Adnet
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Adnet is a municipality with 3459 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Salzburg region in the district of Hallein in Austria.
- 4.1 Town twinning
- 5.1 marble quarries and Museum
Geography
The municipality is located in the vicinity of Hallein in the Tennengau in Salzburg.
The highest point in the municipality is below the hunters nose ( a slope of Schlenkens ) with about 1501 m above sea level. A..
Community structure
The municipality comprises the following five villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Adnet (1410 )
- Riedl (149 )
- District Spumberg (247 )
- Waidach (815 )
- Wimberg (850)
The municipality comprises the cadastral Adnet I, district Spumberg and Wimberg.
Neighboring communities
Coat of arms
The coat of arms of the municipality is: In golden shield between three round red marble stones rotbewehrter a black lion, holding in his right hand a black mason hammer on a red stem.
Origin of the name
Origin from the Celtic ( Atanate, Atanat, Attnat ). The name means marsh ( Waterfront ).
History
The first mention of Adnet was 741 in the transfer certificate from the Bavarian Duke Odilo of the Maximilian cell in Bischofshofen.
1758 the first school was opened in Mesnerhaus. 1856 Adnet became an independent parish. 1890 there was a great fire in Adnet at the church, 6 houses and 14 outbuildings have been destroyed. It has caused a loss of 100,000 guilders. Although the Baroque interior of the church was not completely destroyed, it was decided to completely rebuild the church in the Gothic Revival style.
1909-1914 the Wiestalkraftwerk in Adnet was built. This resulted in many new jobs and Adnet was connected to the power grid. After 1945, Adnet was into a residential community and the number of inhabitants doubled.
Twinning
- Oppenheim in Rhineland -Palatinate, Germany
Culture and sights
Marble quarries and Museum
The Adnet marble is actually not a true marble, but a dense, sandable and polishable limestone. Even the Romans built from the 2nd century onwards Adnet marble. This limestone occurs in a wide range of colors and made of him a number of works of art were created mainly in the Middle Ages. In modern times, it was received well overseas. Significant works from Adnet marble are found mainly in Austria in the Parliament building in Vienna, at the fortress Hohensalzburg, in the collegiate church of St. Peter in Salzburg, further also in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.
Previously, many Adneter farmers had their own quarry, now little marble is only degraded. Altogether, there are about 10-20 quarries (some of them relatively hidden in the forest ); Today, marble is mined only in about 5 quarries.
- Adnet marble Museum: Founded in 1992, exhibition in the showrooms (approx. 100 m²) and in the museum garden; Focal points of the museum are: marble extraction, types of marble and fossils from Adnet, processing and use in buildings and monuments since Roman times.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Anna Fenninger - Gold medal winner at the 2011 Alpine World Skiing Championships in the super combined ( Garmisch -Partenkirchen ), Olympic gold medalist in Super G at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, as well as overall World Cup winner 2013/2014.
Gallery
Block of Adnet marble
Red Grey Schnöllbruch in Adnet (from here are the pillars of the Parliament)