Dechantskirchen

  • ÖVP: 11
  • SPÖ: 4

Dechantskirchen is a municipality with 1613 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Austria and is located in the province of Styria, judicial district Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg - Fürstenfeld.

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 5.1 municipal
  • 5.2 Mayor
  • 5.3 Coat of Arms
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Dechantskirchen located in the northeast of the district of Hartberg - Fürstenfeld and Styria. The municipality is situated approximately 15 km north of the district capital Hartberg. It lies at the foot of the Edge Mountains east of the Mur. The highest point in the municipality is the high mountain ( 1,314 m), the southernmost Eintausender of the change. The municipality is crossed by some outflows of change, all of which are directly or indirectly tributaries of the Lafnitz.

Community structure

Dechantskirchen ( 5.21 km ²) Hohenau ( 14.12 km ²) Kroisbach ( 4.61 km ²)

Bergen ( ZH)

Burgfeld ( ZH)

Dechantskirchen (D) Hohenau am Wechsel ( ZH)

Kroisbach (D)

Stögersbach (D)

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 municipality comprises the cadastral Dechantskirchen, Hohenau and Kroisbach respectively, from the villages of Bergen ( 101 inhabitants ), Castle Field (136) Dechantskirchen (641 ) Hohenau am Wechsel (98) Kroisbach (400) and Stögersbach (236 ) (population as of 2011).

Incorporations

On 1 January 1967, the municipality was incorporated into Hohenau Dechantskirchen the exchange.

Neighboring communities

History

The territory of Dechantskirchen was already settled in Roman times, the then local reasons, however, are not preserved. Two Roman grave stones are found east of the parish church in the cemetery wall. Here, the upper part of a Roman grave stele for Masculus with eagles, dolphins and palmette ornament is walled. In addition, a fragmented grave relief for three people with remains of an inscription. Shown are a man in Roman dress, a headless woman with pomegranate and an armored soldier.

From the end of the 6th century sunken Slavs nothing has been preserved. End of the 8th century, the municipality part of the Frankish Empire. It was already the end of the 9th century to the Hungarians before it in 1043 by Henry III. was recaptured. The municipal area first came to the Margrave of Wels- Lambach and soon to the Earl of Formbach and was so far a huge forest landscape.

The village Dechantskirchen was first mentioned in 1155, when Archbishop Eberhard of Salzburg I. Monastery Admont two Huben awarded. Already in 1163 the village came to Vorau on the occasion of its founding by Margrave Ottokar III. As a result, the place changed hands many times.

The village Stögersbach is first mentioned in 1396, while Kroisbach is already 1381 first mentioned as Chreuspach. In the 14th century, the colonization of the municipal area was completed.

Demographics

Culture and sights

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Dechantskirchen located on the street exchange B54 and so has a good connection to Hart Mountain in the south and Wiener Neustadt in the north and in the neighboring communities Pinggau and Friedberg. The South A 2 motorway from Vienna to Graz can be reached after about eight kilometers above the junction Friedberg - Pinggau (95).

In Dechantskirchen there is a breakpoint for downgraded the Thermal Station train. This provides two hourly regional train connections to Vienna and Hartberg.

The airports of Graz and Vienna are both about 100 km away.

Policy

Parish council

The last municipal elections brought the following results:

Mayor

Mayor is Waltraud Schwammer (ÖVP ) Vice Mayor Johann Zinggl (ÖVP ).

Coat of arms

With effect from 1 November 1974, the municipality Dechantskirchen was awarded a coat of arms. Blazon: " is drawn in a silver diagonally to the right of green split up a golden shield, crossed with a pale silver crescent as provided ear, down a red crown, through which a green palm branch. ".

Personalities

Freeman

The former church and current cadastral Hohenau the exchange has appointed the following honorary citizen:

  • Pastor Alexander Wall Hofer, 1927
  • Otto von Habsburg (1912-2011), 1934
  • Pastor Norbert sausage, 1948
  • Former Mayor Joseph Groller, 1955
  • District Governor Dr. Erwin Stibenegg, 1955

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Ottokar Kernstock (1848-1928), Austrian poet and priest, 1873-1889 Kaplan in Dechantskirchen
  • Johann riding Meier († 1977) was from Dechantskirchen and worked as a pastor and organizer in Treze Tílias ( Dreizehnlinden ), Brazil
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