Pöllauberg

Poellauberg with 2109 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) is a municipality in the district court Fürstenfeld or Hartberg - Fürstenfeld (Styria, Austria ).

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Mayor
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 3.4 Regional Policy
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 4.2 Education
  • 5.1 Structures 5.1.1 Anna Church
  • 5.1.2 pilgrimage church of Maria Poellauberg
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Poellauberg located in Joglland about ten kilometers west of the district capital of Hartberg and about 38 km northeast of the provincial capital of Graz. The municipality belongs to the Pöllauer Valley and lies above Pöllau on the left bank of the Pöllauer Safens. The municipality is governed by numerous tributaries of the Pöllauer Safens - primarily from Rauschenbach - drained. The highest point in the municipality is located in the extreme north Masenberg with a height of 1261 m.

Community structure

Oberneuberg ( 16.31 km ²) Unterneuberg ( 4.47 km ²) Zeil - Pöllau ( 13.07 km ²)

Oberneuberg ( ZH)

Unterneuberg

Zeil in Pöllau ( ZH)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

  • M = center of the municipality
  • Stt = district
  • R = Rotte
  • W = hamlet
  • D = village
  • ZH = Scattered houses
  • Sdlg = settlement
  • E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Incorporations

The church today Poellauberg was established on February 1, 1968 by merging the independent communities Oberneuberg, Unterneuberg and Zeil - reserved by.

Neighboring communities

History

Margrave Leopold gave to 1125-1128 the Ministerialengut to the ancestor of Stubenberger, Wulfing. Included in this was the territory of the present municipality Poellauberg. Wulfing of Stubenberg began to colonize the mountain slopes above reserved by. In 1685, Provost Maister from the pin Pöllau founded the first school in Poellauberg, his successor places Mayrhofen rose Poellauberg to the parish. Poellauberg came to Oberneuberg and thus became a municipality in 1818 the new district reserved by.

Demographics

Policy

Parish council

The last municipal elections brought the following results:

Mayor

Mayor since 1995 Johann Weiglhofer (ÖVP ) Vice Mayor Hubert Lang ( ÖVP). The former mayor of Poellauberg were:

Mayor of Oberneuberg

Mayor of Poellauberg after the merger with Oberneuberg, Unterneuberg and cell- Pöllau:

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In the blue sign two growing golden openwork pinnacles, between the tips of which floats a silver lily. " On September 15, 1975, the municipality Poellauberg was awarded by the Styrian Provincial Government of the right to run their own coat of arms.

Regional Policy

Poellauberg is a member of the Association of Municipalities Pöllauer valley, and with this in LEADER Oststeirisches region heartland. December 7, 2010 was Pöllauer valley constituted as Regionext small region. At the municipal structural reform 2010-2015 Poellauberg will probably merge with all four other municipalities in the micro-region.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Poellauberg is off the major roads. The community is accessible primarily through the side streets running in the valley of Pöllauer Safens country road. The South A 2 motorway from Vienna to Graz is about 17 km away, and over the junction Hartberg ( 115 ) can be achieved. The distance to the changing road B 54 of Wiener Neustadt on Hartberg to track village is about 14 km.

Poellauberg is not connected to the railway network. A train station is not available within a radius of ten kilometers.

Graz Airport is about 65 km away.

Education

In Poellauberg there is a kindergarten, a primary school and a public library.

Culture and sights

Structures

Anna Church

The Anna church stands on the highest point of the mountain Pöllau and was the first St. Mary's Chapel of the community. The original Romanesque chapel was extended in 1532 and the Baroque style. The present age with the image of St. Anne dates back to 1644th The Anna Church includes some furnishings from the pilgrimage church of Maria Poellauberg that were no longer needed there after transformations.

Pilgrimage Church of Maria Poellauberg

The pilgrimage to Poellauberg began in the late 12th and early 13th century, with the worship of a ladybug image. At the site of the present Church of St. Anna, a Romanesque chapel, which was attended mainly on Saturdays, what the mountain took the name " Saturday Mountain " was born. Around 1340 the building of the present pilgrimage church of Maria Poellauberg began in the Gothic style. Founder was Catherine of Stubenberg. Striking about the construction of the church is the two-aisled nave with three bays and a ribbed vault, while the choir and porch are extended to three ships.

The church is located below the original chapel on three sides by steep mountain, so they had to be built partly over the mountain beyond. The main entrance to the west is only accessible via 18 steps. In 2009, a barrier-free access on the left side has been established. To access from the main square off with no steps is possible. The walls of the church are mostly unrendered rubble stone, only the western facade was made from house bricks.

The decor of the interior still contains a Gothic statue of Mary as a miraculous image of the 15th century, otherwise supplies most of the Baroque: the high altar was built by Marx Schokotnigg and his son Joseph 1710-1730; the organ in the organ - loft with rich stucco comes from 1684th

When a lightning strike in 1674 the gothic tower was destroyed in 1678 and replaced by a baroque tower, which was built in 1872 expanded to include a tower cross.

The sanctuary is now one of the most significant of Styria and is visited annually by some 100,000 believers.

Awards for the town are

Within the European competition " Entente Florale Europe " Poellauberg in 1986 voted " most beautiful flower village in Europe " and thus won a gold medal in the village.

Poellauberg was honored as the " most beautiful flower village of Styria " in 2003 - an award that Poellauberg has already received several times since 1985.

In 2009, the East Styrian municipality won the organized by the Kleine Zeitung voted " Most Beautiful Fleckerl Styria ".

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Peter M. Schuster ( b. 1939 ), Austrian physicist and writer who lives in Poellauberg
  • Peter Töglhofer (1944-2007), musician, comedian, presenter, actor and amateur author of a ' heart does a person (ISBN 3-85365-226-3 ), lived in Poellauberg
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