Windisch Bleiberg

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Windisch Bleiberg / Slovenji Plajberg ( scattered houses )
locality
cadastral community Windisch Bleiberg
Windisch Bleiberg (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Klagenfurt-Land  (KL), Carinthia
Judicial district Ferlach
Pole. local community Ferlach
Coordinates 46 ° 29 '26 "  N , 14 ° 14' 19"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 29 '26 "  N , 14 ° 14' 19"  Ef1
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Residents of the village 93 (January 1, 2020)
Building status 73 (2001)
Area  d. KG 28.12 km²
Statistical identification
Locality code 01201
Cadastral parish number 72019
Counting district / district Windisch Bleiberg (20405 008)
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; KAGIS
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The church in Windisch Bleiberg
The Bodental , one of the main valleys of Windisch Bleiberg, with Vertatscha
The Bodenbach drains the two main valleys of Windisch Bleiberg via the Tschaukofall

Windisch Bleiberg ( Slovenian Slovenji Plajberk , locally also known as Slovenj Plajberg or Svinčnica ) is a village and cadastral municipality in the municipality of Ferlach in Carinthia . Windisch Bleiberg has about 130 inhabitants, 38% of which belong to the Carinthian Slovenes .

Geographical location

The place is 948  m above sea level. A. and is about 6 km from the Austrian - Slovenian border. The cadastral community of Windisch Bleiberg is 28.12 km² in size. The highest point is the Vertatscha summit (2180 m), the lowest point is in the Tscheppaschlucht (585 m). Windisch Bleiberg lies between the wooded Sinacher Gupf - Singerberg - Zug and the towering rocky main chain of the Karawanken . The area of ​​the cadastral community essentially consists of two high valleys, the Bodental , where there are Einödhöfe on the ground and on the valley flanks, and the actual Windisch Bleiberger Graben, where the old mining village crouches around the church.

The Bodenbach drains the valley and falls in the east over the slope of the Tschaukofalles into the Loiblbach . Windisch Bleiberg is separated from the neighboring KG Loibltal by the ridge of the Geißrückens , the Warant , the Heiligen Wand and the Riautza .

Loibltal is the name of the ditch that runs south from the Kleiner Loibl (Sapotnitza) to the Loibl Pass and is traversed by the Loiblbach and has been accessible since the Celtic times by a mule track and later by a Reichsstraße. In the far west, Windisch Bleiberg extends over the hill of the Krischnigsattel down into the Bärental to the Feistritzbach.

Apart from the small, closed groups of houses near the two parish churches St. Erhard and St. Leonhard , the settlement image of the two cadastral communities is characterized by widely scattered solitary farms and in places by collections of newer weekend houses. The two highest farms are the Ogrisbauer, 1193 m, in the rearmost Bodental and the former “Alpenruhe” inn near the Strugerbauer on Strugarjach, 1142 m, on the western slope of the Sinacher Gupfes.

The Bodental and the Tscheppaschlucht in particular have developed into year-round leisure and recreation areas. Due to the generally ascertainable emigration, one encounters again and again abandoned or abandoned farm estates.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1330 as Pleyberch . From the 14th to the beginning of the 20th century, lead - zinc ores were mined on the Singerberg north of Windisch Bleiberg . In 1965, a food, weapons and ammunition store built in 1947 by the British occupying forces was found in a former tunnel. The tunnel was blown up and walled up. An independent municipality until 1973, Windisch Bleiberg was incorporated into the town of Ferlach in the same year. In 2005, the bilingual place-name sign already provided for in the Carinthian Topography Ordinance from 1977 was set up.

Parish Church of St. Erhard

The time of construction of the church consecrated to Saint Erhard is not yet known. Presumably, a chapel dedicated to the patron saint of miners , Barbara , already stood on the site . Her statue can be found today on a side altar. In 1364 the church received the burial and safekeeping rights together with St. Ulrich in Zell / Sele, but was still looked after by a chaplain from St. Zeno in Kappel im Rosental , 9 km away . The church got its current appearance in the Baroque style in the 18th century. In 1752 Windisch Bleiberg was detached from the mother parish in Kappel and made a vicariate and in 1785 an independent parish. The choice of the “German” church patron Erhard, bishop around 700 in Regensburg , is unusual for the area, as Windisch-Bleiberg belonged to the Patriarchate of Aquileja south of the Drava , where Slovenian was spoken almost exclusively . Presumably Bavarian or Saxon miners brought the miners canonized around 1050 with them, as it still says in 1650: "... that all miners, including the Schmölzer, were Saxons." Mining in Carinthia was a booming industry in the Middle Ages and led to the Alps in many mining towns an influx of German guest workers.

Hollenburg administration - "Ambt der Gereutter in Bleyperg"

The manorial rule of Hollenburg exercised secular rule over Bleiberg for many centuries. Originally a donation to Viktring Abbey , the land and the people who lived there were soon bought or exchanged by the Hollenburg rulers. One of the offices was originally the office of the "Gereuter" in Bleiberg and in Zell, which was divided, so that four offices were created:

  • Castle office north of the Drava
  • Office at the bouquet in the bottom of the rose valley
  • Office of the regrets in Zell and that
  • Office of the Gereuter in Bleiberg in the mountains

The office of the Gereuter in Bleiberg im Gebirge included the Bodental, the Bleiberger Graben and the Loibltal as well as the settlement on the Rabenberg and the rear Bärental, which was then called "Hinterm Gupf".

List of names from 1490

List of names from 1490

The oldest personal record of the Gereuter in Bleiberg dates from 1490, was created by the then burgrave Gandolf von Khünegg and served as a tax list. In addition to the taxable serfs of the Hollenburg lordship, there are also city councilors who owned Bleiberg, as well as a pig seeker, a sagmeister, a sacristan and the abbot of Viktring .

A few already had a baptismal name and a surname at that time, but most of them only had a baptismal name and were given an additional name by the rulers so that they could be better distinguished when paying their tithes and when performing the robots ( bondage ). So the first vulgar names, which were later transferred into the common language , were created as a replacement for today's tax number .

Say

  • From the sorceress Barba in Windisch Bleiberg.

There are many tales about the sorceress Barba , who was widely known and feared many years ago. There was a superstition that with the right knowledge it was possible to milk the handle of an ax if, before hitting the hoe in the wooden hole, one gave the name of the cow from which the milk was to be "tapped". Barba was a specialist in the practice, which is why one day she was visited by a vindictive farmer. After the latter had given the name of the neighbor's cow and, cheered on by Barba, began to milk the style, blood instead of milk ran out of the style and the neighbor's cow fell dead.

Another time Barba made the daughter of the large farmer Pint-Adam see again after a man had given her the wrong look at a church day . The patient was given a leather ring around her bare body. The farmer received three seams. These were always to be thrown into the stream "from behind" when crossing a bridge over which the dead were also led. When this was done and the belt was lost, the daughter was healed.

Once a farmer couldn't find a gold guilder hidden in a dung heap . He asked Barba for help. She sent him away and whistled her goat, which struck fire from its mouth. The goat says: “Tell him the neighbor stole the guilder! But it was swallowed by a pig that was digging in the manure. ”The farmer had secretly overheard this, slaughtered the pig and had his money back.

Creating strife was the Barba’s favorite business. At the Stin in Mitterwinkel the cows suddenly gave less milk. The barba advised the young farmer to let larch wood burn on the open stove at night and the perpetrator would appear. The old peasant woman had heard the kinsman of the wood and went to see why the young peasant woman mistook her for the perpetrator. The story was cleared up by a Brentler present in the house, Skutouz-Joze, who overheard everything.

The Koschutnig farmer had fallen out with the pastor of Zell . When the latter cursed him again from the pulpit, he was so offended that he became seriously ill and emaciated. He called the barba to help and promised her his most beautiful pregnant calf. He got a leather belt around his body, behind which flowers were tucked, after which he soon recovered. The pastor, however, became very sick and his body began to peel. The pastor suspected who could have cursed him, apologized to the Koschutnig farmer and the curse fell from him.

The sorceress Barba, of whom gruesome stories have been told from Zell to Windisch Bleiberg, is said to have found her unhappy end in the Hollenburg . She was slain and the henchman punched her in the head. She is buried in the forest not far from the castle. For a long time her fire-breathing goats ran around the grave at night.

  • The end of the world. Tradition from Windisch Bleiberg from 1910.

Because he rebelled against God in his pride and arrogance of victory, King Matthias and his army were buried under the Dead Sea . Now the time of penance is over, and he will rise with his huge army and come to the aid of the emperor. At the Zeierfelde (Sorško polje) near Bischoflack in Upper Carniola (today Škofja Loka in Slovenia ) peace negotiations between seven kings will take place under a seven-top linden tree. Then there will be great upheavals. The number of people will decrease, but there will be compatibility and peace. Former mortal enemies will embrace and address with the words: “Brother, where have you been that you are still alive?” Then there will be a faith, a measure, a stable and a shepherd.

literature

  • Rainer Adamik: Ferlacher Chronik. A historical overview of the events in the municipality. Published by the Ferlach Cultural Ring. Self-published, 2009.
  • Hans M. Tuschar: Windisch Bleiberg. In: Hans M. Tuschar: Ferlach. History and stories. Verlag Johannes Heyn, Klagenfurt 1996, ISBN 3-85366-816-X , pp. 328-348.

Web links

Commons : Windisch-Bleiberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. Hans M. Tuschar: Geographical location on www.naturerlebnis-bodental.at (accessed on January 2, 2009)
  2. Hans M. Tuschar: Churches at www.naturerlebnis-bodental.at (accessed on January 2, 2009)
  3. The texts and illustrations for Geographical Location, Gereuter were kindly made available by Prof. Hans M. Tuschar.
  4. Georg Graber : Legends from Carinthia. Volume I of the complete edition. Klagenfurt, 1979, pp. 201-203.
  5. Georg Graber: Legends from Carinthia. Volume I of the complete edition. Klagenfurt, 1979, p. 425.