Feistritz in the Rosental

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Feistritz in the Rosental
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Feistritz im Rosental (Austria)
Feistritz in the Rosental
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Carinthia
Political District : Klagenfurt-Land
License plate : KL
Surface: 71.84 km²
Coordinates : 46 ° 31 '  N , 14 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 31 '21 "  N , 14 ° 10' 18"  E
Height : 549  m above sea level A.
Residents : 2,474 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postal code : 9181
Area code : 04228
Community code : 2 04 03
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptplatz 126
9181 Feistritz i. R.
Website: https://www.feistritz-rosental.gv.at/
politics
Mayoress : Sonya Feinig ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 )
(19 members)

12 SPÖ , 3 FPÖ , 2 FVP , 2 EL

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A total of 19 seats
Location of Feistritz im Rosental in the Klagenfurt-Land district
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Market town office
Parish Church of St. John in Sankt Johann
Church of the Holy Cross in Feistritz
Culture house on the main square
Suetschach from the northwest with Sinacher Gupf

Feistritz im Rosental ( Slovenian : Bistrica v Rožu ) is a bilingual market town with 2,474 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Klagenfurt-Land district in Carinthia in Austria .

geography

Feistritz is located in the Rosental in the south of Carinthia, a trough valley typical of its topographical appearance , at the exit of the stream of the same name from the foothills of the Karawanken . Via the village you can also get to Bärental , which is located entirely in Feistritz municipality. The community is located between 408 and 2237 meters above sea level ( high chair ).

The Drau flows through the municipality from west to east and at the same time forms the border to the northern neighboring municipality Ludmannsdorf .

Community structure

Feistritz im Rosental is divided into the six cadastral communities Feistritz im Rosental ( Bistrica v Rožu ), Gansdorf, Hundsdorf ( Podsinja vas ), Matschach ( Mače ), Suetschach ( Sveče ), Weizelsdorf.

The municipal area comprises the following eight localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Bear Valley ( Zavrh ) (5)
  • Feistritz im Rosental ( Bistrica v Rožu ) (999) including Polana, Sala, Sinach and Unterfeistritz
  • Hundsdorf ( Podsinja vas ) (123)
  • Matschach ( Mače ) (123)
  • Rabenberg ( rod ) (9)
  • St. Johann im Rosental ( Št. Janž v Rožu ) (279)
  • Suetschach ( Sveče ) (585) including Ladinach, Oberkrajach and Unterkrajach
  • Weizelsdorf ( Svetna vas ) (351)

Other locations are the hamlet of Sala and the Rotten Polana , Ladinach , Oberkrajach , Sinach , Unterfeitritz and Unterkrajach .

(The municipality itself officially states Bärental, Feistritz, Hundsdorf, Ladinach, Matschach, Oberkrajach, Rabenberg, Sinach, St. Johann, Suetschach, Unterkrajach, Weizelsdorf as twelve "associated localities".)

Neighboring communities

Ludmannsdorf Köttmannsdorf
Sankt Jakob im Rosental Neighboring communities Ferlach
Jesenice (SLO) Žirovnica (SLO)

history

Feistritz was traditionally an industrial community: Already at the beginning of the 16th century, ore from the Bärental was being processed into iron on Feistritzbach . The industry later specialized in processing iron into wire, and from the mid-19th century onwards, products such as weaver's comb wires, furniture springs, wire ropes and telegraph wires were manufactured. Particularly noteworthy is the establishment of one of the most modern wire rod mills in Europe at the time by Ferdinand Graf Egger in 1840.

After the economic crisis in the 1930s, production in the factory, which was operated by the Krainische Industriegesellschaft from 1906, was stopped in 1933. From 1938 a battery factory moved into the disused factory halls, the batteries of which made Feistritz known worldwide under the brand name “Bear Batteries”. But even this branch of industry has not survived to the present, in 1998 production was shut down.

Today's local community was originally constituted in 1850 under the community name Suetschach, but was renamed Feistritz a year later. In the course of the municipal structural reform, Feistritz was merged with the local community Weizelsdorf in 1973 and the community name was changed to Feistritz im Rosental . On July 11, 1996 Feistritz in the Rosental was granted the right to use the designation “ market community ”.

population

According to the 2001 census, the community Feistritz in the Rosental had 2707 inhabitants. Of these, 93.1% had Austrian citizenship; Bosnia-Herzegovina (1.8%), Croatia (1.3%) and Germany (1.1%) were the most strongly represented among the foreign nationalities. 13.3% of the population belonged to the Slovene-speaking ethnic group .

For the Roman Catholic Church to 86.4% of the community population known for Protestant Church 2.9% and Islam 2.7%. 6.0% of the population described themselves as non-denominational.

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Feistritz im Rosental
  • The parish church of St. Lambertus on the southern outskirts of Suetschach is an originally Romanesque choir tower church, which was first mentioned in a document in 1364. The original choir tower was removed from the first floor, the nave vault and the west tower were built in the 15th century. During the Baroque period and around 1900, further changes were made; the onion helmet dates from 1861.
  • The Filialkirche Hl. Kreuz ("agony of death chapel") is located on a small hill south of Feistritz and is a simple building built around 1720 with a western tower. The pointed helmet was put on in the 19th century.
  • Feistritz Castle, also known as Gößnitzerhof, can be traced back to the late 15th century and belonged to Georg von Rottal zu Talberg (approx. 1460–1526). It served as a trade building from the 16th century and was expanded into a long, two-story building in the 18th century. During the wars between France and Austria it was badly damaged in 1813, but it was rebuilt, expanded with additions and modernized.

Economy and Infrastructure

Drau power plant in Feistritz im Rosental
Bear Battery, Feistritz im Rosental, Carinthia.jpg

To compensate for the job shortage caused by the closure of the battery factory in 1998, Mayor Hubert Gradenegger established the Feistritz industrial park in 1999. The community developed an 8 hectare industrial area with a rail connection to the Klagenfurt - Jesenice railway line ( Rosentalbahn ). Another location factor of the industrial park's proximity to the in Ferlach located HTL .

Feistritz station

Feistritz train station in the Rosental has not been served since 2016. Even before that, there were only a few trains on the route, which is in poor condition. Freight traffic has decreased significantly over the years. In future, the section of the Rosentalbahn between Weizelsdorf and Feistritz is to be used for trolley transport.

The Drau is used economically by a run-of-river power plant owned by the Austrian Drau power plants, which produces electrical energy with a nominal output of 88  MW and a regular energy of 354 million kWh / year.

In the municipality of Feistritz im Rosental there are five volunteer fire brigades in the districts of Suetschach, St. Johann, Hundsdorf, Weizelsdorf and Feistritz.

politics

The directly elected mayor is Sonya Feinig (SPÖ).

The municipal council of Feistritz has 19 members and has been composed as follows since the municipal council election in 2015 :

coat of arms

Blazon : In green, walking on a silver anvil, a red-tongued and red-armored silver bear with a silver lance shouldered on the left.

Explanation: The silver bear in Feistritz's coat of arms stands for the Bärental, the anvil symbolizes the iron industry that has been in operation for centuries and the lance is an attribute of St. Lambertus , the patron saint of the church and parish of Suetschach. Its patronage occurs more frequently in the Eastern Alps and was particularly supported by the Eppensteiners (see e.g. St. Lambrecht Abbey ). The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the municipality on July 16, 1990, the flag is green and white with an incorporated coat of arms.

Town twinning

FranceFrance Baerenthal in France

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

People related to the place:

Web links

Commons : Feistritz im Rosental  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AF Reiterer: Lebenswelt mother tongue, Slovenian and its current perception - a report. In: K. Anderwald , P. Karpf, H. Valentin (eds.): Kärntner Jahrbuch für Politik 2000. Klagenfurt 2000, 340–362.
  2. AF Reiterer: Counting minorities? Methodological and content-related problems of official language counts. In: M. Pandel [ea] (ed.): Conflict of town signs in Carinthia - crisis or opportunity? Vienna 2004, 25–38.
  3. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  4. ^ Municipality - Municipality of Feistritz in the Rosental. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .
  5. ^ Quoted from Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian municipal coat of arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 84
  6. Interview with Bernarda Fink-Inzko in the courier , accessed on September 6, 2015