Lang, Styria

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The municipality is part of the long- Leibnitz district of the province of Styria in Austria and has 1216 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

• 2.1 Prehistory and Early History
• 2.2 The Ancient
• 2.3 The Middle Ages
• 2.4 The modern era
• 2.5 The Modern

• 3.1 associations

Geography

The municipality is located on an area of ​​1562 hectares at an altitude 280-420 meters above the Adriatic.

Community structure

On 1 January 1968, the municipality was incorporated Schirka. The community is so long now from the cadastral (area 2001): Göttling 126.25 ha, 308.06 ha Jöss, long 137.01 ha, 56.53 ha Langaberg, Schirka 507.14 ha and 426.96 ha Stangersdorf Villages (population 2011) are: Dexenberg (181) Göttling (174) Joss (268) Joss industrial park (0 ), long (191 ), Langaberg (112) Schirka (88) Stangersdorf (200) and Stangersdorf industrial park (3).

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are (alphabetically ): Hengsberg, Lebring - Saint Margaret, Sankt Nikolai im Sausal, Tillmitsch and Wildon.

History

Prehistory and Early History

The oldest known settlement area for the time being in the community long is the so-called carpenter height, originally probably Dexenberg said. On her or his foot is today the small village Dexenberg. Joiner's height has all the features of a prehistoric hillfort. The former hilltop was leveled to a definable time and not without trenching is abgeböscht universally sharp. On the plateau stray finds have been made ​​to prove the existence of a settlement at this place again and again. It is dated to the 4th millennium BC and belongs to the area of the Lasinja culture. A few Bronze Age pottery fragments could be considered as an indication of a settlement in the second millennium BC. Even in considerably recently and that in the 9th century BC, in the time of the urn field culture, appears in the area of ​​Dexenberg passed a settlement to have. On the existence of another Urnfield settlement have findings point to one of the hillside terraces in the village of Stanger. Disciples were in motorway construction in Stangersdorf destroyed cremation burial of the Hallstatt period from the 7th century BC These tombs and another from the late La Tène period, that is from the 1st century BC, which also came to light in 1977, are clear indications for nearby settlements of the time. In the roadworks also some prehistoric pits have been cut, which can be assessed initially unspecified.

The Ancient

Particularly densely populated municipality of the region was in the Roman Empire during the period from the 1st to the 4th century, the existence of the Roman period estates is for Joss and long with some certainty be assumed. The remains of the large estate and related, important tombs on the broad meadows in Stangersdorf have been almost completely destroyed a few years ago. Besides this tombs area, there are three places in the municipality of tumuli, which also belong to the Roman era. Also worth mentioning is the Roman Empire Street first order in Jößer field. This resulted from Celeia by Flavia Solva, eventually reaching over Poedicum (today Bruck an der Mur) the Erzberg. Likewise, long- lay in the Roman period at an important crossroads. From the main Roman road through Styria in long -chain from a side road that led through the Laßnitztal. We should also mention the beautiful grave reliefs on the church in long and of course a number of coin finds from Lang, Joss and Stangersdorf.

The Middle Ages

At the time of Carinthian Mark, as the Mur was still frontier, carried the heights of long Talsicherungen. On the Lech mountain it is still localized and in Dexenberg itself should have found this (derived from castle ) above the property book Seppl (now Klement Walter ) and Weber book. The role that has been in the Middle Ages, the area of long, is often underestimated as specified by historians. Mentioned here is the first place that of a schoolmaster in the last century as " Teufelsgraben " mentioned ditch, formerly simply called the " Gräbl " and has certainly nothing to do with the devil. It limited a long time the Salzburg area to the north and separated later the Marburg district of Graz circle. Still the remains of the trench border between the former jurisdictions Wildon and Leibnitz Leibnitz and the parishes and Lang are - St. Margaret, and ultimately municipal boundary. At the crossroads in Joss is still the stone monument of the district court Cross from the 1625. In its place was located a mighty oak in the Middle Ages. The district court Cross is also right at the old " Roman road ". The occasion for the first mention of Long is a prominent. On September 8, 1130 foundation of the monastery Reun ( pure ), which was equipped with goods to Stangersdorf was.

In the documents of the pen clean the first letters of the city name in the first half of the 12th century is documented with " Lunka " and " Stanegoiestorf ". The community name Lang ( Lunka ) has nothing to do with the German word long, but is Slavic or Celtic: It depends with the river name and location of the place " in the wet meadows " together ( from lonka, locative lonce or * lǫka " wet meadow "). The Laßnitz 970 Luonsnica ( Lunsnica ), later also called " Losnitz ". * loNč'nica is attributed to a word for "Meadow Brook". Another possibility for the name declaration in the event that the names beginning was originally pronounced "long a", as [ la ː ... ] goes back to the word Lahn, indicating a slow -flowing waters (of Celtic " Lahn (s)" - sluggish water).

Already 1219 is a " capella sancti Mathei " detectable, which was a vicariate of the parish of St. Lorenzen am Hengsberg. In the 18th century they built the chapel to the present parish church.

The modern age

Since about 1680 Long has its own pastor who lives in the parish. While the fortifications were to give up on the heights already long, was built in 1651, the Eybesfeld Castle in Joss in its present form by Christoph Freiherr von Eibiswald. The four former corner towers (two of which are still preserved ) and the castle walls gave the castle a defensive character. After the Turkish invasion in the 18th century, the walls were torn down and developed the agricultural and forestry operation. The castle often changed its owners. For over 150 years, the castle is owned by the Conrad family - Eybesfeld, which also owed to their family name to the castle name. As the most prominent representative of the family Conrad Eybesfeld, seems to Dr. Sigmund Baron Conrad von Eybesfeld, which earned the title Baron for his family and brought it as a high-ranking official to the imperial governor and minister of education. He died in 1898 with 77 years and is buried in the family vault at Long Cemetery. In recent years, all the buildings of the estate Eybesfeld been extensively renovated and built into the side building apartments, office space and event facilities or newly built.

In 1822, counted the Kirchdorf long 19 houses and 96 inhabitants. With the municipal laws of 1848/ 49 and 1862 was the political power of the landlords on the municipalities and the communities it originated long and Schirka.

The Modern

As part of the municipality amalgamation in 1968, the community came to the municipality Schirka long and now it formed a parish, school and parish registry office and a political unit. Since 2009, the municipality together with the municipalities Hengsberg, Lebring -St. Margaret, Stocking, Wildon and Weitendorf the micro-region of Hengist.

Culture and sights

The Eybesfeld Castle is one of the attractions of the region. In addition, the district court cross at the so-called Roman road from the year 1625 and the parish church was built around 1700 can be visited, were installed in the stones of Roman origin.

Especially nice is the culture trail Lang, which was built by the Rural Youth Long - Lebring and Culture Park Hengist. On 13 information signs provide a great deal about the special places in the municipality.

Clubs

Rural Youth Long, Long ÖKB OG, SG Long, curlers Stangersdorf, FF Lang, MV Long

Nature reserve

The wooded area on the Buchkogel the boundary of the Murfeldes and Leibnitzer field in the communities Wildon, Lebring -St. Margaret, Lang and Hengsberg was declared a " nature reserve Wildon Buchkogel ". Thus, the semi-natural beech forests and the species- rich plant occurrence of this area should be protected. These plants include beech, wolf Eisenhut, big-leaf, narrow leaf and purple helleborine, lily of the valley, Alpenzyklame, Illyrian crocus, daphne, helleborine, dog tooth violet, hedge hellebore, Spring snowflake, Turk's cap lily, large two- sheet, bird nest orchid, white butterfly orchid, natural primrose, wood - violet, violet grove.

Coat of arms

The emblem of the strip even arrangement of fields and meadows from the point of view are symbolically represented by the Langaberg. This landscape was typical for long to mid 20th century.

Historical Maps

The boundary between the Marburger (yellow) and the Graz circle (red-brown ) was in the Mur Valley at Teufelsgraben, 1855

Sausal, Leibnitz, underflow of Laßnitz and Sulm, 1879

Special map sheet 5255 Leibnitz and Wildon, 1894/1914

General map of Central Europe Journal 33 ° 47 ° Graz, 1893