Seckau

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market community Seckau
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Murtal
License plate :	MT (from July 1st, 2012; old: KF)
Surface:	46.24 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 17 '  N , 14 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '30 "  N , 14 ° 47' 6"  E
Height :	843  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,301 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8732
Area code :	03514
Community code :	6 20 34
Address of the municipal administration:	Seckau 63 8732 Seckau
Website:	www.seckau.at
politics
Mayor :	Martin Rath ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (15 members)	11 4th 11 4th  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 11 SPÖ : 4
Location of Seckau in the Murtal district
Municipal Office
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Seckau is a market town with 1301 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Murtal district in Styria . The community is a tourist destination and is best known for its Benedictine abbey . As the former Styrian bishop's seat, Seckau is also one of the two namesake of today's diocese of Graz-Seckau .

geography

View over the Seckauer Tauern from the Seckauer Zinken (left) to the Hochalm ( pilgrimage church Maria Schnee ); Seckau below right

The place is at the southern foot of the Seckau Alps in a side valley of the Mur valley .

Community structure

The market town of Seckau consists of five localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

• Dürnberg (189)
• Hard (135)
• Neuhofen (184)
• Seckau (611)
• Sonnwenddorf (182)

The community is divided into three cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2017):

• Dürnberg (2,108.89 ha)
• Neuhofen (2,243.48 ha)
• Seckau (274.13 ha)

Incorporations

In 1948 the communities of Dürnberg and Seckau were merged.

Neighboring communities

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climate

Average monthly temperatures and precipitation for Seckau Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 1.5 3.5 8.0 12.5 17.5 20.8 23.1 22.4 18.1 13.1 6.4 1.7 O 12.4 Min. Temperature (° C) -7.1 -5.9 -2.2 1.4 6.1 9.1 11.1 10.9 7.3 3.2 -1.6 -5.7 O 2.3 Temperature (° C) -3.4 -2.0 2.0 6.3 11.4 14.6 16.6 15.8 11.8 7.2 1.7 -2.6 O 6.7 Precipitation ( mm ) 29 30th 40 49 82 108 125 122 85 64 45 39 Σ 818 Humidity ( % ) 67.7 59.9 57.6 56.2 57.0 57.1 56.5 58.5 61.3 65.4 70.6 73.7 O 61.8 T e m p e r a t u r 1.5 -7.1 3.5 -5.9 8.0 -2.2 12.5 1.4 17.5 6.1 20.8 9.1 23.1 11.1 22.4 10.9 18.1 7.3 13.1 3.2 6.4 -1.6 1.7 -5.7 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source: ZAMG average climate values ​​1981 - 2010

history

The earliest written evidence is from 1142 and is "Seccowe". The name goes back to Slavic seč ( felling ) and Middle High German ouwe (floodplain).

In 1660 the place Seckau received market rights. The political community of Seckau was established in 1849/50.

The Seckau Abbey (with the Seckau Basilica ), founded in 1140 as an Augustinian canons monastery , which was repopulated by Benedictines in 1883 and was again abolished in 1940–1945, is particularly significant . From 1940 to 1945 there was a National Political Education Institute in the abbey .

From 1218 to 1782 Seckau was the seat of the bishopric of the Graz-Seckau diocese . In 1886 the north tower of the basilica collapsed, whereupon both towers were rebuilt between 1891 and 1893 under the founding abbot Ildephons Schober. The building complex also contains the Seckau Abbey High School , a Catholic private school.

Culture and sights

Seckau with Seckau Abbey

Pilgrimage church Maria Schnee on the Hochalm

Kalvarienbergkirche on the Tremmelberg

See also:  List of listed objects in Seckau

• Abbey building of the Seckau Abbey
• Romanesque basilica Seckau with attached chapels
• Archduke Charles II's mausoleum in the basilica
• Pilgrimage church Maria Schnee on the Hochalm ( 1822  m )
• Kalvarienbergkirche on Tremmelberg with wayside shrines and the Tower Power observation tower on Tremmelberg
• Weiermoarteich

Economy and Infrastructure

tourism

Together with Lobmingtal, Kobenz, Gaal, Spielberg, St. Marein-Feistritz and Zeltweg, the municipality forms the tourism association “Tourismus am Spielberg”. Its seat is in Spielberg.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Styria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP and 3 SPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 11 ÖVP and 4 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2006 Johann Höbenreich (ÖVP)
• 2006–2018 Simon Pletz (ÖVP)
• since 2018 Martin Rath (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms of the market town of Seckau is divided into ermine and red. It is derived from the medieval coat of arms of the Seckau cathedral priest .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1972: Placidus Wolf, Abbot of the Seckau Monastery 1957–1983
• 1974: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), Governor of Styria 1971–1980
• 1985: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor
• Athanas Recheis (1926–2006), Abbot of the Seckau Monastery 1984–1997
• 2018: Simon Pletz, Mayor of Seckau 2002–2018

Sons and daughters of the church

• Leopold von Pebal (1826–1887), chemist

People related to the community

• Stefan Babinsky (* 1996), ski racer
• Alfons von Rosthorn (1857–1909), physician
• Benno Roth (1903–1983), monk, educator, church historian
• Severin Schneider (1931–2018), monk, prior administrator, philosopher, Germanist, director of the Abbey high school
• Friedrich von Thun (* 1942), actor, graduate of the Abteigymnasium Seckau
• Coelestin Vivell (1846–1923), monk, musicologist
• Adalram von Waldeck (around 1100–1182), founder of the Seckau monastery

Web links

Wikisource: Seccau in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

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

• 62034 - Seckau. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Web presence of the market town of Seckau
• Chronicle of the market town of Seckau
• Homepage of the tourism association "Tourismus am Spielberg"
• Homepage of the Benedictine Abbey of Seckau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Regionalinformation.zip (Excel file, 1,210 kB); accessed on January 4, 2018
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
4. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 31 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
5. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 325. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 631.
6. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2005 in Seckau. State of Styria, March 13, 2005, accessed on July 2, 2020 . 
7. ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Seckau. State of Styria, March 21, 2010, accessed on July 2, 2020 . 
8. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Seckau. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 2, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Seckau. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 2, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Murtaler Zeitung (August 19, 1972), p. 1.
11. ↑ Obersteirische Nachrichten (September 27, 1974), p. 15.
12. ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/epaper/murtaler-zeitung-judenburg-ausgabe-262018-e48977.html#page/12-13 ; accessed on July 11, 2018