Pürgg-Trautenfels
Pürgg-Trautenfels (Former parish) village Trautenfels cadastral Pürgg |
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Basic data | ||
Pole. District , state | Liezen (LI), Styria | |
Judicial district | Liezen | |
Coordinates | 47 ° 31 '53 " N , 14 ° 4' 5" E | |
height | 645 m above sea level A. | |
Residents of the village | 134 (January 1, 2020) | |
Area d. KG | 62.71 km² | |
Post Code | 8951 | |
prefix | + 43/3682 | |
Official website | ||
Statistical identification | ||
Community code | 6123 | |
Locality code | 15844 | |
Cadastral parish number | 67313 | |
Pürgg with a view of the Grimming |
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Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk |
Pürgg-Trautenfels is a formerly independent municipality with 144 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) in the Liezen district and judicial district of Liezen in Austrian Styria . Since January 1st, 2015 the place has been merged with the former municipality of Stainach under the name " Stainach-Pürgg " as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform .
geography
The former municipality of Pürgg-Trautenfels was located on the east side of the Grimming , the highest free-standing mountain in Europe. The former municipality is located in the upper Ennstal between Gröbming and Stainach and is bordered by the Enns in the south, and in the north it extends to the main ridge of the Dead Mountains (Almkogel, 2116 m altitude). The highest point of the former municipality is the Grimming ( 2351 m ) in the west.
Former parish structure
The former municipal area comprised the following five localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):
- Pürgg (163) including Lessern
- Trautenfels (134) including Latvians and Niederstuttern
- Lower castle (279) including Pfanner
- Untergrimming (127)
- Zlem (173) including Dörfl and Wörschachwald
The former community consisted of the cadastral communities Neuhaus, Pürgg and Zlem.
Neighboring places and communities
- in the north of Hinterstoder ( Upper Austria )
- in the east Wörschach and Stainach
- in the southeast Irdning
- in the west Sankt Martin am Grimming and Tauplitz
history
On the rocky ridge of the "Purgstallhöhe" stood a fortified complex in the Middle Ages: the Grauscharn Castle (also Gruscharn, Slav. Grusch = rubble). Already in 1160 Margrave Ottokar III. In this his Pfalzburg, the center of power for the County of Ennstal, a certificate was issued. The Johanneskapelle was probably part of the castle complex. The parish, the parish of which reached far beyond Aussee , is also very old; the church and castle on the castle stables are attested in 1183 . Initially, Pürgg was the seat of archdeacons (archpriests). In 1490 the parish came to the St. George Knights , in 1599 to the Jesuits of Graz .
coat of arms
Until it was dissolved, the municipality of Pürgg-Trautenfels had its own coat of arms. The official blazon of the municipal coat of arms, awarded in 1979, reads:
"Under a diminished red shield head with a continuous silver Romanesque leaf frieze in the silver field sown with red roses, a black panther."
politics
- Mayor until the end of 2014
- 1988–2007 Kurt Tasch (ÖVP)
- 2007–2014 Barbara Wolfgang-Krenn (ÖVP)
Culture and sights
See also: List of listed objects in Stainach-Pürgg
- Pürgg (place)
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The picturesque village of Pürgg, known by Peter Rosegger as the “Kripperl of Styria”, is located on a small plateau in the southern slopes of the Rantenstein, about 150 m above the valley floor of the Grimmingbach. The place consists of a few narrow streets that are largely kept car-free. There the houses crowd around two churches - remarkably both built around the time in the 12th century.
- Parish church of St. George, presumably inaugurated on July 17, 1130: The three-aisled Romanesque church is still preserved in its basic structure, but was designed in Gothic style at the beginning of the 14th century .
- Johanneskapelle : The Romanesque chapel is located on the eastern edge of the plateau on a beautiful vantage point over the Ennstal. This chapel is famous for its valuable frescoes from the 12th century, which are among the most beautiful and best preserved in Europe.
Romanesque frescoes in the Johanneskapelle: Battle of the cats
- Place and castle Trautenfels, church ruins Neuhaus
The village of Trautenfels is a small settlement around Trautenfels Castle , located directly on the Enns .
The castle is located on a small hill that towers over the valley floor by about 30 m. It was first mentioned as a castle in 1261. Friedrich von Trauttmannsdorf gave it its present appearance in the Baroque period . Today it is owned by the Province of Styria and is used as a museum and exhibition center as part of the Landesmuseum Joanneum . It houses, among other things, a landscape and folklore museum.
A few meters west of the castle, on the same ridge, are the ruins of the Neuhaus Protestant church. At the time of the Reformation, this was the most important religious center in the upper Ennstal. The church was built by the lords of the castle in Trautenfels. But it soon fell victim to the destruction caused by the Counter Reformation . In 1991 the remains of the building were uncovered and set up as a memorial.
economy
Trautenfels Castle and the picturesque village of Pürgg attract numerous tourists and day trippers. The area is also popular with mountaineers who set off from here on mountain tours on the Grimming , the Dead Mountains and the Niedere Tauern mountains to the south . In Wörschachwald there is a small winter sports area and the Spechtensee , a popular excursion destination.
The most important business operations are numerous inns and accommodation providers.
traffic
Pürgg has a stop on the Salzkammergut Railway . The stop of the Ennstalbahn in Trautenfels was closed in 2007. There is an important road junction in Trautenfels. This is where the main connection route from Salzburg to Graz ( Ennstal Straße B 320) meets Salzkammergutstraße B 145 into the Salzkammergut .
education
The Unterburg primary school was inaugurated on May 5, 1907 after a year of construction. The property including the orchard was a donation from Countess Anna Lamberg, who had also donated the Unterburg retirement home a few years earlier.
Personalities
Honorary citizen
- 1984: Karl Haiding (1906–1985), folklorist
Sons and daughters of the church
- Adolf Adam (1918–2004), computer scientist and statistician
Personalities associated with the community
- Wolfgang Suppan (1933–2015), musicologist, director of the Graz University of Music
literature
- Josef Hasitschka, Ernst Kren, Adolf Mokrejs: The Grimming. Monolith in the Ennstal . Ed .: Universalmuseum Joanneum Schloss Trautenfels . 1st edition. Schall Verlag, Alland 2011, ISBN 978-3-900533-69-4 ( austria-forum.org ).
Web links
- 61235 - Pürgg-Trautenfels. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 24, 2013 on the unification of the market community of Stainach and the community of Pürgg-Trautenfels, both political district of Liezen. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 130, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 634.
- ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
- ^ Announcements from the Styrian State Archives 30, 1979, p. 41.
- ↑ EnnstalWiki: Kurt Tasch
- ↑ EnnstalWiki: Barbara Wolfgang-Krenn
- ↑ Liezener Bezirksnachrichten (November 27, 1984), p. 14.