Saifen floor

Saifen-Boden (former municipality) Obersaifen locality ; Winkl floor
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld  (HF) district, Styria
Judicial district	Fürstenfeld
Coordinates	47 ° 18 '37 "  N , 15 ° 48' 1"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '37 "  N , 15 ° 48' 1"  E
height	560  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	1100 (October 31, 2013)
Building status	280 (2001 )
surface	18.95 km²
Post Code	8225
prefix	+ 43/3335
Statistical identification
Community code	62275
Locality code	15178, 15179
Counting district / district	Obersaifen, Winkl-Boden (62275 002, 003)
Location of the former community in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Municipality 1850–2014, part of Pöllau since January 1, 2015; KG: 64207 Obersaifen, 64219 Winkl Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Saifen-Boden is a former municipality with 1100 inhabitants (as of February 14, 2017) in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria ( Austria ). As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , the municipality has been merged with the municipalities of Rabenwald , Pöllau , Schönegg bei Pöllau and Sonnhofen since 2015 , the new municipality continues to bear the name of Marktgemeinde Pöllau. The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG. Two appeal proceedings against the amalgamation of the municipalities, which the municipality had brought before the Constitutional Court , were unsuccessful.

geography

Geographical location

Saifen-Boden is located approx. 15 km west of the district capital Hartberg and approx. 35 km northeast of the provincial capital Graz . The community is part of the Pöllauer Tal nature park in Joglland . The municipality is traversed by the Pöllauer Safen , which rises in the municipality as Saifen. Together with its tributaries, it drains the community. The municipal area rises from east to west. It has its lowest point on the Pöllauer Safen near Pöllau , its highest point on the western edge of the municipality in the Rabenwald .

structure

Saifen-Boden is made up of the two cadastral communities :

• Obersaifen (907.06 ha) and
• Winkl (987.54 ha)

or from the two localities

• Obersaifen (819 inhabitants) with Dörfl, Feldhöf, Höbing, Oberhochegg, Saifen and Unterhochegg
• Winkl-Boden (220 inhabitants) with Sonnleiten

Area as of: 2015; Inhabitants as of January 1, 2020 }

history

Population development of the former municipality

year	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1923	1934	1939
Residents	1023	940	942	940	989	962	960	941
year	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2013
Residents	960	884	958	917	1018	1089	1026

Source: Statistics Austria

politics

Municipal council

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2010			2005			2000			1995			1990
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	197	25th	4th	193	25th	4th	388	58	10	455	67	10	474	72	7th
SPÖ	108	14th	2	187	25th	3	114	17th	2	142	21st	3	182	28	2
Citizen List	481	61	9	378	50	8th	129	19th	3	84	12	2
FPÖ							37	6th	0
voter turnout	92%			91%			87%			89%			96%

Since crossing the 1,000-inhabitant limit, Saifen-Boden has had 15 councilors.

coat of arms

Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In a red shield a gold-lined blue pile , pile as the front accompanied by a gold level , in the back of a golden ear of corn."

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from August 1, 1998.

Regional policy

Until the end of 2014, Saifen-Boden was a member of the Pöllauer Tal nature park community association, and with this in the LEADER region of Eastern Styrian heartland . On December 7, 2010, the Pöllauer Tal Nature Park was also constituted as a small region . On the occasion of the municipal structural reform 2010–2015 , Saifen-Boden was merged with other municipalities (Rabenwald, Schönegg bei Pöllau and Sonnhofen) in the small region with Pöllau.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Saifen-Boden is located away from the major roads on Gschaiderstraße L 448 from Pöllau to Birkfeld . There the Weizer Straße B 72 from Weiz to Krieglach is reached in about ten kilometers .

Saifen-Boden has no rail connection. The nearest train station is about ten kilometers away in Birkfeld, but has not been in regular operation since 1973. Only one museum train has operated on the Feistritztalbahn since 1994.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Pöllau

Parks

The NaturKRAFTPark is an amusement park for the soul . Through numerous perception exercises, he makes it possible to get closer to nature and also to oneself.

Sports

The natural swimming pond is part of a biotope that houses many plants and animals. Due to its special protection, it offers excellent water quality through natural cleaning.

Due to its rural location and hilly landscape, there are a large number of hiking trails in the municipality of Saifen-Boden.

Web links

Commons : Saifen-Boden  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on Saifen soil in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Pöllauer Tal nature park with information on the Saifen-Boden district

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State of Styria: Final population status on October 31, 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Excel file, 85 kB; accessed on May 2, 2015 
2. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
3. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 4, Item 7 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.
4. ↑ Decision of the Constitutional Court of October 8, 2014, G 123/2014.
5. ↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 23 February 2015 G 220/2014.
6. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
7. ^ Announcements from the Styrian Provincial Archives 49, 1999, p. 57
8. ↑ The new municipal structure of Styria ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . List of final version A01, 2012 (pdf, gemeindeststrukturreform.steiermark.at; 97 kB).
9. ^ Map in the presentation of the results of the municipal structural reform . kleinezeitung.at, January 21, 2013. Map status January 13, 2013
10. ^ Map graphics, part 2 , no. 82 in Die neue Steiermark . kleinezeitung.at, January 21, 2013. Maps as of January 22, 2013