Weißensee (Carinthia)
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Weissensee
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| Country: | Austria | |
| State : | Carinthia | |
| Political District : | Spittal an der Drau | |
| License plate : | SP | |
| Main town : | Techendorf | |
| Surface: | 78.11 km² | |
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 43 ' N , 13 ° 18' E | |
| Height : | 930 m above sea level A. | |
| Residents : | 761 (January 1, 2020) | |
| Postal code : | 9762 | |
| Area code : | 04713 | |
| Community code : | 2 06 39 | |
| NUTS region | AT212 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Techendorf 90 9762 Weißensee |
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| Mayor : | Gerhard Koch ( FPÖ ) | |
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Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (11 members) |
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| Location of Weißensee in the Spittal an der Drau district | ||
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 Municipal office in Techendorf |
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Weißensee is a municipality in the Spittal an der Drau district in Carinthia , Austria with 761 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The community, founded in 1850, was called Techendorf until 1968.
geography
The community is located on the 11.6 km long Weißensee at the foot of the Gailtal Alps . With the exception of a small piece of the east bank (municipality of Stockenboi), the entire lake is located in the municipality, which extends in the east to the Staff and Villacher Egel, in the west to the Kreuzberg. The eponymous lake is the fourth largest in Carinthia with an area of 6.5 km² and is 930 m above sea level. A.
With Techendorf, the community has only one cadastral community .
The municipality includes the following seven localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Gatschach (133)
- Kreuzberg (12)
- Naggl (48)
- Neusach (193)
- Oberdorf (195)
- Techendorf (174)
- Troebelsberg (6)
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Weißensee
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population
According to the 2001 census, Weißensee had 788 inhabitants, 97.2% of whom were Austrian citizens. 73.6% of the population confessed to the Protestant and 22.0% to the Roman Catholic Church and 1.0% were of the Islamic faith, 3.4% without religious belief.
The community has a very constant population. Of around 600 inhabitants in 1869, more than 700 inhabitants were counted for the first time in 1951. This number has remained at just over 750 people over the past few decades.
history
The oldest traces of settlement date at least from the year 400 BC by the Taurisker, Celt and Noriker. The first documentary mention of the Weißensee comes from the period 1075-1090. The noble Judith von Stein gave the bishop Altwin von Brixen “piscatorem unum apud Wizinse - a fisherman on the Weissensee”. This is probably less a physical fisherman than a fishing area or fishing rights on Lake Weissensee. The oldest remains of a wooden bridge over the lake, which were found when the bridge was rebuilt in 1967, also refer to the time around 1050. The entire western part of the Weißensee and even a small part of the east bank (Mößel) belonged to the Greifenburg rule . Ecclesiastically, the Weißensee belonged to the Archdiocese of Aquiliaea until 1751, but the Millstatt Abbey also had properties on the Weißensee. In 1485 the Patriarch Marco Barbo , the Bishop of Caorle, sent Pietro Carlo to visit the parishes south of the Drau in Carinthia. The bishop is accompanied by his secretary Paolo Santonino . In his Itinerarium (travel diary) Santonino writes:
“On November 3rd we climbed uphill at the request and request of the noble Mr. Johann Wolkensteiner, the castle captain of Grünburg, and came to the albus lacus di Weißensee, our companions were the castle captain himself and the castle captain Georg von Priesenegg. This place is ten miles or a little less from S. Hermagor . The way led us over snow-covered mountains, and we stayed in the house of Nikolaus Janko, who had the dedication of the altar, which took place the next day, done from his own resources, as his father had specified it in his will. We had a very satisfactory meal, according to the circumstances of the host and the place; we did not miss the excellent trout, the fried and boiled, not even fatty and tender pork. The Weißensee is located in the northern district and in Upper Carinthia and has more fish than the other 42 lakes in this province. Its bottom or bed is so deep in several places that a hundred paces long rope cannot reach it. On the 4th of the month the venerable bishop consecrated the new altar in honor of St. Nikolaus, Christophorus and Sebastian. After the meal, which had good trout, we moved west and went down into the Drau valley for the second time. "
Nikolaus Jank mentioned in the travel report probably came from Gatschach, the vulgar name Jank (colloquial: Jongg) is still preserved in Gatschach 2.
Around the middle of the 16th century, Protestantism spread across large parts of Carinthia . When exactly he was able to gain a foothold on the Weissensee can no longer be said. A Protestant preacher is attested in Villach as early as 1526. The evangelical preacher Conrad Rues in Paternion is documented for 1555 . In 1621 a glassworks was built in Tscherniheim , in which workers from different regions of the Holy Roman Empire were employed. It can be assumed that they brought the new denomination with them from what is now Germany. From 1600 the Protestants were persecuted in the Habsburg Empire. Until the Tolerance Patent (1781) there was also secret Protestantism at Weissensee. But that did not mean a complete retreat into private life. There were community judges in every village who settled minor neighborhood disputes. In the second half of the 18th century, Christoph Winkler vlg. Took over this task for Techendorf. Moserwirt (1738–1790) and for Gatschach Jakob Winkler vlg. Pletz (1740-1800). Jakob Winkler was then also the first curator of the Protestant community in Weißbriach / Weißensee, which was founded in 1782. Together with Johann Hasslacher from Weißbriach, he set out for Modra in today's Slovakia to recruit a pastor for the new congregation. They found Johann Gottfried Gotthardt, who was the first pastor in the community of Weißbriach / Weißensee. According to the tolerance patent (1781), around 95% of the population at Weißensee professed the Protestant faith. The Protestant prayer house was consecrated in 1783 ; it served as a community office and school until 1986.
Around 1800 most of the villages had around 15 house numbers each:
| Oberdorf | Gatschach | Techendorf | Neusach | Naggl | Pestle |
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1 Urbele
2 Mösslacher (the other houses belonged to the Paternion dominion or the Stockenboi parish) |
- The bullet holes in the grain box at Moserwirt (Hotel Moser) in Techendorf are a relic from the Napoleonic Wars .
- In 1827 the Weißensee was measured and the data was recorded in the Franziszeische Cadastre - the forerunner of today's land register.
- In 1850 the cadastral community of Techendorf constituted itself as a separate local community, its scope has only changed insignificantly due to border corrections in the 20th century. The first guests came to Weissensee towards the end of the 19th century. The first guest book dates from 1885. The first larger accommodation establishments were built at the beginning of the 20th century. Inns have been around for a long time. The already mentioned Moserwirt and the Pletzwirt in Gatschach (Gasthof Weißensee) are among the oldest inns. Both date back to at least the late 17th century.
- The Techendorf Evangelical Church was built from 1900 to 1903 , replacing the previously existing prayer house.
coat of arms
Coat of arms Description : The blue ground in the arms of Weissensee alludes to the lake, the silver board to the lake marl caused by white sand banks, which probably owes the lake its name. The bridge is the landmark of Techendorf, it was first mentioned in a document in 1348 and has been renewed again and again since then and was last replaced in 1967 by today's reinforced concrete structure with four pillars. The silver W stands for the place name and was used as part of a tourism logo even before the coat of arms was awarded.
The coat of arms and flag were awarded to the municipality on March 26, 1992, the flag is blue and white with an incorporated coat of arms.
politics
The council of Weißensee has a total of 11 members.
- With the municipal council and mayoral elections in Carinthia in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 4 ÖVP , 3 Weißensee citizens' list, 2 FPÖ , and 2 SPÖ .
- mayor
- since 2015 Gerhard Koch (FPÖ)
- 2003 - 2015 Johann Weichsler (SPÖ)
- 1997 - 2003 Alfred Winkler (ÖVP)
- 1964 - 1997 Alfred Knaller (ÖVP) [1]
economy
The economy of the municipality is characterized by tourism in summer and winter. The remote location of the fjord-like Alpine lake and the nature park attract many holidaymakers.
energy
Weißensee in Carinthia is one of the 24 municipalities in Austria (as of March 2019) that have been awarded the highest award of the e5 municipal energy project. The e5 community project aims to promote the implementation of a modern energy and climate policy at community level.
traffic
The Weißensee Straße B 87 leads past the edge of the municipality .
Weißensee is a member of the Alpine Pearls , which advocate environmentally friendly mobility in the Alpine region.
Culture
Attractions
- The Techendorf Evangelical Church was built between 1900 and 1903 in the neo-Gothic style and modeled on the church in Weißbriach .
- The Catholic branch church of St. Martin in Gatschach, first mentioned in a document in 1485, is a low, originally late Gothic building that was baroque in the 17th century.
- From Naggl / Paterzipf (boat station / car park), the former glassblowing village of Tscherniheim can be reached on foot in around 75 minutes. The Bodental is also passable with mountain bikes. Along the route there are six information boards on the theme trail "On the trail of the forest glass".
- In 1986 the ice skating scenes from the Bond film "A Touch of Death" were filmed at Weissensee.
Sports
The altitude of the lake causes reliable, sufficiently firm freezing in winter and the length of the lake favors distance ice skating . Since 1989, the world's largest speed skating spectacle has been taking place on the natural ice of the lake in the second half of January. The alternative Dutch 11-city tour typically has over 3000 participants. The longest distance is 200 km and the world record was run here in 5 hours and 11 minutes.
- Ski Area
According to its own information, Weissensee Bergbahn GmbH operates five lifts with a total length of 2480 m and a transport capacity of 3980 people / h, as well as 6060 m of slopes . The ski area extends from 930 m to 1324 m above sea level. A.
Evangelical parish
- Pastor since the tolerance patent
- since 2011 Mariusz Bryl
- 1970 - 2009 Wilhelm Moshammer
- 1958 - 1967 Heinz Krobath
- 1957 - 1958 Wolfgang Schmidt
- 1947 - 1957 Willibald Sauer
- 1936 - 1947 Fritz Zerbst
- 1929 - 1936 Fritz Rumpold
- 1916 - 1929 Wunibald Maier
- 1872 - 1915 Karl Steltzer
- 1867 - 1871 Christian Adolf Wieser
- 1833 - 1867 Christian Wieser
- 1813-1833 Paul Prugger
- 1798 - 1813 Johann Gottfried Hechtel
- 1790 - 1797 Michael Strompf
- 1787 - 1789 Johann Samuel Kaltenstein
- 1784 - 1787 Johann Georg Overbeck
- 1782 - 1784 Johann Gottfried Gotthardt
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 2009: Alfred Knaller (1931–2019), former mayor of Weißensee, member of the Federal Council 1984–1989
Sons and daughters of the church
- Georg Traar (born July 5, 1899 in Neusach / Weißensee; † September 4, 1980 in Purkersdorf), Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian, youth pastor, superintendent, publicist and ecumenical activist.
- Harald Rindler (born November 4, 1948 in Techendorf / Weißensee), mathematics professor at the University of Vienna
Web links
- Weissensee community
- HP Sorger: The Chronicle of the Weissensee
- 20639 - Weißensee (Carinthia). Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ↑ Climate data from Austria 1971-2000
- ^ Statistics Austria, population census, demographic data. May 15, 2001, accessed March 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Statistics Austria, A look at the community Weißensee, population development. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
- ^ HP Sorger: The Chronicle of the Weissensee. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
- ^ Paolo Santonino: Santonino in Carinthia. From his travel diaries 1485–1486 . Publisher Rudolf Egger. Kleinmayr Verlag, Klagenfurt 1947, ISBN 3-901758-02-X , pp. 68-69.
- ^ History of the Evangelicals in Carinthia
- ↑ Simone Madeleine Lassnig: Monuments of the Reformation period and secret Protestantism in the Paternion area. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna. 2010, p. 12-13 .
- ↑ Martin Wastian: History. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
- ↑ Karoline Turnschek: Chronicle | Hotel Moser am Weissensee. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
- ^ Wilhelm Deuer: The Carinthian community arms . Verlag des Kärntner Landesarchivs, Klagenfurt 2006, ISBN 3-900531-64-1 , p. 292
- ↑ e5 communities in Austria as of March 2019
- ↑ Holidays in Weissensee with the mobility guarantee of the Alpine Pearls. Retrieved March 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Eisschnelllauf weissensee.com, accessed October 3, 2016.
- ↑ Panorama map. Weissensee Bergbahn GmbH, accessed on December 14, 2012 .
- ↑ Martin Wastian: Pastor of our parishes. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
- ↑ https://gailtal-journal.at/aktuell/altbuergermeister-alfred-knaller-verstorben/ , accessed on April 19, 2019.
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