St. Ruprecht (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)

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11. Klagenfurt district
St. Ruprecht
slow. Blače
surface 6.56 km²
Geographical location 46 ° 37 ′  N , 14 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′  N , 14 ° 19 ′  E
height 439  m above sea level A.
(Parish Church St. Ruprecht)
Residents 7308 (January 1, 2020)
1114 inhabitants per km²
Post Code 9020
Map of the districts of Klagenfurt
Map of the districts of Klagenfurt

St. Ruprecht (Slov. Blače ) is the 11th district of the state capital Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ( Austria ).

geography

St. Ruprecht is located southeast of Klagenfurt city center. St. Ruprecht is bounded in the north by the Südbahn and St. Peter-Strasse, in the west by Rosentaler Strasse, in the east by Ebenthaler Strasse and in the south by Glanfurt , which also partially forms the border with the municipality of Ebenthal .

history

Parish Church Klagenfurt-St. Ruprecht

The place was originally called Flatschach (1213 first documented mention as Vlaschach, 1340 Fletschach, 1488 Flatschach) and is derived from the Slovenian word blato (= moss) or blačah (= with those in moss). The name of Flatschacher Straße is reminiscent of the old place name. In 1550 the place was named after the church patron, St. Rupert . He was bishop of Worms and first bishop of Salzburg, where he is also the state patron. The parish of St. Ruprecht can be traced back to 1283 and is therefore older than the main city parish of St. Egid in Klagenfurt .

After the sovereignty was abolished, St. Ruprecht was established as an independent political municipality in 1850, and in 1865 the cadastral municipality of Neudorf was separated from Viktring and attached to St. Ruprecht. When Klagenfurt was connected to the railway network in 1863 - the Klagenfurt main train station was in the municipality of St. Ruprecht - the place experienced a strong increase in population and developed into a railway and industrial settlement. Between 1869 and 1934 the population rose from 758 to 5518 people.

On July 16, 1892, the area north of the Südbahn and St. Peter-Strasse was connected to the city of Klagenfurt. In 1906 the municipal office was opened at Hauptstrasse 1 (now St. Ruprecht Strasse 64). In 1930, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Carinthian referendum (together with Spittal, Hermagor, Feldkirchen and Ferlach), St. Ruprecht was elevated to the status of town without having previously been a market town.

Eight years later, on October 15, 1938, St. Ruprecht was incorporated into the city of Klagenfurt together with Annabichl, St. Martin and St. Peter. The main street was renamed St. Ruprecht Straße.

mayor

  • Sebastian Viktor Anderwald, 1850-1860
  • Josef Kassin, 1861–1870
  • Josef Weinländer, 1870–1878
  • Johann Komposch, 1878-1891
  • Josef Kraßnig, 1891
  • Friedrich Barbolani, 1892-1896
  • Johann Kainig, 1896–1898
  • Cölestan Wenger, 1898–1920
  • Franz Carl Georgi, 1920–1921
  • Friedrich Leixner, 1921
  • Gottfried Pollach, 1921–1926
  • Friedrich Schatzmayer (soc.), 1926–1934
  • Otto Merk, 1934–1936
  • Anton Zaloznik, 1936–1938
  • Hans Isak, 1938

coat of arms

On May 5, 1933, the then municipality of St. Ruprecht was awarded a coat of arms. There was a party-political controversy about the coat of arms. Clerical circles advocated a spiritual symbol, such as the parish priest Ruprecht. With the lion as a symbol for the power emanating from industry, trade and workers, and the hammer in its paws as a symbol for the railway, the “social democratic” variant ultimately prevailed. The shield ground, in the national colors yellow-red-white (or the heraldic equivalents gold, red and silver) was the typical patriotic basic motif of the Carinthian municipal heraldry for this time (see e.g. the coat of arms of Maria Saal ).

The official blazon of the coat of arms read: "In a shield divided by gold, red and silver, an erect black, red-tongued lion appears deposed, holding an iron hammer with a wooden handle in front of him with the front paws and the right rear pawl."

Administrative division

The city district of St. Ruprecht also forms the cadastral municipality of St. Ruprecht near Klagenfurt. From 1865 to 1973 the localities of the cadastral community Neudorf (Bach, Berg, Greuth, Lak, Neudorf, Schmelzhütte and Straschitz) belonged to St. Ruprecht, today this area belongs to Viktring again.

Parish, church and cemeteries

The entire district belongs to the parish of St. Ruprecht (first mentioned in a document in 1283), the medieval parish church was demolished in 1847 and replaced by a late classicist building, today's parish church of Klagenfurt-St. Ruprecht .

The St. Ruprecht cemetery, the oldest still existing cemetery in Klagenfurt, adjoins the parish church. After the cemetery around the St. Egid Church was closed , the people of Klagenfurt were buried in St. Ruprecht from 1788; in 1869 this had to be expanded until a new central cemetery was established in 1901 in Annabichl north of Klagenfurt. Three Gurk bishops were buried here.

Separated by a wall, the Israelite cemetery has been located next to the St. Ruprecht cemetery since 1895 .

From the cemetery story:

When the Kaiser banned the cemeteries from the densely built-up areas in the 1780s, the St. Ruprecht gave the people of Klagenfurt the opportunity to bury their dead in St. Ruprecht. The municipal burial ground was directly connected to the parish's small churchyard and was of a size that was believed to be receptive for 100 years. However, that was not the case. Despite the expansion in 1868, a solution to the problem became more and more urgent. The year 1901 finally brought relief when the new central cemetery in Annabichl was available for burials. The city of the dead in St. Ruprecht was not abandoned, but it was relieved.

Not only did the parishioners and locals find their final resting place in the church of St. Ruprecht, but also several Gurk bishops of bourgeois origin renounced a crypt and had their mortal shell handed over to the earth in St. Ruprecht. Jakob Peregrin Paulitsch made the start in 1827. The story of the Bishops of Gurk by Jakob Obersteiner says about the funeral:

“The dead bishop was laid out in the episcopal residence chapel from January 6th to 9th and was buried on the same day at three o'clock in the afternoon. Provost Jakob Ortner led the funeral conductors. The corpse, dressed in the episcopal regalia and lying in the open coffin, was carried by country pastors. The first consecration took place in the Elisabethinenkirche, where the deceased had worked as pastor until the death of Archduchess Marianne. After the procession, which was accompanied by a large crowd, had reached the cathedral, the second consecration took place there. The corpse, now enclosed in a double coffin, was to be carried on in a four-horse wagon because of the bad roads. But the seminary alumni insisted on carrying him to the St. Ruprecht cemetery on their shoulders. There the bishop, as he had expressly requested, was buried in eternal rest in the midst of his spiritual flock. ”And he actually became like those whose graves are abandoned after a certain time.

Many well-known families and personalities have their graves in the municipal cemetery, such as the sculptor Josef Kassin (1856–1931) and the landscape painter Markus Pernhart (1824–1871). In 1948 the funeral hall in St. Ruprecht was rebuilt.

Attractions

  • Weinländer paper mill (closed, historic building, private property)
  • The birthplace of the sculptor Josef Valentin Kassin at No. 69 Sankt Ruperecht Strasse

  • South view of the Weinländer paper mill

  • Weinländer paper mill on the Glanfurt

  • Birthplace of Josef Valentin Kassin

Public buildings

Viktring train station
Children and youth center "blue cube"
Technical College Carinthia

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

St. Ruprecht has numerous local suppliers. To the south of the former center of St. Ruprecht is the Südring, where many companies are located (Klagenfurt's industrial area).

In St. Ruprecht there is also the “Volkskino”, the oldest cinema in town (opened in 1926).

Wenger mustard factory

Mayor Zölestin Wenger also contributed as a private person to the upswing of his town and his community. In the 1890s he founded a factory for the production of fig coffee , vinegar , vinegar essences and mustard . The largest customer was the imperial army, and the products left the factory in wagons. This was associated with many jobs, it also encouraged the influx of people and boosted construction activity.

  • Bioenergy center in Vogelsangstrasse 5

  • "Südpark" shopping center

Leather and strap factory

The second large operation was the leather factory of the Knoch family, founded in 1893. It provided work and bread for up to 200 people. After its closure in 1983, the industrial ruin served the homeless as a shelter.

Many women found a job in the tobacco factory in Klagenfurt, albeit under the worst conditions.

Weinländer paper mill

The paper mill was a popular destination for the people of Klagenfurt. A contemporary complained, however, “that on the whole way from the city to Glanfurt, which takes at least half an hour, there is not a tree that provides shade, and thus all guests who neither have their own equipages nor adequate ones Funds are available, are exposed to the annoying necessity. To have to arrive heated and dripping with sweat at those bathing resorts, which by nature can only be visited in the hot summer months ”. The avenue was planted.

Other resident companies

Arnold-Riese-Hof

The Volksbad St. Ruprecht was located in the Arnold-Riese-Hof. It became unusable due to the effects of the war and reopened after the war had been repaired.

The Sattnitz lido was rebuilt in 1946 and expanded in 1948 in order to offer the people of Klagenfurt an appropriate bathing opportunity, as the Klagenfurt lido was largely claimed by the occupying forces.

schools

In the school sector, the first success was achieved in 1904: In a rented private house on Feldhofgasse, lessons began for two branch classes of the Benedictine school, the boys in one and the girls in the other. The St. Ruprecht school youth moved into their own spacious school building in 1954. From 1975 there was also the main school building. A ball game hall was attached to the school center.

Drinking water supply

The drinking water for the people of Klagenfurt also came from St. Ruprecht. Even the city of the estates took it from the Stattnitz area. Several wooden pipelines led from the wooden spring socket into the water tower on this side of the Glanfurt, from where a lead pipe transported the delicious liquid to today's St. Ruprecht Strasse and from there to the city center in order to feed several public fountains there. In 1869, the township of the country (successor to the estates) took over the water pipeline and expanded it. A new version of the source has made it possible to increase its productivity. The year 1874 brought a new expansion tank and in 1890 a cast iron pipe line replaced the old one in the city. At that time the production of house connections was also started. Later it came to the development of further Sattnitz springs and electric pumps carried the water into the container room. That was the beginning of the gravity water supply. As a result of the constantly increasing demand for water, a groundwater supply system was built in Straschitz in 1931. At first it consisted of a boiler well, then three more were added, which were connected to the elevated tanks on the Sattnitz slopes by a string of pipes. In 1937/38 a second pipe run was laid from Brunnenfeld in Straschitz through Rosentaler Strasse into the city center.

Folk cinema

The Volkskino, built in 1926, proved to be a profitable company. “The building site was chosen so that visitors from Klagenfurt could be expected from the outset. In order to cover the construction costs, a loan of 130,000 Schilling was taken out at the Zentralsparkasse in Vienna at originally 8.5 percent interest. However, this rate of interest rose to 13.5 percent in the following years. The plans for the construction of the cinema were provided by Professor Truxas from Villach, the construction work was entrusted to Ing. Hitz / Raubal. On October 15, 1926, the time had come: the first screening, the large Russian film 'Battleship Potemkin', rolled across the stage. The land and construction costs amounted to 162,000 schillings. "

Only war widows and war invalids were used as staff. The then mayor and railway official Gottfried Pollach was appointed managing director. The great era of radio came and there were fears that cinema operations might suffer from it, which turned out to be unfounded. The community was not only able to repay the loan, but also between 3000 and 4000 Schillings a month for the welfare budget. In 1929 a balcony was installed in the auditorium, adding another 120 to the existing 400 seats. In 1930 the switch to the sound film took place and the non-stop game system was used. For this purpose, the waiting room had to be expanded. During the Nazi regime, the municipalities were forbidden to run movie theaters; they had to be leased to a private person. The National Socialists, who renamed everything, turned the Volkskino into the South Cinema. In 1949 370,512 visitors were counted in the Volkskino. In the 45 years up to 1971 a total of 14 million people in St. Ruprecht went to the cinema.

Sports and leisure facilities

The Sattnitzschanze was a sports facility for ski jumpers. The St. Ruprecht's went swimming and with them the people of Klagenfurt and the military went to the Sattnitz, but this did not mean the Glanfurt , but the area in which the bathing area was located. An early name for the lake outflow was Lancquart, but Holzwurm already used the name Glanfurt in his Carinthia map and Megiser in the Annales Carinthiae. The bath was on the site of the paper mill, in 1873 the facilities consisted of 16 bathing huts, 65 cabins and a brick swimming pool 52 × 8 m. For a short time the institution rose to become a spa. Guest rooms had been set up so that the spa guest could stay here.

Farms

Müllneritschhube including toll house

EZ 39 Josef Swetina, Müllneritschhube including toll house, Rosentaler Straße 167

Until the basic discharge, the Müllneritsch was a subject of the Bürgerspital Dominium. The last owner who had to put up with an upper owner was Josef Kuchkling. In the land register of the citizen hospital he had the land register no. 1. He must have died in the middle of the century, because reality inherited the underage son Simon. He sold the property and a moss meadow in 1861 to the lessee Josef Swetina for 6,300 guilders. He did not get any money, however, because he had debts of about this amount. The vehicles handed over included an arl, a harrow, a peening stick with a scythe and a windmill. (Zl. 10.529 / 1861, Fasz. 77, No. 91.)

Under the title of the father's donation, the new owner handed over the reality of the toll house to his son Felix Svetina in 1884. Whether he was very happy about it remains to be seen, because he had debts and obligations amounting to 4,545 guilders to take over and on top of that to provide for the couple. (Zl. 9471/1886, Fasz. 247.)

Felix Svetina appointed his wife Josefine geb. Kirschner became the sole heir, she entered the land register as a widow in 1906. The property consisted of the Hube, the Mauthaus, the Kramerkeusche (EZ 38) and the Lercherwiese (EZ 98). (Zl. 472/1906.)

Josefine managed the estate until the 1920s, but then sold it to the Rechberg merchant Paul Kapus for 350,000,000 crowns (14,400 crowns were a gold crown) during the inflationary period in 1924. She must have been a tough negotiator because she got an apartment on top of that, a smaller pig every year, 200 kilograms of wheat flour, 300 kilograms of potatoes, 5 kilograms of coffee beans, 5 liters of rum, 1 kilogram of beef per week, 1 liter of milk a day and more. (Zl. 2028/1924.)

In 1935 the Müllneritsch reality came under the hammer. In February, a settlement procedure was opened and a month later bankruptcy. At the auction, the knock-downs went to Enrico, Carlo and Luciano del Torso and Michael Aichholzer. In the land register, the former appear with the German first names Heinrich, Karl and Luzian. Aichholzer gave up his shares in 1937.

In 1955, the property with the del Torso sawmill in Kaufweg became the property of S. Jaritz, Holzindustrie und Export OHG. (Zl. 2313/1957.)

  • Lerchster nursery at Kirchengasse 68

traffic

Viktring station

When the Karawankenbahn was built, it was the mayor of St. Ruprecht, Zölestin Wenger, who made sure that the Viktring train station was still built on St. Ruprecht's land.

people

  • Jakob Pagitz, founder of the Pago company based in St. Ruprecht
  • Friedrich Schatzmayer , Mayor of Klagenfurt and St. Ruprecht
  • Robert Musil , born in the corner building at Bahnhofstrasse / Bahnhofplatz, at that time still the municipality of St. Ruprecht
  • Josef Valentin Kassin , sculptor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 332
  3. ^ Anton Kreuzer: St. Ruprecht - City in front of the city, Klagenfurts XI. District. Kreuzer-Buch, Klagenfurt 2009.
  4. ↑ City News Klagenfurt, December 1, 1972
  5. ^ Austro-Nazl against Austrian sport: Political scandal in Klagenfurt. In:  The morning. Wiener Montagblatt , No. 6/1938 (XXIXth volume), February 7, 1938, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dmo.

literature

  • Johann Stermetz: St. Ruprecht and St. Ruperecht Strasse , Klagenfurt 2006, publishing house of the Carinthian State Archives
  • Anton Kreuzer, Gerfried H. People, Wilfried R. Franz: St. Ruprecht - city in front of the city . Kreuzer book, Klagenfurt 2009

Web links

Commons : St. Ruprecht (Klagenfurt am Wörthersee)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files