Glödnitz

Glödnitz is a municipality with 846 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia.

• 6.1 municipal
• 6.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

The Glödnitztal is a tributary of the Gurktals in the northwest of the Gurktaler Alps. The Flattnitz forms a transition to the upper Mur. Glödnitz borders the Styria and the neighboring communities Metnitz, Weitensfeld in Gurktal, German handles and Albeck.

In the municipality of Glödnitz are the nature reserves Turks moss and Flattnitzbach high moor.

Community structure

The only Cadastral is Glödnitz. The municipality includes the following 19 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Old Market (120 )
• Bach ( 16)
• Brenitz (43 )
• Eden (18 )
• Flattnitz (91 )
• Glödnitz ( 358)
• Grai (12 )

• High Wurz ( 1)
• Jauernig (6 )
• Kleinglödnitz (11 )
• Laas (42 )
• Lassenberg (22 )
• Moss ( 19)

• Rain ( 8)
• Shady side (9 )
• Peat (20)
• Czech florets (13 )
• White Mountain (32 )
• Zauchwinkel (44)

History

In Roman times, an important route led through the Glödnitztal, and in Beliandrum ( wahrsch Old Market ) and Tarnasici ( Flattnitz ) were set up post stations. The first written mention of the village dates from the year 898 (as Glodati ). The parish church of Glödnitz is returned according to tradition, on a foundation of the Holy Hemma of Gurk; ensures that the diocese of Gurk in today's municipal area had extensive dominion rights and erected on the Flattnitz a round church with hospice.

Until the 19th century there were only a few small farms and chaste, the area was due to favorable climatic conditions, but settled in the High Middle Ages denser than today.

1848 came in the wake of the bourgeois revolution to the liberation of the peasants, two years later, the local church was Glödnitz. At the first election of the host Franz Gasser was mayor. From the 1920s, also of tourism, you turned to, who now plays an economically important role in Glödnitz. Between 1973 and 1991, the municipality belonged to the newly formed United municipality Weitensfeld - Flattnitz, Glödnitz but became independent following a referendum in 1991.

Culture and sights

Population

According to 2001 census Glödnitz has 1004 inhabitants, of which 97.8 % and 1.3 Austrian German citizen. 90.8 % are Roman Catholic, and 3.1 % to the Protestant Church, 4.7 % have no religious confession.

Economy and infrastructure

The economy has traditionally been dominated by agriculture and forestry in particular. Furthermore, tourism, winter tourism in particular plays a role to some extent, on the Flattnitz.

As a member congregation of the Carinthian Holzstraße Glödnitz has a showcase a modern biomass heating system which provides many households with district heating. This recycled from scrap wood chips are burned to produce heat.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 15 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

• 7 ÖVP
• 4 SPO
• 4 FPK

Directly elected mayor Johann Fugger (ÖVP ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Glödnitz shows a crosier and a cross bar. The former is a symbol of the bishop of Gurk and the crosier, the attribute of John the Baptist, patron saint of church and hospice on the Flattnitz familiar. The leafy golden branch refers to the dwarf birch, which can be found on the Flattnitz and thus is a vegetational feature.

The official blazon of the arms is: " golden In Blue, lowered crossed at right angles, a crosier and ending in shamrocks cross staff, backed by a golden branch with rectangular side shoots in the sign, leafy with opposite golden leaves of dwarf birch ( Betula nana ). "

Coat of arms and flag were presented to the community on 20 September 1994, the flag is blue and yellow with integrated crest.