Dellach im Drautal

Lesachtal is a municipality with 1645 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia ( Austria ).

• 6.1 municipal
• 6.2 Coat of Arms

• 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical location

Lesachtal is in the Drau valley about halfway between Lienz and Spittal, nestled between the Gail Valley Alps in the south and the Kreuzeckgruppe of the Hohe Tauern in the north.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into five cadastral Lesachtal, Drassnitz, Drassnitzdorf, Nörenach and stone and includes the following twelve towns (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Dellach ( 682 )
• Drassnitz (38 )
• Drassnitzdorf (88 )
• Glatschach (112)
• Grientschnig (49)
• Nörenach (152)

• Raßnig (54)
• Riet Chess ( 61)
• Melting (239 )
• Stone (60 )
• Supper Berg ( 83)
• Weinberg ( 15)

Climate

In Dellach was on 27 July 1983, 39.7 ° C, the Austria 's highest temperature measured since records began. A new nationwide temperature extreme was again achieved in Dellach on August 3, 2013, 39.9 ° C, but a few days later, surpassed on August 8, in Bad German -Altenburg at 40.5 ° C.

History

Lesachtal was first documented in 1267 as " Doellach ". Also at the time of first mention Dellachs are also the place names Grientschnig ( Gorintschih ) Drassnitzdorf ( Draesentzach ) Unterdraßnitz ( Tressorezach ) Oberdraßnitz ( Draesniz ), Supper mountain ( Supansperge ) Nörenach ( Norinach ) and a short time later Riet Chess ( Chzezerietsach ) and Glatschach ( Glenschach ) already demonstrated. The local church was constituted in 1850, the original municipality the town Pflügl 1923 abgegetreten (until then to KG stone belonging ) to the neighboring community of deer.

Although these names have all Slavic name roots, it is certain that the settlements do not constitute genuine Slovene settlements, but only old already corpus of land area names are taken from the later settlers. The mining industry had a long time for the whole Drau and especially for Dellach a great importance. In the municipality once were four mines, namely Jauken, Draßnitztal, Kolm and Glatschach. In the heyday of up to 2,000 quintals of zinc annually went on rafts drauabwärts. In 1703 a post office line through Carinthia, the Drau and Pusteria was built on the orders of Emperor Joseph I.. The transport on the river Drava went back. From centuries of Erzsegen remained derelict tunnels, place names such as melting and old house names as silent witnesses of the past.

1787 the elementary school was founded. Multiple had to change the classrooms the school. The first classes were held in the Messner Chaste. As this was too small, the former inn Pacher was purchased and rebuilt and served until 1957 as a schoolhouse. Today it houses the municipal office. From 1810 to 1813 Upper Carinthia was administered by France. With the construction of the Southern Railway by the Drau valley began in 1871. 1873, the first train to Fortezza. It comes to the end of the Drauflößerei. After 1882 when a flood the Dellacher Draubrücke is torn away, it came to Drauregulierung and obstruction of Draßnitzbaches. On 8 May 1945 Dellach was occupied by British troops. The Carinthian Government awarded on February 6, 1961, the municipality Dellach the right to bear a coat of arms municipality whose symbolism to evoke the history of mining and use of water power in the town. On May 27, 1966, awarded by decision of the Carinthian government of the municipality Dellach the predicate climatic health resort.

Population

In a census, 1,150 inhabitants were counted in 1900 in the municipality. According to 2001 census Dellach has 1,769 inhabitants, of which 98.7 % are Austrian citizens in the Drau Valley. 94.8 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 2.9 % for the Protestant Church, 2.0% of the population has no religious persuasion.

Culture and sights

• The Stone Castle is a well preserved medieval castle on a rocky steeply rising rocks about 200 meters above the valley floor. Built in the late 12th century, it was in 1190 in possession of locations burg ministeriales. First documented in 1440 as it was owned by the Counts of Celje and then in 1456 with Emperor Frederick III. as the owner. In 1500 it came into the possession of the ditch to the stone in which possession they remained until the year 1668. Currently, the castle is owned by the family Orsini- Rosenberg and is not publicly available.
• The parish church of St. Margaret in Dellach is a medium late Baroque building of the late 18th century. From an old, former chapel originate parts of the chancel, the tower and a late Gothic wall painting on the north wall of the choir. The products designed by Christoph Brandstätter wall and ceiling paintings form scenes from the life of St.. Margaretha and the cross- discovery and cross appearance of Emperor Constantine from.
• Mater Dolorosa Chapel in Glatschach
• St Mary of the Seven Sorrows built in Drassnitzdorf, 1800
• On the earlier of mining in Dellach the shaft furnace Tonele remember in Draßnitztal, where were mined from 1524 to 1789 silver and copper, as well as the mansion, a former trades seat at a melt.
• Shaft furnace Draßnitztal: In an altitude of almost 1,600 meters you will find to the questions listed and restored by the Carinthian mountain rescue remains of an old shaft furnace from the 16th century. Until the 19th century, the blast furnace was used to Rohschmelzen of roasted copper ores that were mined in Draßnitztal.
• The Geißlochklamm is a deeply carved into the limestone cliffs of the gorge Jaukenstockes on the municipal boundary between mountain and Dellach. The gorge was made ​​accessible by land plants and is the hiking and biking trail mountain Dellach within easy reach. At the entrance to an old lime kiln is renovated with a display board, which was used for limestone quarries in rural areas until a few decades ago.
• When natural monument Weittalwasserfall plunge at an altitude of around 1500 m the water of Weittalwasserfalles to the valley. The spectacle was provided as a natural monument about 20 years ago under protection.
• Natural monuments Wacholderhain and Tuffbachl: A group of tree- growing juniper on the hillside below the castle stone represents a very rare vegetation variant, which is not actually to be found in this form in our latitudes, and was therefore placed under protection. On cloth Bach, known as Tuffbachl, vlg above the homestead. Shoemaker in the village of stone, formed by the strongly mineralized spring water in connection with certain there occurring lichens and mosses constantly new Kalktuffgestein from. Spring swamps and creek get them a special appearance and change constantly.
• Barbarastollen

Economy and infrastructure

Dellach was at the beginning of the 20th century a major economic community in the Upper Drau Valley: In addition to the traditional agriculture and its location on the transit route through the Drau valley mining Kolm (nickel, Golmei ) was in Glatschach (mercury), Jauken (Gold ) operated. In addition, since the 18th and 19th centuries there was a government zinc smelter, which was later converted into an iron hammer mill. In its place, Johann Taurians erected in 1872 the first pulp and paper factory in Carinthia, which was soon followed in 1897 and 1908. Lesachtal is located on the Drau Valley road (B 100).

The economy of Lesachtal is characterized by summer tourism and forestry and wood processing. A larger production facility of the company Euro Plast has its headquarters in Dellach, manufactures plastic containers and large plastic boxes.

Policy

Parish council

The local council of Dellach has 15 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

• 6 ÖVP
• 5 SPÖ
• 4 FPK

Once elected in March 2009 Mayor Walter Egger ( SPÖ) did not compete due to health reasons, a new mayoral election was necessary that chose John Pirker (ÖVP ) for themselves.

Coat of arms

The motives of the Dellacher coat of arms, which was awarded to the community on February 6, 1961 to play with the five mining signs on the diverse Montanist past in the municipality, and the lower blue shield half with wave pitch on the importance of the river Drava to the community at.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Lackner Hermann (1899-1984), politician of the Social Democratic Party, Member of the Styrian parliament 1945-1949, Member of Parliament 1949-1962