Bad Blumau

  • ÖVP: 9
  • Future Bad Blumau submission: election diagram / ​​Maintenance / Name: 3
  • Citizens list Bad Blumau Template: Election chart / Maintenance / code: 1
  • SPÖ: 1
  • FPÖ: 1

Bad Blumau is a municipality with 1590 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the judicial district Fürstenfeld or political district Hartberg - Fürstenfeld in Eastern Styria, about 25 kilometers south of the district capital Hartberg. The small town is mainly due to his hotel with thermal springs, the Rogner Bad Blumau known, which was designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

  • 4.1 municipal
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 4.3 partner communities
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 Park
  • 5.3 1000 -year-old oak
  • 6.1 freeman

Geography

Geographical Location

Bad Blumau is located in the East Styrian Hill Country by the small river Untersafen just before this flows into the Lafnitz. Due to its location on the "Therme Line", which is due to the earlier volcanic activity in this area, bathroom Blumau is primarily known as a health resort.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following eight villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Bad Blumau (424 )
  • Bierbaum at the Untersafen (248 )
  • Jobst (93 )
  • Kleinsteinbach (307 )
  • Lindegg (275 )
  • Loimeth (89)
  • Schwarzmannshofen (90 )
  • Speilbrunn (89)

Bad Blumau includes the following cadastral (area 2001): Bierbaum ( 766.27 ha), Blumau ( 405.41 ha), Kleinsteinbach ( 500.12 ha), Lindegg ( 1658.09 ha), Loimeth ( 401.05 ha).

Neighboring communities

  • In the north: Bad Waltersdorf
  • In the East: Burgau, German Kaltbrunn (Burgenland)
  • In the South: Altenmarkt bei Furstenfeld, Großwilfersdorf
  • In the West: Hainersdorf

Traffic

Accessible bathroom Blumau is about the spa train, regional bus lines as well as by car via the southern motorway A2, exit Bad Walter village.

History

The first settlement should be done in the first century after Christ. Some grave hill ( for example, between Kleinsteinbach and Speilbrunn ) testify to this. Due to the Great Migration by about 400 AD, the Eastern Styria was repopulated. It would have been between 400 and 600 AD, no permanent settlement. Only the Slavs settled in the area around Blumau again.

As part of securing the eastern border of a castle belt has been built, among other things, a castle in Blumau included. In the 13th century, the castle is called " Plumenenau " which is obliterated in 1400, so that no traces are discoverable today. 1480 was the construction of a Gothic church, which is dedicated to Saint Leonard, which is in danger of collapsing late 17th century by a landslide. 1702/ 03 was built by the court architect Bartolomeo Ebner in the Baroque style, the present parish church of St. Sebastian.

1997, designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser Therme was opened. With this opening, a reorientation of the hitherto predominantly agricultural community was to tourism. 2001 Blumau was appointed resort and so received the right to use the name part of "Bad". Since 2001, thermal hot water from the 107 ° C also won 180 kW of electricity, so the hotel is also a geothermal power plant at the same time.

The following tourism prosperity led to the renovation of many old farms and buildings.

2009 with the construction of the new elementary school, there was a survey of community citizens about their construction, begun. As part of the construction of the elementary school is also USC Rogner Bad Blumau, get a new sports facility. This consists of two new turf fields and a grandstand and is located east of the old venue.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 15 members and has been working for the municipal elections in 2010, mandates the following parties together:

  • 9 ÖVP
  • 3 Future Bad Blumau
  • 1 Citizens list Bad Blumau
  • 1 SPÖ
  • 1 FPÖ

Coat of arms

The award of the municipality coat of arms came into effect on 1 May 1983 The blazon of the arms is:. " Silver on a red background a lily over 3 acorns, these are connected crosswise ".

Partner communities

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Parish Church of St. Sebastian: Baroque church built in 1702-1703 by the Graz court architect Bartolomeo Ebner.

Park

Along the brook a safe park of the spa park was set up, connecting the village to the thermal baths. The park is designed as a natural floodplain. Remarkable part of the park is a Weidenbau which the Weidenbauarchitekt Marcel Kalberer has built with young people. The inner dome has a height of eight meters and a diameter of 22 meters.

1000 -year-old oak

The 1000 year-old oak bathroom Blumau in the cadastral Bierbaum at the Untersafen. It is generally regarded as the oldest oak in Europe. She has a trunk circumference of 8.75 meters.

Personalities

Freeman

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