Unterlaussa (municipalities Sankt Gallen, Weyer)

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Unterlaussa (municipalities Sankt Gallen, Weyer) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Steyr-Land  (SE), Upper Austria
Judicial district Steyr
Pole. local community Weyer   ( KG  Laussa )
Coordinates 47 ° 43 '43 "  N , 14 ° 36' 38"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 43 '43 "  N , 14 ° 36' 38"  E
height 475  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 188 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 97 (2001)
Post Code 8934 Altenmarkt near St. Gallen
Statistical identification
Locality code 12017
Counting district / district Pichl - After d . Enns - Laussa (41 522 003)
In addition to some places, it also contains scattered settlement Unterlaussa- strewn houses
Source: STAT : Ortverzeichnis ; BEV : GEONAM ; DORIS
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Unterlaussa ( Scattered Houses )
locality
Basic data
Pole. District , state Liezen  (LI), Styria
Judicial district Liezen
Pole. local community Sankt Gallen   ( KG  Weißenbach an der Enns )
Coordinates 47 ° 43 ′ 42 "  N , 14 ° 36 ′ 38"  E
height 550  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 38 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 16 (2001)
Post Code 8934 Altenmarkt near St. Gallen
Statistical identification
Locality code 15895
Counting district / district Weißenbach an der Enns (61 264 000)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk
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Unterlaussa is a scattered settlement on the border between Upper Austria and Styria . The Styrian part is part of the municipality of Sankt Gallen , the Upper Austrian part part of the Markt Weyer .

location

Unterlaussa is located at the foot of the Hengstpass in the Laussabach valley on the L 550 state road.

The main part of the settlement belongs to Upper Austria; he includes the houses left (north) of the Laussabachs.

The main town is the Rotte Dörfl at the foot of the Hengstpass at 539  m . Further east out of the valley are the Rotten Sonndorf, Hausbauernhöhe, Platzl at the valley entrance (which belongs to Upper Austria, but lies south of the brook) and Kößl directly on the Enns, opposite Altenmarkt near St. Gallen . The rest of the Upper Austrian houses, which also stretch towards Mooshöhe , include the Unterlaussa-Dispersed houses and Schweigerhäusl houses scattered in the valley and the side valley, as well as the Engl, Hinteres Bambachgütl, Hollerthal, Huberbauer, Menauer, Pöglgut, Schildbauer, Seebacher, Tiefenbacher and farms Forest farmer . The Styrian side of the valley includes the scattered houses Unterlaussa with Karlmühle and Kremsbichler .

In addition, the Königbaueralm am Hochkogel  ( 1279  m above sea level ) in the west and the Menaueralm, Schüttbaueralm and Waldbaueralm at the foot of the Bodenwies ( 1540  m above sea level ) in the north are in the Upper Austrian locality . Both elevations belong to the Reichraminger Hintergebirge .

Neighboring places

Mooshöhe / Weißwasser (Gem. Weyer, Upper Austria) Schönau an der Enns (near  Kleinreifling , Gem. Weyer, Upper Austria.)
Neighboring communities Altenmarkt near St. Gallen
(Gem., Styria)
Oberlaussa
(Gem. Weyer, Upper Austria /
Sankt Gallen, Styria) 		Breitau (Gem. Sankt Gallen, Styria) Bichl

(Gem. Sankt Gallen, Styria)

history

Mining was carried out in the Unterlaussa valley for around 800 years. After the beginning of the Second World War, the United Aluminum Works AG  (VAW) reactivated the old bauxite mining for the aircraft industry north of the town (on Blahberg in the Reichraminger Hintergebirge).

The mining settlement of Weißwasser was built near the remote mine . To transport the raw material away, a 14 km long material ropeway was built to the Weißenbach-St. Gallen in the Ennstal. The bauxite was brought to Schwandorf / Bavaria by train to produce clay from it. This clay was then transported to the Mattigwerk in Ranshofen . The aluminum was then melted from this alumina in the electrolysis process.

After the end of the war, mining continued until 1964. The drop in prices on the international raw materials market forced the VAW's successor at that time, the United Metalworks Ranshofen-Berndorf  (VMW), to close bauxite mining. The mining facilities were dismantled and torn down, the material ropeway dismantled and the Weißwasser settlement abandoned. The former mining area is now in the Kalkalpen National Park .

As a result, there was a strong migration from Unterlaussa, which continues to this day. From once more than a thousand inhabitants, the population sank to 220 people who currently (2008) have their main residence in Unterlaussa.

The local area is of some tourist importance as a hiking region with numerous alpine pastures. There are also a variety of hiking, climbing and cycling tours.

Culture and sights

Parish church Unterlaussa

Parish Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

The first evidence of a small church in Unterlaussa can be found as early as 1790. On May 1, 1872, a small chapel was finally consecrated, which stood about 50 meters upstream from the current church. Between 1906 and 1908, today's small neo-Gothic parish church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was built as a subsidiary church of St. Gallen; the interior decoration took place in the years up to 1915.

In 1966 Unterlaussa was finally separated from Sankt Gallen and made an independent parish. In 2006 the church was completely renovated inside.

Mining Museum Knappenhaus

The so-called miner's house was rebuilt faithfully on the model of a building that served on Blaberg in 1000 m above sea level, the workers of the bauxite mine to 1964 as a base and shelter. Today the miner's house houses an exhibition about the former mining in Unterlaussa. It shows the mining past of mining, the route from the raw material, the extraction, transport of the bauxite, processing to the end product aluminum.

Club house Unterlaussa

Together with the Unterlaussa volunteer fire brigade , the local associations built a new clubhouse as an event and cultural center in 2006/07.

literature

Mining and settlement history:

  • Otto Harant, Wolfgang Heitzmann: Reichraminger Hintergebirge - Forgotten mountain home between Ennstal and Sengsengebirge. 3rd, expanded edition. W. Ennsthaler, Steyr 1987, ISBN 3-85068-171-8 .
  • Julius Stieber (Red.): Land of Hammers. Homeland Eisenwurzen. (Region Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen. Catalog of the Upper Austrian State Exhibition 1998). Residenz-Verlag, Salzburg 1998, ISBN 3-7017-1114-3 .

Web links

Miners House Unterlaussa

Individual evidence