Sankt Georgen am Längsee

Sankt Georgen aL, officially St. Georgen aL, is a municipality with 3619 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia, Austria.

• 3.1 Population development

• 4.1 Structures
• 4.2 Regular events

• 5.1 Tourism

• 6.1 municipal
• 6.2 Coat of Arms
• 6.3 Partner community

Geography

Geographical location

Sankt Georgen is located in the northern Klagenfurt basin between Krappfeld and customs field. Main settlement area is formed by the Gurk Valley Launsdorfer. The municipal area extends west of it in the Klagenfurt basin with the aL, east into Brückler mountains and south to the Magdalen mountain.

Neighboring municipalities are, in the north clockwise beginning: Mölbling, Kappel am Krappfeld, Eberstein, Bruckl, Magdalen Mountain, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Mrs. Stone.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into the six cadastral Goggerwenig, Gösseling, Launsdorf, Osterwitz, Sankt Georgen aL and Taggenbrunn. The municipality includes the following 38 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Bernaich (72 )
• Dellach (79 )
• Drasendorf (227 )
• Fiming (371)
• Garzern ( 2)
• Goggerwenig (90 )
• Gösseling (79 )
• Hochosterwitz (23 )
• Kreutern ( 5)
• Krottendorf (86 )
• Labon ( 8)
• Launsdorf ( 1158 )
• Maigern (33)

• Mail -south (15 )
• Niederosterwitz (44 )
• Pirkfeld (15 )
• Podeblach (40)
• Pölling (26 )
• Rain ( 13)
• Reipersdorf (109 )
• Rotting stone ( 2)
• Sankt Georgen aL (169 )
• Saint Martin ( 10)
• St. Petersburg (320 )
• Saint Sebastian (50 )

• Scheifling (80 )
• Seven Aich (42 )
• Stammersdorf (26 )
• Taggenbrunn (84 )
• Thaldorf (179 )
• Töplach (47 )
• Tschirnig (33)
• Unterbruck village (9 )
• Unterlatschach ( 7)
• Wine Village (38 )
• Vienna village ( 7)
• Wolschart ( 8)
• Zensberg (4)

History

The history of the area has long been dominated by the Stift St. Georgen, which was founded in 1002-1008 by weighting castle.

The largest town of the municipality is Launsdorf standing on the sandy was to the 18th century Maria to the Church of the Assumption. Was first documented Launsdorf 1103.

The municipality was formed in 1850 to her first belonged also St. Donat, the 1895 was spun off as its own local church (now belonging to St. Veit ). The municipal area was extended in 1973 by parts of the disbanded community Meiselding.

1868 running through the municipality Kronprinz- Rudolf- railway was opened, which marked the starting time of the shift from the heavily agricultural to today's tourism community.

Population

Sankt Georgen according to census 2001 3.551 inhabitants, of which 96.4 % are Austrian citizens. As a religion give 83.3 % Roman Catholic, 6.1% Protestant, 1.3% Muslim to. 6.4 % have no religious confession.

Population Development

Source: Population Development of Statistics Austria

Culture and sights

Structures

• Hochosterwitz
• Monastery of St. Georgen
• Castle Taggenbrunn
• Castle Niederosterwitz
• Castle Rottenstein
• Castle Drasendorf

Regular events

• Trigonale (since 2003 ) Festival of the "old " music

Economy and infrastructure

According to the 2001 census, there are 93 workplaces with 461 employees in the community and 1,265 commuters as well as 270 commuters. There are 116 agricultural and forestry holdings ( including 43 prime-, 1999), which together manage 6,624 ha.

Tourism

An important economic factor in the region is tourism. St. Georgen is a member of the associations ' region Central Carinthia "," Noric Region "and" Hemmaland ". All three of these partnership organizations have their headquarters in the monastery of St. Georgen.

The aL with its excellent water quality in summer is the main attraction for bathers.

As the newest project of the neighboring municipality and district capital of Sankt Veit an der Glan built an 18-hole golf course in the municipality under the leadership. This golf course has commenced operations with the 2008 season.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 23 members and is as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

Directly elected mayor Konrad Seunig ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

In the front half of the shield of the coat of arms of the municipality of Saint George is depicted, which is shown as even on the oldest preserved seal on a document of 1280 as a full-length figure standing. In the rear lower half of the shield of the coat of arms Give Osterwitz was taken (silver chevrons in black ), which was built as a duke's followers Hochosterwitz in the 12th century and had until 1478. Additionally there is the emblem of the tribe Khevenhüller with the pedicled glans and the shaft beams, whose most important political representatives, Governor George of Khevenhüller had converted into today's impressive form the castle 1571-1586.

The official blazon of the arms is: " two tier plate, in front of the field a silver Saint George with mantle, beseitet of a silver star, a silver sword over his right arm hung in his raised right hand a silver palm branch and in his left hand a silver shield keeping with Radwappen. In the rear split field, the upper half of black and gold is divided; Top of the Line growing a golden acorn to zweiblättrigem golden stem, below a black wave band. In the lower half in black and a silver chevrons. "

Coat of arms and flag were presented to the community on 16 August 1965. The flag is yellow-red with integrated crest.

Partner community

Zoppola, Italy