallye , a race of the Austrian State Rally Championship , since 1996 .

economy

With Meisterfrost Tiefkühlkosterzeugungs-Gesellschaft mbH and BT-Watzke GmbH capsule production companies, Pinggau has two companies among the ten largest production companies in the Hartberg labor market district.

• The BT-Watzke GmbH is a capsule generation companies and employs in the south of Pinggau more than 150 employees.
• The Bleyle GmbH sales as a successor to the 1988 insolvent Stuttgart company Bleyle to 2009 Ladies' knitted clothes. It has adopted the brand name of the parent company.
• The family company Meisterfrost Tiefkühlkosterzeugungs-Gesellschaft mbH , located in the Sinnersdorf district , employs more than 200 people.
• A crude oil pumping station on the Adria-Vienna pipeline is located near Haideggendorf . Trans-Austria gas pipelines also run through the municipality .

traffic

Pinggau was made accessible by rail in 1910 when the Wechselbahn was opened. The picture shows the opening train in the Pinggau station.

Pinggau (right) around 1878 (recording sheet of the state survey )

• Road: The south autobahn A2 runs through the municipality from Vienna to Graz , which can be reached via the Pinggau / Friedberg junction (95). In addition, the well-developed Wechsel Straße B 54 from Wiener Neustadt to Gleisdorf and Steinamangerer Straße B 63 to Pinkafeld and Oberwart cross in Pinggau .
• Rail: There are four railroad stops in the municipality. The Pinggau Markt and diving-Schaueregg stops are on the changeover from Friedberg to Wiener Neustadt. The route offers two-hour regional train connections to Wiener Neustadt and the subsequent Thermenbahn to Hartberg. The Pinggau Leisure Center and Sinnersdorf stops are located on the Pinkatalbahn, which was closed for passenger traffic in 2011, towards Oberwart.
• Aviation: Graz Airport and Vienna-Schwechat Airport are each approx. 100 km away.

Web links

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

• 62233 - Pinggau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Homepage of the Bosch Super Plus Rally in Pinggau
• The pilgrimage site of Maria Hasel on pilgern.info

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local council election 2020 - results Pingau. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 327. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 632.
4. ↑ Styria Provincial Law Gazette No. 164/1968, the regulation of the land concerned took place with the Styria. State Law Gazette No. 163/1969
5. ^ Coat of arms of the market town of Pinggau. Retrieved April 21, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Elections. Accessed May 31, 2020 . 
7. ↑ 8 4 pm, February 20, 2013: Merger failed due to "hardliners". February 20, 2013, accessed April 12, 2020 . 
8. ^ Market town of Pinggau. Retrieved April 12, 2020 (Austrian German). 
9. ↑ Maria Hasel pilgrimage church. Retrieved April 21, 2015 . 
10. ↑ MMK Pinggau | Welcome to the website of the Marktmusikkapelle Pinggau! Accessed April 12, 2020 (German). 
11. ^ Vienna Philharmonic> Homepage> Orchestra> Members> Members details page. Retrieved April 12, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Kerschbaumer won the Austria Cup. Retrieved April 12, 2020 . 
13. ↑ AMS | Labor market profiles 2018 Hartberg. Retrieved May 4, 2020 .