Mühldorf, Carinthia

Mühldorf is a municipality with 982 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the south of Austria in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia.

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Natural Monuments

• 5.1 City Council and Mayor
• 5.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the lowest Moelltal and is bordered to the north by the Reisseck and south of the Kreuzeckgruppe.

Community structure

The community Mühldorf divided into three villages (in brackets population as at 31 October 2011):

• Mühldorf ( 927 )
• Rappersdorf (76 )
• Sachsenweg ( 4)

The only Cadastral is Mühldorf.

Neighboring communities

History

The village Mühldorf was first issued on April 6, 1177 in a document by Pope Alexander III. mentioned by name. He was probably through his salt deposits, for its purification a brewhouse was built 900 years ago, already at least 100 years earlier known. The operation was given away by the Benedictines Millstaetter to the inhabitants, probably because of the low yield set but soon again.

Mühldorf got its name from the many mills that were built along the creek Muhldorfer. Of the original eleven mills are still working two that Trattner mill and the mill Glanzer among the best known art mills of Upper Carinthia.

1844, the same Lodenfabrik was built in Mühldorf by Johann Hopfgartner, which still exists today and far beyond its borders is known.

In addition to the dominant agriculture and the mining industry for a long time was an important economic factor. Until 1918, a hammer mill in the Muhldorfer refining and crucible steel was produced. 1920 built the Treibacher chemical plants a power plant at Seebach. After the Second World War, it was replaced by the Austrian Draukraftwerken. Previously, the rafting, the reduction of lime and burning of bricks, and mining (asbestos and talc ) is important. But agriculture was still an important pillar for the local population. The land was distributed to 1848 on the manors of Millstatt, Oberfalkenstein, Sommeregg and Saxony castle.

1850 constituted the local church Mühldorf, this was in 1865, market town Obervellach connected and came eleven years later to the local church Kolbnitz. From 1913 Mühldorf was self-employed, first to 1973 and was then incorporated in the course of municipal reform in the community Reißeck. In 1992 the congregation acquired after a plebiscite regain their independence.

Population

According to 2001 census Mühldorf has 963 inhabitants, of which 92.5 % Austrian and 3.4% Croatian citizens. 80.8 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 6.1% for the Protestant Church, 1.8% to Islam. 6.7% of the inhabitants are without religious confession.

Culture and sights

Structures

• The parish church Mühldorf was first mentioned in 1177 and is the hl. Consecrated Vitus.
• The Branch Church of St Andrew in rapper village is located about 1.5 km east of Mühldorf. It was first documented in 1388.
• The secular building of Sternhofs, right on Muhldorfer Bach, was built in 1470 and renovated most recently in 2001. In the struggle for freedom against the French in 1809 was inside the headquarters of the Carinthian and Tyrolean storm under the command of Colonel Johann Baptist Türk, a friend and teammate of Andreas Hofer.

Natural Monuments

• (Also called Klinzerschlucht ) Barbarossa gorge

Policy

City Council and Mayor

The local council of Mühldorf has 11 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

• 5 FPK
• 4 SPO
• 2 ÖVP

Directly elected mayors is Erwin Angerer ( FPK ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was Mühldorf awarded after the newly-acquired independence on 21 June 1994. The blazon is: From Green and Gold by an inclined right, divided into mistook color wave beams split, accompanied above by a golden mill wheel, down from a green M.

The green M in the lower part, the recording was specifically requested by the community, is available for both the local and community name and for the Möll which is further symbolized by the wave beam. In the upper part of the coat of arms is a golden mill wheel. The Flag of Mühldorf is green-yellow with integrated crest.

Personalities

• Kurt tickler (* 1967), politician ( FPK, before AAF and FPÖ)
• Scheuch (* 1969), politician ( FPK, before AAF and FPÖ)