Wild Alps
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 | |
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: |
Wildalpen 91 8924 Wildalpen |
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politics | ||
Mayoress : | Karin Gulas ( SPÖ ) | |
Municipal Council : ( 2020 ) (9 members) |
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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
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
- 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
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
- 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
- ^ Austria Forum: Wildalpen , accessed on March 23, 2010
- ^ Election result of the local council election 2005 in Wildalpen. State of Styria, March 13, 2005, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
- ^ Election result of the municipal council election 2010 in Wildalpen. State of Styria, March 21, 2010, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
- ^ Election result of the 2015 municipal council election in Wildalpen. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Wildalpen. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Karin Gulas Ennstalwiki
- ^ Announcements of the Steiermärkisches Landesarchiv 18, 1968, p. 139
- ↑ Alpenländische Wochenschau (May 22, 1937), p. 5.
- ↑ For everyone: Festschrift 850 Jahre Wildalpen , 1989, p. 33