Magdalensberg
Magdalen mountain ( Slow: Štalenska gora ) is a municipality with 3314 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Klagenfurt-Land in Carinthia.
- 3.1 The Slovenian dialect
- 4.1 castles, ruins and castles
- 4.2 Museums
- 4.3 Sacred architecture
- 5.1 City Council and Mayor
- 5.2 Coat of Arms
Geography
Geographical location
The municipality lies at the foot of the mountain Magdalen Magdalen mountain in the area of the Klagenfurt basin and the lower Gurktal. Through the municipal area Gurk and Raba flow.
Community structure
The community is in 13 cadastral municipalities (interest Village / Svinča vas, Reigersdorf / Rogarja vas, Ottmanach / Otmanje, Wutschein / Bučinja vas, Gammersdorf / Mizla vas, Schurianhof, Timenitz / Timenica, Vellach / Bela, Freudenberg / Frajnberk, Port Village / Partovca, Zeiselberg / Čilberk, Lassendorf / Vasja vas, St. Thomas / Šenttomaž ) structured and includes the following 40 places ( with Slovenian counterpart and, in parentheses population as of 31 October 2011):
- Christofberg / Kristofova gora, (2)
- Your Village / Dominica vas (115 )
- Dürnfeld / Nice (40 )
- Eibelhof / Ovčjak ( 1)
- Eixendorf / Nica vas (144 )
- Farchern / Borovje (30 )
- Freudenberg / Frajdenberk (96 )
- Gammersdorf / Mižlja vas (30 )
- Vulture Village / Virnja vas (59 )
- Göriach / Gorje (60 )
- Gottesbichl / Ovše (50 )
- Großgörtschach / Zgornje Goriče (38 )
- Gundersdorf / Gundrska vas (51 )
- Hague / Zapuže (133 )
- Hollern / Bezovje (21 )
- Kleingörtschach / Male Goriče ( 8)
- Kreuzbichl / Goričica (12 )
- Kronabeth / Smolje (27 )
- Lassendorf / Vasja vas (293 )
- Latschach / Loče (62 )
- Leibnitz / Ličje ( 19)
- Magdalen Mountain / Štalenska gora (101 )
- Matzendorf / Domačnja vas ( dialect also Mačja vas / ves ) ( 52)
- Ottmanach / Otmanje (161 )
- Pirk / Breza (20 )
- Pischeldorf / Škofji Dvor (434 )
- Port Village / Partovca (16 )
- Reigersdorf / Rogarja vas (75 )
- Sankt Lorenzen / Šentlovrenc (45 )
- Saint Martin / Šmartin ( 7)
- St. Thomas / Šenttomaž (281)
- Scooping Village / Žilje (16 )
- Sillebrücke / Žilje (45 )
- Stuttern / Srepiče ( 8)
- Timenitz / Timenica (282 )
- Treffelsdorf / Trovovska vas (94 )
- Vellach / Bela (12 )
- Wutschein / Bučinja vas (253 )
- Zeiselberg / Čilberk (70 )
- Interest village / Svinča vas (16 )
Neighboring communities
History
The area around the Magdalen Mountain, which is the namesake of the municipality, was considered the center of Noricum, a Celtic kingdom and later a province of the Roman Empire. Today, the area of the city on the Magdalensberg the largest archaeological site in Austria. Nationwide gained fame especially the youth from Magdalen Mountain, a 1502 found Roman bronze sculpture from the first century BC.
The Magdalen mountain, the Klagenfurt field ( Slow: Celovško polje ) dominates as well as the customs field with Virunum and Karnburg was after the Antique and cultic center in earlier karantinischer time, as archaeological finds of this period, and particularly the three-head tank from the 8th / 9 Century BCE. This once stood before the church and was moved to the tradition of the local pastor Pavle Zablatnik in the interior of the church. The three head ( Triglaw, Slovenian triglav ) is regarded as pre-Christian deity of the Slavs in general and especially in the Karan Spartans. The importance as karantanischer central space is occupied by Jerome Megiser, the reports that the port villages were at the Duke establishment plunder three days. Partial led the Inthronisierungszeremonial on the territory of the municipality of Herzoghof / Duke farmers in Blasendorf ( Slow: Blažnja vas, the ' blessed village ') for Fürstenstein on or in Karnburg. Evidence of these early constitutional history also give the Edlinger numerous farms in the community whose men approached, according to tradition, a special role in the popular election of Carantanian princes. The Edlinger to St. Lorenzen and the surrounding villages Hollern and scooping village kept their special status or privileges until the end of the 15th century. In 1500, still had to make special services a local Edlinger, so that one can assume that the major Slovenian reformer Trubar, when he in 1550 the Slovenian catechism and 1567, the Slovenian Church Order ( Slow: Cerkvena ordninga ) wrote, yet historical to engaging in active tradition in Carinthia met.
In the late 19th and 20th centuries the town to the language border was, the Slovenian cultural life with the establishment of the Slovenian Cultural Association Edinost Št. Also experienced Tomaž and Slovenian Savings and Loan Cash ( Hranilnica in Posojilnica Št. Tomaž ) in St. Thomas a new upswing and radiates far beyond the former town boundaries and listed members.
On April 14, 1942, there came to deportation ( long time euphemistically called " resettlement ") is well-known Slovenian families from the Altgemeinde St. Thomas / Šenttomaž.
The community Magdalen Hill was built in 1973 by merger of the independent municipality since 1850 local churches Ottmanach and St. Thomas on Zeiselsberg.
Population
Magdalen Berg 2001 2.980 inhabitants according to the census, of which 96.1% have Austrian citizenship. Of the community residents profess 84.6 % to the Roman Catholic and 4.3% for the Protestant Church, 8.7 % have no religious confession.
The Slovenian dialect
The community Magdalen mountain ( Altgemeinden Saint Thomas and Ottmanach ) is one historically the Slovenian dialect area of the Klagenfurt field ( Polyansky govor oz. Poljanščina Celovškega Polya ), which is a transitional dialect between the Slovenian dialects of Jauntals ( podjunščina ) and the Rose Valley ( rožanščina ). As a special variant of the Slovenian dialect Rosental already has him Johann Scheinigg 1882 identified, which could be confirmed in the dialectological study by Katja Sturm- Schnabl the basis of field research.
Culture and sights
Castles, ruins and castles
- Castle Eiblhof ( scooping village)
- Schloss Freudenberg
- Castle Gundersdorf
- Castle Ottmanach
- Lock port village ( 1928 blown up and put away )
- Chapel port village
- Ruined castle remains Timenitz
- Castle ruins Zeiselberg
Museums
- Archaeological Park Magdalensberg
Sacred architecture
- Branch Church Saint Helen and Mary Magdalene ( Summit Church Magdalen Hill)
- Branch Church of St Andrew in Wutschein
- Branch Church of St. Lawrence ( San Lorenzo )
- Branch Church of St Martin in Freudenberg
- Parish Church of Holy Margaretha in Ottmanach
- Parish Church of Saint George in Timenitz
- Parish Church of St. Thomas on Zeiselberg
Policy
City Council and Mayor
The local council of Magdalen mountain has 19 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:
Directly elected mayor since 2009, Andreas Scherwitzl ( SPÖ).
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of Magdalen mountain shows on a blue background a ( heraldic ) to the left -turned golden griffin. This is the view of one of the most important ancient finds modeled in the municipality, in 1843 discovered a 40 cm high bronze statuette from the time of Roman emperor Augustus.
The official blazon of the arms is: ". In a blue shield a left inverted golden griffin (Form gripping of Magdalen Hill) " coat of arms and flag of the municipality Ottmanach were awarded on 30 June 1964 and accepted after the reformation of the church Magdalensberg 1973 ( Neuverleihung by decision of 14 September 1973). The flag is blue and yellow with integrated crest.
Personalities
The composer and pop singer Udo Jürgens grew up in Ottmanach castle, just as his brother, Manfred Bockelmann, who is a painter and photographer. The family grave of Bockel 's located on the Ottmanacher cemetery.
Jürgens ' father was from 1938 to 1945 and from 1954 to 1958 mayor of Ottmanach.
Since 2006 lives Karl Schnabl, the Olympic champion and medalist at the Olympic Games in Innsbruck in ski jumping in Latschach. Karl Schnabl was also the driving force of the Austrian ski jumping miracle team, the Professor Baldur Preiml in the 1970s has formed.
Born Magdalensbergerin is Carinthian Slovenian Katja Sturm- Schnabl University professor of Slovenian and Slavic philology at the University of Vienna.
A born Magdalen Berger is Marjan Sturm, since 1992 Chairman of the Central Association of Slovenian organizations and 2012 winner of the Great Silver Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria
A born Magdalen Berger is Bojan - Ilija Schnabl, writer and author of Slovene (as well as French and Spanish ) poems and short stories with community reference, in which the municipality are collected in a broader sense and the Klagenfurt box ( central ) literary figure.