Spital am Semmering

Spital am Semmering
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag
License plate :	BM (from 1.7.2013; old: MZ)
Surface:	73.15 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 37 '  N , 15 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 '58 "  N , 15 ° 45' 14"  E
Height :	800  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,435 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8684, 8685, 8680
Area code :	03853
Community code :	6 21 31
Address of the municipal administration:	Bundesstrasse 16 8684 Spital am Semmering
Website:	www.spitalamsemmering.com
politics
Mayor :	Reinhard Reisinger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (15 members)	9 4th 2 9 4th 2  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 9 ÖVP : 4 FPÖ : 2
Location of Spital am Semmering in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district
The parish church in Spital am Semmering
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Spital am Semmering is a municipality in Austria , federal state Styria , judicial district Mürzzuschlag , political district Bruck-Mürzzuschlag with 1435 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Spital am Semmering is 6.5 km from the Semmering Pass at 800 m above sea level on the Semmering expressway (S 6). The highest point is the Stuhleck at 1782  m above sea level. The total area is 73.15 km².

The community is made up of four cadastral communities (area 2001):

• Fröschnitz (2,003.39 ha),
• Schöneben Hospital (542.70 ha),
• Semmering (1,864.25 ha),
• Spital am Semmering (2,861.62 ha).

The municipality includes the following two localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Spital am Semmering (873)
• Steinhaus am Semmering (562)

history

The name of the community goes back to a pilgrims' hostel , which Ottokar III built here in 1160 for those who want to cross the Semmering. The earliest written document is from 1165/66 and reads "hospitalem". It is based on the Old High German hospital hus (hostel, economy). In the past, the region was repeatedly the scene of bloody clashes, for example at the time of the Turkish wars , when the place suffered severe damage from the Ottoman army.

Iron mining in particular was the region's main source of income for a long time, but in 1882 it had to be stopped due to excessive competitive pressure.

The new railway line over the Semmering Pass, which was previously difficult to cross, led to a massive boom in tourism from the 19th century.

education

Spital am Semmering has a four-class elementary school with 61 students and 8 teachers. (Stand NN) Today's school building has existed in its original form since 1873.

traffic

Spital am Semmering is located on the Südbahn, regional trains stop in the direction of Payerbach-Reichenau or Mürzzuschlag . There are also regional express trains for commuters in the morning towards Vienna and in the evening towards Mürzzuschlag.

Culture and sights

Interior of the parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Spital am Semmering

• Parish church Spital am Semmering

Sport and tourism

In 1893 the Stuhleck was the first alpine summit to be climbed on skis, and since then Spital am Semmering has become increasingly important as a ski area.

Zauberberg Bike Park

But you can not only pursue winter sports. Hiking and mountain bike trails, a mountain bike park, tennis courts, a Kneipp nature trail, a swimming pool and other leisure facilities are also offered. A special attraction is the Gaisschlager mill, a functioning water mill in the Kaltenbachgraben. The robber caves , which are used by climbers, are located at Spital am Semmering . In the Steinhaus area there are also several settlements for sports enthusiasts, including the Europadorf , the Stuhleckblicksiedlung and the Südhang settlement .

Open air festival

From 2003 to 2010, took a year at Kaltenbach in Spital am Semmering Kaltenbach Open Air one place, Metal - outdoor - Festival . In 2013, but from a different organizer, there was the Metal Invasion Festival. In 2014 the Kaltenbach Open Air was re-launched by the Upper Mürz Valley Cultural Association. KOA, as the Kaltenbach Open Air is called based on the Wacken Open Air (W: O: A), has meanwhile grown into one of the genre-defining festivals in the European metal scene. Up to 40 bands of all metal genres perform there.

Personalities

The Viennese city architect Ludwig Zatzka built two Wilhelminian style villas in Spital from 1890–1905 (Obere Bahnstrasse 5 and Obere Bahnstrasse 13) and also realized a few other buildings, around 1903 the extension of the parish church and in 1904 the chapel “Zur Unefleckten Mariä” (Maria on the stone wall). In 1903 Zatzka became an honorary citizen of the community and spent his retirement here. He died in hospital on September 14, 1925.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Erwin Komenda (1904–1966), automobile designer
• Peter Redeker (* 1942), painter, graphic artist and university professor
• Herbert Schweiger (1924–2011), right-wing extremist writer

literature

Hospital (top right) around the year 1876 (recording sheet of the state survey )

• Bernhard Reismann: History of the community Spital am Semmering . Self-published by Spital am Semmering 1997. No ISBN. New edition on the occasion of the 850th anniversary in 2010.

Web links

Commons : Spital am Semmering  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62131 - Spital am Semmering. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Andreas Somos: Spital am Semmering - camera flight with a model airplane (September 11, 2012, Bixler (without FPV ), GoPro Hero 2) (video 5:52 min) on Youtube, published September 12, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ 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. 55 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
3. ↑ Interview with the organizer of the Kaltenbach Open Air (KOA) on rockmagazine.net.Accessed on May 3, 2019
4. ↑ Note. See self-shadow at 5: 41–5: 45/5: 52 min.