Wild Alps

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Basic data

Country: Austria

State : Styria

Political District : Liezen

License plate : LI

Surface: 202.82 km²

Coordinates : 47 ° 39 ′ N , 14 ° 59 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ E47.65 14.983333333333 609

Height : 609 m above sea level A.

Residents : 451 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code : 8924

Area code : 03636

Community code : 6 12 51

NUTS region AT222

UN / LOCODE AT WLP

Address of the
municipal administration: Local administration of WildalpenWildalpen 91
8924 Wildalpen

Website: www.wildalpen.at

politics

Mayoress : Karin Gulas ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(9 members)

7th

2

7th 2

A total of 9 seats

SPÖ : 7
ÖVP : 2

Location of Wildalpen in the Liezen district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Wildalpen is an Austrian municipality with 451 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Styrian judicial district or district of Liezen . The population density of the municipality is only 2.3 inhabitants per km² and is therefore one of the lowest in Austria.

geography

Geographical location

Wildalpen itself is located at the northern foot of the Hochschwab massif in the Salzatal , directly on the Salza . The size of the municipality, however, reaches an area of 202.82 km², which corresponds to about half the city of Vienna , on both sides of the Salza, in the Hochschwab as in the Lassingalpen . Wildalpen is a well-known hunting and forest area. There are (tall) game of different species.

In the Wildalpen around 4000 BC The biggest landslide of the Hochschwab group took place. A huge mass of rock broke off the Ebenstein and Brandstein and sagged to the north. As a result, the falling mass was broken up and thundered as a torrent to past today's Wildalpen and into the Salzatal.

Community structure

The municipality consists of a cadastral municipality.

Localities of the municipality are

Breitengries
Well
Three chaste
Truss
Fischerau
Hinterwildalpen
Holzäpfeltal
Hopfgarten
Klaus
Kühbachau
Lichtenegg
Poschenhöh
Rothmoos
Rothwald
Säusenbach
Snail ditch
Screaming
Winter height

Neighboring communities

Göstling an der Ybbs ( District Scheibbs , Lower Austria )	Gaming ( District Scheibbs , Lower Austria )
Rural		Mariazell ( Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district )
Iron ore ( district Leoben )	Tragöß-Sankt Katharein ( Bez.Bruck-Mürzzuschlag )	Thörl ( Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district )

history

The settlement took place from the Admont Abbey, founded in 1072 . Iron processing brought prosperity to the place until the Innerberg main trade union withdrew in 1838. The abolition of the manors took place in 1848. The local community as an autonomous body was established in 1850.

In 1910 the second Viennese spring water pipeline was put into operation. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark. From 1945 to 1955 Wildalpen was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria. After the Second World War , the actor Hans Thimig , whose family owned a summer house in Wildalpen, was mayor of the community for a short time.

In 2010 a sensational find came to light. A blade made of radiolarite , a rock similar to flint, was found in the Arzberg cave in Wildalpen . This is estimated to be 29,000 to 36,000 years old based on radiocarbon determinations on cave bear remains in the Arzberg cave. This proves that humans were already out and about in the Hochschwab area around 30,000 years ago.

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church hl. Barbara with rectory in Wildalpen

Tulleck's trade house

Catholic parish church Wildalpen hl. Barbara
Tulleck'sches Handwerkenhaus , 17th century
Kläfferquelle of the Vienna high spring water pipeline

sport and freetime

kayak
Rafting
Canyoning
numerous well-marked hiking trails
Kneipp path (starts next to the indoor pool)
Back country
Ice stock sport in the Hinterwildalpen district
Cycling opportunities - mountain bike route for connoisseurs

societies

Mountain and nature watch
Mountain rescue service
Customs group Teufelssee-Pass (Krampus)
Electricity cooperative Wildalpen
Parents Association
Tourist association establishments
Wildalpen Avalanche Warning Commission
Motorcycle and Classic car club
Museum Association
Music band
Friends of Nature Austria Local group Wildalpen
Pensioners' Association
Wildalpen shooting association
Wildalpen ski club
Wildalpen sports club
Styrian hunting protection association Wildalpen local group
Gesäuse tourism association
Austrian Comradeship Association Local Association Wildalpen

Economy and Infrastructure

Wildalpen is best known as the headwaters of the Second Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline . That is why more than half of the municipality is protected as a source protection area. This area has to be extensively researched. The City of Vienna has its own municipal departments for this purpose .

From here, around 220,000 m³ of water flow into Vienna every day in a free gradient. In the 1st Vienna High Spring Water Pipeline , the water needs about 24 hours, in the 2nd Vienna High Spring Pipeline, 36 hours to reach Vienna.

The municipality of Vienna is an important employer in the otherwise structurally poor area thanks to the waterworks and the associated forestry operations.

In addition to the municipality of Vienna, Wildalpen Wasserverwertungs GmbH was founded in 2002 , and spring water from the Seisenstein spring was bottled and marketed. Although the spring supplies around 1.2 million liters of water per year, only a maximum of 650,000 liters are bottled and marketed.

Public facilities

Hinterwildalpen outdoor pool
Indoor swimming pool with sauna
Tennis court
Cross-country trail in the Hopfgarten and Hinterwildalpen districts
Ski slope with baby and family lift

politics

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The municipal council has 9 members.

With the municipal council elections in Styria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 SPÖ and 2 ÖVP.
With the municipal elections in Styria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 6 SPÖ and 3 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Styria 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 6 SPÖ and 3 ÖVP.
With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 6 SPÖ and 3 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 7 SPÖ and 2 ÖVP.

mayor

1977–1987 Ewald Uresch (SPÖ)
1987–2000 Hermann Baumann (SPÖ)
2000–2007 Ewald Uresch (SPÖ), a second time
since 2007 Karin Gulas (SPÖ)

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from August 1, 1966.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

“In front of a shield split by blue and silver, a silver rock mountain with three peaks, from which a blue watercourse rises; behind an upright black ibex. "

The front shield field indicates the high rocky mountains of the Wildalpen landscape, the blue watercourse refers to the II. Vienna High Spring Pipeline, whose headwaters and water castles are located here. A strong colony of ibex has lived in the mountains around Wildalpen since the mid-1930s and has been made at home here again.

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

1913: Hans Ziesler - businessman, innkeeper, mayor
1935: Alois Hofinger - Operations Manager, Forest Council
1937: Hugo Thimig (1854–1944) - actor, director and theater manager
1937: Richard Schmitz - Mayor of the City of Vienna
1937: Desiderius Fanta - senior building officer
1937: Anton Fischer - district gendarmerie inspector, post commander
1978: Rudolf Fürnweger - Chancellery, Mayor of Wildalpen
1981: Ferdinand Bonta - Senior Medical Officer
1981: Michael Häupl - Mayor of the City of Vienna
1993: Father Bernhard Menzel OSB - Pastor of Wildalpen
2002: Johann Schnaubelt - Senate Councilor, Head of the Source Protection Forests of the City of Vienna in Wildalpen
2010: Hermann Baumann - Mayor of Wildalpen
2010: Ewald Uresch - Councilor, Works Manager of the waterworks of the City of Vienna in Wildalpen, Mayor of Wildalpen

Sons and daughters of the church

Hella Pöch (1893–1976), anthropologist
Friedrich Schürer-Waldheim (1896–1991), surgeon
Adolf Grabner (* 1927), forester and museum educator

Web links

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

61251 - Wild Alps. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Community website

Individual evidence

↑ Kellerer-Pirklbauer et al .: The rockslide of the Wildalpen (Hochschwab, Styria): New dendrochronological results of a tree fragment from the rockslide deposits. 2009 ( pdf ), uibk.ac.at, accessed on October 29, 2010
^ Christof Kuhn: Rockslides in the Alps
↑ Sensational find in the Steirische Eisenwurzen Nature Park: 30,000-year-old stone blade discovered in Wildalpen ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 13, 2011 @1@ 2