Spitzach
Spitzach (Slovenian Špice ) is a deserted village in the Sattnitz south of Klagenfurt .
Geology and morphology
Sunk into the northern edge of the conglomerate mass of the Sattnitz, a narrow valley stretches from Lipizach, located south of the Ebental valley on the edge of the Sattnitzhöhe, in an easterly direction and deepens with increasing steepening of the valley shapes to 200 m. The Gurnitzbach, which rises on the Sattnitz plateau near Werouzach, flows into this valley, which owes its construction to a channel around the Wörthersee glacier during the Ice Age and which is still dry in its upper part today. Cutting into the bottom of the valley, he used the valley a short distance in an easterly direction, then suddenly erupted to the north and sawed through the plate edge of the Sattnitz in a wild gorge with a foaming waterfall. To the east of Gurnitz he has thrown up an alluvial cone, at the top of which he is looking for a way to the nearby Glan.
history
The Sattnitz is a 30 km long west-east stretched mountain range approx. 10 km south of Klagenfurt with massive towering steep walls. The small village of Spitzach arose here around 1600, consisting of nine châteaux. The nearby Lipizach was also built around this time, which in Carinthia was generally a time of regional development with chaste existence. The six cheaters cleared the steep sunny slope of the narrow valley and built their houses on small remains of terraces, as there was no space in the valley floor itself. Two more chests were laid out on the shady slope opposite. The clearing island tapering towards the west gave the village the name "Spitzach". In the sources we often find the term “Am Spiz”. The farms had 2-3 hectares at their disposal, on which they achieved a low yield through hard work. The conditions of agricultural use deteriorated noticeably after the peasant liberation in 1848. At the same time, the Count Goess von Ebenthal's interest in the orderly forestry use of their forests grew, so that they increasingly pushed back agricultural use. The economic pressure on the Keuschler grew and, given the nearby state capital Klagenfurt, their children were no longer willing to take over the economy. The last residents left their village around 1900. This modern deserted village could be reconstructed using sources but also the parish registers and the land register.
swell
- Klaus Arnold: The eastern Sattnitz . The problem of a stagnating agricultural area in the outskirts of Klagenfurt. Dissertations from the University of Vienna, 131, Vol. 1 and 2, VWGÖ Vienna 1976
- Klaus Arnold: The eastern Sattnitz - mountain farming area at the gates of Klagenfurt . Self-published, CD and download at: arnold-research.eu, Amaliendorf 2012
- Klaus Arnold: Spitzach - the deserted valley . Self-published. CD and download at: arnold-research.eu, Amaliendorf 2012
- Burgfriedprotocoll 1770-1790, HG, AHS, No. 113
- Karl Dinklage: (Ed.) Carinthia's commercial economy from prehistoric times to the present . Klagenfurt 1953.
- Franziszeischer Cadastre
- Walther Fresacher: The Farmer in Carinthia , 1993
- Walther Fresacher: The Freemen in Carinthia , 1974
- Hugo Henkel: Castles and palaces in Carinthia , Verlag Johann Leon senior, Klagenfurt / Vienna 1964
- FX Kohla, GA v. Mettnitz, G. Moro: Kärntner Burgenkunde Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn, 1973
- Liber Baptizatorum, Mortuorum et Conjugatorum of the Provost Gurnitz , begins 1615.
- Herbert Paschinger: Carinthia. A geographic study of the country . Publishing house of the State Museum for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1976
- Lambert Pisjak: Spitzach . Manuscript n.d.
- Update register of the rulers Ebenthall and Gurnitz de Anno 1719 (AG, HS No. 65)
- Land register of the complete registration of the Probstey Gurniz in 1643, Gurnitz in 1643
supporting documents
- ↑ Directory of place names. (No longer available online.) In: volksgruppenbuero.at. Volksgruppenbüro , p. 48 , archived from the original on December 21, 2014 ; accessed October 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ' N , 14 ° 23' E