Sicheldorf
Sicheldorf (Slovenian: Žetinci) is a place and a cadastral municipality of the Bad Radkersburg municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in Styria .
geography
Sicheldorf is on the Mur and 209 m above sea level. A. The town, located around four kilometers east of Bad Radkersburg, is an exceptionally distinctive round village.
In the east of Sicheldorf there has been an international border crossing to Gederovci in Slovenia since about 1970 , before there was so-called small border traffic for the Übermur area ( Prekmurje ). About ten kilometers by road after the border you reach Murska Sobota , from there you can get to Varazdin ( Croatia ) or the Slovenian-Hungarian border ( Hodoš / Lenti ).
As a result of the Schengen Agreement, border controls were ended in December 2007. They were only reactivated briefly for the 2008 European Football Championship . The borders have been monitored by the Austrian military and the police since 2015 (random ID checks in the border area, patrols in the adjacent field paths and Mur meadows).
The Kutschenitza has been a border for at least 500 years. Severe sudden incursions around 1700 are noted here. At the end of April 1945 there was heavy fighting between the German and Russian armies.
The Slovenian towns in the east are: Gederovci, Krajna, Skakovci and Petanjci (municipality of Tišina ), in the south Mele and Slatina Radenci and Sratovci (municipality of Radenci ) opposite the Mur , which has only been a political border since 1918.
history
Sicheldorf is a round village on a former "flood island" of the Mur floodplains with originally agricultural use. In 1907 the Gothic chapel " Maria Schnee " was built, in 1901 the volunteer fire brigade Sicheldorf was founded.
Since 1970, Sicheldorf has been part (an eleventh of the area) of the municipality of Radkersburg Umgebung with around 1500 inhabitants and the neighboring villages of Dedenitz ( Dedonci in Slovenian ), Laafeld (Potrna) , Goritz near Radkersburg (formerly Windisch-Goritz, Gorc ) and Zelting (Zenkovci) . Since January 1st, 2015 the place is part of the municipality Bad Radkersburg.
All infrastructure (parish, schools and shops as well as all offices) are located in the nearby town of Bad Radkersburg (about four kilometers away). The mineral water spring has been closed since 2015. Under the new owner SMW GmbH (= Sicheldorfer Mineralwasser) there have been sales again under the old name "Sicheldorfer Heilwasser" with a green label, similar to the old one, since the new filling system was put into operation in 2016. Since 1998 it has also been exported to Russia and Slovakia in one-liter plastic bottles under the name Jodika .
Due to the influx and the construction of new apartments, there are more inhabitants again in the 21st century. In 2015 the municipality of Radkersburg Umgebung was dissolved and integrated into the municipality of "Bad Radkersburg". In 2010 the Radkersburg district was dissolved and integrated into the "Oststeiermark" district (old Radkersburg and Feldbach districts). In 2018 there was an exhibition in the Museum im Alten Zeughaus (MiAZ) in Bad Radkersburg on the history and present of the village (since 1995 there have been annual alternating exhibitions on the villages of the "incorporated", a publication is being prepared).
economy
- In 1932, drilling was carried out for crude oil , and a hydrogen carbonate acid ( mineral water ) was found, which has been available in stores since the 1950s as "Sicheldorfer Josefsquelle". It is a sourling with a strong CO 2 content and an iodine taste , which is particularly helpful for heartburn and kidney problems .
- There is a Buschenschank Martinecz (wine growing south of the Mur in the Slovenian national territory, Styrian before 1918), an agricultural machinery trade (Üllen) as well as a pumpkinseed oil press with “Holidays on the Farm” (Majczan) and a guesthouse (Sabrina) .
- The total size of the cultivated area, including the almost unused alluvial forest area, is only about 300 hectares. The climate is very mild and influenced by the Pannonian and northern Italy. As a result, about a third of the population lived from agriculture : maize , alternative crops such as oil pumpkin , rape , sunflowers , but also crops for cattle breeding, mainly pigs. The rest of the population works outside the village, mostly in the city of Bad Radkersburg .
- Gravel extraction has been carried out since 1990. In the 21st century, large expansion of the gravel mining areas in the south-east by the company ALAS (formerly Klöcher Basalt and precast concrete Halbenrain ) and in the west by the company Franz Maier Betonwerk (Bad Gleichenberg).
- Fishing: The Lahn (former Mur arm), ponds and ponds are publicly used by the " Schönerungsverein Sicheldorf" with fish stocking.
- Waidwerk: In the forests there are roe deer and hares , pheasants and ducks .
- There are cycle paths (RA2) to Slovenia and Bad Radkersburg ("Sunrise Tour").
Slovene-speaking minority
In a dissertation from the 1990s, the five villages in the east of Bad Radkersburg were referred to as "Slovenian villages". It is an assumption that around 1900, practically 100% of the population stated that their mother tongue was Slovene. Due to the location on the border, there was a constant influx (marriage) of Slovene-speaking people, so that even today around a quarter of the population can speak Slovene at least. Since there are no classes in the Slovene language in Styria , literacy is very low. Assimilation does the rest.
Culture and sights
- Boundary stone from the time of Empress Maria Theresa (at the state border), next to it a stone from the trade unions to commemorate the year 2004
- Memorial stone of the Austrian trade union at the border bridge on the occasion of Slovenia's accession to the EU (May 1, 2015) and de facto "dissolution" of the border
- Chapel in the center of the village (next to the old round village for the expansion of the 19th century) in Gothic brick style, wooden altar with a black Madonna ( Maria Schnee ), wall frescoes from the 1930s with Cyril and Method as Slavic apostles (behind the altar), ceiling fresco from the 1960s with evangelists and angels, outdoor sculptures of the "peasant saints" Notburga (with sickle ) and Isidor (plowing) from the 1970s (master painter and sculptor Rauch from Straden), memorial plaque with the fallen of the two world wars of the 20th century. 2011 Renovation of the chapel outside (new copper roof) and inside: partial repainting or reworking of the wall and ceiling frescoes by the painter Hans Sehn from Wagna near Leibnitz (new Maria in the coronation representation, new evangelists on the ceiling). Documentation was created and is available for inspection in the chapel. The chapel stands instead of a wayside cross that marked the fork on the old road to Radkersburg with the road to Dedenitz. At least once a year (usually on Whit Monday) there is a Holy Mass with the active participation of the population. Afterwards there is usually a "morning pint" at the pond or an event by the volunteer fire brigade next to the chapel.
- Older is a stone wayside cross portrait (erected in 1895, but probably much older) on the west side of the village, Laafeld-Zelting crossroads with wall paintings on all four sides: Trinity (south), Notburga (west), depiction of the crucifixion (north) and depiction of Florian (east) ) painted by the master painter Fritz from Radkersburg around 1965. In 1995 it was renovated and renewed.
- in the garden of the Majczan house (farm holidays, pumpkin seed oil press) votive cross with Madonna niche and inscriptions
- in the center of the village a cross in front of the house Sicheldorf 6 (Hauko-Kreuz) in memory of the sons who died in the First World War
literature
- Sicheldorfer booklets for the chapel renovation. 1995, 1996, 1997.
- 100 years of FF Sicheldorf (fire brigade festival publication with short chronicle).
- Andrea Haberl-Zemlic: The 5 Slovenian villages in the Radkersburger Winkel. Dissertation (University of Graz), 1998.
- Josefa Prelog: My life, poems, etc. a. Drava Publishing House, 1998.
Web links
Coordinates: 46 ° 41 ′ N , 16 ° 2 ′ E