Rennweg on Katschberg

market community Rennweg on Katschberg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Carinthia
Political District :	Spittal an der Drau
License plate :	SP
Surface:	120.48 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 1 '  N , 13 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '0 "  N , 13 ° 37' 0"  E
Height :	1143  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,740 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	9863 (9862 for part of Pleschberg)
Area code :	04734
Community code :	2 06 32
Address of the municipal administration:	Rennweg 51 9863 Rennweg
Website:	www.rennweg-katschberg.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Eder ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members)	6th 6th 3 6th 6th 3  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 6 ÖVP : 6 FPÖ : 3
Location of Rennweg am Katschberg in the Spittal an der Drau district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Rennweg, the village

between Brugg and Kremsbrücke, panorama

Rennweg am Katschberg is a market town with 1740 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the north of Carinthia in Austria .

geography

The market town is located in the upper part of the Liesertal at the south portal of the Katschberg tunnel and extends from the valley floor to the Hafnereck on the main ridge of the Hohe Tauern . Katschtal is common as the landscape designation for the entire municipality .

Community structure

The market community is divided into the three cadastral communities Rennweg, St. Peter and Oberdorf. The inhabitants of the municipality are distributed over the following 25 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Abwerg (28)
• Adenberg (16)
• Angern (10)
• Aschbach (60)
• Atzensberg (60)
• Brugg (40)
• Frankenberg (88)
• Semolina (171)
• Katschberghöhe (29)
• Krangl (160)
• Laußnitz (13)
• Muhlbach (45)
• Oberdorf (129)
• Pleschberg (22)
• Pölla (1)
• Pron (36)
• Rennweg (337)
• Reed (15)
• St. Georgen (101)
• St. Peter (239)
• Saraberg (30)
• Sleeping (44)
• Stone wall (4)
• Wirnsberg (40)
• Zanaischg (22)

Neighboring communities

Rennweg borders four Salzburg municipalities in the north and east and three Carinthian municipalities in the south:

Muhr	St. Michael im Lungau	St. Margarethen in Lungau
		Thomatal
Malta	Gmünd in Carinthia	Krems in Carinthia

history

From the 12th century (first mentioned in a document in 1197), Rauchenkatsch Castle, ancestral seat of the Lords of Katsch , was located on the southern edge of today's municipality, between the villages of Ried and St. Nikolai . From the late Middle Ages the church of St. Peter was their burial place. Today's municipal area was owned by Salzburg for a long time; some of the Lords of Katsch are also attested as Salzburg judges and keepers of Rauchenkatsch.

On May 4, 1201 a strong earthquake shook the Liesertal. According to the latest findings, the epicenter is located between St. Peter, Rennweg and Gmünd. The destruction of the archbishopric of Salzburg's Katsch Castle has been handed down. Damage has been handed down to the Drau valley. Weissenstein Castle was also destroyed in this quake .

When the local community was formed in 1850, the community area was larger than it is today, because as early as 1868 the cadastral communities of Reitern and St. Nikolai, which originally belonged to the community of Rennweg, were separated and connected to the city of Gmünd . Since then, the size of the community has not changed.

In 1995 the Inner Pöllatal was declared a Natura 2000 protected area by the state of Carinthia .

On July 1, 2007, according to the resolution of the Carinthian Parliament of May 10, 2007, the survey of the market community took place.

population

At the time of the 2001 census, Rennweg had 2,025 inhabitants, 98.3% of whom were Austrian citizens . 95.7% of the population confessed to the Roman Catholic and 2.4% to the Protestant Church, 1.2% were without religious belief.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Rennweg am Katschberg

• The parish church of St. Peter in Katschtal in the village of St. Peter was first mentioned between 1184 and 1197. After a fire in 1642, most of the current building was erected; parts of a previous building were found in the southern part of the nave. The altar is one of the richest and most magnificent baroque altars in Carinthia.
• The church of St. Georgen in the village of St. Georgen was first mentioned as a subsidiary church of St. Peter in 1351. In 1778 the church was demolished and rebuilt because it was about to collapse and badly scrambled . The tower was destroyed in a major fire in the village in 1861 and rebuilt in 1892. The altarpiece shows St. Georg as a dragon slayer and was created by the Katschtal artist Josef Meßner .
• Pocher house in Oberdorf

Site design

In 2011, Rennweg was named the “Most Beautiful Flower Village in Europe” by the Entente Florale Europe .

Economy and Infrastructure

The localities of the municipality were and are strongly characterized by agriculture. In the last few decades tourism has also played an increasingly important role, both in summer and in winter.

The A 10 Tauern motorway runs through the municipality and connects the federal states of Carinthia and Salzburg through the Katschberg tunnel , the south portal of which is in the municipality . Over the Katschberg , the Katschberg Straße B 99 leads north over the Lungau in the direction of Bischofshofen , in the south it runs via Gmünd to Spittal an der Drau largely parallel to the Tauern motorway.

politics

City council and mayor

The Rennweg municipal council has 15 members and has been composed as follows since the 2015 municipal council election :

• 6 SPÖ
• 6 ÖVP
• 3 FPÖ

Franz Eder (SPÖ) has been the mayor of the community since 2000.

coat of arms

The motif of the Rennweger coat of arms has its origin in the seal of the Lords of Katsch and symbolizes a loyalty bond in the form of a handshake. The oldest surviving, albeit damaged, evidence of this seal can be found on the deed of foundation for the Marien Altar in the Church of Malta , which Albrecht von Katsch issued on February 1, 1349.

On September 30, 1960, the municipality received the right to carry a coat of arms and a flag with the following description:

“As a coat of arms: Silver triangular shield with two angled, green clad arms that shake hands. As a flag, the colors green and white with an incorporated coat of arms. "

Web links

Commons : Rennweg am Katschberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Market town of Rennweg am Katschberg
• 20632 - Rennweg am Katschberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Cf. Axel Huber : Earthquake damage to the Millstätter Stiftskirche - Conclusions for its building history. In: History Association for Carinthia: Carinthia I. Journal for historical regional studies of Carinthia. Volume 192/2002, pp. 343-361.
3. ^ ZAMG Rauchenkatsch Castle
4. ↑ natura2000.eea.europa.eu
5. ^ Chronicle of the market town
6. ^ Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 3, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Diocesan Archives Diocese Gurk
8. ↑ DEHIO Carinthia . Vienna 2001, p. 812f.
9. ↑ Prof. FG Ahn, Carinthia vol. 83; P. 192
10. ↑ Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms , Klagenfurt 2006, p. 232