Gleinstätten

market community Gleinstätten
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Surface:	21.91 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 45 ′  N , 15 ° 22 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 45 ′ 13 "  N , 15 ° 22 ′ 11"  E
Height :	308  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,774 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8443
Area code :	03457
Community code :	6 10 51
Address of the municipal administration:	Pistorf 160 8443 Gleinstätten
Website:	www.gleinstaetten. steiermark.at
politics
Mayoress :	Elke Halbwirth ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (15 members)	11 2 2 11 2 2  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 2 FPÖ : 2
Location of Gleinstätten in the Leibnitz district
View from Sulmtal towards the parish church of St. Michael (left) and Gleinstätten Castle (right).
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Parish Church of St. Michael in Gleinstätten

LandArt -Park near Gleinstätten Castle

Castle stable of Kelzenwert in Pistorf

Chapel of the Scourged Savior in Pistorf

Gleinstätten is a market town in the judicial district or district of Leibnitz , Styria , Austria and has 2774 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). As part of the Styrian municipal structural reform in 2015, the neighboring municipality of Pistorf Gleinstätten was incorporated.

geography

Geographical location

Gleinstätten is located in the Sulmtal northeast of the confluence of the Black and White Sulm near Prarath.

Community structure

The municipality consists of seven cadastral communities (area as of 2015) or towns of the same name (inhabitants as of January 1, 2020):

Cadastral parish	surface	different place name	Pop.
Dornach	179.90 ha		78
Gleinstätten	433.39 ha		1010
Haslach	215.91 ha		208
Ma y hope	235.27 ha	Maierhof	289
Pistorf	547.05 hectares		575
Prarath	184.70 ha		162
Sausal at Pistorf	394.00 ha	Sausal	452

The name Gleinstätten refers to a place in a loamy area, which is confirmed by the brick production in the place (similar to Gleinz). Haslach is derived from hazelnut plants that stand by a larger stream, an Ache . Prarath 1136 as Preurat , 1310 as Prewrewt occupied; However, it is not seen as an indication of clearing , but derived from the Slovenian prevrat "reversal, turn", which can be explained by the course of the rivers in this area (confluence of the White and Black Sulm and the Leibenbach to the Sulm).

Incorporations

On January 1, 1965, the communities Gleinstätten and Prarath were merged under the name Gleinstätten.

Neighboring communities

St. Martin in the Sulmtal	Sankt Andrä-Höch
Sankt Martin im Sulmtal		Kitzeck in Sausal
Oberhaag	St. Johann in the Saggau Valley	Big small

history

Gleinstätten was originally called Micheldorf. In 1245 the fortification of a Konrad Micheldorfer is mentioned in a document. From 1285 to 1607 the Salzburg servants were the Gleinz lords of the place. From 1728 to 1885 the rule was in the hands of the Counts of Khünberg. In 1848 the manor was abolished. The local community as an autonomous body was established in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community came to the Reichsgau Steiermark, 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Gleinstätten was named a market town on January 1st, 1980.

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church and castle around 1830,
lith. Institution JF Kaiser, Graz

Gleinstätten Castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Gleinstätten

• Gleinstätten Castle : The castle was built in the 16th and 17th centuries. Century built. Today's appearance is a three-storey four-wing building with an arcade courtyard, restored in the Renaissance style by Franz Isidor Carlone in 1666 after a fire . A column on the ground floor is dated 1556. From 1975 to 1978 a fundamental renovation, restoration and adaptation for the elementary school and the municipal office took place. The arcade courtyard was covered. The Gleinstättner Castle Concerts and other events take place regularly.

• Parish church Gleinstätten : The church was first mentioned in a document in 1381. It is dedicated to St. Michael . It was rebuilt in 1692. The tower was built in 1754/57. The baroque high altar comes from the chapel of the castle. On the north wall there is a Romanesque relief with two fighting lions with braided ribbon ornaments from the 13th century, probably the only remnant of the first church.

Romanesque relief on the parish church of Gleinstätten

• Filialkirche St. George: The Filialkirche St. Georgen am Lukowisch is located on a hilltop south of Gleinstätten. It is mentioned in a document in 1383 and built in Gothic style.

• Clay roof and stadium: The Tondach Gleinstätten AG factory and the “Tondach Stadium” built with its help bear witness to the economic importance of brick production in the area. The Tondach Stadium can accommodate around 2,000 people.

• Nature trail behind the castle
• Castle park with "Landart" project (with sculptures by various artists such as Marina Bauer, Susanne Baumhakel, Michael Kinzer, Fritz Panzer, Wilhelm Scherübl and Gustav Troger )
• Theresienkapelle in Gleinstätten-Höch from 1838 with a baroque tabernacle altar
• Stone sculpture of Maria Immaculata around 1760
• Chapel south of the castle, baroque structure, modified in the 19th century

Sports

The SV Union Tondach Gleinstätten , founded in 1947, is one of the most successful clubs in the region alongside SVL Flavia Solva and SV Allerheiligen bei Wildon . He plays in the national league. The home games are played in the Tondach Stadium. In the 2009/10 season the club was able to achieve the championship title in the national league with a total of 58 points thanks to a spring round in which 38 out of 45 possible points were earned. With the associated promotion to the Middle Regional League in summer 2010, SV Union Tondach Gleinstätten celebrated the greatest success in its history. With the relegation from the regional league in the summer of 2012 there was also a change in the squad (18 players left the club).

music

Marktmusik Gleinstätten was founded in January 2006. Market music has already celebrated numerous successes under Kapellmeister Franz Oswald. An “Excellent Success” was achieved at the 2007 Concert Rating Games in Leibnitz. In May 2008 the chapel was given a new uniform, which was inaugurated on May 18th at the market festival.

In the marching music evaluation in Wolfsberg 2008, Marktmusik Gleinstätten with staff leader Johannes Knieley also achieved excellent success in level C.

Economy and Infrastructure

In terms of tourism , the community is described as a "bathing pond community" and "center of seed oil". The municipality is a member municipality of the "Südsteirisches Weinland Nature Park". The area around Gleinstätten is used intensively for agriculture, with the cultivation of maize dominating.

Between Gleinstätten and Pölfing-Brunn , 6.1 kilometers of the Sulmtalbahn , which was closed at the end of May 1967, have been preserved and serve as a connecting line for the brickworks of Tondach Gleinstätten AG. The former train station is behind the warehouse (building materials center; not to be confused with the branch, the warehouse supermarket). The area of ​​the brickworks is in the municipality of Sankt Martin im Sulmtal . The company is one of the market leaders in roof tile production and has been expanding into Southeast Europe since 1992.

Gleinstätten was selected by State Councilor Kristina Edlinger-Ploder for the Shared Space project . This project was also financed by the State of Styria and was completed in 2011.

Tourism association

Together with Großklein, Heimschuh, Kitzeck im Sausal, St. Andrä-Höch, St. Johann im Saggautal, St. Nikolai im Sausal and Tillmisch, the municipality forms the "Sulmtal Sausal - Südsteirisches Weinland" tourism association. Its seat is in Kitzeck im Sausal.

politics

mayor

Elke Halbwirth (ÖVP) was elected mayor after the resignation of Franz Koller at an urgent meeting of the municipal council on August 9, 2018 . Before that, Halbwirth was a member of the municipal council of the merged municipality of Pistorf and also of the merged municipal council of the market town of Gleinstätten.

The community board also includes the deputy mayor Friedrich Stiegelbauer (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Johann Stiegler (ÖVP).

Chronicle of the mayor

The history of the municipality shows the following people as mayors:

Gleinstätten

Prarath (self-employed 1907 to 1964)

1850–1861 Wilhelm Khuenburg 1861–1871 Michael Waltel 1871–1874 Josef Stoisser 1874–1898 Franz Mörth 1898–1902 Josef Jauk 1902–1907 Franz Resch 1907–1910 Franz Mörth 1910–1928 Rudolf Brand 1928–1930 Otto Wucherer-Huldenfeld 1930–1934 Josef Jauk 1934–1934 Michael Temmel 1935 -0000Josef Theiler 1935–1938 Franz Mörth jun. 1938–1946 Franz Haas 1946–1964 Anton Genseberger 1965 -0000Friedrich Silberschneider 1965–1984 Franz Scherer 1984–2000 Karl Strohmeier 2000–2014 Gottfried Schober 2015–2018 Franz Koller since 2018 Elke Halbwirth

1907–1914 Simon Sebathi 1914-1919 Franz Krainer 1919–1938 Anton Stani 1938 -0000Karl Hörmann 1938–1945 Johann Kremser 1945–1947 Johann Prattes 1947–1950 Peter Haindl 1950–1964 Friedrich Silberschneider from 1965 merged with Gleinstätten Pistorf (1907 to 2014 self-employed) until 1946 there are no records 1946–1947 Peter Sturm 1947–1948 Gottfried Sackl 1948–1950 Josef Lampl 1950–1955 Franz Neukirchner 1955–1975 Franz Koller 1975–1987 Franz Schwarzl 1987–2000 Franz Hirschmugl 2000-2005 Hermann Nagler 2005-2014 Franz Koller merged with Gleinstätten from 2015

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:

• 11 mandates ÖVP
• 02 mandates SPÖ
• 02 mandates FPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010						2005						2000
	Fusion community			Glein- sites			Pistorf			Glein- sites			Pistorf			Glein- sites			Pistorf
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	1230	70	11	555	64	10	681	68	11	570	68	11	401	40	6th	526	65	10	293	35	05
SPÖ	313	18th	02	109	13	02	264	26th	04th	218	26th	04th	387	39	6th	181	22nd	03	549	65	10
FPÖ	224	13	02	198	23	03	not running			050	6th	00	not running			098	12	02	not running
List blackl	not running			not running			060	06th	00	not running			206	21st	3	not running			not running
Eligible voters	2,391			1,215			1,206			1,187			1,170			1,073			1,065
voter turnout	74%			72%			84%			71%			86%			76%			80%

coat of arms

Coat of arms until 2014

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The re-award took place with effect from December 1, 2015.
The new blazon reads:

"In the shield on the left, which is divided from silver to red, there is a blue, rear-looking peacock body with outstretched wings above, and a silver, red-decorated bishop's hat with two ribbons flying off below."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1980: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), Governor of Styria 1971–1980

Sons and daughters of the church

• Augustinus Karl Wucherer-Huldenfeld (* 1929), theologian and philosopher

Web links

Commons : Gleinstätten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61011 - Gleinstätten. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Marktmusik Gleinstätten: Official website
• SV Tondach Gleinstätten: Official website of the football club

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Announcement of the Styrian regional government of June 13, 2013 on the unification of the market community Gleinstätten and the community Pistorf, both political district Leibnitz. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette No. 63/2013, 20th issue , ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 333.
3. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 kB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ^ 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 . P. 249.
6. ↑ [Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945 http://www.statistik.at/web_de/static/gemeindeaenderungen_ab_1945_vereinigungen_teilungen_namens-_u._statusaende_054994.pdf ]
7. ↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 175 , accessed on February 16, 2019 . 
8. ^ Gerhard Stenzel: From lock to lock in Austria. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-218-00288-5 , p. 176.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: Dehio-Handbuch: Steiermark (without Graz). The art monuments of Austria - topographical inventory of monuments. Published by the Federal Monuments Office, Department for Monument Research. Verlag Anton Schroll, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , pp. 136-137.
10. ^ Dehio manual. Pp. 426-427.
11. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 323. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 630-631.
12. ↑ ^{a b} community Gleinstätten: Parish Council , accessed on June 9, 2015
13. ↑ Gemeine Gleinstätten: The Mayors , accessed on June 9, 2015
14. ^ Municipality of Gleinstätten: Municipal elections 2015 , accessed on June 9, 2015.
15. ↑ 106. 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 market town of Gleinstätten (political district Leibnitz) , accessed on December 9, 2015.
16. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (July 1, 1980), p. 6.