Rosegg

market community

Rosegg

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Carinthia

Political District :

Villach-Land

License plate :

VL

Surface:

19.15 km²

Coordinates :

46 ° 35 ' N , 14 ° 1' E Coordinates: 46 ° 35 '19 " N , 14 ° 1' 7" E

Height :

477 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,822 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

95 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

9232

Area code :

04253 and 04274

Community code :

2 07 21

NUTS region

AT211

Address of the
municipal administration:

Schlossallee 2
9232 Rosegg

Website:

www.roseggonline.at

politics

Mayor :

Franz Richau (BGM)

Municipal Council : ( 2015 )
(15 members)

8th

4th

2

1

8th 4th 2 1

A total of 15 seats

Citizens' community : 8
SPÖ : 4
FPÖ : 2
EL : 1

Location of Rosegg in the Villach-Land district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Rosegg from the north

View from St. Lambrecht to the Karawanken

Parish church of St. Michael in Rosegg

Show grave prehistory center Frög-Rosegg

Rosegg Castle, main building, south view

Market town office Rosegg

Pillar shrine west of Frojach

Rosegg ( Slovene : Rožek ) is an Austrian market town with 1822 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Villach-Land district in Carinthia , located at the western end of the Rosental .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is of the Drava River flows through that by the hydroelectric power plant Rosegg-St. Jakob is used energetically. The main town of the municipality, Rosegg, lies in a bend in the river and has only been accessible via bridges since the 3.7 km long upper water canal belonging to the power plant complex was built (1973). The altitude of the municipality is between 477 and 600 m above sea level. A.

Community structure

Rosegg is divided into the three cadastral communities Berg ( Gora ), Emmersdorf ( Tmara vas ) and Rosegg ( Rožek ). The municipality includes the following 18 localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

Mountain ( Gora ) (45)
Bergl ( Gora ) (148)
Buchheim ( Podhum ) (89)
Dolintschach ( Dolinčiče ) (23)
Drau ( Na Dravi ) (88)
Duel ( Dole ) (70)
Emmersdorf ( Tmara vas ) (113)
Frög ( Breg ) (111)
Frojach ( Broje ) (8)
Kleinberg ( Mala gora ) (33)
Obergoritschach ( Zgornje Goriče ) (47)
Pirk ( Brezje ) (88)
Raun ( Ravne ) (58)
Rosegg ( Rožek ) (470)
St. Johann ( Ščedem ) (17)
St. Lambrecht ( Semislavče ) (185)
St. Martin ( Šmartin ) (155)
Untergoritschach ( Spodnje Goriče ) (74)

Neighboring communities

Wernberg		Velden
Villach
Finkenstein		St. Jakob im Rosental

history

The area around today's Rosegg was, as the Hallstatt- era grave fields in Frög suggest, settled around 3,000 years ago. The settlement itself was probably located around 300 meters northeast on the castle hill and was probably laid out in terraces. The colonizable area was about two hectares . The cemetery of Frög , which was discovered by chance in 1882, dates from 750 to 400 BC. And is the second largest in Austria after Hallstatt . Archaeologically significant are the lead figures used as grave goods and in particular the model of a cult or death wagon ( lead wagon from Frög ) with twelve small animal models with a shoulder height of 3 cm, which are now in the Carinthian State Museum .

Rosegg ( Rasek ) was first mentioned in a document in 1106 when Patriarch Ulrich I of Aquileia donated the Ras parish to the canon chapter of Eberndorf Monastery. The field name Ras appeared for the first time as early as 875 , when Bishop Arnold von Freising exchanged a farm building for one in Werida ( Maria Wörth ). In the late 12th century, Rudolf von Ras built Rosegg Castle on a hill (today part of the Rosegger Zoo) and called himself Rudolf de Rasek . After the main line of the Raser had died out in 1315, rule over Rosegg fell over the centuries to several noble families, including Hans Rudolf von Raitenau, the youngest brother of Salzburg's Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau . In 1478 the entire Rosental (including Rosegg) was badly affected by the Turkish Wars.

In 1686, Count Georg Nikolaus von Rosenberg acquired the Rosegg rule, which remained in the possession of the Orsini-Rosenberg family until 1829 . Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg built Rosegg Castle near the Drau from 1772 , which replaced the castle as the seat of power. In 1809 the present municipality was annexed to France as part of the Illyrian Provinces . In the further course of the French Wars, large parts of Rosegg (including the parish church) were severely damaged in 1813. In 1831 Prince Johann I von Liechtenstein acquired the estates that have remained in the possession of the Liechtenstein royal family to this day .

After the abolition of lordship and serfdom, the community of Rosegg was founded in 1849, the territory of which included the entire old judicial district of Rosegg, and therefore extended from Maria Elend to Lake Faak . In 1857 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale shook the village and destroyed a large part of the buildings. Over the years, Sankt Jakob im Rosental (1888) and Ledenitzen (1911) were separated from Rosegg and established as independent communities. During the Carinthian defensive struggle , the community became the scene of fierce fighting, especially the strategically important Draubrücke near St. Michel, built in 1776, was fiercely contested. In 1930 Rosegg was raised to a market town and in 1933 it gave itself a coat of arms showing the rose of the Orsini-Rosenberg family in a triangle.

population

According to the 2001 census, the market town of Rosegg has 1802 inhabitants, 96.2% of whom are Austrian, 1.3% Croatian and 1.0% German citizens. 6.1% of the population belong to the Slovene-speaking ethnic group .

83.4% of the community population profess to the Roman Catholic Church and 6.5% to the Protestant Church . 8.3% are without religious beliefs.

Population development

Culture and sights

Monument to the academic painter Peter Markovič

The Rosegg Castle is from 1772 by Count Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg built villa that is strongly oriented towards north Italian models. The castle has been owned by the Liechtenstein family since 1833 . There is a maze of hornbeam hedges in the park .
Only a few remains of the wall remain from the former Rosegg Castle , built in the 12th century .
The Rosegg zoo was laid out around the castle hill by Peter Ritter von Bohr from 1830 .
The cemetery of Frög is a barrow from the Hallstatt period, discovered in 1882 and now largely excavated .
The pillar shrine west of Frojach dates from the 18th century (1757). It was restored in 1930 and 1982 (designated "J. Stefan").

Regular exhibitions of Austrian and Slovenian contemporary artists take place in the Šikoronja Gallery.

Slovenian cultural association / Slovensko kulturno društvo " Peter Markovič ", chaired by Prof. DI Franc Kattnig as president.

The tradition group founded in 1976 regularly organizes various events (Easter shooting, solstice celebrations, Krampus etc.) in the community.

politics

Municipal council

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

8 community of citizens
4 SPÖ
2 FPÖ
1 Rosegger List - Rozeska Lista

The directly elected mayor is Franz Richau (BGM).

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold a red triangle, covered with a goldbesamten, green leafy silver rose." The color chord gold, red and silver is the heraldic implementation of the Carinthian colors yellow, red and white, as in all four during the First Republic conferred Coat of arms is the case. The rose in the triangle is "talking" ("Ros-Eck") and at the same time an allusion to the coat of arms of the Orsini-Rosenberg family , who owned the castle and rulership from 1686 to 1833 and had Lucretia Castle built.

The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the community on February 1, 1933. The flag is yellow-red with an incorporated coat of arms.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Karl Mitsche († 2020), Mayor of Rosegg 1991–2008

Sons and daughters of the church

Peter Markovič (1866–1929), painter

Personalities associated with the community

Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg (1723–1796), diplomat
Franz Seraph von Orsini-Rosenberg (1761–1832), General
Franz Richau (* 1960), politician ( ÖVP ) and police officer

literature

Janko Zerzer, Franz Kattnig: Rosegg and its churches = Rožek in njegove cerkve . Klagenfurt / Celovec 2012.

Web links

Commons : Rosegg - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Market town of Rosegg
20721 - Rosegg. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Gams 1106

[3] ttp://www.galerie-sikoronja.at/