St. Kathrein am Hauenstein

St. Kathrein am Hauenstein
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Wheat
License plate :	WZ
Surface:	19.3 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 29 '  N , 15 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 29 '22 "  N , 15 ° 41' 38"  E
Height :	822  m above sea level A.
Residents :	633 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8672
Area code :	03173
Community code :	6 17 44
Address of the municipal administration:	St. Kathrein 132 8672 St. Kathrein am Hauenstein
Website:	st-kathrein-hauenstein.at
politics
Mayor :	Peter Knöbelreiter ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (9 members)	8th 1 8th 1  A total of 9 seats ÖVP : 8 SPÖ : 1
Location of St. Kathrein am Hauenstein in the Weiz district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

St. Kathrein am Hauenstein is a Styrian community with 633 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Weiz district . The municipality covers an area of ​​19.3 km².

geography

The parish church of the village is the St. Catherine consecrated

The Rosegger monument bears the following inscription:

“That is your most beautiful fame, O poet Who wrote so much of the beautiful. That with all your fame you remained a simple loyal son of the homeland. "

Geographical location

The community lies in the valley of the Hirschbach, a tributary to the Feistritz , in the Fischbacher Alps and belongs to Peter Rosegger's Waldheimat .

Community structure

The municipality includes two cadastral communities and is divided into two towns of the same name (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Landau (703.43 ha; 116 Ew.)
• St. Kathrein am Hauenstein (1,221.89 ha; 517 Ew.)

Neighboring communities

Bordering on St. Kathrein:

• in the east rats
• in the southwest Fischbach
• in the northwest of Krieglach
• in the northeast of Langenwang

Demographics

Religions

In 2001, 98.2% of the residents of St. Kathrein were Roman Catholic ; 0.3% Protestant . Other religions were not represented, 1.3% were without religious beliefs.

St. Kathrein is the seat of a Roman Catholic parish.

Population development

The population development reflects the economic conditions (see also below: Economy and Infrastructure): In the first half of the 20th century, mining brought a strong influx of people into the remote area, in which previously only agriculture and forestry had offered employment opportunities, which resulted in a large number of people the population more than doubled. Conversely, the shutdown of the mining industry led to a marked and still unstoppable decline in the number of inhabitants due to emigration, so that the community only had 671 inhabitants in January 2013.

year	1869	1880	1890	1900	1910	1923	1934	1939
Residents	490	458	519	573	590	617	1,238	1,222
year	1951	1961	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2020
Residents	1,267	1,171	1,034	820	773	741	682	633

Source: Statistics Austria

Culture and sights

Interior of the parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in St. Kathrein am Hauenstein

Museums

A permanent exhibition in the Kulturhaus is dedicated to Peter Rosegger . In addition, there are always exhibitions on appropriate occasions.

Economy and Infrastructure

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The economic development of the place was characterized in the post-war years by the coal mine Ratten-St. Kathrein . After the lignite mining industry closed in 1960, however, many of the families and individuals living in the so-called colony were forced to look for work near and far. As a result, there was a strong emigration, and the population fell within a short time to almost half of the then 1800 inhabitants.

As a result of this serious change in the economic situation, the place changed over to a tourism industry within a relatively short period of time , which was still developing in the 1960s. Those responsible at the time succeeded in setting some accents in the tourism industry (at that time it was still referred to as summer resort ), and a reasonably well-functioning summer tourism developed. In the 1970s, a double chair lift system was built on the Hauereck , with the aim of creating a new sports and hiking attraction for both summer and winter.

As in other regions, however, this project was subject to a great deal of interaction and summer operations ceased relatively quickly. Winter operation, on the other hand, turned out to be a relatively successful undertaking and its profitability was only called into question by poor snow winters. Only when a private group was found towards the end of the 1990s to take over the lift system and were ready to make major investments did the region develop into a relatively well-known and valued winter sports area again.

Today, St. Kathrein offers the Hauereck ski region, a winter sports center equipped with a four-seater chairlift and snow-making equipment, and is a popular winter sports area for visitors from the immediate vicinity, but also from neighboring Hungary and the Czech Republic .

Tourism association

Together with Birkfeld, Fischbach, Miesenbach, Rettenegg, Strallegg, Ratten, St. Jakob im Walde, Waldbach-Mönichwald, Wenigzell and Vorau, the municipality forms the “ Joglland - Waldheimat ” tourism association . Its seat is in St. Jakob im Walde.

politics

The municipal council consists of nine members and has been composed of mandates from the following parties since the 2020 municipal council election:

• 8 ÖVP - represents the mayor
• 1 SPÖ

coat of arms

The coat of arms, awarded in 1975, symbolizes the Hauenstein part of the name, depicting a miner on a golden background who hits the stone with a recovery iron. The broken judging wheel refers to the namesake St. Catherine and her execution by the wheel.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), writer
• Dean Alois Sommer
• Anna Rabitsch

Honorary ring bearer

• Franz Meierhofer, retired mayor D.
• Ewald Weghofer, retired mayor D.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Kathrein am Hauenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61744 - St. Kathrein am Hauenstein. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th volume, 52nd item, No. 307, ZDB -ID 1291268-2 , p. 626.