Öblarn

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Oeblarn is a market town with 1448 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Styria ( Judicial District Schladming ). From 1 January 2015 it has joined forces framework of the Styrian municipality structural reform with the community Niederöblarn, the new community will be named " Oeblarn " to continue.

  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Museums
  • 4.3 Regular events
  • 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Oeblarn is the Expositur Groebming in Liezen district in the Austrian state of Styria. Katastralgemeinden are Oeblarn and Sun Mountain.

History

The abolition of the manorial system was carried out in 1848., The local church as an autonomous body was established in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 the congregation to Reichsgau Styria came from 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Copper mining and processing in Oeblarn

Oeblarn was for many centuries an important mining town. Its products are known far beyond the present-day Austria beyond recognition.

Historical overview:

1434: A smelter in Walchen is mentioned for the first time in a land register.

1469: documentary proof, the mining right awarded by the Abbot of Admont to Jacob Schauer, Paul and Peter Rieder to thalers. The original document is in the archive of Admont Abbey.

1552: The trades Luke seat and Andreas Feininger Prantmayr from Nuremberg to take over the mining in the Walchen.

1565: The Verweserhaus (now rule office or home office ) is built. This building housed the Mining Administration and impressed today with his size the market place of Oeblarn.

1656: John Fire singers from Salzburg conducts several years the fortunes of the Walchener mining, but without success.

1666: Hans Adam Stampfer takes over the strong run-down operation. Through 136 years his family leads to the mining and smelting operations to full bloom. In the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries, the Öblarner mining throughout the German-speaking area became known. Special recognition was the Stampfer'sche method of Erzröstens and the melting of copper rose. Hans Adam Stampfer and his successors were collected as a result of this fame in the nobility and were allowed to wear the title of " Count of Walch mountain". The wife of Hans Adam Stampfer, Maria Elisabeth Stampfer, Born Della gates, the takeover time of Walchener mining described in detail and very interesting in their " Hausbüchl the Stampferin ".

1802: Count Batthyány has a serious advancement after Stampfer dynasty and fails.

1819: The Knights of Fridau, two brothers who try to help the impoverished community and revive mining and production at great sacrifice again.

1858: Coal shortage and difficult processing of complex ores forcing the closure of mining and smelting operation. Since then, the Röststadel and furnaces are left to decay.

1891: Leonard Brigl takes the mining industry for the extraction of iron pyrites, which he needs for cellulose conversion to its paper industry in Niklas village again.

1958: After a few interruptions follows with this year, the permanent closure of the mining operations.

1998: With the help of the market town Oeblarn, the Province of Styria and the Austrian Federal Monument Office of the Mining Association Oeblarn newly founded stops the decay and begins with the conservation work on the montane historical sites.

2008: After ten years of consistent and hard work, a good part of the historical Erzgewinnungs and metal processing facilities, it is the former size and importance of the mining industry in the Walchen visible again. So today the Thaddäus, the great Röststadel or " sulfur furnace ," the copper furnace and the unique silver blowing stove are back so far made ​​that the copper, silver and sulfur recovery process of the 17th, 18th and 19th century is quite conceivable.

The viewing path Kupferweg begins in the center of the former Oeblarn Verweserhaus, today " rule office," and heads south into the Walchental. 14 stations are marked as such.

Policy

Mayor is Ehrenfried Lemmerer of the SPÖ. The council sat down after the elections of 2010 as follows: 7 ÖVP, SPÖ 4. 4 Bürgerliste Anton Knerzl. In October 2006, newly elected. Ex - Mayor Anton Knerzl reached with civil list Anton Knerzl 333 of 989 votes, but SPÖ leadership candidate Ehrenfried Lemmerer was elected mayor. In August 2008, this was replaced by Franz Zach (ÖVP ). By April 27, 2010 was elected treasurer Ehrenfried Lemmerer by the municipal council again for mayor, Franz Zach Vice Mayor and Anton Knerzl.

Coat of arms

The award of the municipality coat of arms came into effect on 1 October 1996.

Description: In red is a continuous silver St. Andrew's cross on a pile ermine ermine between flanks.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Parish Church of St. Andreas
  • Calvary
  • Church Square
  • Vicarage, originally schoolhouse
  • The Forest Service in the church square, former Verweserhaus the mining operations, including " dominion Office ", dates from the 17th century.
  • Mining Historical Geopolitical path Öblarner Kupferweg
  • Wooden chapel in the Walchen

Museums

  • Paula Grogger museum in the former home of the writer
  • Beekeeping museum with a collection of old beekeeping equipment

Regular events

  • Annual Sheep Farmers
  • Öblarner Festival: The Wedding of Paula Grogger is listed every 5 years since 1992, before that irregularly since 1937.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Paula Grogger (1892-1984), writer
  • Hermann Flaschka ( born 1945 ), American mathematician and physicist
  • Klaus Kroell (* 1980), Austrian alpine skier
  • Ferdinand Tremel (1902-1979), university professor, member of the Historic National Commission for Styria
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