Wenigzell

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Styria

Political District :

Hartberg-Fürstenfeld

License plate :

HF (from 1.7.2013; old: HB)

Main town :

Pittermann

Surface:

35.68 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 26 ' N , 15 ° 47' E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 '32 " N , 15 ° 47' 10" E

Height :

831 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,387 (January 1, 2020)

Postcodes :

8254, 8253

Area code :

03336

Community code :

6 22 62

NUTS region

AT224

Address of the
municipal administration:

Pittermann 222
8254 Wenigzell

Website:

www.wenigzell.at

politics

Mayor :

Herbert Berger ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (2020)
(15 members)

10

4th

1

10 4th 1

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 10
Wenigzell list : 4
SPÖ : 1

Location of Wenigzell in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district

Marketplace

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wenigzell with 1387 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) is a municipality in Eastern Styria , Austria . It is located in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld .

geography

Wenigzell is located in the mountainous region of Joglland in northeast Styria.

Community structure

structure

Cadastral communities	Locations in the municipality
Kandlbauer (7.78 km²) Pittermannviertl (8.42 km²) Sichart (7.92 km²) Sommersgut (11.37 km²)	Kandlbauer (ZH) At the castle (ZH) On the halt (ZH) Haselbach (ZH) Kleinland (ZH) Poschen (ZH) Pittermann (ZH) In Büchl (ZH) In Reith (R) Schöngrund (ZH) Walddörfl (ZH) Wenigzell (D) Sichart (ZH) Faustenbauer (R) In Bergen (ZH) In Büchl (R) In Windhab (ZH) Lafnitzegg (ZH) Sagbauer (R) Zinsenhöf (R) Sommersgut (ZH) At Rain ZH) Gumpold (ZH) In the ditch (ZH) Im Winkl (R) In the Leiten (ZH) In Baumgarten (R) Mayerhof (ZH) Steinberg (ZH)
Legend

Legend for the breakdown table

In the cadastral municipalities column , all cadastral municipalities of a municipality are listed. In the brackets the respective area is given in km².

All settlements recorded by Statistics Austria, which also have their own local area code, are listed in the Localities column . In the hierarchy level of the same column, indented to the right, only settlements that consist of at least several houses are shown.

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = capital of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
Hgr = group of houses
E = single farmstead (only if you have your own local area code)

The complete list of Statistics Austria is in: Topographical settlement identification according to STAT

It should be noted that some places can have different spellings. Thus, cadastral communities can spell themselves differently than localities or communities of the same name.

Source: Statistics Austria -

The municipal area is divided into four cadastral communities (area 2001): Kandlbauer (778.23 ha), Pittermannviertl (842.05 ha), Sichart (791.86 ha), Sommersgut (1,136.94 ha).

Localities are (residents as of January 1, 2020):

Kandlbauer (179) with Auf der Burg , Auf der Halt , Haselbach , Kleinland and Poschen
Pittermann (657) with In Büchl , In Reith , Schöngrund , Walddörfl and Wenigzell
Sichart (227) with Faustenbauer , In Bergen , In Büchl In Windhab , Lafnitzegg , Sagbauer and Zinsenhöf
Sommersgut (324) with Am Rain , Gumpold , Im Graben , Im Winkl , In der Leiten , In Baumgarten Mayerhof and Steinberg

Neighboring communities

Adjacent to Wenigzell clockwise:

in the north Sankt Jakob im Walde and Waldbach-Mönichwald
in the east Vorau
in the south of Pöllau
in the southwest Miesenbach near Birkfeld
in the west Strallegg

history

Wenigzell's origins go back to the year 1141: At that time, Count Wolfrad von Treffen from the Count of Veringen came into the possession of the “100 Huben” in barter with the Archbishop of Salzburg . He used settlers from his Swabian homeland for colonization . Nothing of these original settlers has survived (e.g. in the name), as they were soon overlaid by settlers from the Pitten area. The names of the cadastral communities also go back to (Bavarian) family names of the last-mentioned settlers from the Pitten area.

Presumably, Count Wolfrad von Treffen also gave the Vorau canon monastery a forest hill, on which it built a chapel of St. Margaret , mentioned in 1209 for the first time, and a farmyard. This is where the name comes from, which means something like "small courtyard". Around the chapel of St. Margaret, there was also a village, of which we have evidence as early as 1200. Perhaps as early as 1220 Wenigzell became an independent parish , as we know the first pastor named Heinrich around 1250.

From the time of the Reformation , we know that the Little Zeller were loyal to the old faith, which probably also to the good pastoral care by the Vorauer canons is due. Presumably that was after the New Collegiate Church of Vorau (1660-1662 by Domenico Sciassia rebuilt) and the parish church of Wenigzell.

In 1692, Pastor Georg Tentius obtained it from Pope Innocent XII through Vorau Provost Phillip Leisl . confirmation of patrician brotherhood . This made Wenigzell a much-visited place of pilgrimage to Saint Patrizius. The influx of pilgrims became so strong that on Patrician Day , March 17, 1716, a pilgrim was crushed in the church. In 1721 the important baroque painter Johann Cyriak Hackhofer frescoed the five initial niches around the church with the secrets of the Sorrowful Rosary .

As a result of the patrician day in 1716, the decision was made to rebuild the parish church, which was carried out by Andreas Straßgietl from 1733 to 1735 . The 40 m long church was given a rich baroque interior: the walls were covered with fine stucco in which cartouches for frescoes by Joseph Georg Mayr were embedded. In addition, the church received five altars: the high altar in honor of St. Margaret and the four side altars of St. Mary and St. Joseph and St. Patrizius and St. Leonhard . In the course of Josephinism in 1783 the votive pictures were removed from the church and pilgrimages were also banned. In the Biedermeier period, however, the pilgrimage recovered.

In 1829 Barbara Sicharter , the founder of the order of the Vorau sisters and founder of the Marienkrankenhaus Vorau, was born in Wenigzell .

In the last days of the war in April 1945, the village of Wenigzell fell victim to the war by mistake. In an attack by the Russians, they wanted to eliminate a suspected arsenal there, which was actually stationed in nearby Fischbach . The church burned down and Wenigzell was destroyed, apart from a few isolated houses. Reconstruction began in 1946: the church got a new roof, windows were installed, new bells were purchased and the church was refurbished. The equipment was added until 1992.

After the war, Wenigzell became a popular summer resort , especially for the Viennese. There are various themed hiking trails and a barefoot park , a local museum and the newly built Jogllandoase , an indoor pool with a wellness and sauna area.

In 1981, Wenigzell won the Entente Florale Europe , the European flower decoration competition.

Religions

The population of Wenigzell is almost entirely, namely 97.8% Roman Catholic ; 0.6% are Protestant , the confession of just as many is unknown. 0.7% of the population have no religious beliefs.

Wenigzell is the seat of a Roman Catholic parish.

Wenigzell Church

Population development

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Wenigzell hl. Margaretha

politics

City council election 2020

%

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

61.48
(+13.58)

27.58
(-16.32)

10.94
(+2.74)

ÖVP

LIWE ^[[#WD²⁰²⁰^{b | b]]}

SPÖ

2015

2020

Remarks:

^b List Wenigzell

mayor

Herbert Berger has been the mayor since April 27, 2015, taking over from Herbert Hofer. Berger was elected during the constituent meeting of the municipal council and sworn in by district captain Max Wiesenhofer.

There were also changes in the community council. Günter Steiner (List Wenigzell) is the successor of Günther Holzer (List Wenigzell) as Vice Mayor and Anton Maderbacher (ÖVP) is the successor of Heribert Rozanek as the community treasurer.

Office manager is Franz Sommersguter.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and has been composed of mandates from the following parties since the 2020 municipal council election:

10 ÖVP ,
4 List Wenigzell and
1 SPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2020			2015			2010			2005			2000
Political party	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	506	61.48	10	479	48	7th	718	74	11	702	70	11	537	56	9
SPÖ	90	10.94	1	82	8th	1	249	26th	4th	294	30th	4th	178	19th	2
List Wenigzell	227	27.58	4th	439	44	7th	not running			not running			not running
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running			not running			244	25th	4th
voter turnout	72.08%			85%			81%			80%			83%

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded in 1981.
Blazon : “In red, diagonally to the right a row of golden pearls, accompanied by a golden griffin foot at the top, accompanied by a golden stag pole below.”
The row of pearls makes the Greek name of St. Margaret (parish patroness) in the “small cell” understandable. The griffin foot expresses the close connection with the Vorau pen. The stag bar indicates the origin of the town's founder - the stag bar was borrowed from the coat of arms of his relatives, the Alemannic Count Isny-Veringen.

Tourism association

Together with Birkfeld, Fischbach, Miesenbach, Ratten, Rettenegg, Strallegg, St. Kathrein am Hauenstein, St. Jakob im Walde, Waldbach-Mönichwald and Vorau, the municipality forms the " Joglland - Waldheimat " tourist association . Its seat is the municipality of St. Jakob im Walde.