Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal

Bad St. Leonhard in the Lavant Valley (also Bad Sankt Leonhard in the Lavant Valley ) is a town with 4462 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Wolfsberg in Carinthia, Austria.

  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 3.2 Citizenship and Religion
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 associations
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Public Transportation
  • 5.3 Established businesses
  • 6.1 City Council and Mayor
  • 6.2 municipal
  • 6.3 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the upper Lavant Valley north of Wolfsberg.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into eight cadastral ( Erzberg, Görlitzen, Kliening, Bad St. Leonhard, Schiefling, Schoenberg, Theißing, Twimberg ) divided.

The municipality includes the following 17 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Bad Sankt Leonhard in the Lavant Valley ( 1966 )
  • Erzberg (48 )
  • Görlitzen (133)
  • Graves (74 )
  • Kalchberg (118 )
  • Kliening (661)
  • Lichtengraben (35 )
  • Mauterndorf (80 )
  • Prebl (90 )
  • Raning (57 )
  • Schönberg ( 255)
  • Schiefling (192 )
  • Quarry ( 29)
  • Twimberg (285 )
  • Waiting Kogel (52 )
  • Wiesenau (104 )
  • Wisperndorf (349)

Neighboring communities

History

The current municipal area has been inhabited for over 2000 years. A Roman road was due to its convenient location in the upper Lavant Valley in today's municipal area. It led from Wolfsberg about Bad Sankt Leonhard in today's Styria.

The place in the territory of the Bishopric of Bamberg was built around the Bishop Otto (1106 /39) dedicated to St. Leonhard's Church, was first documented in 1287 and developed in the protection of the castle Gomarn quickly to the market. St. Leonhard had before 1311 city rights, which were confirmed in records in July 1325 by Bishop Henry. 1759 St. Leonhard - like the other possessions of the Bishopric of Bamberg in Carinthia - sold to the Habsburgs.

Their heyday was recorded in the 15th and 16th centuries, as in the near Klien Inger ditch the mining for gold and silver flourished. Among the rich trades that followed the " Klien Ingersoll Gold Rush ", were also members of the famous Augsburg Fugger merchant family, the company also operated dozens of shafts and tunnels in the region. At that time, to the famous physician and naturalist Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, visited the mining area and have undergone the healing Preblauer sour water a first analysis. The Preblauer sorrel, which was handed back to the Middle Ages at the blackboard Bishop of Bamberg, is now widely known as " Preblauer springs and mineral water ."

The mining of iron, which also played an important economic role, was finally stopped in 1876. The community with its sulfur source and the Preblauer Sauerbrunnen was transformed in the 20th century to a health resort and spa, 1935, the city was renamed " Bad Sankt Leonhard ". The former spa was demolished and a new spa.

In the years 1964 and 1973, the municipality of Bad St. Leonhard enlarged by two municipal reforms. The first of these took place on 1 January 1964 with the Einmeldung the communities Erzberg Görlitzen with community based in the rotting praise and the community Theißing. On 1 January 1973, a further local government reform was carried out. The communities Kliening and Schiefling were incorporated in the Lavant Valley. The former municipality graves - Prebl were divided divided into graves - Prebl North and South. The southern part came to the city municipality of Wolfsberg, the northern to Bad St. Leonhard. Therefore, it was also found that students of Moonlight moved to Prebl went to school, but later to Schiefling.

Population

Demographics

Since 1869 censuses have been carried out regularly. The population rose 1869-1971 of about 4,200 to 5,200 and has since declined.

Nationality and religion

According to the last census from 2001, Bad Sankt Leonhard has 4,816 inhabitants, of which 97.3 % are Austrian citizens. 96.4 % of the population professes the Roman Catholic and 0.7 % for the Protestant Church. 1.6% is no religious persuasion.

Culture and sights

Structures

Sacral buildings:

  • The landmark of the town is the parish church of St. Leonhard. The powerful, built in the Gothic style church built in the first half of the 14th century and the patron saint of prisoners and animals was ordained. In addition to the painted Gothic stained glass windows that make up the most extensive collection of medieval stained glass in Carinthia with 139 received individual panes, especially the Gothic winged altars, the Gothic sculpture of the Madonna have ( to 1330) and the Late Gothic Fastentuch achieved fame.
  • Kunigundkirche

Castles:

  • Ehrenburg rock
  • Castle ruins Gomarn
  • Castle Lichtengraben
  • Pain Castle Castle ruins
  • Castle Wiesenau: Among the many ruins and castles in the area of the city Wiesenau Castle occupies a special place. It was in the first half of the 19th century meeting place for the Wiesauer circle, to which the imperial court astronomer Tobias guarantees ( 1766-1834 ) was one
  • Castle ruins Twimberg

Other:

  • Medieval city wall
  • Reckturm
  • Lavant Viaduct

Kunigundkirche

Ehrenburg rock

Castle ruins Gomarn

Castle Lichtengraben

Pain Castle Castle ruins

Castle Wiesenau

Clubs

  • MGV Bad St. Leonhard (founded in 1878)
  • Faschingsgilde Bad St. Leonhard "Lei Blue "
  • Stadtkapelle Bad St. Leonhard (founded in 1872)
  • Trachtenkapelle Schiefling
  • Sports Club Bad St. Leonhard
  • Singgemeinschaft Kliening
  • Nature lovers Bad St. Leonhard

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Early 1980s it was connected to the motorway network with junction Bad St. Leonhard on the South motorway. For now, you could only drive in the direction of Graz / Vienna, with the opening of the leg Wolfsberg North - Bad St. Leonhard in 1986 but also in the present carriageway Villach. Only in 1999 could of Bad St. Leonhard constantly achieve a Klagenfurt, Villach and Italy highway.

Until July 2012, led the Obdacher Straße (B 78 ) by the municipality of Bad St. Leonhard, and had a high volume of traffic on. Above all, the truck number was greatly increased, due in part to the expansion of the timber industry in Bad St. Leonhard and the Styrian community shelter, on the completion of the detours of shelter and Zeltweg to another. A particular disadvantage is that in Bad St. Leonhard, the road led over the main square, where there is a bottleneck between the Gasthof Geiger and the old city wall was.

Therefore, it was thought in Bad St. Leonhard for several years on a detour. A four-year long continuous planning process came on 22 June 2006 to a conclusion, for this was the route out as economical and riparian friendly alternative. This was decided unanimously by the City Council of the City of Bad St. Leonhard. A citizens' initiative renounced in advance on the demand for housing in the area of ​​Lower Town, as promised, former traffic officer and Councillor Gerhard Dörfler ( FPK ) to increase the proposed noise barrier in this area from four to five and a half meters and fitted with highly absorbing elements. This measure was decided in council.

The adopted Western Bypass of Bad St. Leonhard will pass close to the Lavant and includes a Unterflurtrasse with 490 meters length. Construction began in the spring of 2009, the total cost will amount to 36 million euros. A report published in February 2009 Report of the Federal Court of Accounts Carinthia criticized a cost overrun of almost double. The actual costs are according to the report 68.7 million euros. The total cost eventually amounted to 46 million euros. On July 15, 2012, the bypass by the then Governor Gerhard Dörfler was opened.

Public transport

The Bad St. Leonhard's connection to the railway network was in 1900 with the opening of the leg Zeltweg - Wolfsberg the Lavanttalbahn. The railway traffic (passenger ) between Zeltweg and Bad St. Leonhard was replaced on July 31, 2010 excluded with rail replacement buses. Between Bad St. Leonhard and Wolfsberg operate weekdays two pairs of trains. In the municipality of Bad St. Leonhard 4 stations or stops are located:

  • Bahnhof Bad St. Leonhard
  • Stop Wiesenau
  • Stop Preblau - Sauerbrunn
  • Stop Twimberg

Through the municipal area the Postbus motor line 6931 of Wolfsberg runs starting to Knittelfeld. Although these trains under the tariff lines of Carinthia, but gemanaget and managed by the Styrian composite line. So it happens that carry on this route buses that only run between Wolfsberg and rich rock, even on school days Styrian people. In addition to this bus operates the domestic Peter Sorger bus operation even public line 8598 of Lichtengraben about Bad St. Leonhard to Kliening to the tariff of the Carinthian lines

Established businesses

  • Preblauer springs and mineral water
  • Stora Enso Timber Bad St. Leonhard GmbH - Forestry Industry
  • Peter Müller - harmonica Bauer

Policy

City Council and Mayor

The City Council ( city council ) consists of six members. Directly elected mayors is Simon Maier ( SPÖ). The city councils and their departments are:

Parish council

The council consists of 23 members and has been committed to the local council elections in 2009 from mandatary of the following parties together:

Coat of arms

From the oldest city rights in 1311 before the law was stirred to keep a seal, whose oldest surviving fragment from 1391 depicts the patron still without a shield, another from 1486 shows him with the sign of the Bamberg Bishopric. In today's coat of arms of the Holy Leonhard is shown growing chain, Abtsstab and book from the Bamberger blazon. The coat of arms of the municipality was confirmed on 29 April 1970 and simultaneously awarded a banner that displays the colors yellow and black with integrated crest.

The official blazon of the arms is: In gold of the Benedictine abbot st. Leonhard hung with Kranztonsur and black habit, the silver Abtsstab in the right, a blue book with gilt edges in the left, a black chain with a broken end link on the right arm, growing out of a golden shield, an erect black rotbezungten and reinforced lion considered by a silver slant right thread shows.

Personalities

  • Franz Anton Raab (1722-1783), court official and reformer
  • Josef diligence (1906-1978), musical instrument maker ( Styrian accordion )
  • Alfred Gasperschitz (1912-1995), politician
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