Ratsch on the Wine Route

Ratsch an der Weinstrasse ( village ) locality cadastral community Ratsch
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Leibnitz  (LB), Styria
Judicial district	Leibnitz
Pole. local community	Ehrenhausen on the Weinstrasse
District	Ratchet
Coordinates	46 ° 41 '20 "  N , 15 ° 34' 13"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 41 '20 "  N , 15 ° 34' 13"  E
height	352  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	331 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	190 (2011 )
Area  d. KG	5.49 km²
Post Code	8461 Ehrenhausen
Statistical identification
Locality code	15541
Cadastral parish number	66160
District	Ratchet
Counting district / district	Ratsch an der Weinstrasse (61049 003)
The village of Ratsch and the surrounding area
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Ratsch an der Weinstrasse ( Slovene Račane ) is a place in the Windischen Büheln in Styria as well as a district (Ratsch) , locality and cadastral community (Ratsch) of the community Ehrenhausen an der Weinstrasse in the Leibnitz district of southwest Styria .

The former community was attached to Ehrenhausen in 2015 .

geography

Ratsch an der Weinstrasse is located on the border with Slovenia , about 11 kilometers south of Leibnitz , around 5½ km west of the Spielfeld / Šentilj border crossing , 4 km southwest of the municipal capital Ehrenhausen .

The village of Ratsch an der Weinstrasse is 350  m above sea level. A. Height in the valley of the Ratscher Bach , which flows into the Gamlitzbach at Gamlitz , already at the foot of the border mountain Witscheinberg / Svečinski vrh  ( 515  m / 517  m ). It has about 60 addresses.

The village of Ratsch an der Weinstrasse or the cadastral municipality of Ratsch comprises almost 150 buildings with around 330 inhabitants with 548.53  hectares . The local area also includes the scattered houses Stermetzberg , the Rotte Schusterberg and the scattered houses Ratschergraben left in the valley out of the valley (northward), the scattered houses Nussberg right in the valley (east), the scattered houses Köbelberg south, and the scattered houses Kroisenbach in the neighboring valleys of the same name west. The Grenzland Wine Road  ( L613 ) forms the southern border.

The district of Ratsch of the municipality also includes the locality and cadastral community of Ottenberg (331 inhabitants, as of January 1, 2020), making this area, which represents the former municipality, 826.92 hectares, around 190 buildings and 448 inhabitants (as of 31. October 2013) has.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns, villages, cadastral communities and districts:

Schusterberg	Gamlitz  (O, KG and OT,  Gem.Gamlitz )	Nussberg
Eckberg  (O & KG,  Gem.Gamlitz ) Stermetzberg		Ottenberg (O and KG)    Berghausen (OT)
Sulz  (O and KG, Gem.  Gamlitz )	Köbelberg Slatina    Svečina (both O and KG,  Gem.Kungota , Podravska reg. , SI )

Ratsch ( district ) Former municipality of Ratsch [on the Wine Route]
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Leibnitz , Styria
Pole. local community	Ehrenhausen on the Weinstrasse
Coordinates	46 ° 41 ′ 54 "  N , 15 ° 34 ′ 16"  E
height	350  m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H.	448 (October 31, 2013)
Building status	174 (2001 )
surface	8.27 km²
Location in the Leibnitz district
OT includes O / KG / ZSpr Ratsch [ adWeinstr. ] and Ottenberg ; independent municipality 1850–2014 (Gkz. 61028; name Ratsch adWeinstr. from 1961; municipality capital Ratsch ) Source: STAT : place directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk ; local community

history

Ratsch was first mentioned in the 11th century under the name Rats .

In the 17th century the place was owned by the Protestant Nikolaus Kempintsy, son of Caspar Kempintsy and Ellse Beuerl, who emigrated to Alsace in 1629 and sold Ratsch to Wolf Freiherr von Eggenberg .

Former parish

The area of ​​Ratsch (bottom right) around the year 1879 (record sheet of the 3rd regional survey )

The local community as an autonomous body of the Crown Land of Styria (Duchy of Steyer) was established in 1850 after the revolution of 1848/49 . In the then bilingual area, a first German school was opened on November 6, 1882 on the initiative of the Döfler.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark , from 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria . The first mayor of the post-war period was Johann Deutscher. In 1946 the parish hall was set on fire by partisans.

In 1961 the name was added to the Weinstrasse (LGBl. 41/1961). In 1962, the municipality of Ottenberg , which had also been independent since 1850, was incorporated as a cadastral municipality (LGBl. 106/1961).

Since 2015, Ratsch has been merged with the municipalities of Berghausen , Ehrenhausen and Retznei as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform , the new municipality bears the name Ehrenhausen an der Weinstrasse . In the event of a vote, 80% of the community citizens spoke out in favor of Ehrenhausen and against Gamlitz, so that the amalgamation of the municipalities went smoothly. The former municipality area will be continued as a district (local area) of the new municipality, the addition to the name continues to apply to the village.

The last mayor since 1999 was the winemaker Johannes Zweytick  (ÖVP, member of the National Council 1994-2008; since 2015 Vice Mayor of Ehrenhausen). After the 2010 elections, the municipal council was composed as follows: 7 ÖVP , 2 SPÖ .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the former municipality shows a Klapotetz , a grape and the South Styrian Wine Route .

Economy, infrastructure and culture

Viticulture is practiced in Ratsch .

The Grenzland-Weinstrasse  ( L613 ) Ehrenhausen - Leutschach , which is part of the tourist route of the Southern Styrian Wine Route , runs along the southern border .

The Urbani Chapel was completed in 1972 and dedicated to the wine saint Urban .

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  Urbani Chapel

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  Wayside shrine

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  Ratscher plane tree (natural monument)

Web links

Commons : Ratsch an der Weinstrasse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ratchet. Tourism - Leisure - Culture → Special in the districts. In: ehrenhausen-gv.at. Archived from the original on November 2, 2016 . 
• 61049 - Ehrenhausen on the Weinstrasse. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Register census from October 31, 2011 (pdf).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Specials in the districts ( memento of December 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) ehrenhausen-gv.at, Tourism - Leisure - Culture (accessed July 27, 2016).
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Ratsch ( Memento from November 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Chronicle of the community of Ratsch an der Weinstrasse. ehrenhausen-gv.at (accessed July 28, 2016).
5. ^ Ordinance of the Styrian state government of April 19, 1961 on the change of the name of the municipality of Ratsch (political district Leibnitz). LGBl. 41/1961, p. 40 (EReader, ALEX Online ).
6. ↑ Ordinance of the Styrian state government of September 25, 1961 on the union of the communities of Ottenberg and Ratsch an der Weinstrasse (political district Leibnitz). LGBl. 106/1961, p. 92 (EReader, ALEX Online).
7. ↑ Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 12, 2013 on the unification of the market community Ehrenhausen and the communities Berghausen, Ratsch an der Weinstrasse and Retznei, all political district Leibnitz. Styrian State Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 102, 28th issue. P. 556 (pdf, ris.bka ).
8. ↑ A clear yes to Ehrenhausen - the population of Ratsch voted with a large majority for a merger with Ehrenhausen, Berghausen and Retznei. Rejection for Gamlitz. Robert Lenhard in: Kleine Zeitung online, July 29, 2013
9. ↑ Notice of public buyers search ehrenhausen-gv.at, community houses (accessed 27 July 2016).
10. ↑ Urbani Chapel. In: ehrenhausen.at. Retrieved October 4, 2017 .