Satteins

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Vorarlberg

Political District :

Feldkirch

License plate :

FK

Surface:

12.69 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 14 ' N , 9 ° 40' E Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '30 " N , 9 ° 40' 19" E

Height :

495 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,727 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

215 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

6822

Area code :

05524

Community code :

8 04 17

NUTS region

AT342

Address of the
municipal administration:

Kirchstrasse 15
6822 Satteins

Website:

www.satteins.net

politics

Mayor :

Anton Metzler

Local council : (2015)
(24 members)

15 Satteinser village team
04 Party-Free and Freedom Party
0 4 Green Satteins
0 1 Social Democrats

Location of Satteins in the Feldkirch district

Satteins, view from the L50

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Satteins is a municipality in Austria in Vorarlberg in the Feldkirch district with 2727 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Satteins is located in the westernmost state of Austria, Vorarlberg, in the Walgau , at 496 meters above sea level at the foot of the Walserkamm . 45.2% of the area is forested. There are no other cadastral communities in Satteins.

history

The Habsburgs ruled the places in today's Vorarlberg alternately from Tyrol and Upper Austria . From 1805 to 1814 the place belonged to Bavaria , then again to the Austrian Empire .

The municipality of Satteins was already populated before the birth of Christ due to its geographical and climatic location. Some finds suggest that the settlement on the Vatlära dates from the Urnfield Period (1200–800 BC).

A Roman country house, a porticus villa, stood on the former Roman road that led through Satteins. Discovered in 1920, the building was built in the first century AD and destroyed by the Alemanni in the third century.

The name of Satteins is first mentioned in the Rhaetian land register as Sataginis around the year 843 . This designation is derived from a Celtic or Illyrian name in the form of Satagines . In 1255 it was called Satains .

In the late Middle Ages, the residents of Satteins were subordinate to the Knights of Schwarzenhorn , whose masters were the Counts of Montfort in Feldkirch. The Knights of Schwarzenhorn had built a castle above the village, which was destroyed in the turmoil of the Appenzell Wars in 1405 and no longer rebuilt.

The plague first raged in Satteins around the middle of the 14th century. The second time in the years 1628 to 1630, around 200 people fell victim to the disease.

Ecclesiastically, the parish belonged to the diocese of Chur until 1808 and definitely to Brixen from 1819 , after the First World War to the Apostolic Administration Innsbruck and since 1968 to the diocese of Feldkirch .

19th century

Satteins has belonged to the Austrian Crown Land of Vorarlberg since it was founded in 1861. In the 19th century, Satteins changed primarily due to the village fire of February 28, 1870, in which 52 houses burned down. The settlement image has changed most since the Second World War. The place was part of the French occupation zone in Austria from 1945 to 1955. Between 1945 and 1991 the resident population doubled and the size of the settlement area tripled. In earlier centuries there lived a purely rural population in Satteins, whereby viticulture also played a relatively large role until the end of the last century.

Since there are no major job offers in Satteins, many Satteins are forced to look for work abroad. A particularly large number of people who have to commute abroad have their job in the Principality of Liechtenstein . In Satteins there are also some facilities of the district Jagdberg, to which the communities Satteins, Schlins, Röns, Schnifis, Düns and Dünserberg belong.

At the beginning of the 1970s the secondary school was built in Satteins, which is attended by around 400 students from the Jagdberg communities and the community of Göfis. The wastewater treatment plant of the Walgau Region Wastewater Association has been in operation in Satteins since 1985.

Since the primary school was built in 1908, the municipal office has been housed in its premises. In October 1998 the municipal administration was able to move into the newly built administrative premises in the former Schäfle inn. In 1997/98 a supraregional retirement and nursing home was built, which offers a home for around 35 elderly people in need of care.

Population development

The proportion of foreigners at the end of 2002 was 6.2 percent.

While the migration balance was still negative from 1981 to 1991 (−48), since then both the migration balance and the birth balance have been positive.

Culture and sights

Part of the still existing walls of Schwarzenhorn Castle was torn down and the material was used to build the parish church . The northern wall of the former castle keep is currently still preserved.
Today's parish church of St. Georg was built in the style of late classicism. However, it is not true that the church was built by Alois Negrelli , the planner of the Suez Canal.
The Sebastianskapelle , also called the plague chapel , which was built in 1349, commemorates the plague times of the 14th century . This chapel is of great historical value due to the Gothic winged altar and the wall paintings.
Chapel shrine Hauptmannsbild on Walgaustraße (L 54) with a ceramic cross with Christ in a half-relief by painter and sculptor Reinhard Welte.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2010 there were 34 agricultural and forestry holdings in Satteins, twelve of which were full-time businesses. In 2011 there were 38 companies in the secondary sector (manufacturing of goods and construction) and 107 companies in the tertiary sector, mainly in commerce, professional services and social and public services. Companies in the secondary sector employed 142 people, those in the tertiary sector 465 people.

education

In Satteins there is a kindergarten, an elementary school and a sports middle school. In 2011 there were 386 pupils at the school, 121 of them in elementary school and 299 in middle school.

politics

The community council consists of 24 members. After the municipal council and mayoral elections in 2015 , the ÖVP -near list of Sattein's village team reached 15, the party-free and freedom list of voters 4, the list of Grünes Sattein also 4 and the social-democratic list and party-free 1 mandate. The municipality's mayor is Anton Metzler from the Satteins village team, who was confirmed in office in the direct mayor election 2015 with 78.41 percent of the votes. On June 25, 2019, Metzler announced early on that he no longer wanted to run for mayor in the 2020 municipal council and mayoral elections.

Partner communities

Ladis in Tyrol

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Christian Getzner (1782–1848), Austrian entrepreneur, pioneer in textile production and co-founder of Getzner Textil AG in Bludenz

Johann Michael Häusle (1809–1867), theologian

Josef Weber (1863–1944), chemist

Jakob Tschavoll (1868–1935), politician ( CSP ) and farmer

Eduard Hosp (1886–1979), Redemptorist and church historian

Adolf Hosp (1892–1972), politician (CSP) and electrical engineer

Herbert Lins (1896–1969), politician ( ÖVP )

Johann August Malin (1902–1942), resistance fighter

Martin Häusle (1903–1966), painter

Guntram Lins (* 1938), lawyer, was regional councilor of the Vorarlberg regional government from 1984 to 1994

Ewald Wiederin (* 1961), university professor for constitutional and administrative law at the University of Vienna

literature

Andreas Beiser, Rudolf Staub, Edith Waldburger, Rosemarie Steixner (site survey), Markus Staudinger, Environmental Protection Department (report): Update of the Vorarlberg biotope inventory - Satteins community . In: Vorarlberger Landesregierung Environmental Protection Department [IVe], AVL Arge Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Planning (Ed.): Biotopinventar Vorarlberg . February 2009 ( vorarlberg.at [PDF]).
Peter Erhart (Ed.): Satteins. A Walgau village tells its story. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2018. ISBN 978-3-95976-187-1