Saint Lambrecht
market community Saint Lambrecht
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Basic data | ||
Country: | Austria | |
State : | Styria | |
Political District : | Murau | |
License plate : | MU | |
Surface: | 70.19 km² | |
Coordinates : | 47 ° 4 ' N , 14 ° 18' E | |
Height : | 1028 m above sea level A. | |
Residents : | 1,787 (January 1, 2020) | |
Postal code : | 8813 | |
Area code : | 03585 | |
Community code : | 6 14 43 | |
NUTS region | AT226 | |
UN / LOCODE | AT SBL | |
Address of the municipal administration: |
Hauptstrasse 12 8813 Sankt Lambrecht |
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politics | ||
Mayor : | Fritz Sperl ( ÖVP ) | |
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members) |
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Location of Sankt Lambrecht in the Murau district | ||
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria |
Sankt Lambrecht is a market town with 1787 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district or district of Murau in Styria and the highest market town in the state (1028 meters above sea level) in the Thajagraben on the Styrian-Carinthian border mountains.
On January 1, 2015, as part of the structural reform of the municipality in Styria, the municipality of Sankt Blasen was incorporated.
Community structure
The municipal area comprises two localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020) or cadastral communities with the same name (with different spelling):
- Sankt blasen , KG St. blasen (500 inhabitants, 2,654.37 ha)
- Sankt Lambrecht, KG St. Lambrecht (1287 inhabitants, 4,363.89 ha)
Neighboring communities
Four communities border St. Lambrecht, three of which are in the Murau district:
Teufenbach-Katsch | ||
Murau | Neumarkt in Styria | |
Friesach District Sankt Veit an der Glan (Carinthia) |
Population development
Culture and sights
- St. Lambrecht Abbey : The Benedictine Abbey is one of the most important in Austria and is located in the Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen Nature Park . The earliest work of the Benedictines is documented for the year 1076.
- Collegiate Church of St. Lambrecht : The Romanesque church building collapsed in 1327, the nave walls up to the eighth pair of pillars and the lower parts of the west towers have been preserved. The Gothic church was built until 1421, but burned down in 1471 and was renovated. From 1639 the collegiate church was baroque and the rood screen was removed.
- From 1945 to 1951, the Sankt Lambrecht trolleybus connected the dynamite factory with the Mariahof -Sankt Lambrecht station on the Rudolfsbahn . The facility was mainly used for freight traffic.
- Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen Nature Park
- St. Lambrecht Gorge: The Ice Age gorge is accessible via the Ice Age hiking trail.
Economy and Infrastructure
Economic pillars are an explosives factory and tourism. Together with Mühlen and Neumarkt in Styria, the municipality forms the Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen Nature Park Tourist Association . Its seat is in Neumarkt in Styria.
education
In the market town there is a parish kindergarten, a primary school and a new middle school .
health
The Caritas Styria operates in St. Lambrecht a nursing house with attached public housing.
politics
The municipal council has 15 members.
- With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.
- With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 8 ÖVP and 7 SPÖ.
mayor
- 1990–2015 Johann Pirer (ÖVP)
- since 2015 Fritz Sperl (ÖVP)
coat of arms
Both previous municipalities had a municipality coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The blazon of the coat of arms of St. Lambrecht read:
- "In a squared shield hanging from a black vine in silver at the top right, a blue, green-leafed bunch of grapes, at the top left in green the silver crook of a bishop's staff growing obliquely from the dividing line, at the bottom right in red growing out of the gap a silver twelve-spoke wagon wheel, at the bottom left in." Silver a black ox yoke. "
The new award of the municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality took place with effect from September 30, 2016
The new blazon reads:
- "In the shield, divided from blue to green by two golden crossed candles that reach into the corners of the shield and to the edges of the shield, a silver miner sitting cross-legged on rock and holding hammer and mallet in his hands in historical costume, above in the middle a golden miter . "
The new coat of arms combines the coats of arms of the two previous municipalities.
Personalities
Honorary citizen of the community
- 1959: Othmar Wonisch (1884–1961), Benedictine and historian
- 2016: Johann Pirer, Former Mayor of St. Lambrecht
Sons and daughters of the church
- Andreas Stengg (1660–1741), master builder
- Wolfgang Edlinger (1889–1943), member of the Constituent National Assembly from 1919 to 1920, member of the National Council from 1920 to 1923
- Hans Spreitzer (1897–1973), geographer
- Josef Moser (1919–2003), SPÖ politician , member of the National Council (1959–1979), Federal Minister for Buildings and Technology (1970–1979)
- Antonio Mrsic , Austrian national futsal player
- Christian Ilic , Austrian football player, Motherwell FC (Premiership, 1st Scottish League)
Personalities related to the community
- Monk Magnus (around 790), founder of Mariazell
literature
- Peter Becker: Living and Loving in a Cold Country. Sexuality in the field of tension between economy and demography. The example of St. Lambrecht 1600–1850. = Studies in historical social science 15, Frankfurt am Main 1990. ISBN 3-593-34208-1
- Walter Brunner : St. Lambrecht: History of a market town , 2011.
Web links
- 61443 - Saint Lambrecht. Community data, Statistics Austria .
- Web presence of the municipality of Sankt Lambrecht
Individual evidence
- ↑ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 24, 2013 about the unification of the market town of Sankt Lambrecht and the town of Sankt blasen, both political district of Murau. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 131, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 635.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 312. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 627.
- ↑ Marktgemeinde St. Lambrecht, Education & Knowledge, Educational Institutions. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
- ^ Caritas Styria, offers, nursing homes. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
- ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council election in Sankt Lambrecht. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on June 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Results of the local council election 2020 in Sankt Lambrecht. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on June 29, 2020 .
- ↑ 116. Announcement of the Styrian state government of September 15, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Sankt Lambrecht (political district Murau)
- ↑ Südost-Tagespost (3 July 1959), p. 4.
- ↑ https://geschichte.univie.ac.at/de/haben/hans-spreitzer-prof-dr (accessed on November 7, 2018)