Seggauberg

Seggauberg (former municipality)
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Leibnitz (LB), Styria
Judicial district	Leibnitz
Coordinates	46 ° 46 '16 " N , 15 ° 31' 14" E Coordinates: 46 ° 46 '16 " N , 15 ° 31' 14" E
height	360 m above sea level A.
Residents of the stat. An H.	951 (January 1, 2014)
Building status	368 (2001 )
surface	April 11 (2015)
Postcodes	8430, 8435, 8451, 8462
prefix	+ 43/3452 (Leibnitz)
	Statistical identification
Community code	61053
Counting district / district	Seggauberg (61053 008)
	Seggauberg map
	Independent municipality until the end of 2014;; KG: 66156 Oberlupitscheni, 66162 Rettenbach, ; 66171 Schönegg, 66172 Seggauberg ; Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

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Main square of Seggauberg with the pilgrimage church on Frauenberg near Leibnitz

Seggauberg is a former municipality in the Leibnitz district in Austria in the immediate vicinity of the city of Leibnitz . It had 951 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2014) and an area of 11.04 km² (2015). The altitude is given as 300 to 360 meters. As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , Seggauberg was incorporated into the municipality of Leibnitz with the municipality of Kaindorf an der Sulm on January 1, 2015 . The basis for this was the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG. A complaint brought by Seggauberg against the merger at the Constitutional Court was unsuccessful.

geography

The former municipality is located around 35 kilometers south of Graz at the transition from Sulmtal to Murtal.

structure

The four localities of the municipality were (residents as of January 1, 2020):

Oberlupitscheni (145)
Rettenbach (104)
Schoenegg (139)
Seggauberg (530)

The former municipality consisted of the four cadastral municipalities (area 2015):

Oberlupitscheni 273.06 ha
Rettenbach 60.62 ha
Schönegg 189.21 ha
Seggauberg 580.64 ha

Former neighboring communities and places

	Kaindorf an der Sulm	Leibnitz
Heimschuh		Wagna
	Gamlitz	Retznei

politics

The local council , which was dissolved on December 31, 2014, consisted of 11 members of the ÖVP , 3 members of the SPÖ and 1 member of the FPÖ after the local council election in 2010 .

The last mayor was Alois Adam (ÖVP) until the municipality was dissolved.

coat of arms

The right to use the municipal coat of arms was granted to the municipality with effect from September 1, 1975.

Blazon :

"In a silver shield a blue Roman temple over a green mountain covered with a golden lily."

archeology

There are several important archaeological sites on the Frauenberg near Leibnitz. In addition to numerous emergency excavations, research excavations were carried out in several places, some of which produced spectacular results. A Roman cult area on the top of the mountain was partially exposed as early as the 1950s. The excavated imperial temple was called the Temple of Isis Noreia , an assignment that has not been confirmed. Later, the area adjacent to the Roman temple was examined more closely and it turned out that the cult already dates back to the late Latène period and a first Roman temple of the Gallo-Roman type was built at this point. Two dedicatory inscriptions for the Celtic god Latobius and one for Mogetius have also been found from this period .

On a slightly lower terrace, the Perl- / Stadläckern, there is another site on which there was a sanctuary, albeit a Celtic sanctuary, consisting of a large, almost square moat, in which the bones of sacrificed cattle, costume components and weapons were sacrificed were. This sanctuary, which can perhaps be connected with the work of the Druids , was abandoned in Roman times and only the cult area on the hilltop remained. In late antiquity there was an extensive burial ground in this area and in this epoch the mountain was again used as a retreat for the people of Flavia Solva . According to the latest excavations on the temple plateau, an early Christian church is suspected there. This is suggested by the foundations of a baptistery , which was partially uncovered in the 1950s, as well as finds of the marble interior.

Culture and sights

The baroque branch and pilgrimage church on Frauenberg near Leibnitz
In 1954 the Frauenberg Temple Museum was opened, in which archaeological exhibits from the area are exhibited.
Another attraction of the community is Seggau Castle . This is also used as a conference center and was part of the Styrian state exhibition The Romans . In the inner courtyard of the castle there is a lapidarium with walled-in Roman gravestones , the so-called "Roman stones".

Personalities

Honorary citizen

1976: Franz Wegart (1918–2009), Deputy Governor
Johann Weber (1927–2020), Bishop of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau 1969–2001

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Styrian municipal structural reform
↑ Section 3, Paragraph 5, Item 1 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.
↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 9 December 2014 G 73/2014.
↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[1] Styrian municipal structural reform

[2] Section 3, Paragraph 5, Item 1 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.

[3] recognition of the Constitutional Court of 9 December 2014 G 73/2014.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-4] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )