Rants

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Rants
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Murau
License plate :	MU
Surface:	52.41 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 10 '  N , 14 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 9 '35 "  N , 14 ° 4' 52"  E
Height :	951  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,155 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	8853
Area code :	03535
Community code :	6 14 41
Address of the municipal administration:	Ranten 110 8853 Ranten
Website:	www.ranten.gv.at/
politics
Mayor :	Franz Kleinferchner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	13 2 13 2  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 2
Location of Ranten in the Murau district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Ranten is a municipality with 1155 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district or district of Murau in Styria . As of January 1, 2015, the formerly independent municipality of Rinegg was incorporated as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria .

geography

Ranten is 11 km northwest of Murau .

Community structure

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

• Freiberg (191)
• Ranten (619)
• Rinegg (154)
• Seebach (191)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Freiberg, Ranten, Rinegg, Seebach and Tratten.

Neighboring communities

From the north, clockwise:

• Krakow ( Murau District )
• Schöder (Murau district)
• St. Peter am Kammersberg (Murau district)
• Murau (Murau District)
• Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg (Murau district)
• Tamsweg ( Tamsweg district )

history

The earliest written document was created around 1080 and is "Radintin". The name goes back to the Slavic personal name Radeta .

The political municipality of Ranten was established in 1849/50. This included the then cadastral and tax communities of Ranten and Freiberg. In 1873 Freiberg was separated as a separate municipality by law of February 10th. On January 1, 1948, the municipalities of Ranten and Tratten were forcibly united to form the municipality of Ranten. On January 1, 1965 Freiberg - again - and Seebach were incorporated into Ranten.

Culture and sights

Parish church Ranten , on the right the Karner

See also:  List of listed objects in Ranten

• Catholic parish church Ranten hl. Bartholomew

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces, there are 23 workplaces with 69 employees in the municipality as well as 367 out-commuters and 20 in-commuters. There are 97 agricultural and forestry holdings (50 of which are the main occupation), which together cultivate 4,592 hectares (as of 1999).

tourism

Together with Murau and St. Georgen am Kreischberg, the community forms the “Murau- Kreischberg ” tourist association . Its seat is the municipality of Murau.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 13 ÖVP and 2 SPÖ.

mayor

• 1997–2019 Johann Fritz (ÖVP)
• since 2019 Franz Kleinferchner (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The municipal
coat of arms was awarded with effect from July 1, 1980. Description of coat of arms: In blue to silver split shield, a fallen rafter of silver and red, which is covered with three blue lilies in the front and three silver roses in the back.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Martin Zeiller (1589-1661), author
• Eduard Macheiner (1907–1972), Archbishop of the Diocese of Salzburg 1969–1972

Personalities associated with the community

• Alois Riegler (1861–1940), CS politician

literature

• Walter Stipperger: Parish and home history of Ranten. Graz 1971
• Walter Brunner: Protestant “typological” picture sermon on the southern outer wall of the parish church in Ranten in the pol. Murau district. = Styria Archive, Vienna 2000, sheet 01026

Web links

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

• 61441 - Ranten. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Web presence of the municipality of Ranten

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 10, 2013 on the unification of the municipalities of Ranten and Rinegg, both political district of Murau. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 115, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 629.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 32 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
4. ↑ General State Law and Government Gazette for the Crown Land of Styria, Issue 21, October 7, 1850, No. 378.
5. ↑ Law of February 10, 1872 (1873) regarding Freiberg's own local community
6. ^ Ordinance of the Styrian state government of February 5, 1948.
7. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of December 21, 1964 on the unification of the communities Freiberg, Ranten and Seebach (political district Murau) .
8. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 310. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 627.
9. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Ranten. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Ranten. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 1, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Ranten: New Mayor of Ranten is Franz Kleinferchner. Kleine Zeitung , July 2, 2019.
12. ^ Announcements from the Styrian State Archives 31, 1981, p. 35.