Schlaiten

Schlaiten
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Tyrol
Political District :	Lienz
License plate :	LZ
Surface:	36.59 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 53 '  N , 12 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '38 "  N , 12 ° 39' 21"  E
Height :	876  m above sea level A.
Residents :	458 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	9954
Area code :	04853
Community code :	7 07 27
Address of the municipal administration:	Mesnerdorf 71 9954 Schlaiten
Website:	www.schlaiten.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Ludwig Pedarnig (home list)
Municipal Council : (2016) (11 members)	11 Schlaiten home list - HLS
Location of Schlaiten in the Lienz district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Schlaiten is a municipality with 458 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Lienz district in Tyrol , Austria . The community is located in the judicial district of Lienz .

Schlaiten is located in the Iseltal , southwest of the Isel . The settlement area is mainly on a terrace about 150 m above the valley floor. Most of the employees commute from the community.

The community consists of the following fractions: Plone, Gonzach, Mesnerdorf, Bacherdorf, Gantschach and Göriach. In particular, the Bacherdorf and Göriach fractions are extremely scattered.

Farm names like Gruber, Zenzer, Gantschnig, Rösch, Weberer, Zaiacher, Meßner, Jörl, Votz, Kraß, Hupf, Gasser, Tschellnig, Gridling, Plattner, Pedarnig, Gonig etc. have existed since the 16th century.

Frequent family names : Lumaßegger, Gantschnig, Tabernig, Ingruber, Engeler, Steiner, Plattner, Pedarnig, Klaunzer, Niedertscheider and Waldner

The name of the municipality, which is first mentioned as Slætten in the land register of the front county of Gorizia from 1299 , is of Slavic origin and goes back to original Slavic soltina (swamp).

geography

The municipality of Schlaiten is located in the front Iseltal on the right side of the Isel . The village is located at 876  m above sea level. A. on a plateau similar to low mountain ranges around 150 meters above the valley floor. In addition to the Iseltal, the community includes the shady slopes of the Villgrater Mountains below the peaks of the Bockstein, the Rotsteinberg and the Schlaiter Kofel. The highest point in the municipality is the Bockstein at 2805  m above sea level. A. , the lowest point of the municipality is in the Isel area on the border with Oberlienz. The neighboring communities of Schlaiten are Sankt Johann im Walde in the north, Ainet in the east, Oberlienz in the southeast, Assling in the south and Hopfgarten in Defereggen in the west.

Community structure

The municipality of Schlaiten consists of the cadastral municipality of the same name and is divided into the fractions Plone , Gonzach , Mesnerdorf , Bacherdorf , Gantschach and Göriach . The most easterly fraction is the Rotte Plone 870  m above sea level. A. on the border with the municipality of Oberlienz. In 1991 the district consisted of 17 buildings and housed 72 residents, with the Innerkrass farm also belonging to Plone. West of Plone is the Rotte Gonzach, which includes several scattered courtyards in addition to its town center. The Mesnerdorf fraction is the parish village of the Schlaiten community and, in addition to the parish church, also houses the elementary school, the community office and the individual farms of Angerer and Zajach. The district is separated by the Schlaitenbach from the fraction and Rotte Bacherdorf with the single farm Gasser. West of the Bacherdorf lies the village of Gantschach, which is separated from the Göriach fraction by Göriachbach. The Rotte Göriach 1155  m above sea level. A. with the individual farms Aussergonig, Gruben, Innergonig, Pedarnig, Zischger and the Church of the Good Shepherd comprised 16 buildings with 71 residents in 1991. The community of Schlaiten also includes the Gantschniginfang, Göriacher Alm, Klosterfrauenalm, Krassnigalm, Laschkitzehütte, Petoggalm, Schlaitener Alm and Schlaitener Tor mountain pastures.

history

Silver and base metals were already being mined in the 13th century. Mining is said to have flourished in the 15th century. Many miners' holes still indicate brisk mining activity. Various mines in the Michelbachtal and also along the Göriachbach were still in operation until the beginning of the 20th century, mainly arsenic was mined. In 1810 the Rotte Schlaiten was defeated to Ainet and in 1817 Schlaiten became an independent political municipality. On April 1, 1939, the community of Schlaiten was forcibly incorporated into the Ainet community by the Nazi regime at the time, and on January 1, 1949, it was regained its political independence.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "Angled square of silver and green, topped with a pine cross in mixed up colors."

population

Population structure

In 2012 there were 468 people in the community of Schlaiten. At the end of 2001, 98.0 percent of the population were Austrian citizens (Tyrol: 90.6 percent), until the beginning of 2013 the value rose insignificantly to 98.1 percent. In 2013, only 15 foreigners were counted in the municipality, all of whom came from Europe or almost exclusively from EU countries. In 2001, 98.4 percent of the population (Tyrol: 83.4 percent) committed to the Roman Catholic Church , four people were Protestants, only two people had no religious beliefs.

The average age of the community population in 2001 was slightly below the national average. 22.3 percent of the residents of Schlaiten were younger than 15 years (Tyrol: 18.4 percent), 58.6 percent between 15 and 59 years old (Tyrol: 63.0 percent). The proportion of residents over 59 years of age was 19.1 percent, slightly above the national average of 18.6 percent. The average age of the population of Schlaiten rose significantly as a result. The proportion of people under the age of 15 fell to 14.5 percent as of January 1, 2013, while the proportion of people between the ages of 15 and 59 increased to 69.7 percent. In contrast, the proportion of people over 59 years of age fell slightly to 15.8 percent. According to marital status in 2001, 54.2 percent of Schlaiten's residents were single, 41.0 percent married, 3.6 percent widowed and 1.2 percent divorced.

Population development

Schlaiten has always been a community with a comparatively small number of inhabitants and the population development was below average compared to the population growth of the district of Lienz and the state of Tyrol. In 2012, Schlaiten lived 468 people, making Schlaiten the fifth smallest municipality in the district in terms of population. The population development of the community of Schlaiten was negative between 1869 and 1923, with the community losing 13% of its inhabitants in this period and in 1923 with 293 inhabitants, an absolute population low. As a result, population growth began, which was strongest in the 1950s. After the population had risen only slowly from 1961, the municipality recorded even stronger growth in the 1990s, with a peak at the beginning of 2005 with 502 inhabitants. Since then, the population has fallen again by around 10%. Schlaiten has been suffering from a strongly negative migration balance for decades , but this population decline between 1971 and 2001 was more than offset by the strongly positive birth balance. While the migration balance remained negative since the turn of the millennium, the birth surplus fell sharply. In some years the community even recorded a negative birth rate.

economy

Workplaces and employees

Schlaiten hardly houses any companies and in 2001 did not have any workplaces with more than ten employees. In terms of local businesses, there is only an inn, a guesthouse and a few small businesses that are one-man businesses. Most businesses are family businesses with a maximum of one employee. The workplace census carried out as part of the census in 2001 revealed 13 workplaces in Schlaiten with only 24 employees (excluding agriculture), 71 percent of which were employed. The number of workplaces had risen by five (plus 63 percent) compared to 1991, the number of employees by 8 people (plus 50 percent). The most important branch of the economy in 2001 was public administration with seven employees (29 percent of the employees in Schlaiten). This was followed by retail with five workplaces and six employees and education with five employees. 42 percent of the employees in Schlaiten were salaried employees or civil servants, 29 percent each were workers or owners.

Of the 234 economically active persons living in Schlaiten in 2010, 6.8% were unemployed. Of the 218 employed, 43 were employed in manufacturing (20 percent), 32 in construction (15 percent) and 28 in public administration (13 percent). Other important sectors were agriculture and forestry with 26 employees (12 percent) and construction with 21 employees (10 percent). Of the 212 employed people from Innervillgraten (excluding residents temporarily absent from work), 50 people were employed in Schlaiten in 2010. 162 had to commute to work. Of the out-commuters, 79 percent had their place of work in the Lienz district; the most important out-commuting community was the district capital Lienz, where 53% of all out-commuters worked. Another 8 percent commuted to North Tyrol or another federal state, none of the residents had to commute abroad. In return, only five commuters worked in Schlaiten in 2010, all of whom came from the district.

Agriculture and Forestry

Livestock of the community of Schlaiten
Livestock	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	1995
Horses	42	28	15th	16	6th	10
Bovine	342	378	334	336	371	362
Pigs	10	137	105	63	34	44
Sheep	237	150	291	367	317	243
Goats	38	7th	11	19th	26th	29
Chicken	414	587	391	256	133	153

The cultivated areas of the community have medium, steep to very steep slopes, whereby the partially acidic soils are not very suitable for arable farming. Arable farming therefore fell from 66 hectares to 4 hectares between 1951 and the turn of the millennium. The focus of agriculture is on livestock and dairy farming. Most of the farms, which are run as pair farms, are now mostly run by the farmers as a sideline, with cattle farming predominating. The cattle herds have hardly changed since the end of the Second World War. Sheep farming is just as important, although it has been declining again after a high in the 1980s. Pig farming has been greatly reduced since the end of the Second World War, horse and goat farming plays and didn't matter. The Umball-Alpe in the municipality of Prägraten am Großvenediger, which was acquired by the municipality of Schlaiten in the 19th century and covers an area of ​​around 1,000 hectares, is now owned by an agricultural community of Schlaiten farmers. The statistics showed 39 agricultural and forestry holdings for the municipality of Schlaiten in 2010. These included 12 full-time businesses, 23 part-time businesses and four businesses owned by legal entities. In 2010 these farms worked a total of 3,757 hectares, with 12 percent of the area being farmed by full-time farmers, 8 percent by part-time farmers and 80 percent by businesses with legal entities. Between 1999 and 2010, the number of full-time farms fell by three farms, while the number of part-time farms remained the same.

The forest area of ​​Schlaiten extends on the shady slope of the Defreggengebirge over an altitude of 720 to 2100 m. Of the total area of ​​the municipality, 38% or 1383 hectares are forest, with 600 hectares (44%) being farmed forest, 281 hectares (20%) being cropped protective forest and 502 ha (36%) being non-profitable protective forest. The forest areas are owned by 48 private forest owners, two agricultural communities and the municipality of Schlaiten, whereby 647 hectares are privately owned, 386 hectares are owned by agricultural communities and 350 hectares are owned by local authorities. The predominant tree species is the spruce with 69% share, followed by the larch with 28% and the fir with 1%. Other hardwoods account for a total of 2%. There is a 70 km long network of paths for cultivating the forest areas.

Transport and infrastructure

Schlaiten is accessed through the Schlaitener Straße (L 289), which leads from the neighboring municipality of Ainet via the districts of Plone, Mesnerdorf, Bacherdorf to the Gantschach district. At Ainet, the Schlaitener Straße has a connection to the Felbertauernstraße and thus a connection to the national transport network. Ainet is connected to the public transport network by buses operated by ÖBB-Postbus GmbH . Line 4418 connects the community of Schlaiten via the towns of Oberdrum , Oberlienz and Ainet to the district capital, Lienz, with a journey time of almost half an hour and only one stop in the community in the Mesnerdorf district. The closest train station for the Pustertalbahn is also in Lienz .

With the neighboring municipalities of the Lienz basin, Schlaiten has merged to form the "Lienzer Talboden waste water association", with Schlaiten only joining the waste water association in 1999. The municipal wastewater is treated in the Dölsach sewage treatment plant , with the Drau serving as a receiving water . Due to the late joining of a wastewater association, at the end of 2002 only 37% of the 134 objects producing wastewater at that time were connected to the sewage system or the sewage treatment plant. The aim of the first construction phase was to connect the buildings in Schlaiten-Dorf and was already in operation in 2002. In 2012, the third and final construction phase of the local sewer system began to connect the Gantschach district to the sewer network.

education

Schools have been in operation in the community of Schlaiten since the end of the 18th century. This was set up in Widum as a result of the Theresian reforms in 1785. The pastor Protasius Zaschkoviz provided the school service. In 1806, the first official school was founded in Schlaiten under the patronage of the sovereign, and a school house of its own was built in 1880. This schoolhouse was in operation until 1953, before the new schoolhouse with 2 classes was opened in autumn 1953. Between 2002 and 2003 the community had the school house completely renovated. In addition to the elementary school in Schlaiten, there was also an elementary school in the Göriach fraction between 1930 and 1939. The elementary school in Schlaiten underwent a general renovation between 2002 and 2003. In 1990, the community in Schlaiten also founded a kindergarten, the establishment of which cost 2.4 million schillings. The opening took place on February 11, 1991 with 10 children, with a high of 21 enrollments in 2000/2001. The kindergarten is open on weekday mornings.

Security and Healthcare

With regard to health care, Schlaiten is organized together with the communities of Amlach , Leisach , Tristach , Oberlienz , Gaimberg , Ainet and St. Johann im Walde in the social district of Lienz Land. In the health district, for example, health services such as elderly and care assistance, home and household help and meals on wheels are organized. However, due to its small size, the community does not have a community doctor. Rather, you have to avoid visiting the doctor or visiting a hospital in the district capital Lienz. The nearest police station is also in Lienz. The Schlaiten volunteer fire brigade was founded in 1899 and received a new fire station in the year it was founded , which was replaced by a new fire station in 1928. After the purchase of an "Opel Blitz" in 1969, a new fire station was inaugurated that same year, following the purchase of a fire engine in 1995 and the purchase of a used fire truck in 1998 for the 100th anniversary of the Schlaiten volunteer fire brigade around a vehicle hall was expanded.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Schlaiten

Sons and daughters of the church

• Anton Brugger (1912–1999), ÖVP politician , director of the Tyrolean Farmers' Union 1946–1976, member of the Federal Council 1954, 1965–1970
• Florian Pedarnig (* 1938), composer

literature

• Hubert Bergmann: Slavic in the name of the East Tyrolean communities Ainet and Schlaiten. Notes on the Slavia submersa in the anterior Isel valley. (Supplement to Austrian Name Research, 5). Edition Praesens , Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7069-0308-3 .

Web links

Commons : Schlaiten  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the community of Schlaiten
• History Tyrol: Schlaiten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Statistics Austria community data from Schlaiten
2. ↑ State Statistics Tyrol (VZ 2001) (PDF; 4.1 MB)
3. ↑ State of Tyrol, wastewater disposal in the Lienz district (PDF; 7.2 MB)
4. ↑ Municipality of Schlaiten  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Social district Lienz-Land
6. ↑ Freiwillige Feuerwehr Schlaiten ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. timeline