Hengsberg

On January 1, 1951, Flussing and Hengsberg were merged to form the new municipality of Hengsberg.
On January 1, 1970, Schönberg an der Laßnitz (with Kehlsdorf and Matzelsdorf), Schrötten an der Laßnitz (with Leitersdorf) and Hengsberg were merged to form the new municipality of Hengsberg.

Neighboring communities

One of the five neighboring communities is located in the Deutschlandsberg district (DL) and one in the Graz-Umgebung district (GU).

Dobl-Zwaring (GU)		Wildon
Preding (DL)
	Sankt Nikolai im Sausal	Long

history

Hengist and Hengesburgc around the year 1000 on a map from 1886

Freybüchel Castle, around 1820 (lith.JF Kaiser)

Hengsberg rectory

The first documentary mention was made in 892 ( Hengistfeldon ). In 1045 King Heinrich III. Archbishop Balduin the royal chamber property Leitersdorf an der Laßnitz, located in the margraviate Gottfrieds and in the forest Sausal "(predium quale visi sumus Liutoldasdorf habere, in comitatu Gotefridi marchionis et foresto Susel iuxta litus Losnicae fluminis situm").

The name "Schrötten" is derived from a clearing ( mhd. Schrôt "cut piece, block", also used as a collective term for tree stumps ; mhd. Schrôten "(cut off), cut off").

The abolition of the manorial lords took place in 1848, the local community as an autonomous body was established in 1850.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark. From 1939 on, Group 365 of the Reich Labor Service, stationed in Wildon, set up camps in Leitersdorf, Schrötten, Schönberg and Lang as well as in Lichendorf , the residents of which worked on the regulation of Laßnitz. These camps were closed in 1945, at their locations there are no or only very few remains (terrain steps, remains of foundations) to be found. From 1945 to 1955, the municipality was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Since 2009, the community together with the communities Lang , Lebring-Sankt Margarethen , Stocking , Wildon and Weitendorf have formed the small region “Kulturpark Hengist”. During the municipal structural reform in Styria , the majority of the Stocking and Weitendorf municipalities were merged with the market municipality of Wildon from 2015, and since then there have been only four municipalities in the small region instead of six.

Religions

Evangelical branch church

Hengsberg was an original parish since about the 1st half of the 9th century, mother parish since about the 13th century with the parishes of Wundschuh , Wildon, Preding, Lang and St. Margarethen . The area of the parish Hengsberg today includes:

all localities of the municipality of Hengsberg
the village of Lichendorf in the Wildon community
the village of Lamberg in the municipality of Dobl-Zwaring (Graz-Umgebung district)
two farms in the municipality of Preding (Deutschlandsberg district), which belonged to the village of Leitersdorf until the local churches were founded in 1850

The evangelical preaching station was founded in 1926. After the creation of the Protestant cemetery and the construction of a house of the dead with a bell tower, the Protestant Christ Church was built in 1932 and its inauguration on June 5, 1933. The catchment area of the preaching station also includes the community of Sankt Nikolai im Sausal and the villages of Lamberg and Pöls on the Wieserbahn in the Dobl-Zwaring community.

Population development

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church of St. Lawrence

Museums

During the renovation of the parish church in 1976, remains of the castle foundations and a crypt were discovered. These finds are exhibited together with others from the area (Roman times) in the "Hengistburg Museum" located under the church.

Buildings

The parish church of St. Lawrence is ring-shaped by the wall of the former cemetery and has a mighty, four-story tower with a considerable height of 72 meters. The square tower with a pointed helmet has five bells that were purchased in 1924.
Municipal office in the former boys' primary school
Elementary school in the former monastery building of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de Paul
Freibühel Castle

A detailed description of the history of the castle and its owners, the Belgian-Austrian noble family of the Enffans d'Avernas , can be found in the article "Dat virtus in armis" by Peter Wiesflecker. (The family belongs to the ancient nobility of the former Duchy of Brabant and its history goes back to the 14th century.)

Nature reserve

The forest area on the Buchkogel in the border area of the Murfeld and Leibnitzerfeld in the communities Wildon, Lebring-St. Margarethen, Lang and Hengsberg have been declared a "Wildoner Buchkogel Nature Reserve". The aim is to protect the near-natural beech forest and the species-rich flora in this area. These plants include beech , Wolfs-Eisenhut , broad leaf, Schmalblatt- and purple Waldvöglein , lily of the valley , Alpenzyklame , Illyrisch- crocus , daphne , helleborine , dog tooth violet , hedge hellebore , spring snowflake , Turk's cap lily, wholesale Two Leaf , Vogelnestwurz , White forest hyacinth , earth primrose , forest violet , grove violet .

Category: Archaeological sites

Prehistoric settlement of Koglfuchs
Prehistoric settlement near Lippmichl
The Roman settlement Laßnitztal extended over the cadastral communities Schönberg and Schrötten.
Roman-era graves and settlement in the Laßnitztal / Gamsäcker
Roman barrows near Schrötten
Early medieval settlement Komberg

Economy and Infrastructure

The Hengsberg station of the Koralm Railway, opened in 2010

Street

The community is crossed by Schröttenstraße L 601, because of the high frequency this is accompanied by a cycle / walkway. The Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 touches the community in the northeast, in 2018 a semi-junction on the Kehlsberg from and to Graz was completed.

railroad

Hengsberg is connected to the railway through the construction of the Koralm Railway. In December 2010, the Hengsberg train station was opened on the already opened section. In the direction of Graz or Wies-Eibiswald (via Deutschlandsberg ) there are trains on the high-speed rail connections, which are carried out with diesel railcars of the Graz-Köflacher Bahn (GKB) until the Koralm Railway goes into full operation .

politics

Municipal council

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:
Political party	2020			2015			2010			2005			2000
Political party	be right	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP				455	51	8th	500	55	9	460	52	8th	486	57	9
SPÖ				172	19th	3	302	33	5	300	34	5	256	30th	4th
FPÖ				203	23	3	109	12	1	120	14th	2	112	13	2
Citizens' list for Hengsberg				061	07th	1	not running
Eligible voters				1,182			1,135			1,119			1,032
voter turnout				77%			82%			81%			84%

The municipal council consists of 15 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it was composed as follows:

8 mandates ÖVP

3 mandates SPÖ

3 FPÖ mandates

1 mandate citizen list for Hengsberg

Parish council

Johann Mayer (ÖVP) was confirmed in his office as mayor for another five years at the constituent meeting of the municipal council in April 2015 . Mayer has headed the community since February 15, 2007. The community board also includes the deputy mayor Kerstin Oswald (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Johann Stangl (FPÖ).

Mayor since 1908

1908–1923 Franz Taucher
1923–1931 Florian Harl
1931–1938 Leopold Haar
1938–1941 Karl Schuchlenz
1941–1945 Johann Thomann
1945 -0000Anton Peutler
1945–1946 Gustav Petti
1947–1949 Alois Garber
1949–1960 Franz Beuchler
1960–1972 Karl Schuchlenz
1972–1990 Anton Lienhart
1990-2007 Robert Baumann
since 2007 Johann Mayer

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded by the Styrian state government on September 11, 1961. The blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

"In a gold shield on a green Dreiberg, a soaring black stallion."

Historical maps of the Hengsberg area
"Hengstberg": Josephinische Landesaufnahme , approx. 1790
Franzisco-Josephinische Landaufnahme , ca.1910

Personalities

Honorary citizen

1968: Paul Ofner (1908–1991), elementary school director, chronicler
1972: Karl Schuchlenz (1910–1999), former mayor
1994: Anna Riha (1914–2008), elementary school director
2014: Leopold Wögerbauer, pastor of Hengsberg
Anton Lienhart (* 1939), former mayor

Web links

Commons : Hengsberg - collection of images, videos and audio files

61017 - Hengsberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
www.hengsberg.at , website of the municipality
www.hengist.at , website of the Hengist culture park

Individual evidence

↑ Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 kB); accessed on January 10, 2020.
↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Chronicle of Preding
^ Fritz Lochner von Hüttenbach: "The clearing names of Styria." In: Michaela Ofitsch, Christian Zinko: "125 years of Indo-European Studies in Graz. Fixed volume on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the research facility 'Indo-European Studies' at the Karl-Franzens University Graz. “Verlag Leykam, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-7011-0026-8 , p. 251.
↑ Gernot Peter Obersteiner: "Barracks in the Landscape." ( Memento from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 11, 2020.
↑ Hengist-Magazin 1/2004: “History of the Counts des Enffans' d Avernas”, pp. 21–27 (PDF; 3.3 MB).
↑ Bezirkshauptmannschaft Leibnitz: “Ordinance of the Bezirkshauptmannes von Leibnitz of December 16, 2013 on the declaration of the forest at Wildoner Buchkogel as a plant protection area.” Grazer Zeitung, Official Gazette for Styria, December 20, 2013, 2013 year, 51./52. Piece. ZDB ID 1291268-2 , pp. 722-723.
↑ Election 15 Styria
↑ LGBl. 1961, Issue 30, No. 92.
↑ Golden jubilee celebrated in Hengsberg , mein district.at on August 5, 2014, accessed on May 16, 2019.

[1] Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 kB); accessed on January 10, 2020.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-2] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[3] Chronicle of Preding

[4] Fritz Lochner von Hüttenbach: "The clearing names of Styria." In: Michaela Ofitsch, Christian Zinko: "125 years of Indo-European Studies in Graz. Fixed volume on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the research facility 'Indo-European Studies' at the Karl-Franzens University Graz. “Verlag Leykam, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-7011-0026-8 , p. 251.

[5] Gernot Peter Obersteiner: "Barracks in the Landscape." ( Memento from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 11, 2020.

[6] Hengist-Magazin 1/2004: “History of the Counts des Enffans' d Avernas”, pp. 21–27 (PDF; 3.3 MB).

[7] Bezirkshauptmannschaft Leibnitz: “Ordinance of the Bezirkshauptmannes von Leibnitz of December 16, 2013 on the declaration of the forest at Wildoner Buchkogel as a plant protection area.” Grazer Zeitung, Official Gazette for Styria, December 20, 2013, 2013 year, 51./52. Piece. ZDB ID 1291268-2 , pp. 722-723.

[8] Election 15 Styria

[9] LGBl. 1961, Issue 30, No. 92.

[10] Golden jubilee celebrated in Hengsberg , mein district.at on August 5, 2014, accessed on May 16, 2019.