Sankt Paul im Lavanttal

St. Paul in the Lavant Valley, officially St. Paul in the Lavant Valley, is a market town with 3431 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Wolfsberg in Carinthia.

  • 4.1 Structures 4.1.1 Benedictine
  • 4.1.2 Burg Rabenstein
  • 4.1.3 College and Seminary
  • 5.1 municipal
  • 5.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.3 Town twinning

Geography

Geographical location

The market is St. Paul in the Lavant valley near the confluence of the Granitzbachs in the Lavant. A large part of the municipality is located in Granitztal and at the foothills of the Saualpe.

Community structure

The community is Granitztal -St in the eight Katastralgemeinden. Paul, Granitztal - Weissenegg, Johannesberg, Legerbuch, Kollnitz, Saint Paul, Loschental and vineyard divided. The municipality includes the following 21 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • German - Grutschen (134 )
  • Goenitz (64 )
  • Granitztal - Saint Paul ( 87)
  • Granitztal - Weißenegg (451 )
  • Dog village (82 )
  • Johannes Berg ( 27)
  • Kampach (83)
  • Kollnitzgreuth (73)
  • Legerbuch (157 )
  • Loschental (48)
  • St. Margaret (25 )
  • Saint Martin ( 26)
  • St. Paul in the Lavant Valley ( 1872 )
  • Schildberg (56 )
  • Stadling (95 )
  • House of Commons (6 )
  • Undergrowth ( 8)
  • Weinberg ( 14)
  • Windisch- Grutschen (39 )
  • Winkling (37 )
  • Zell Creek (94 )

History

From the Roman period ( province of Noricum ) two dedications for the Celtic god Latobius were found. The first documentary mention of the place as villula Brugga comes from a document from the year 1091: Count Engelbert of Spanheim donated instead of a castle Lavant a Benedictine monastery in an already existing St. Paul's Church. This village Brugga on a bridge over the Granitzbach was a commercial and merchant settlement, 1184 Pope Lucius III in a document. was first referred to as a market ( Villam, quod dicitur forum ). 1289 will be the place in the monastery land register first referred to explicitly as a market St. Paul ( in foro sancti Pauli ); previously ( 1255 ) had the inhabitants awarded the rights to Bernard of Spanheim. The market was always under the influence of the monastery, which is a significant economic factor today.

The 1850 newly constituted municipality was renamed in 1941 in Spanheim what 1946 was reversed. In 1957 the municipality of the so-called " Devil's Island " in the East, and a portion of the dissolved municipality Legerbuch was enlarged. Other territorial gains followed by incorporations at the community structure reform in 1973, but these were partially reversed by the re - independence of St. Georgen 1991.

Population

According to the 2001 census of St. Paul has 3,680 inhabitants, of which 95.5 % and 1.5% Austrian Bosnian citizen. 92.7 % are Roman Catholic, 1.3% and 2.0% for the evangelical church to Islam. 2.7 % of the population are without religious confession.

Culture and sights

Structures

Benedictine

The Benedictine Abbey of St. Paul, founded in 1091 is a castle that served the dukes of Carinthia as ancestral castle. Today the monastery is the oldest active monastery in Carinthia and has one of the largest art collections in Europe, as well as an extensive and important library. There is a Romanesque basilica, which was built in the late 12th century in this unit.

Burg Rabenstein

The castle was also built in 1091 for the protection of the monastery as a castle Ramestein. It was destroyed in 1307, rebuilt and again destroyed in 1636 by fire.

High School and Seminary

The building of the Seminary of the pin High School was built in 1889 in neo-Gothic style and in 1909 expanded; it was then with 200 seats of the largest and with central heating and indoor pool is one of the most modern boarding the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The building of the pin Gymnasium was built in 1900 in the Ringstrasse style and houses, as well as the 1976 abandoned boarding school, the classes of the pin Gymnasium St. Paul.

Museums

  • Stiftsmuseum
  • Obstbaumuseum

Regular events

  • St. Pauler Kultursommer
  • St. Pauler Oktoberfest
  • St. Pauler Parish
  • St. Pauler Fellner - Event
  • Hugo Wolf days
  • St. Pauler Most country running
  • Cutting board tournament of the TTC St. Paul

The oil Bruendl

Dietrich von Spanheim (1253-1303), from the house of the founder of the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul, lived as a hermit in a cave in the woods north of St. John mountain. Near his house this spring gushed from the mountain. Many sick people made ​​pilgrimages to the hermit who originated the call that he could heal the sick. For this purpose, he drew by hand water from this source, which immediately turned into oil. He rubbed the sick and healed them. When he died, he was buried on the hill under a chapel. Later on the St. John's Church was built.

Policy

Parish council

The local council of St. Paul has 23 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

Directly elected mayor Hermann Primus ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

The current coat of arms is based on a market label that has been handed down for 1 October 1665 and probably by Abbot Philip rotting houses (reigned 1661-1677 ) was awarded. It is composed of Herold pieces, which is not typical for this time.

The official blazon of the arms is: " Divided shield; front in black and silver wedges three rows, the back in red three silver bars. "This coat of arms heraldic description is inaccurate in parts, in particular, there is a split, non-split escutcheon. Therefore, 2006, the following proposal was submitted: " A two tier plate; front in black and silver toppled three rows of gusset plate under reduced head, back of Red and Silver divided six times. "

The leadership of the coat of arms of the municipality was certified on 22 October 1973 at the same time, she was awarded a banner bearing the colors red - white-black with integrated crest.

Twinning

  • St. Blaise, Germany

Personalities

  • Gernot Kulis (born 1976 ), comedian, Ö3 Callboy
  • Elisabeth Köstinger (* 1978 in Wolfsberg ), Member of the European Parliament, lives in St. Paul in the Lavant Valley.
  • Gert- Rene Polli ( * 1960 ), 2002-2007 Director of the Federal Agency for State Protection and Counter Terrorism (BVT )
  • Werner Wutscher ( born 1968 ), CEO of REWE International AG

Freeman

  • Ferenczy Heinrich (* 1938), abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul in the Lavant Valley
  • Ignaz Lernbaß, teacher and mayor of the greater community of St. Paul 1979-1990
  • Bruno Rader ( b. 1939 ), abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Paul in the Lavant Valley, initiator of the first Carinthian Provincial Exhibition 1991
  • Albert Steiner, former mayor
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