Sankt Stefan ob Stainz

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Sankt Stefan ob Stainz
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Deutschlandsberg
License plate :	DL
Surface:	49.23 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 56 '  N , 15 ° 15'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 55 '46 "  N , 15 ° 15' 17"  E
Height :	404  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,579 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8511
Area code :	03463
Community code :	6 03 48
Address of the municipal administration:	Sankt Stefan ob Stainz 19 8511 Sankt Stefan ob Stainz
Website:	www.st-stefan-stainz.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Stephan Oswald ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (21 members)	15th 3 2 1 15th 3 2 1  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 15 FPÖ : 3 SPÖ : 2 GREEN : 1
Location of Sankt Stefan ob Stainz in the Deutschlandsberg district
Center from the south
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Stefan ob Stainz is a municipality with 3579 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the district of Deutschlandsberg ( judicial district of Deutschlandsberg ) in western Styria . Since January 1, 2015 it has been merged with the communities of Greisdorf and Gundersdorf as part of the Styrian community structural reform , the new community continues to bear the name St. Stefan ob Stainz.

The community is dominated by agriculture and is located in the Schilcher cultivation area .

geography

location

The municipality of Sankt Stefan ob Stainz is located in western Styria and is traversed by the Steinbach, Lemsitz, Sanibach and Zirknitz rivers.

Community structure

Sankt Stefan ob Stainz consists of eleven localities or nine cadastral communities.

Localities / cadastral communities	Inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020)	Area in ha	Location in the Gem.
Greisdorf	444	2,451.38
Grubberg, KG Gruberg	90	42.44
Gundersdorf	296	528.74
Lemsitz	384	317.17	southwest
Lichtenhof	94	122.49	southeast
Pirkhof	408	518.64	Northeast
Sankt Stefan ob Stainz, KG St. Stefan	834	226.30	center
Summer vines	203	no KG
Stone rub	301	184.04
Forest in western Styria	24	no KG
Zirknitz	501	531.15	Northwest

Area: As of January 1, 2015

Neighboring communities

Three of the five neighboring communities are in the Voitsberg district (VO).

Ligist (VO)	Mooskirchen (VO)
Noble scrap (VO)		Lannach
	Stainz	Stainz

St. Stefan ob Stainz does not border on St. Martin am Wöllmißberg , because south of St. Martin a narrow strip of the Edelschrott municipality borders the municipality of Ligist with approx. 70 m and thus St. Stefan remains separated from St. Martin.

history

Early settlement

Early settlement of the municipality is documented by a Latène period or Roman burial ground in the Zirknitz valley. There are a number of other burial mounds or groups of burial mounds in the municipality, they are called "Heidenkögel". These are graves that are attributed to the local population in the first centuries after the birth of Christ. These inhabitants are called " Noriker " and are counted among the Celts and Illyrians .

The first traces of settlers from the Bavarian region are documented for the year 1180. It is uncertain whether a document from 1128 about the servant of the Eppensteiner Friedrich von Wolfstain , who, like an Otocharus for 1378 to 1415, is associated with the Wolfstein area near Upper Circnitz, actually refers to this area and thus proves a settlement in the area.

The name of the district Stocka (with the Eichart chapel) is traced back to a clearing ( ahd. And mhd. Stoc, stock for "tree stump, tree trunk").

parish

The parish of St. Stefan ob Stainz is mentioned for the first time in 1203, it is considered the main parish of the area and is older than the diocese of Graz-Seckau founded in 1218 (which at that time did not include the area of ​​St. Stefan, which belonged to the archbishopric of Salzburg). The original meaning of the parish with its large parish district, which at around 100 km² was about five times larger than the parish area until the end of 2014 and also includes areas in the neighboring parishes of Gundersdorf, Georgsberg, Marhof, Greisdorf and Lannach, is shown by the fact that the parish even in the 21st century areas that are closer to the parish of Stainz, such as B. Parts of Marhof (with the Höllerhansl chapel ) and Greisdorf. In 1245 the parish was incorporated into the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Stainz , which was then newly established, and after its dissolution in 1785 it became independent again.

A predecessor of the parish church is presumed to be in the area of ​​Kirchholz near Ober circnitz. The name "Zirknitz" comes from Slavonic. It is translated as church area, Kirchbach, small church .

middle Ages

Lemsitz

In the Middle Ages and up to the 19th century, the municipality was divided into various manors. One of them were the Lemsitzers , who had their residence, Lemsitz Castle , in the west of the town of St. Stefan. The construction of this castle is dated to the 12th or 13th century, only moats and other uneven ground are visible. Its center consisted of an irregular pentagonal tower about nine by seven meters, which was surrounded by a wall and a moat. At least the foundations of the tower were bricked.

The Lemsitzer were servants of the Lords of Wildon and fiefs of the Archbishop of Salzburg . The complex was no longer mentioned in the 17th century.

An elevation in the area at the crossroads in Lemsitz near the chapel there is explained as the remains of a tower hill from the time of the Wolfsteiner. Two graves and a light column are documented on the road from Lemsitz to the west.

The road connection between St. Stefan and Stainz used to run along the Lemsitzbach, the Bachsterri estate was known as a restaurant.

It is believed that the areas of the farms vlg. Huber and vlg. Simimichl in Unterkreisnitz in the 14th and 15th centuries were small knightly seats owned by the Lemsitzers Hans and Heinrich.

The sale of a free farm at “Nider Zirknitz” to the Stainz monastery is documented for October 28, 1425. This left the noble estate and distributed the land to farmers.

Lichtenhof

Lichtenhof Palace (then called "Liechtenperg") from the east, 1681

Another aristocratic seat was in the southeast of St. Stefan in the cadastral community of Lichtenhof. It is known as the Lichtenbergerhof, its founding as the seat of the Lichtenberg family also dates back to the 13th century. The Liechtenberger the family was as porter sex of Eppensteiner later, Wildonier described. There were no essential fortifications.

In the 15th century the buildings were mentioned as "Castle near Stainz", the family of the owners died out in the 16th century. In 1602 the Stainz Monastery acquired the facility. At the beginning of the 18th century the residence was only used for agriculture, in the 19th century its area was divided into farms. The courtyards vlg. Lichtenhofschuster, Geidl, Sieber of KG Lichtenhof and vlg. Schneiderbauer, Rothschädl (the Meierhof of the former Lichtenberg rule), Moar of KG Lemsitz are located on the grounds of the former castle. No remains of the facility can be seen on the earth's surface, only the location of a sand pit and a clay pit is documented.

However, the 1.2 m thick cellar walls in the farm remind us. Geidl (also called Gail), which could have belonged to a tower house, to the former castle, and remnants of vaults are said to have been found on neighboring properties in the 1950s while the line was being built. On depictions by Georg Matthäus Vischer , Liechtenhoff Castle (or Liechtenperg) is drawn as a complex with three buildings, one of which has a two-story arcade.

Aichhof

On the eastern slope of the Hofererberg district, the area of ​​the farms is vlg. Langhartkami, Hopfgartner, Schöner, Tischler are viewed as the area of ​​an aristocratic residence called Aichhof: This is associated with the paymaster Leutolds von Wildon , Witmar (or Dietmar) von Hopfgarten.

Puxhof

The area of ​​the farm vlg. Kohlmörtl in Zirknitz formed the noble estate Puxhof in the Middle Ages. Its owners were named Salzburg's ministerials in 1267 , and a connection with the Wildoni is suspected. The family died out before 1500.

Turkish invasions

Like the rest of the municipality, these facilities were probably besieged twice by roaming Turks and their property was devastated. This is likely to have happened for the first time in 1480, when the Turks invaded Styria and Carinthia. At that time, a large number of Turkish raiders penetrated the Packsattel into the area of ​​today's Voitsberg district . Coming from the area around Ligist , subdivisions of this patrol have probably also reached St. Stefan. Certainly, the municipality was badly affected in 1532 after the Turks broke off the siege of Güns and plundered and devastated almost all of southern Styria on their march back. Lemsitz Castle, where part of the population had fled, was besieged for several days by Turkish raiders, which, however, could be repulsed. The devastation committed by the Turks can also be seen on the basis of the validity estimate from 1542, where, for example, some farms in the Lemsitz area appear desolate and the reason for this is the Turkish invasion ten years earlier.

After the Turkish threat was finally averted, a long and peaceful time followed for St. Stefan.

French Wars

It was not until the wars that broke out as a result of the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century that enemy troops returned to the area around St. Stefan. This time it was the passing soldiers of the French armies who relentlessly requisitioned the goods they needed for their needs in the municipality. In the south-east, in the forest between Lichtenhof and Pichling (Sechtaberg district), the French Cross commemorates the French occupation in the Fifth Coalition War and an incident in which three French were killed by local farmers. This cross is in the former municipality of Georgsberg , but in the parish of St. Stefan. It was rebuilt in 2009 and solemnly blessed on July 19, 2009.

Another reminder of this time is the weavers' chapel in Hofererberg. This chapel was built in 1814 in thanks for surviving the French wars, renovated in 1980 and added a bell tower in 2012. In it is the " Francis of Assisi - Bell ". It weighs 56 kg, is  tuned to the a² tone and is rung three times a day at 7 am, 12 pm and 7 pm, and on Fridays at 3 pm.

National Socialism and July Putsch 1934

In the 1930s, National Socialism also took hold in St. Stefan. Since 1933 there was also a local branch of the NSDAP here, the head of which was a local doctor. From an organizational point of view, the local group in St. Stefan worked closely with that in Stainz.

During the National Socialist July coup in 1934, the Gendarmerieposten barracks was occupied by National Socialists, who were under the leadership of a local innkeeper and who came from Stainz. A Heimwehr weapons depot located near the gendarmerie was looted by the National Socialists. There had been no fighting in the village because the gendarmerie commandant had fled the post when the Nazis approached. After their coup, the National Socialists drove back to Stainz. The post commander later returned to the gendarmerie post and secured the place with some gendarmes who had been called up for duty until the putsch was put down by the armed forces .

Development of the community in the 19th and 20th centuries

In 1824 the five cadastral communities Lemsitz, Lichtenhof, Pirkhof, St. Stefan and Zirknitz were merged to form the administrative community of St. Stefan. The community of St. Stefan was finally created through the abolition of the manorial rule in 1850 and the amalgamation of the cadastral communities of the same name Lemsitz, Lichtenhof and St. Stefan.

The name of the community, "Sankt Stefan", was changed to Sankt Stefan ob Stainz on June 1, 1951 .

On January 1, 1968, the communities of Pirkhof (with Pirkhofberg) and Zirknitz were merged with St. Stefan ob Stainz.

On August 1, 2013, the Gundersdorf municipal council unanimously passed the resolution to merge with St. Stefan. Since September 16, 2013, the municipal office of Gunderdorf was already in St. Stefan ob Stainz.

population

Population structure

According to the 2001 census, the community had 2,198 inhabitants. 97.6% of the population had Austrian citizenship. 92.7% of the population committed to the Roman Catholic Church , 3.5% were without religious beliefs and 2.3% were Protestants .

Population development

Between 1869 and 1939 the population of Sankt Stefan ob Stainz changed only marginally and hardly experienced any major fluctuations. In the years after World War II, the population began to grow.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Stefan ob Stainz

• Parish church Sankt Stefan ob Stainz

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces , there were 76 workplaces with 367 employees in the municipality as well as 771 out-commuters and 192 in-commuters. The most important industries are trade, manufacturing and education. There were 167 agricultural and forestry holdings (25 of which were the main occupation), which together farmed 1,511 ha (1999).

In the tourism sector there are many taverns and houses that offer farm holidays . Together with Stainz, the community forms the “Schilcherland-Stainz-Reinischkogel” tourism association.

The access to traffic is via the Schilcher Weinstrasse L 314, the Zirknitzstrasse L 641 and the Pirkhofstrasse L 667. In the north the community also has a connection to the south Autobahn A2 , in the southeast to the Radlpass Strasse B 76.

The community has an elementary school, a new middle school and a music school as well as three kindergartens.

politics

Municipal council

The 2015 municipal council election brought the following results:

• ÖVP : 11 mandates
• FPÖ : 7 mandates
• SPÖ : 3 mandates

After the municipal council election in 2015, Stephan Oswald (ÖVP) was elected mayor of the new municipality.

coat of arms

Coat of arms until 2014

The municipal coat of arms was awarded by the Styrian state government with the ordinance of August 1, 1980. It showed:

"In red, a silver grapevine curved downwards to form a circle with five leaves and an upturned grape, encircling three diamond-shaped, faceted, silver stones (one to two placed)."

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015; it was reassigned effective December 5th, 2015.
The new blazon reads:

"In red a golden grapevine curved downwards to a circle with three leaves and three grapes, three (placed one to two) diamond-shaped, faceted, golden stones surrounding."

Partner communities

In 1990, through the mediation of the Graz municipal council Heinz Weiglein, the first contacts were made between the red wine region of Villány (Wieland) consisting of the municipalities of Villány, Villánykövesd, Ivánbattyán, Márok and Palkonya and the Schilcher region of Stainz, St. Stefan, Georgsberg, Greisdorf and Gundersdorf. After mutual visits in the following years, an official partnership certificate was signed in Villany in 1995 and in Stainz in 1996

The goals of the partnership are mutual friendship, the promotion of people to live together in freedom and the strengthening of the European sense of togetherness.

Villány , Hungary

Villánykövesd , Hungary

Ivánbattyán , Hungary

Márok , Hungary

Palkonya , Hungary

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1983: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor
• 2016: Gerhard Eger, Greisdorf

Born in the municipality

• Josef Wartinger (1773–1861), founder and first director of the Styrian State Archives
• Joseph Scheicher (1842–1924), Catholic theologian, social politician and writer
• Josef Papst (1923–2010), academic painter and sculptor
• August Schmölzer (* 1958), actor

People living in the municipality

• Otto Freiherr Ellison von Nidlef (1868–1947), Major General of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Knight's Cross holder of the Military Maria Theresa Order

Personalities associated with the community

• Matthias Macher (1793–1876), from 1850 to 1865 district doctor in Stainz
• Hans Tauber (1848–1913), explorer of the Noric-Pannonian burial mounds in western Styria

literature

• Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz . Self-published by the municipality of St. Stefan ob Stainz, 1987, no ISBN.
• Maria Grill-Ninaus: The organization of house and farm in the context of historical development using the example of Stainzenhof in the municipality of St. Stefan ob Stainz, Styria. Diploma thesis at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, 1994.
• Elmar Voggenberger-Meißel: Area-wide wastewater disposal plan for the municipalities of Georgsberg, Greisdorf, Gundersdorf and St. Stefan ob Stainz. Diploma thesis at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, 1992.
• Martina Sulzberger: The parish church of St. Stefan ob Stainz. Diploma thesis at the humanities faculty of the Karl-Franzens University Graz. Graz 2012.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Stefan ob Stainz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60348 - Sankt Stefan ob Stainz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Community of St. Stefan ob Stainz

Historical maps

• The area of ​​St. Stefan and its surroundings in the three regional surveys in the period from approx. 1789 to 1910
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  Lemsitz (right outside), Josephinische Landesaufnahme around 1780

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  Zirknitztal and Pirkhof east of St. Stefan

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  Lemsitz north of Stainz

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  Accommodation for 14 men and 4 horses in the village according to the Franziszeischer Landesaufnahme , around 1835

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  In the north lies the middle course of the Kainach with Mooskirchen, Gundersdorf and Ligist, record sheet of the state record from 1877/78

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  St.Stefan with Stainz, the Rosenkogel and the Reinischkogel

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  In the francisco-josephine land survey , approx. 1910

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 Stefan ob Stainz. orf.at , accessed on August 18, 2020 . 
3. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 26, 2013 on the union of the communities of Greisdorf, Gundersdorf and Sankt Stefan ob Stainz, all political district of Deutschlandsberg. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 98, 28th issue. Pp. 554-555.
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
6. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. Self-published by the community of St. Stefan ob Stainz 1987. pp. 32–46, sketch of the attachment p. 35. Genealogy of the Lemsitzer family pp. 8–11.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. P. 16.
8. ^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces of Styria. An encyclopaedic collection of the Styrian fortifications and properties, which were endowed with various privileges. Graz 1961, Stiasny publishing house. P. 89.
9. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. P. 150, footnote 18.
10. ^ Fritz Lochner von Hüttenbach: The clearing names of Styria. In: Michaela Ofitsch, Christian Zinko: 125 years of Indo-European Studies in Graz. Festival tape on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the research facility "Indo-European Studies" at the Karl-Franzens University Graz. Verlag Leykam, Graz 2000. ISBN 3-7011-0026-8 . Pp. 250-251.
11. ↑ Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau , November 18, 2011. 84th Volume No. 46. P. 11.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. Pp. 20-21. Location of the timber Kirch 46 ° 57 '21 "  N , 15 ° 15' 19"  O .
13. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. P. 32–46, sketch of the annex p. 35. Genealogy of the Lemsitzer family p. 40–46.
14. ↑ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Medieval and early modern fortifications in the district of Deutschlandsberg: recording of the soil monuments. With drawings by Stefan Karl. Contributions to medieval archeology in Austria BMÖ. Volume 10, year 1994. ZDB -ID 805848-9 . Ed .: Austrian Society for Medieval Archeology ÖGM, Vienna. ISSN  1011-0062 . P. 59–60, sketch of the location (with outdated land distribution) P. 81. 46 ° 55 ′ 49 ″  N , 15 ° 14 ′ 29 ″  E
15. ^ Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces. Pp. 75-76.
16. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Walk from Lichtenhof Castle to Lemsitz Castle. In: Weststeirische Rundschau. No. 11, year 2014 (March 14, 2014), 87th year, ZDB-ID 2303595-X. Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2014, p. 10.
17. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. P 266, 269, 298, footnote 41. Location of these farms 46 ° 55 '51 "  N , 15 ° 16' 14"  O .
18. ^ ^{A b} Robert Baravalle: Castles and palaces. P. 90.
19. ↑ Robert Baravalle: Castles and Palaces, p. 76.
20. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. Pp. 190-192.
21. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. P. 164.
22. ^ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Wehrbauten. S. 69. Plots 11/2, 19/1 and 11 of KG 61223 Lichtenhof. 46 ° 55 ′ 15 "  N , 15 ° 15 ′ 36"  E
23. ^ Werner Murgg, Bernhard Hebert: Wehrbauten. Pp. 95-96
24. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. Pp. 266-267, 278-280. Aich location of the court 46 ° 56 '34 "  N , 15 ° 16' 11"  O .
25. ↑ Robert Baravalle: Castles and Palaces, p. 81.
26. ^ Konrad Moser: St. Stefan ob Stainz. Pp. 266, 272-273. Puxhofes position of 46 ° 56 '23 "  N , 15 ° 15' 24"  O
27. ↑ Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau from July 25, 2009. Volume 82, No. 30. P. 10.
28. ↑ The "Weber Chapel" shines with a consecrated bell. In: Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau , September 19, 2014. Volume 87, No. 38. P. 13.
29. ↑ On this, see Gerald Wolf: The NSDAP in the Deutschlandsberg district from 1933 to the "Anschluss" in 1938. In: Herbert Blatnik, Hans Schafranek (ed.): From the NS ban to the "Anschluss". Styrian National Socialists 1933–1938. Czernin Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-7076-0554-9 , p. 289.
30. ↑ See: 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 154f., ISBN 978-3-7065-4006-3 . It is the most detailed treatise to date on the fighting during the July coup in the Deutschlandsberg district.
31. ↑ Announcement of May 16, 1951 , State Law Gazette for Styria of December 28, 1959, Issue 13, No. 37, p. 114.
32. ↑ 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.
33. ^ Gundersdorf: First step towards the merger. In: Weststeirische Rundschau. No. 37, year 2013 (September 13, 2013), 86th year, ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2013, p. 1.
34. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 629-630.
35. ^ Schools - St. Stefan ob Stainz community. Retrieved January 29, 2020 . 
36. ↑ Elections. Retrieved January 29, 2020 . 
37. ↑ West Styrian Rundschau . No. 17, year 2015 (April 24, 2015), 88th year. ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2015, p. 1.
38. ↑ Mayor of St. Stefan ob Stainz. Retrieved January 29, 2020 . 
39. ↑ 108. Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 19, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Sankt Stefan ob Stainz (political district Deutschlandsberg) , accessed on December 6, 2015
40. ^ Partner community Villany - community St. Stefan ob Stainz. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .