Sankt Lorenzen im Paltental

Sankt Lorenzen im Paltental ( village ) ; locality ; cadastral community St. Lorenzen
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Liezen (LZ), Styria
Judicial district	Liezen
Pole. local community	Shoots
Coordinates	47 ° 29 '40 " N , 14 ° 27' 16" E Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '40 " N , 14 ° 27' 16" E
height	749 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	282 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	122 (2001)
Area d. KG	12.99 km²
Postcodes	8784 shoots
	Statistical identification
Locality code	15889
Cadastral parish number	67515
Counting district / district	St.Lorenzen- Schwarzenbach (61247 002)
	Village with Lorenzergraben; Source: STAT : Place directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

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St. Lorenzen im Paltental is a village and cadastral municipality of the municipality of Trieben in the Liezen district , Styria .

Parish Church of St. Lorenzen

The place was badly devastated by a mudslide in summer 2012 .

geography

The village is located in the Paltental , the connecting valley between the Ennstal and the Mur – Mürz area, 12 kilometers south of Selzthal and 3 km before Trieben. The place is on the left , shadier side of the valley, at 750 m above sea level. A. at the foot of the Hohenbühel ( 1275 m above sea level ). The village has almost 120 buildings with around 380 inhabitants. For village area includes the scattered houses Lorenzergraben and pastures Kühberger and Pettaleralm .

The area of the cadastral community stretches far into the Rottenmanner Tauern southwest, down the valley to the waterfall ditch under the Almspitz ( 2188 m above sea level ), but also the Hintertal of the side valley branching off at the neighboring village of Schwarzenbach, the Larchboden-Hölleralm boiler , between Almspitz , Hochhaide ( 2363 m above sea level ), Dreistecken ( 2382 m above sea level ), Seekarspitze ( 2115 m above sea level ) and Großer Rübe ( 2093 m above sea level ). There are two lonely cirque lakes here, the Grünes See and Gemeinsee .

Neighborhoods and cadastral communities

Edlach (Gem. Rottenmann )	Bärndorf (Gem. Rottenmann )	Dietmannsdorf

Rottenmann (Gem./KG) Hohentauern (Gem./KG) ⁽¹⁾		Schwarzenbach

⁽¹⁾ adjacent cadastral communities in the mountain area

History and infrastructure

Sankt Lorenzen houses the mother parish of the entire Paltental . The church in St. Lorenzen im Paltental was first mentioned in a document in 1125 and is therefore the oldest parish and the mother parish of all other churches in the Paltental. The first separated parish was Lassing , the youngest the city parish Trieben , which was established in 1955 as a diocesan parish . The parish still includes the St. Johannes branch church in Dietmannsdorf and the chapels in Schwarzenbach , Singsdorf and Bärndorf .

Sankt Lorenzen was incorporated into Trieben in 1952 and continued as a cadastral community.

There is also a kindergarten in St. Lorenzen.

Mur disasters 2012

In the morning of July 21, 2012, a ten meter high mudslide drove through the town. Up to 70 houses, almost the entire town center, were buried and in some cases completely destroyed. The place was cut off from the environment, 42 people had to be evacuated with helicopters, in the course of the security work a total of 200. The Paltental had already been hit several times in this thunderstorm summer 2012 , for example in the train accident on June 18, the Mur disaster alarm on the Phyrnautobahn in Trieben / Gaishorn June 21st, with numerous other heavy rain in the following weeks. In St. Lorenzen, up to 400 armed forces and 22 fire brigades with 150 men were on duty in a two-week clean-up work .

Already on June 18, 7 o'clock in the evening, a violent thunderstorm had triggered a mudslide that hit the tracks of the Selzthal – St. Michael ( Rudolfsbahn ) spilled. An express train (route 611 Salzburg – Graz), with 140 km / h at full speed, could no longer stop despite emergency braking and hit the mud and rubble. The control car and two cars of the eight-car-long set jumped out of the rails but did not tip over. Of the 210 people on the train, 11 were injured. Damage in the range of € 5 million occurred to the railway line and train set .

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church St. Lorenzen im Paltental hl. Laurentius
Calvary: East of the parish church rises a late baroque calvary with stations of the cross. Like the village chapels, it was built by the Legensteiner family at the beginning of the 19th century. This also donated the Way of the Cross to the parish of Lassing .

Personalities

Jakob Legensteiner (1801–1858), b. in Lassing , member of the peasant class in the Styrian state parliament after the revolution of 1848
Julian Roman Pölsler (* 1954 am Kreuzberg im Paltental / municipality of Sankt Lorenzen im Paltental), Austrian author and director

Web links

Commons : St. Lorenzen (municipality of Trieben) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

61247 - shoots. Community data, Statistics Austria .

↑ July 22, 2012, situation report of the Styrian regional warning center ; July 23, 2012, management report of the Styrian regional warning center ; July 25, 2012, management report of the state warning center , all state warning centers Graz , katastrophenschutz.steiermark.at;
A. Podesser, H. Rieder, C. Pehsl; Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG): Thunderstorm series from mid-June 2012 in Styria . Report, July 14, 2012, update from August 8, 2012, section Thursday, July 19, 2012 - Heavy thunderstorms with hail, heavy rain and squalls in large parts of Styria p. 12 f ( pdf , zamg.at, with maps of the individual events );
ZAMG Styria at the crisis team in Trieben , August 1, 2012;
Storms raged particularly in the Liezen district ; Another devastation after a storm ; both steiermark.orf.at, July 21, 2012; Slight relaxation after severe weather , steiermark.orf.at, July 22, 2012
Thunderstorm warning for St. Lorenzen , wetter.at, July 26, 2012;
Further reports linked in July 20-22, 2012 - Storm damage in Styria , forum post, Günter, stormhunters-austria.com, July 21, 2012
↑ ZAMG: Thunderstorm series , Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - heavy rain in the Fohnsdorf-Pöls area p. 2;
Express train derailed - eleven injured , steiermark.orf.at, June 18, 2012; Storm: damage runs into the millions , steiermark.orf.at, June 26, 2012

[stmkJuli22-1] July 22, 2012, situation report of the Styrian regional warning center ; July 23, 2012, management report of the Styrian regional warning center ; July 25, 2012, management report of the state warning center , all state warning centers Graz , katastrophenschutz.steiermark.at;
A. Podesser, H. Rieder, C. Pehsl; Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG): Thunderstorm series from mid-June 2012 in Styria . Report, July 14, 2012, update from August 8, 2012, section Thursday, July 19, 2012 - Heavy thunderstorms with hail, heavy rain and squalls in large parts of Styria p. 12 f ( pdf , zamg.at, with maps of the individual events );
ZAMG Styria at the crisis team in Trieben , August 1, 2012;
Storms raged particularly in the Liezen district ; Another devastation after a storm ; both steiermark.orf.at, July 21, 2012; Slight relaxation after severe weather , steiermark.orf.at, July 22, 2012
Thunderstorm warning for St. Lorenzen , wetter.at, July 26, 2012;
Further reports linked in July 20-22, 2012 - Storm damage in Styria , forum post, Günter, stormhunters-austria.com, July 21, 2012

[stmkJuni19-2] ZAMG: Thunderstorm series , Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - heavy rain in the Fohnsdorf-Pöls area p. 2;
Express train derailed - eleven injured , steiermark.orf.at, June 18, 2012; Storm: damage runs into the millions , steiermark.orf.at, June 26, 2012