Playing field (municipality of Straß in Styria)
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Pitch (Former parish) village Graßnitzberg, Obegg, Court  |
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| Pole. District , state | Leibnitz (LB), Styria | ||
| Judicial district | Leibnitz | ||
| Coordinates | 46 ° 42 ′ 21 ″ N , 15 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E | ||
| height | 260 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents of the village | 992 (January 1, 2015) | ||
| Building status | 397 (2001 ) | ||
| surface | 10.13 km² | ||
| Post Code | 8471 playing field | ||
| prefix | + 43/3453 (Ehrenhausen) | ||
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| Community code | 61058 | ||
| Locality code | 15599, 15600, 15601 | ||
| Counting district / district | Playing field (61 058 003) | ||
 Location of the former municipality in the Leibnitz district |
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| Independent municipality until the end of 2014; KG: 66118 Graßnitzberg, 66152 Obegg, 66174 Spielfeld |
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Spielfeld ( Slovenian : Špilje) is a former municipality with 968 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2014) in southern Styria ( Leibnitz district ) and is a member municipality of the Südsteirisches Weinland nature park . The border crossing at Spielfeld ( Pyhrn Autobahn and Grazer Straße ) is considered the largest border crossing between Austria and Slovenia .
As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , Spielfeld was merged with the municipalities of Straß in der Steiermark , Obervogau and Vogau on January 1, 2015 . In 2015 the new municipality was called Straß-Spielfeld , and since 2016 the name of the former municipality of Straß in Styria . The basis for this was the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.
geography
The former municipality is located in southern Styria in the Leibnitz district on the border with Slovenia .
Neighboring communities were Berghausen , Ehrenhausen , Straß and Kungota and Šentilj in Slovenia.
structure
The former municipality is divided into the following localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Graßnitzberg (177)
- Obegg (37)
- Playing field (683)
The former municipality consists of the cadastral municipalities (area 2015):
- Graßnitzberg 271.25 ha
- Obegg 145.07 ha
- Playing field 596.57 ha
history
Spielfeld was first mentioned in 1170 as "Ulenberg Sancti Mychaelis", which means mountain of an Ulen (= Ulrich), whereby mountain indicates the rocky hill at whose foot the Michaeliskirche stands.
In 1825 Spielfeld had 423 inhabitants. After the First World War, Serbian troops occupied the place. In 1919 the Spielfeld - Radkersburg railway line was the border with Yugoslavia for a while. It was not until July 29, 1919 that Spielfeld was freed again when it was assigned to German Austria. The state border was finally established in 1921.
After the end of the Second World War, the playing field survived relatively unscathed, Russians, Bulgarians and Tito troops came as occupying powers until the place was later declared a British exclusion zone. The British occupation also withdrew on December 23, 1947.
In 1953 negotiations with Yugoslavia about dual ownership were completed and local border traffic opened. Slovenia and Austria tried to foster neighborly relations.
traffic
The Pyhrn motorway A 9 ( Graz - Maribor ) with the border crossing Spielfeld (Slov. Špilje ) / Šentilj (German: St. Egidi ) and the state roads B 69 Südsteirische Grenz Straße and B 67 Grazer Straße lead through the municipality .
The Austrian Southern Railway (single-track since 1956, full expansion in progress) has had the Spielfeld-Straß border station here since 1918 (km 257.915). In addition to international long-distance traffic, the Styria S-Bahn runs here with the S5 (Graz - Spielfeld) and S51 ( Spielfeld-Straß - Radkersburg railway ).
Culture and sights
politics
The municipal council , which was dissolved on December 31, 2014, consisted of the following after the municipal council elections in 2010:
The last mayor of the independent community was Ewald Schantl (SPÖ).
In November 2015, in view of the refugee crisis , the Austrian Ministry of the Interior announced that Austria would erect a border fence around four kilometers long and 2.20 meters high and that preparations would be made to erect a 25 km long fence. At the end of December 2015, Reinhold Höflechner, Mayor of Straß-Spielfeld, welcomed the fact that a barrier fence was being erected in Spielfeld in order to guarantee the passage of arriving refugees within the zone of the new central distribution center.
Partner communities
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Kungota (Kunigund) , neighboring municipality in Slovenia -
Šentilj (St. Egidi) , neighboring municipality in Slovenia, since May 1, 2004
Personalities
- Heidrun Walther (* 1952), politician, mayor of Spielfeld
- Andrea Stift (* 1976), writer
Others
In 2016, the Working Group for Cartographic Place Name Studies, similar to the word of the year, chose a place name of the year for the first time. Spielfeld was chosen as a synonym for the dilemma of Austria and Europe, to find a balance between human willingness to help refugees and practical requirements , as the rationale is.
In November 2017 the Austrians studying in Germany Kristina Schranz and Caroline Spreitzenbart received the young talent award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for their short documentary Spielfeld about border management systems .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Styrian municipal structural reform
- ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 5, Item 2 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 KB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
- ↑ welt.de November 13, 2015: Austria builds a kilometer-long fence in Spielfeld.
- ^ Report by Till Rüger with original sound from the winemaker Holger Hagen , ARD, Tagesthemen , 02'55 "–06'38", December 29, 2015
- ↑ First choice: Spielfeld is "Place Name of the Year" on ORF-Steiermark from April 12, 2016, accessed on April 12, 2016
- ↑ Austrian director honored in Germany orf.at, November 12, 2017, accessed November 12, 2017.