Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald

Coat of arms of the former municipality of St. Oswald ob Eibiswald

Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald is a place in western Styria . Until the end of 2014 it was a municipality with 562 inhabitants (as of 2014) in the Deutschlandsberg district in Styria . As part of the Styrian municipal structural reform , St. Oswald ob Eibiswald was merged with the municipalities of Aibl , Eibiswald , Großradl , Pitschgau and Soboth to form the municipality of Eibiswald in 2015 . The basis for this is the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG. A complaint brought by the municipality against the amalgamation to the Constitutional Court was unsuccessful.

geography

location

Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald is located in southern western Styria and consists of four cadastral communities. The area is drained by the Krumbach (to the Feistritz and the Drau) and the Haderniggbach (to the Saggaubach and the Mur).

Community structure

With 1,386 hectares, KG Krumbach forms the largest unit in the northeast. In the northeast, the KG St. Oswald ob Eibiswald joins with 526 ha, in the southeast is the KG Mitterstrasse with 330 ha. The smallest KG is located in the south with Rothwein . It is only 85 hectares in size.

Neighboring places

	Wielfresen	Wernersdorf
Soboth
		Aibl

history

Sankt Oswald was first mentioned in a document on November 6, 1399. In the document handed down, which today is only preserved in a copy from the 16th century, Count Hermann von Cilli also awarded Peter Methnitzer two hubs and a forest near St. Oswald ob Eibiswald (“ Item zwo hueben vnnd ainen waldt bey Sandt Oswaldt located in the Saka ”).

During the National Socialist July coup in 1934, the gendarmerie post was occupied by National Socialists under the leadership of the mayor's son, the weapons stolen and the two gendarmes present at the post placed under guard. After this coup, some of the Nazi rebels drove to Eibiswald, while the rest obtained more weapons from the farmers in the area. After the collapse of the coup, seven people were arrested in the town for participating in the July coup, the rest, including the mayor's son, fled to Germany via Yugoslavia.

Location of the former municipality of St. Oswald ob Eibiswald in the Deutschlandsberg district with the municipality boundaries until the end of 2014

The former name of the community, "Sankt Oswald", was changed to St. Oswald ob Eibiswald on June 1, 1951 . The name change for the village "Buchenberg", also in St. Oswald ob Eibiswald , came into force on January 1st, 1973.

population

Population structure

According to the 2001 census, the municipality had 641 inhabitants. 95.9% of the population have Austrian citizenship. 91.6% of the population profess to the Roman Catholic Church, 4.2% are without religious belief.

Population development

In contrast to the trend developed within the Deutschlandsberg district, the population trend in Sankt Oswald was recently strongly negative. If there was a population increase of around 25% between 1900 and the 1950s, the number of citizens subsequently fell continuously. Today, around 35% fewer people live in Sankt Oswald than in 1951.

Culture and sights

See also: List of listed objects in Eibiswald

• Parish church Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald : The uniform baroque church was built from 1723 to 1728. The presbytery was completed in 1764.

• War Memorial: The 1923 built monument to the fallen soldiers is in the shape of a soldier from the First World War, a sergeant in the Alpenjäger from St. Oswald ob Eibiswald: Mr. Johann Kriebernegg, vlg. Jewelry peter. The monument was renovated in 2013.

• St. Oswald is located in the protected landscape area no. 3 "Soboth-Radlpass". This area is characterized by meadows and forests in a large-scale forest landscape, by grassland use and small-scale orchards. The protection serves to preserve the landscape character, the natural and near-natural landscape elements as well as the preservation of the landscape as a recreational area for the general public. For example, the large contiguous unspoilt areas such as near-natural forest areas, the structured cultivated landscape with its small biotopes such as bushes and groups of trees, the field and forest edge communities, the near-natural, structurally rich small bodies of water such as springs, streams, etc., the habitats for the animals and animals occurring in the protected area are protected Plant species and the near-natural stream sections.

Economy and Infrastructure

According to the 2001 census of workplaces , there were 32 workplaces in St. Oswald with 80 employees as well as 168 out-commuters and 47 in-commuters. The most important industries were the production of goods and the accommodation u. Catering. There are 51 agricultural and forestry holdings (22 of which are the main occupation), which together cultivate 4,902 ha (1999).

The traffic development takes place via the Südsteirische Grenz Straße (B 69).

politics

Municipal council

The local council of Sankt Oswald was heavily dominated by the SPÖ . In the municipal council elections in 2000, the party had an absolute majority of votes and mandates with 53.56%. In 2005 the SPÖ was able to grow and won an additional mandate with 62.16% that had become free when the FPÖ did not appear . The ÖVP reached 37.84% in 2005 and was thus able to increase its share of the vote by 4.51%.

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  The area of ​​St. Oswald in the Josephinische Landesaufnahme around 1790

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  Ninety years later, in 1877/78, mining and ironworks dominate the map

coat of arms

The coat of arms was awarded to the former municipality of Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald by the Styrian state government on May 11, 1987, and presented on June 1, 1987. It shows a gothic-shaped golden cup on a blue background.

literature

• Katrin Knaß: Stay or go. Village development using the example of St. Oswald ob Eibiswald. Dipl.-Arb. Graz 2004.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Oswald ob Eibiswald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Statistical data on the former municipality (click on the individual lines on the linked page)
• Community homepage
• http://www.verwaltung.steiermark.at/cms/ziel/4118440/DE/ ( Memento from August 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 2, Item 2 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. 2.
3. ↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 24 November 2014 G 90/2014, 103/2014 G, G 115/2014.
4. ↑ See the detailed treatise by Gerald M. Wolf: "Now we are the gentlemen ..." The NSDAP in the Deutschlandsberg district and the July putsch in 1934 (= Grazer Zeitgeschichtliche Studien, Volume 3) StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2008, pages 177 and 186, ISBN 978-3-7065-4006-3 .
5. ↑ Announcement of May 16, 1951 , State Law Gazette for Styria of December 28, 1959, Issue 13, No. 37, p. 114.
6. ↑ Announcement of November 29, 1972 , State Law Gazette for Styria of December 30, 1969, Issue 21, No. 139, p. 134.
7. ↑ St. Oswald ob Eibiswald war memorial in new splendor. In: Weekly newspaper Weststeirische Rundschau . November 29, 2013. Volume 86, No. 48. ZDB ID 2303595-X . P. 12.
8. ↑ Ordinance of the Styrian state government of December 19, 2013 on the declaration of areas of the Soboth and the Radlpass as landscape protection area No. 3. Styrian State Law Gazette of January 27, 2014. No. 10. ZDB -ID 705127-x . Pp. 1-2. This ordinance replaced the ordinance on the declaration of areas of the Soboth and the Radlpass as a landscape protection area, LGBl. No. 38/1981, most recently in the version LGBl. No. 64/1981.