Sankt Veit im Pongau

market community Sankt Veit im Pongau
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Salzburg
Political District :	St. Johann im Pongau
License plate :	JO
Main town :	Sankt Veit im Pongau
Surface:	56.9 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 20 '  N , 13 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '50 "  N , 13 ° 9' 20"  E
Height :	764  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,846 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	5600, 5620, 5621, 5651
Area code :	06415
Community code :	5 04 20
Address of the municipal administration:	Markt 12 5621 Sankt Veit im Pongau
Website:	www.stveitpongau.at
politics
Mayor :	Manfred Brugger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2019) (21 members)	A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 13 SPÖ : 6 FPS : 2
Location of Sankt Veit im Pongau in the St. Johann im Pongau district
View from Alpendorf west to St. Veit and Schwarzach
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Veit im Pongau is a market town with 3846 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Salzburger Land in the district of St. Johann im Pongau in Austria . The place is the first climatic health resort in Salzburg.

geography

The community is located a good 50 kilometers south of Salzburg in the Salzach Pongau in the Salzburger Land on the Salzach . The Salzach flows from west to east as far as St. Veit; then it turns around one knee and flows through the Bischofshofen-St.-Johanner basin exactly from south to north. To the north is the Hochglocker  ( 1590  m above sea level ) of the Dientner Mountains ( Salzburg Slate Alps ), to the south the Höllwand  ( 2287  m above sea level ) of the Ankogel group ( Hohe Tauern ).

The majority of the community lies on a high plateau. Cold north winds are greatly weakened by the elevation of the Hochkönig on the north side; the cold air in winter can flow from the plateau into the Salzach valley. The warm south winds can pull over the Gastein and Grossarlertal valleys - both valleys run from south to north - to St. Veit. Due to its location on a plateau in the Salzach Valley, St. Veit is one of the particularly sunny places (at the winter solstice on December 21, almost seven hours of sunshine in the town center). This is why the area is called the Salzburg Sun Terrace .

Community structure

The municipal area comprises six cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2018):

• Gorge (1,494.37 ha)
• Fiefs (744.37 ha)
• Oberlehen (508.78 ha)
• Schwarzach II (900.05 ha)
• St. Veit (85.15 ha)
• Untersberg (1,951.30 ha)

The community is not divided into several localities , the only locality of the same name, Sankt Veit im Pongau, includes the other districts

Grafenhof Klamm Fiefdom Niederuntersberg Pichl

Oberlehen Oberuntersberg Sankt Veit im Pongau stone Maybe

Counting districts are St. Veit central area for the town and St. Veit area for the rest of the municipality. The community is located in the judicial district of St. Johann im Pongau and belongs to the Salzburg Planning Association Pongau and the Salzburger Sonnenterrasse tourism association .

St. Veit is located a little above the Salzach near Schwarzach. The KG  Schwarzach II comprises parts of Schwarzach im Pongau that remained with Sankt Veit when the municipality was separated in 1906, and form the area around the village. Grafenhof lies east on the river, and Obergrafenhof on the Veitbach . The Wenger Bach in Schwarzach up are Pichl , stone , the Urpaß and frequent feud over Goldegg am Filzkogel . Oberlehen is located on Harbergbach and Putzengraben on the Hochglocker . The other side of the Salzach (the shady side in the south) includes Untersberg ( Nieder - and Oberuntersberg ) on the Heukareck, and the gorge towards the valley on the Gasteiner Ache .

Neighboring communities

∗∗	Mühlbach am Hochkönig
Goldegg Schwarzach iP ∗ Goldegg		Sankt Johann im Pongau
Lend ( district Zell am See / Pinzgau )	Dorfgastein	Grossarl

^∗ The municipality includes the Schwarzach market and a large part of Goldegg to the north and south.

^∗∗Sankt Veit does not border on Dienten am Hochkönig , Zell am See district.

Capital of the municipality

Sankt Veit im Pongau ( capital of a market town ) cadastral community St. Veit
Basic data
Pole. District , state	St. Johann im Pongau , Salzburg
Pole. local community	Sankt Veit im Pongau
Coordinates	47 ° 20 ′ 56 "  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 17"  E
height	764  m above sea level A.
Building status	352 (2001 )
Area  d. KG	85.15 ha
Post Code	5621 St. Veit im Pongau
Statistical identification
Cadastral parish number	55125
Counting district / district	St. Veit central area (50 418 000)
ZSP with regional hospital and Wimm . Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; SAGIS

The main town of the community, as well as the locality (district) and cadastral community (St. Veit) , is the market town of Sankt Veit im Pongau.

The place is a good 4 kilometers southwest of St. Johann im Pongau . It is located on a left terrace of the Salzach valley north of the river at around 760  m above sea level. A. Höhe, above Schwarzach im Pongau just under 200 meters above the valley floor, at the foot of Hochglocker  ( 1590  m above sea level ).

The place includes the old church village (Markt St. Veit) , below the settlements on the former corridors Pfarrfeld, Pfarrleiten and the Lindenweg settlement with Wimm all the way down to Sankt Veiter Straße  (L211, including the Schönberg tunnel, the bypass tunnel of the B 311 ), as well as above the settlements on the Bürgerwiesen and the Stöcklfeld (Langmoos, Sonnfeld) , the state clinic and the local locations Mösllehen . Wimm, Krankenhaus and Mösllehen are already in the cadastral community of Schwarzach II .

The place comprises just under 350 buildings with around 1,600 inhabitants ( counting district St. Veit central area ; status 2001).

Neighboring towns, villages and cadastral communities:

Pichl  (O)		Schwarzach II  (KG) ∗ State hospital
Pichl village Stone  (O)		Obergrafenhof
Schwarzach im Pongau  (O and KG, Gem.  Schwarzach iP )		Grafenhof  (O and KG)

^∗ KG Schwarzach II comprises KG St. Veit from west to south-east

history

The first written mention ( parrochia sancti Viti ) comes from the year 1074.

The Holy Vitus is the patron of the community.

economy

At the foot of the southern slope of the Hochglocker is the Grafenhof lung sanatorium , which was founded in 1912/1913 and is now the state clinic of Sankt Veit im Pongau . This institution was set up by the People's Association to Fight Tuberculosis in the Crown Land of Salzburg , chaired by Prelate Alois Winkler.

Culture and sights

Parish church Sankt Veit im Pongau

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Veit im Pongau

• Parish church Sankt Veit im Pongau
• Sea lap museum ; Local history museum; Listed farmhouse Wallnergut with Seelackenmühle
• Sunnpau show mine
• In 1985 the Order of the Sisters of Bethlehem founded the Maria im Paradies monastery on the Kinderalm .
• The writer Thomas Bernhard was also treated in the Sankt Veit hospital . Among other things, Bernhard wrote the book “Die Kälte. An isolation ”about his illness ( pulmonary tuberculosis ) and his stay here. Today, in memory of the writer, there is a hiking trail named after him that starts near the state clinic.
• St. Veit im Pongau is also one of the settings of the novel "Schonzeit" by the Austrian writer O. P. Zier . The main male character of the novel, Rupert, a deserter in World War II, ends up hiding on a farm in St. Veit im Pongau.
• The traditional snow festival also takes place in St. Veit every year at the end of February or beginning of March .

politics

The community council has a total of 19 members. After the municipal council and mayoral elections, the municipal council has / had the following distribution

year	2004	2009	2014	2019
ÖVP	10	10	12	13
SPÖ	8th	7th	6th	6th
FPÖ	1	2	3	-
FPS	-	-	-	2

mayor

• 1983–1993 Richard Donauer (ÖVP)
• 1993-2008 Franz Lainer (ÖVP)
• 2008-2018 Sebastian Pirnbacher (ÖVP)
• since 2018 Manfred Brugger (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The blazon ( description of the coat of arms ) of the municipal coat of arms reads:

“In the red shield the representation of St. Veit , namely the unclothed upper body of a young man with hands clasped in prayer and gold-nimbed head protruding from a black cauldron resting on a low, burning pyre. "

Personalities

• Alois Winkler (1838–1925), governor
• Balthasar Linsinger (1902–1986), pastor, Righteous Among the Nations , born in St. Veit
• Reinhard Schwarzenberger (* 1977), ski jumper (bronze at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano and at the 1999 World Championships in Ramsau)
• Michael Gruber (* 1979), Nordic combined (gold in the team competition at the Nordic World Ski Championships 2003 in Val di Fiemme, gold with the relay at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin)

Web links

Commons : Sankt Veit im Pongau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 50420 - Sankt Veit im Pongau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.stveitpongau.at Website of the municipality
• St. Veit im Pongau . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip  (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019
2. ↑ Oskar Dohle: “150 Years of Salzburg Governors 1861–2011”, Salzburg, 2011, p. 22 ff.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
3. ↑ Sights (hist.). stveitpongau.at
4. ↑ Seelackenmuseum St. veit ( Memento from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Richard Donauer . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
6. ↑ Franz Lainer . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
7. ↑ Sebastian Pirnbacher . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
8. ^ Manfred Brugger . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .