Steindorf am Ossiacher See

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Carinthia

Political District :

Feldkirchen

License plate :

FE

Main town :

Bodensdorf

Surface:

29.55 km²

Coordinates :

46 ° 42 ' N , 14 ° 0' E Coordinates: 46 ° 41 '54 " N , 14 ° 0' 22" E

Height :

510 m above sea level A.

Residents :

3,808 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

129 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

9551, 9552

Area code :

0 42 43

Community code :

2 10 09

NUTS region

AT212

Address of the
municipal administration:

10.-Oktober-Strasse 1
9551 Bodensdorf

Website:

www.steindorf.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Georg Kavalar (LKAVE)

Municipal Council : ( 2015 )
(23 members)

7 FPÖ , 5 ÖVP , 5 SPÖ , 4 LKAVE, 2 Greens

7th

5

4th

2

7th 5 5 4th 2

A total of 23 seats

FPÖ : 7
ÖVP : 5
SPÖ : 5
LKAVE : 4
GREEN : 2

Location of Steindorf am Ossiacher See in the Feldkirchen district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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View of Bodensdorf and Lake Ossiach

Municipal office in Bodensdorf

New parish church of St. Joseph in Bodensdorf

Steindorf am Ossiacher See is a municipality with 3808 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Feldkirchen district in Carinthia in Austria .

geography

The community is located on the northern bank of the Ossiacher See , about 8 kilometers from Feldkirchen . The municipality extends the Ossiachberg up the slope to the ridge of the Gerlitzen .

Community structure

The community is divided into the cadastral communities Ossiachberg, Steindorf, Stiegl and Tiffen. The municipality includes the following 21 localities (population as of January 1, 2020):

Apetig (40)
Bichl (10)
Bodensdorf (1134)
Castle (31)
Burgrad (9)
Golk (14)
Langacker (28)
Nadling (209)
Ossiachberg (53)
Pfaffendorf (121)
Regin (17)
Sonnberg (40)
Saint Urban (41)
Steindorf am Ossiacher See (500)
Stiegl (335)
Tiffen (174)
Drafts (98)
Cherneitsch (14)
Tschöran (496)
Unterberg (372)
Winkl Ossiachberg (72)

Neighboring communities

Arriach	Himmelberg
To meet		Feldkirchen
Villach	Ossiach

history

The area of Tiffen was already around 500 BC. Settled by the Celts . Two Jupiter votive altars date from Roman times and are now walled in in Lang Castle in Feldkirchen. Tiffen was first mentioned in a document between 1050 and 1065, the village of Steindorf in 1263 as "Steyndorf". The church in Steindorf was built in 1401 and later rebuilt in the Gothic style.

The construction of the Kronprinz Rudolf-Bahn (today Ossiachersee-Traverse of the Südbahn ) in 1865 marked the beginning of tourism on Ossiacher See, which completely changed the traditional agricultural structure of the area in the course of the 20th century.

The municipality of Steindorf was constituted in 1850, and the municipality of Glanhofen with four cadastral municipalities was separated from the very extensive municipality in 1894 and renamed Ossiach . In 1986 the community name of Steindorf received the addition "am Ossiacher See".

population

According to the 2001 census, the municipality of Steindorf has 3,583 inhabitants, 95.6% of whom are Austrian, 1.5% German and 1.0% Bosnian citizens. 61.9% of the population profess the Roman Catholic , 28.9% the Protestant and 0.8% the Orthodox Church , 0.5% are Islamic . 5.4% are non-denominational.

Günther Domenig , 'Steinhaus', Steindorf / Austria

Urban fountain in Sankt Urban

Culture and sights

The stone house in Steindorf designed by Günther Domenig is an architectural sight.

Filial church St. Johannes in Steindorf

Parish church St. Josef in Bodensdorf

Parish church of St. James the Elder in the village of Tiffen

Birth house of the artist Switbert Lobisser in Tiffen

Catholic branch church St. Margarethen in Tiffen

Evangelical church in Tschöran near Bodensdorf

The approximately 700 hectares of lead moor (“lead statt ” for short ) was previously covered by Lake Ossiach and is now a nature reserve and local recreation area.

In Sankt Urban standing Urbanibrunnen that was realized on the initiative of the innkeepers Lisl and Fritz Nindler together with the State of Carinthia, Steindorf and fraternity Tschöran.

Old parish church St. Josef in Bodensdorf
Evangelical parish church in Tschöran
Filial church St. Johannes in Steindorf
Parish Church of St. James in Tiffen

Economy and Infrastructure

Due to its location along the Ossiacher See and its share in the Gerlitzen ski area , the community has summer and winter tourism, which is the main branch of the economy. There is a small climbing garden near Bodensdorf . Along the lake there is a detour of the Rudolfsbahn between St. Veit and Villach , which is only served by regional trains for passenger traffic, but is an important shortcut for freight traffic.

politics

The municipal council of Steindorf has 23 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

7 FPÖ
5 ÖVP
5 SPÖ
4 List Kavalar
2 greens

Municipal council election 2015

%

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

28.73%
(-21.37 % p )

22.97%
(-3.61 % p )

23.64%
(+ 0.33 % p )

9.23%
( n. K. )

16.43%
( n. K. )

FPÖ ^{[[#WD 2015 a | a]]}

LKAVE

Remarks:

^a 2009 as BZÖ - Die Freiheitlichen in Kärnten

mayor

2003–2015 Marialuise Mittermüller (FPK)
since 2015 Georg Kavalar (List Kavalar)

coat of arms

The blue background of the Steindorf coat of arms, which was awarded to the municipality on June 10, 1977, refers to the location on the third largest lake in Carinthia, the golden Dreiberg alludes to the first syllable of the word Steindorf. The golden catfish is a parallel to the three trout from the opposite municipality of Ossiach; this fish is more common in the eastern part of the lake.

The official blazon of the coat of arms reads:

"A golden catfish (catfish) in a blue sign over a golden three-mountain."

The flag is blue and yellow with an incorporated coat of arms.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Switbert Lobisser (1878–1943, born in Tiffen), painter and graphic artist
Jörg Freunschlag (* 1942 in Bodensdorf), former President of the Carinthian state parliament
Lilian Faschinger (* 1950 in Tschöran), writer and literary translator

Personalities associated with Steindorf

Gustav Renker (1889–1967), journalist and writer, grew up in Bodensdorf

literature

Alfred Mitterer: Steindorf am Ossiacher See. Chronicle of a community. Verlag Joh. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1997, ISBN 3-85366-849-6 .

Web links

Commons : Steindorf am Ossiacher See - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Homepage of the community
Bodensdorf am Ossiacher See economic and tourism information
Stone village in aeiou
21009 - Steindorf am Ossiacher See. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
^ Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 3, 2019 .
^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 270

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

[2] Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 3, 2019 .

[3] Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchiv, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 270