Forest home
The Waldheimat covers a small area in the Fischbacher Alps in the Austrian state of Styria , which the Styrian writer and poet Peter Rosegger immortalized in his works. It is a wooded low mountain range , previously interspersed with numerous single-layer farms , most of which no longer exist today. Waldheimat was initially just a literary term, which Rosegger in his 1872 story Die Staudenwinkelin. Used memories from the forest home . Through his successful work Waldheimat , published from 1877 onwards . Memories from his youth , however, the term became known in German-speaking countries and first appeared in maps in 1907.
The area is bordered in the south by the East Styrian Joglland, which is dominated by tourism and agriculture, and in the north by the industrial Upper Styrian Mürz Valley .
In Krieglach , the hometown of Peter Rosegger, the house where he was born , the Kluppeneggerhof , can be visited just under 1,150 meters above sea level. An educational forest trail leads to the homestead from the Waldschule am Alpl , which was opened in 1902 on the initiative of Peter Rosegger for the children of the surrounding mountain farms .
Sankt Kathrein am Hauenstein , where Rosegger completed his apprenticeship as a tailor, appears again and again in his works. The place owes the reconstruction of the church to Rosegger, which was almost completely destroyed after a major fire.
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosegger Museum Krieglach: Peter Rosegger. Life and Work (history of the term), accessed on October 2, 2017
- ↑ The State of Styria: Rosegger's Birthplace , accessed on October 3, 2017
- ^ Peter Rosegger - Evangelical Church of Styria. Ernst Burger: Peter Rosegger (docx file), accessed on October 3, 2017 (reconstruction of the St. Kathrein Church)
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 42.9 ″ N , 15 ° 37 ′ 43.6 ″ E