Sankt Peter-Freienstein

market community

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Styria

Political District :

Leoben

License plate :

LN

Surface:

27.3 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 24 ' N , 15 ° 2' E Coordinates: 47 ° 24 '6 " N , 15 ° 2' 1" E

Height :

600 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,354 (Jan 1, 2020)

Population density :

86 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

8792

Area code :

03842

Community code :

6 11 14

NUTS region

AT223

UN / LOCODE

AT S6P

Address of the
municipal administration:

Gemeindegasse 1
8792 Sankt Peter-Freienstein

Website:

www.stpfrst.at

politics

Mayoress :

Anita Weinkogl ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (2015)
(15 members)

8th

4th

2

1

8th 4th 2 1

A total of 15 seats

SPÖ : 8
ÖVP : 4
We for Freienstein : 2
FPÖ : 1

Location of Sankt Peter-Freienstein in the Leoben district

The main town seen from the "Gspitzten Wall"

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Peter-Freienstein (common spelling St. Peter-Freienstein ; abbreviation St. Peter-Frst. ) Is a market town in Austria with 2354 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district or district of Leoben in Upper Styria .

geography

The place is located on the southeast edge of the Eisenerzer Alps in the Vordernbergertal in its lower section, which connects the Trofaiach Basin with the Upper Mur Valley near Leoben .

Community structure

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

Hessenberg (778)
Sankt Peter-Freienstein (1075)
Tollinggraben (76)
Traidersberg (425)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Hessenberg, St. Peter-Freienstein, Tollinggraben and Traidersberg.

Neighboring communities

Chambers in the Liesingtal	Trofaiach
Traboch
Sankt Michael in Upper Styria		Leoben

history

The former sovereignty of Freienstein around 1830, Lith. Institution JF Kaiser , Graz

800 BC Chr .: Urnfield settlement on the Kulm (finds)
600: Immigration of the Alpine Slavs who call the Liubina area .
900: Beginning of the settlement of Bavaria
900 to 1150: Official seat of the County of Leoben in the area of today's St. Peter Freienstein
1140: Burgrave Ortwein is mentioned for the first time in St. Peter (on Alt-Freienstein)
1160: Mention of St. Peter
1265: documentary mention of the cella sancti petri
1293: Mention of Truntisperch ob Donawitz (cadastral municipality of Traidersberg )
1445: St. Peter is an independent church in Trofaiach
1830 to 1921: Coal mining in the Tollinggraben
1872: The Leoben - Vordernberg railway line opens

1874: Establishment of the own post office in St. Peter-Freienstein

1893: Construction of the first own fire station in St. Peter-Freienstein

1974: Award of the municipal coat of arms

2000: Survey on the market municipality (with effect from July 1, 1999)

2014: On June 1st, the police station in St. Peter-Freienstein was closed. The place is looked after from the Trofaiach post .

The current place name is not a double name from two places, but an addition of the former rule to which St. Peter belonged (as in Eichberg-Trautenburg ).

politics

Regional policy

St. Peter-Freienstein is a member of the HerzBergLand community association ( Reitlingblick region ).

On the occasion of the municipal structural reform in Styria 2010–2015 , the municipality held talks with the neighboring municipalities regarding the consolidation of municipalities. The town of Trofaiach (to which Gai and Hafning have also belonged since January 1, 2013), with which it shares the location in the Trofaiach basin and already works together in the HerzBergLand community, came into question, the town of Leoben , with which it connects the voestalpine Donawitz plant (the wire works is located in St.-Peter-Freiensteiner area), or Traboch , which is also a member of the community association and itself saw a merger with Leoben as possible. Ultimately, St.Peter-Freienstein remained an independent municipality.

Town twinning

Lipót (Hungary)
Hédervár (Hungary)

Industry

In 1817 Andreas Töpper built the second sheet rolling mill in Styria in the Gmeing mine. As early as 1818 he sold this work to his brother-in-law Mathias Jandl , who expanded the work further. In 1834 a representative mansion was built near the sheet metal rolling mill and is still standing today. In 1872 the work came to the Innerberger Main Union and in 1881 to the Austrian Alpine Mining Society . In 1900, Alpine closed the sheet rolling mill and sold it to the German industrialist Carl Cosack , who operated a paper mill on the site for several years.

The currently largest employer in St. Peter-Freienstein is voestalpine Austria Draht . The old name voestalpine Draht Donawitz would suggest that this company is located in the Donawitz district of the neighboring town of Leoben, but it is largely located in the municipality of St. Peter-Freienstein, at the northwest end of the Donawitz iron and steel works.

Other companies in the St. Peter-Freienstein business park :

Bofrost
Cleaning service
Billa
Porsche Leoben, dealership
Fraiss passenger transport

Social facilities

kindergarten
Elementary school
music school
Children's friends home
Old people's home
Doctor's and dentist's office

societies

ASKÖ SC St. Peter (football; currently Unterliga Nord B )

EV St. Peter ( ice rifle club ; several international titles)

Sankt Peter-Freienstein volunteer fire department
music Society
Men's choir
Women singing group
Krampus Association "Freiensteiner Teifl"
Theater Association Freienstein
Dart club "Checkout"

Culture and sights

Friedhofen Castle around 1830, Lith. Institution JF Kaiser, Graz

Pilgrimage Church Maria Freienstein

Parish Church of Sankt Peter-Freienstein
Pilgrimage Church Maria Freienstein
Freienstein Castle
Friedhofen Castle
Saltworks museum
BERG-WERK-ZEUG (mining tools exhibition)

Regular events

Peter and Paul Run
Krampus run
Darts Club Festival
Market festival
Kirtag
Carnival parade
Maypole cutting around

Personalities

Honorary citizen

2014 Fritz Kreisl, Mayor of St. Peter-Freienstein 1995–2009

Sons and daughters of the church

Wilhelm Bleyer (1902–1979), politician of the ÖVP , member of the National Council 1945–1962
Max Jessner (1903–1974), politician of the SPÖ , member of the National Council 1956–1966
Anton Lanner (1882–1924), member of the National Council 1920–1923, member of the Federal Council 1923–1924
Franz Kainersdorfer (* 1967), board member Voestalpine AG, head of the Metal Engineering Division
Isabella von Freienstein (* 1981), artist

Web links

Commons : Sankt Peter-Freienstein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Community website
Entry on Sankt Peter-Freienstein in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
61114 - Sankt Peter-Freienstein. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Pilgrimage Church Maria Freienstein [1]

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Municipal structural reform. Perspectives from St. Peter-Freienstein. Official notice (post), June 2012 (pdf, 201 kB)
↑ Hans Jörg Köstler: Hütten und Hämmer - The emergence and decay of smaller iron works in the area of Leoben . Obersteirischer Kulturbund, Leoben 2002, ISBN 3-902267-01-1 , p. 25 ff.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Municipal structural reform. Perspectives from St. Peter-Freienstein. Official notice (post), June 2012 (pdf, 201 kB)

[3] Hans Jörg Köstler: Hütten und Hämmer - The emergence and decay of smaller iron works in the area of Leoben . Obersteirischer Kulturbund, Leoben 2002, ISBN 3-902267-01-1 , p. 25 ff.