Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth

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Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth
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Coat of arms of Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth
Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth (Austria)
Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Styria
Political District : Graz area
License plate : GU
Surface: 11.81 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 5 '  N , 15 ° 17'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 4 '47 "  N , 15 ° 16' 47"  E
Height : 557  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,268 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 107 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 8113
Area code : 03123
Community code : 6 06 41
Address of the
municipal administration:
Sankt Oswald 70
8113 Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth
Website: www.sanktoswald.net
politics
Mayor : Andreas Staude ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2020)
(15 members)
10
5
10 
A total of 15 seats
Location of Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth in the Graz-Umgebung district
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View from the east of the main town of Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth
View from the east of the main town of Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth is a municipality with 1268 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) west of Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district in Styria .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth is located approx. 10 km west of the provincial capital Graz in western Styria . The highest point is the Generalkogel ( 713  m ) in the east of the municipality.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following two localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Plankenwarth (543) including Bruch, Leeb, Offenbach and Scherleiten
  • Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth (725) including Hochegg, Krainbach, Langegg and Liedelgraben

The community consists of the cadastral communities Plankenwarth and St. Oswald bei Plankenwarth.

Neighboring communities

Gratwein street angel
Saint Bartholomew Neighboring communities Thal
Heat village

history

Plankenwarth belonged to the rule of the Plankenwarth family and the Lend monastery near Graz for a long time. Nothing is known about its origin.

In the community and its surroundings there are a number of small, economically not mineable ore and coal deposits that belong to those of the Graz Paleozoic. They have been thoroughly examined.

Population development

According to the 2001 census, the community had 1,135 inhabitants. 97.6% of the population have Austrian citizenship. The inhabitants are divided into 566 men and 569 women.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth

Buildings

The Plankenwarth Castle , a former castle, is worth seeing . It was first mentioned in a document in 1179. The castle served to protect a traffic route between the Liebochtal and the Murtal . In the east there is a medieval keep with 3-meter-thick walls, in the north and east there are round towers . The columned arcade courtyard dates from the late Renaissance . In 1656 the fortified castle was converted into a residential palace.

The castle is now privately owned by a family of lawyers from Graz who bought it in 1981 in a desolate condition and renovated and revitalized it in the following years. There is a small church in the main wing of the castle, which is why weddings or baptisms are also celebrated at Plankenwarth Castle.

Until 1860, in addition to Plankenwarth Castle, there was also the older Altenhofen Castle in Sankt Oswald , which was demolished due to its dilapidation.

regional customs

The St. Oswald costume is a local festival costume

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Sankt Oswald is off the main roads. The south autobahn (A2) is around 17 km away and can be reached via the Mooskirchen junction (200). The Pyhrn Autobahn (A9) is around 13 km away and can be reached via the Gratkorn junction (173). The Packer Straße (B 70) from Graz to Klagenfurt is about 13 km away, the Grazer Straße (B 67) 10 km.

There is no train station in the municipality. The closest train station is Judendorf-Straßengel on the Südbahn , about 8 km away. It offers hourly regional train connections to Graz and Bruck an der Mur .

The Graz Airport is 30 km away.

politics

Community center

mayor

Mayor of the community is Andreas Staude (SPÖ).

The community board also includes Vice Mayor Leopold Klimacsek (SPÖ) and community treasurer Martin Rinner (ÖVP).

Municipal council

In the local elections in March 2015, the lost SPÖ in council 5.14 percent to the ÖVP . It also lost one mandate to the ÖVP and only holds eight mandates. The ÖVP occupies the remaining seven municipal council seats. Other parties are not represented in the municipal council.

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party 2015 2010 2005 2000
Sti. % M. Sti. % M. Sti. % M. Sti. % M.
SPÖ 469 54 8th 502 60 9 483 57 9 464 66 10
ÖVP 393 46 7th 341 40 6th 322 39 6th 149 21st 03
FPÖ not running not running 018th 02 0 089 13 02
voter turnout 83% 89% 85% 84%

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth was awarded by the Styrian state government with effect from December 1, 1963. It was created by OSR Erich Hofer and shows a fur-trimmed shield and the raven of Saint Oswald on a mountain of three. The middle mountain indicates the elevation on which the local parish church stands. On the other two smaller mountains there is Plankenwarth Castle and formerly Althofen Castle.

literature

  • Mathilde Uhlirz : Plankenwarth Castle and its owners . Deutsche Vereindruckerei und Verlagsanstalt Graz 1916. Available in electronic form from the Innsbruck University Library. Signature: UBI-FBG 91400.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Leopold Weber: The lead-zinc ore deposits of the Graz Palaeozoic and their geological framework. Archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute, Volume 12, Vienna 1990. ISBN 978-3-900312-72-5 . (29 MB; PDF file)
  3. ^ Parish of St. Oswald near Plankenwarth: [1] (accessed December 7, 2019)