Seckau
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Seckau is a market town with 1279 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Austria in Styria and part of the district court or the district Mur Jews castle. It is considered a tourist resort and is especially known for its Benedictine Abbey. Seckau is a former Styrian bishopric also one of the two namesakes of today's diocese Graz- Seckau.
- 5.1 freeman
- 5.2 Sons and daughters of Seckau
- 5.3 associated with Seckau personalities
Geography
The village lies at the southern foot of the Alps Seckauer in a tributary of the Mur valley.
Community structure
Dürnberg ( 21.10 km ²) Neuhofen ( 22.42 km ²) Seckau (2.74 km ²)
Dürnberg ( ZH)
Hart ( ZH) Neuhofen (D)
Seckau (M)
Solstice Village ( 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 locality 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 -
The market town of Seckau divided into the cadastral Dürnberg, Neuhofen and Seckau.
History
Especially important is founded in 1140 as an Augustinian Canons Abbey Seckau, which was repopulated in 1883 by Benedictine and 1940-45 was in turn repealed. From 1940 to 1945, there was in the Abbey, a National Political Education Institute.
1218-1782 was Seckau episcopal see of the Diocese of Graz- Seckau. 1886 collapsed the North Tower of the Basilica, after both towers 1891-1893 under the Gründungsabt Ildephons Schober were rebuilt. Furthermore, the complex includes the Abbey School Seckau, a private Catholic school.
1660 was the place Seckau market rights. The municipality Seckau was built in 1849 /50.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality Seckau is shared by ermine and red There comes forth from the medieval coat of arms Seckauer Dompröpste.
Culture and sights
- Abbey Seckau Romanesque basilica with attached chapels, abbey buildings
- Mausoleum of Archduke Karl II
- Pilgrimage Church of Maria snow on the mountain pasture (1822 m)
- Calvary Church on Tremmelberg with shrines and the Towers Tower Power on Tremmelberg
- Weiermoarteich
Personalities
Freeman
Sons and daughters of Seckau
- Leopold von Pebal (1826-1887), Chemist
Associated with Seckau personalities
- Alphonsus Rosthorn (1857-1909), physician
- Benno Roth (1903-1983), monk, teacher, church historian
- Friedrich von Thun ( * 1942), actor, graduate of the abbey school Seckau
- Celestine Vivell (1846-1923), monk, music researcher
- Adalram of Waldeck (around 1100-1182 ), founder of the pin Seckau