Gleisdorf

• ÖVP: 15
• SPÖ: 7
• GREEN: 2
• FPÖ: 1

Track is a town with 5823 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Eastern Styria, about 21 kms east of Graz. From 1 January 2015 it is affiliated context of the Styrian municipality structural reform with the communities Labuch, Laßnitzthal, Nitscha and Ungerdorf. The new church will carry on the name " track village".

• 4.1 Coat of Arms
• 4.2 Partnerships and Networks 4.2.1 twinning
• 4.2.2 networks

• 5.1 Culture: historical
• 5.2 Culture: Traditional 5.2.1 The Town Hall Museum

• 6.1 Buildings and Monuments
• 6.2 technology
• 6.3 Regular events

• 8.1 highway
• 8.2 Federal roads
• 8.3 Railway
• 8.4 Bicycle

Geography

Track village is situated in the district of Weiz in the valley of the Raab, at the mouth of Rabnitz and Laßnitz. It is an important transport hub.

The municipality covers since the spin-off of the surrounding villages mainly the urban area.

History

Until the middle of the 3rd century, there was a Roman settlement at this point. The place is mentioned in a deed dated September 17, 1229 for the first time by name. 1284 track village was granted market rights. 1532, the town was besieged by the Turkish army and largely destroyed. The fortification of ( Tabor ) around the St. Lawrence Church held but stood.

Until 1570 track village belonged to the rule Rieger castle, then it went to the Earl Kollonitsch who owned the castle north of the city. The parish church was rebuilt in 1648-1672 in Baroque style; Today's neo-Gothic tower dates from 1875. During the revolutionary year of 1848 Gleisdorf upgraded a major division of the National Guard from.

With the construction of the railway in 1872 began an economic recovery, which reached its peak with the construction of a hydropower station in the parlor mountain gorge to the market track village. The town hall was built in this period. In 1920 the city survey. In the 1970s, the port attached to the motorway network a new upswing, as thus settled more industrial companies.

The Styrian Exhibition 2001 in the village track was dedicated to the topic of energy. A reference to the longstanding work of " AEE INTEC " ( " Working Group on Renewable Energy - Institute for Sustainable Technologies "), which had begun in the city as " solar systems self- assembly " and finally as " Argentina Renewable Energy" ( 1988, by former assemblies ladders a nonprofit organization, the Association Enerneuerbare energy = AEE in track village, was founded. ) was active. (See also: Working Group on Renewable Energy ). Track village is part of the LEADER area " Energy Region Weiz - track village".

Population

Demographics

Policy

The Mayor will be provided with Christoph Stark of the ÖVP. The city is governed by a five-member City Council ( two SPÖ, ÖVP 3 )

In the municipal elections in 2010 won first place again with the People's Party 53.37 %, second only to the Social Democratic Party 27.7 %, in third place, the Greens 10.6%, in fourth place, the FPÖ is 6.6%, and finally the Communist Party with 1.7%.

Coat of arms

The award of the municipality coat of arms on 21 July 1922.

Partnerships and Networks

Twinning

• Nagykanizsa Hungary (Hungary )

Networks

• Small region Gleisdorf
• 8 Cities ( The Cooperation Oststeirische cities )
• LEADER Energy Region Weiz - track village
• Track village is next to Weiz, one of the Eastern Styrian " smart cities " in the context of Europe established " smart cities " and " smart regions".

Culture

• Culture Speaker: Alois Hofer travel
• Kultubeauftragter: Gerwald Hierzi

Culture: historical

Mobility and communication as the basic ingredients of cultural development: plaque above the entrance to the former ' coaching track village "

Culture: traditional

Museum The Town Hall

The MiR - Museum in the Town Hall was established in 2008 in the basement of the heritage-listed town hall. The Function room name is derived from the local museum, which has been previously established in the old fire brigade fire department of the city. There had already been tried to revive this museum with various exhibitions and cultural events.

The main part of the " MiR " is therefore used as an exhibition space in the sense of a white cube and played all year. The museum's artifacts are outsourced. For this, a side room of the " MiR " by historian Robert F. Hausmann as " history room " was designed. There, the story track village is set to that of Austria and world history in relation to three levels of narration.

Culture: Contemporary Art

In the space track village activities are dedicated to year-round contemporary art and the Voluntary Arts. This involves in addition to art events and art discourse and thematic regional development.

2001 has appeared under the direction of Wolfgang Zinggl the action-based art group WochenKlausur in the city and presented the results of their Ergebungen for public discussion.

A Gleisdorfer art project ( " kultur.at " ) in 2007 for the first time a local collaboration with the Festival steirischerherbst realized ("next code: love" ). 2010 was a follow-up project, a delegation of conceptual art band " Collective Actions " ( Andrei Monastyrski ) a week in the city.

2008 track village was kultur.at a scene of the first Styrian regional ("next code: divan " )

Culture: Venues

• Forum Monastery
• Gallery one-room ( private initiative )
• House of Music
• Kulturkeller
• St. Mary's Church
• Literary café in the town library Gleisdorf
• Parish hall track village

Attractions

Buildings and Monuments

• Parish Church of St. Lawrence: The first documentary mention of the Gleisdorfer church was in 1229 as a daughter church of the parish of St. Ruprecht an der Raab. 1648-1672 the present Baroque church was built and dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome. Historicist extensions from 1891 to 1893. Is found on the outer facade a Roman stone of the 2nd century
• In the main square, in front of the Parish Church, a Marian column is from the year 1665th The " woman pillar" was the occasion of the victory of Montecuculi over the Ottomans at St. Gotthard / Mogersdorf ( 1664). The statue on the " Turks column " originally looked in the opposite direction.
• Former Piarist (1774-1824): St. Mary's Church, former Piaristenkirche: At the site there was an elderly hospital church. 1744-1747 under Cardinal Sigismund of Kollonitz in honor of the Purification ( Candlemas ) built, now a Catholic branch church
• Former monastery Wing to the District Court Gleisdorf

Gleisdorfer City Hall

The track village Mariensaeule

Technology

• Road of solar energy: About 3.5 km various solar applications are to be seen, which are ( for street lighting, advertising, communications, etc.) in the field. These are designed and prepared so that they can be seen as a show objects.
• Solar Tree: A central point of "Road of solar energy " is the built in 1998, solar tree. This 17.3 meters high and 12.7 t steel tree consists of 140 photovoltaic modules that produce annually 6,650 kWh. The energy produced is used for 70 street lights in the downtown area. The Solar Tree - the new landmark of the city railway village - was designed by the Styrian artist Hartmut Skerbisch, who also created the " lightsaber " in front of the Graz Opera.

Regular events

• April Festival ( alljährliches art event since 2007)
• Car Novo (mobility and mobility history, in autumn)
• International Musical Workshop (in August)
• Kirtag ( in July or August)
• Gleisdorf solar (photovoltaic, etc., every two years, most recently 2012)

Technology

Track village is considered a " shopping city ", but is also a technology site, which is reflected in the choice of topics for the Zugehörtigkeit to a Styrian LEADER region. This is entitled " Energy Region Weiz - track village". Track village is dedicated as the "Solar City " renewable energy; in contrast to the first LEADER cultural project Styria that emanated from this city. The main themes of " energy region" - according to this topic and economic situation - energy self-sufficiency and mobility.

The use of photovoltaic here is based not only on private initiative, but will - among other measures -. Promoted also by the urban Feistritzwerke GmbH ( "The company is owned by the municipality track village ... " ) Environmental technology and clean water are also among the agenda of the company.

With " Ingenos.Gobiet " is one of the largest civil engineering offices Austria to the city. With the " AEE INTEC " track village hosts those second-largest research institution in Austria on "Renewable Energy", was established by the 1988 Working Group on Renewable Energy.

Traffic

Track village is sometimes called the "Gateway to Eastern Styria ". This is reflected both in the postal code ( 8200 ), as well as in its function as a transportation hub. At the junction between the road to field creek and the road to Fürstenfeld track village got its first traffic lights.

Highway

In December 1969, the section Graz- track village was opened to the A2 motorway. Only years later, the section track village -Hartenberg was built as a savings motorway on the route of the carriageway Vienna and released as oncoming traffic area. The full development of this 42 km long section was only after numerous serious traffic accidents that were caused by the lack of physical separation of traffic lanes. Connection points of A2 in the range of track are track village Village South ( 157) and track Village West (161).

Federal roads

Track village is situated on four former federal highways:

• B 54 exchange street: Graz - Gleisdorf - Hartberg - Wiener Neustadt
• B 64 Rechbergstraße: Railway Village - Weiz - Frohnleiten
• B 65 Gleisdorfer street: Railway Village - Fürstenfeld - Holy Cross
• B 68 Feldbacher street: Railway Village - Field Bach

Railway

The railway station village situated on the southwestern outskirts of the village. He was taken with the opening of the last section of the Eastern Railway Styrian village of Jenner to Graz as a through station in operation. As of August 28, 1889 Track village was also the starting point and terminal station of the country's railroad track village Weiz. In 1999, the station was built at a cost of 155 million ATS for transport hub. Within the project, a platform tunnel and a covered island platform was built with tongue platform for the Weiz web. The in- station area level crossing Mill Road has been replaced by an underpass, moved the bus station and built Park & ​​Ride parking and covered parking for bicycles. The following year an electronic interlocking ESTW SMC 86 was taken into operation. The Lassnitzhoehe station, as the company Dodge Laßnitzthal and Autal, from here remotely. The station area is to be extended to 64 car parking spaces to the end of October 2013, the capacity of the existing Park & ​​Ride facility with 95 bicycle parking spaces and 163 parking spaces.

In Gleisdorf hold Regional, Regional Express and S -Bahn trains of the Eastern Railway and there are direct regional trains from Graz to Weiz, making in railway village head. After completing the main route construction measures ( avoidance stations and stops ) the operation of Line 3 of the S -Bahn Steiermark was taken on December 12, 2010 at the route of the Eastern Railway. This was expanded in the following years and will continue to integrate the regional train to Weiz as line S 31 into the S- Bahn network, which currently still fails at the Sunday and holiday lock this branch line. The new route of the route Graz - track village is in the official test procedures and is to be implemented over the next decade in order to better connect the Styrian Eastern Railway with the Koralmbahn under construction and thus improve access to Hungary.

Bicycle

Due to its location on a Flusstalterrasse Raab, with Riedel- hilltop location just on the edge of the settlement area, its pleasant climate and the short distances within the city limits, track village is suitable for cycling. The municipality has continuously expanded the network of cycle paths in the city, so that the conditions for cyclists in daily city traffic could be improved. More bicycle facilities that enable short distances for cyclists ( and pedestrians) are planned.

Track village is situated on the bike path R11 - experience Raabtal bike path, from origin to Raab Jenner village. By Gleisdorf also leads the pilgrims bike path from Kleinmariazell to Mariazell. The area around the track village also offers routes for bicycle riding.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Georg Zechner (* April 9, 1716, † June 7, 1778 ), organist and composer
• Fritz Knoll ( * October 21, 1883, † 24 February 1981), botanist
• Alois Wünsche- Mitterecker (* November 28, 1903, † 1975), artist
• Harald Ettl ( born December 7, 1947), Social Democratic Party politicians
• Hannes Kartnig ( born October 27, 1951), entrepreneur
• Andrea Wolfmayr (* July 16, 1953 when Andrea core ), writer and ÖVP politician
• Richard Niederbacher ( born December 7, 1961), former Austrian football player
• Siegfried Tromaier ( born June 15, 1964), Social Democratic Party politicians