Weinitzen

Weinitzen
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Main town :	Niederschöckl
Surface:	18.99 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 8 '  N , 15 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '27 "  N , 15 ° 29' 26"  E
Height :	510  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,670 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8044/8045
Area code :	03132
Community code :	6 06 54
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchplatz 4 8044 Weinitzen
Website:	www.weinitzen.com
politics
Mayor :	Josef Neuhold ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	9 3 1 1 1 9 3 1 1 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 9 We for Weinitzen : 3 GREEN : 1 SPÖ : 1 FPÖ : 1
Location of Weinitzen in the Graz-Umgebung district
View over the community from Hauenstein
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Weinitzen is a municipality with 2670 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) north of Graz in Styria in the Graz-Umgebung district .

geography

Geographical location

Weinitzen is located directly north of the provincial capital Graz in the Grazer Bergland . The Schöcklbach, a left tributary of the Mur, flows through the community . The Schöckl itself is not located in the municipality.

Community structure

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

• Foelling (363)
• Niederschöckl (1243) including Am Waldgrund, Bleiütten, Haidegg, Höf, Nadisch and Sankt Josef
• Oberschöckl (805) including Mölten and Weinberg
• Weinitzen (259) including Annengraben and Zösenberg

The community consists of the three cadastral communities Fölling, Niederschöckl and Weinitzen.

Neighboring communities

Stattegg	Sankt Radegund near Graz	Kumberg
Stattegg		Hart-Purgstall
Graz	Graz	Kainbach near Graz

history

The municipality in its current form has existed since 1938, when parts of the municipality were incorporated into Graz.

Place name

In 1572 a forest near the Sankt Ulrich Church is mentioned as "in the Weinitzen". The name of the later local community goes back to this. The name goes back to the Slovenian vinica (vineyard). In the east there is the corridor Weinberg, where viticulture was still practiced until the 19th century.

The first census was carried out in 1754.

Population development

Culture and sights

Buildings

Weather tower Niederschöckl

• The weather tower in the district of Niederschöckl is the middle one between the also bricked weather tower Rinnegg (municipality of Sankt Radegund) and the wooden one on the Schaftalberg (municipality of Kainbach near Graz ). At almost the same distance from each other, they are in an almost straight line. The year 1824, engraved in the crossbar of the cross on the tent roof of the 15 m high weather tower, is its year of construction. In 1981 the weather tower was renovated. Today the bells of the tower herald joyful events such as births or weddings.
• There is a plague cross in the municipality .

Natural monuments

The barrows in the district of Niederschöckl bear witness to the Norico-Roman settlement in what is now the municipality.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Weinitzen is located on the main road from Graz to Sankt Radegund bei Graz in the Schöckl recreation area. The Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 is about ten kilometers away and can be reached via the Gratkorn junction (173). The Weiz Street B 72 from Graz to Weiz is about four kilometers away. There is no train station in Weinitzen. The central station Graz is about ten kilometers away. The distance to Graz Airport is approx. 20 km.

The waste water of the municipality are in the water treatment plant of the city of Graz in Gössendorf cleaned and then the Mur fed.

Established businesses

• Schmidt Harmonica Production GmbH
• Eisenbergerhof - center for holistic health
• Schöcklland Erde Handels GmbH

education

• Weinitzen children's flu
• Kindergarten Weinitzen
• Elementary school Weinitzen-Niederschöckl
• Music School - Styrian Harmonica (Schmidt)

politics

mayor

Josef Neuhold (ÖVP) has been mayor since April 28, 2015.

The community board also includes Vice Mayor Josef Korber (We for Weinitzen) and community treasurer Ewald Amhofer (Tüchler list).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and has been composed of mandataries from the following parties since the 2015 municipal council election:

• 6 ÖVP
• 5 Tüchler list
• 2 List We for Weinitzen (WFW)
• 1 SPÖ
• 1 FPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	550	34	6th	360	22nd	3	334	21st	3	412	31	5
SPÖ	183	11	1	291	18th	3	205	13	2	211	16	2
FPÖ	100	6th	1	075	05	0	050	03	0	597	44	7th
We for Weinitzen	264	16	2	221	13	2	190	12	2	131	10	1
List of Tüchler	542	33	5	706	43	7th	790	50	8th	not running
voter turnout	75%			78%			78%			73%

coat of arms

With effect from September 1, 1979 Weinitzen received the right to use its own coat of arms.

Blazon :

"In the silver shield there is a triple barbless red tang, from whose hook, curved to the right, a stalked red grape leaf grows outward."

The coat of arms was designed by Heinrich Purkarthofer, senior archivist Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv in Graz.

Leisure & Tourism

societies

• Red Eagle Ladies' Snuff Club
• D'lustigen Schöckler Schuhplattler
• ESV vineyard
• ESV Union Fasslberg
• FC Bergcafe
• Feitlclub Faßlberg
• FF Weinitzen-Oberschöckl
• Weinitzen-Oberschöckl hunting company
• Lederhosen round
• Modellsport Freak's Steiermark
• Goonriders Motorsport Club
• Musikverein Weinitzen
• Weinitzen Riding Club
• Weinitzen Senior Citizens Club
• Basoarte Singing Circle
• Snuff Club Bonanza
• Imme savings association
• Sparverein Niederschöcklhof
• Sparverein Tischlerwirt
• Weinitzen Tourist Association
• Sports club Weinitzen
• Sports cannons Weinitzen
• The comrades

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1965: Josef Krainer (1903–1971), Governor of Styria 1948–1971
• 1990: Alfred Seebacher-Mesaritsch (1925–1998), writer and local historian
• 2007: Konstantia Meinhart († 2019), innkeeper

Sons and daughters of the church

• Waltraud Klasnic (* 1945), Austrian politician (ÖVP) and “ Governor of Styria” from 1996 to 2005 , began her political career in Weinitzen
• Franz Schmidt , Austrian musical instrument maker and musician, lives in Weinitzen
• Florian Neuhold (* 1993), professional soccer player.

Associated with Weinitzen

• Jacob Zurl (* 1988), extreme athlete and long-distance cyclist, lives in Weinitzen and set a 48-hour altitude record in the village in 2012

literature

• Alfred Seebacher-Mesaritsch : Weinitzen - home in the Schöcklbergland. Edition Strahalm.

Web links

Commons : Weinitzen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60654 - Weinitzen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.weinitzen.com Weinitzen community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 40 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
3. ↑ Holding Graz quoted in: Josef Riegler: Chronik der Marktgemeinde Gössendorf . 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Marktgemeinde Gössendorf 2017, pp. 163–165.
4. ↑ community Weinitzen: Parish Council , accessed on April 24, 2018
5. ^ Community of Weinitzen: Coat of arms of the community of Weinitzen ( Memento from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 21, 2015)
6. ^ Homepage ESV Weinberg. ESV Weinberg, December 5, 2013, accessed December 5, 2013 . 
7. ↑ Facebook page FF Weinitzen - Oberschöckl. FF Weinitzen - Oberschöckl, December 5, 2013, accessed on December 5, 2013 . 
8. ↑ MSC Goonriders. Goonriders Motorsport Club, December 5, 2013, accessed December 5, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Musikvetrein Weinitzen. Musikverein Weinitzen, December 5, 2013, accessed on December 5, 2013 . 
10. ↑ Weinitzen sports club. Sportverein Weinitzen, December 5, 2018, accessed on December 5, 2018 . 
11. ^ Sports cannons Weinitzen. Sportskanonen Weinitzen, December 5, 2013, accessed on December 5, 2013 . 
12. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (March 30, 1965), p. 6.
13. ↑ Obersteirische Nachrichten, No. 37 (September 14, 1990), p. 15.