Sankt Anna am Aigen

market community Sankt Anna am Aigen
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Southeast Styria
License plate :	SO (from 1.7.2013; old: FB)
Main town :	Aigen
Surface:	32.61 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 50 ′  N , 15 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	403  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,366 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8354, 8355
Area code :	+43 3158
Community code :	6 23 87
Address of the municipal administration:	Marktstrasse 7 8354 St. Anna am Aigen
Website:	www.st-anna.at
politics
Mayor :	Johannes Weidinger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (15 members)	12 2 1 12 2 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 12 FPÖ : 2 SPÖ : 1
Location of Sankt Anna am Aigen in the district of Southeast Styria
Municipal office St. Anna am Aigen
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

View of St. Anna am Aigen from the southeast

View of St. Anna am Aigen from the west

Sankt Anna am Aigen is a market town with 2366 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the southeast of Styria in the district of Southeast Styria . On January 1, 2015, the former municipality of Frutten-Gießelsdorf was incorporated as part of the structural reform in Styria .

geography

Geographical location

Sankt Anna am Aigen is approx. 70 km south-east of Graz , approx. 25 km south-east of the district capital Feldbach in the eastern Styrian hill country and approx. 20 minutes by car from the city of Bad Radkersburg .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following ten localities (population in brackets, as of January 1, 2020):

• Aigen (410)
• Frutten (212)
• Giesselsdorf (264)
• Hochstraden (140)
• Jamm (348)
• Folding (121)
• Plesch (377)
• Risola (76)
• Up (144)
• Waltra (274)

The community consists of nine cadastral communities :

• Aigen (378.10 ha)
• Frutten (406.65 ha)
• Giesselsdorf (357.99 ha)
• Hochstraden (321.99 ha)
• Jamm (616.18 ha)
• Klapping (178.79 ha)
• Plesch (444.83 ha)
• Risola (157.39 ha)
• Waltra (399.09 ha)

Incorporations

• By order of the Styrian provincial government in 1948, the formerly independent communities Aigen, Plesch, Risola and Klapping were merged to form the community of “St. Anna am Aigen ”. The individual mayors resisted centralization, mainly because of the impending tax losses, but ultimately had to take note of the decision.
• With a resolution of the Styrian regional government of October 15, 1952, the municipality of St. Anna am Aigen was raised to a market municipality and the municipal coat of arms was awarded. Governor Josef Krainer senior took part in the ceremonial act of the community as a guest of honor.
• In 1969, by order of the Styrian state government, further municipal amalgamations were carried out. The previously independent communities Waltra and Jamm were dissolved and incorporated into the market town of St. Anna am Aigen.
• On January 1, 2015, the municipality of St. Anna am Aigen grew again by order of the Styrian state government through the incorporation of the previously independent municipality of Frutten-Gießelsdorf.

Neighboring communities

Bad Gleichenberg	Kapfenstein	Neuhaus am Klausenbach District Jennersdorf ( Burgenland )
		Rogašovci ( Slovenia )
Straden	Tieschen	Kloch

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church of Sankt Anna am Aigen

Memorial stone in St. Anna am Aigen to the expellees and dead in the communities of Fuchelsdorf, Guitzenhof, Rotenberg and Sinnersdorf in 1945/1946

Dreiländerstein Styria-Burgenland-Slovenia in Waltra

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Anna am Aigen

• Catholic parish church Sankt Anna am Aigen hl. Anna with the group of figures Anna Maria teaches reading by Veit Königer .
• Three-country corner with Maria-Theresien-Stein near Sichauf (historical border mark)
• Old border themed trail to other Theresian stones
• The Memorial for Peace is reminiscent of a camp in which mainly Hungarian-Jewish slave laborers were interned for the construction of the south-east wall .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Styria in 2005 , the municipal council without Frutten-Gießelsdorf had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 5 FPÖ, and 1 SPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2010 , the municipal council without Frutten-Gießelsdorf had the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, and 1 SPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 12 ÖVP, 2 FPÖ, and 1 SPÖ.

mayor

• until 2009 Josef Weinhandl (ÖVP)
• since 2009 Johannes Weidinger (ÖVP)

badges and flags

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from October 15, 1952. Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1, 2015. The re-award took effect on December 1, 2015.
The blazon reads:

"In the blue shield there is an erect, silver ibex, holding a golden patriarchal cross in front of him in his forelegs."

The municipality flag has two stripes in the colors white and blue with the coat of arms.

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

• 1982: Josef Krainer junior (1930–2016), governor
• Josef Greiner (1931–2018), pastor of St. Anna am Aigen 1967–2002

Sons and daughters of the church

• Leopold Schuster (1842–1927), Prince-Bishop
• Andreas Franz Frühwirth (1845–1933), cardinal
• Anton Lippe (1905–1974), cathedral music director
• Franz Lackner (* 1956), Archbishop of Salzburg

Web links

Commons : Sankt Anna am Aigen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62387 - Sankt Anna am Aigen. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Announcement of the Styrian regional government of October 24, 2013 on the unification of the market community Sankt Anna am Aigen and the community Frutten-Gießelsdorf, both political district of Southeast Styria. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013. No. 127, 32nd issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 633.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Parish St. Anna am Aigen: History of St. Anna am Aigen , accessed on May 14, 2015
4. ↑ 107. Announcement of the Styrian Provincial Government of November 19, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Sankt Anna am Aigen (political district of Southeast Styria) , accessed on December 11, 2015
5. ↑ Entry on Sankt Anna am Aigen on the website Kommunalflaggen.eu