Dellach

Dellach is a municipality with 1261 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Hermagor in Carinthia.

• 5.1 municipal
• 5.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in the upper Gail Valley, on the border with Italy. Near the village there is the Reißkofel, with 2371 m the highest mountain in the Alps Gail Valley.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following twelve towns (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Dellach ( 628)
• Goldberg ( 26)
• Gurina (14 )
• Courtier ( 5)
• Leifling (153 )
• Monsell ( 8)
• Nölbling (118 )
• Beets ( 4)
• Saint Daniel (279 )
• Siegelsberg ( 0)
• Stollwitz (34 )
• Wiesersberg ( 8)

The only Cadastral is Dellach.

Neighboring communities

History

For the prehistoric settlement Gurina a settlement on the present municipality to Hallstatt period is detectable. Near the settlement copper smelting caves were discovered, the BC witness a thriving culture for the years 600-400. In Gurina Celtic coins were minted, the settlement is at least 2900 years old and was in Roman times the presumed first Roman city in what is now Austria.

The name comes from the Slavic Dellach ( " Doljah ", for example, for " in the valley inhabitants " ), the Slovenian name could be " Dole " (of dol: down, down, towards the valley ), dialectal " Doljani " are ( see Dellach ). In 1370, the village was first mentioned in documents as Dölach.

Excavations at the present parish church of St. Daniel have leftovers from four previous buildings from the Carolingian period to the late Romanesque period, suggesting a settlement from the early Middle Ages.

The Goldstein castle was the seat of a - later united with Pittersberg - District Court for the upper Gail Valley is of great importance. She was awarded as fief of the Counts of Gorizia-Tyrol, came to their extinction under the sovereign's rule of the Habsburgs, and was returned by these 1524 together with the county Ortenbourg to Gabriel of Salamanca. 1640 acquired the brothers Widmann the county with all rule rights and sold them already in 1662 to Ferdinand of Porcia, in whose family the court rule Goldstein to 1848 and the ownership of the castle remained until 1918.

Dellach was after the discovery of zinc and copper since the late Middle Ages, a center of metalworking, in the 18th and 19th century, iron ore was mined and processed, temporarily lived in Dellach 291 miners and metal workers.

The municipality was constituted in 1850 and has not changed since then their limits.

Population

According to 2001 census Dellach 1373 inhabitants, of which 96.1 % have the German citizenship Austrian and 2.2%. 85.9 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 11.9 % for the Protestant Church, 1% is no religious persuasion.

Culture and sights

• Church of St. Helena on Wiesersberg: Romanesque building
• Parish Church of St Daniel the original parish of Upper Gail Valley
• Gurina: archaeological excavations Gurina with reconstruction of a temple
• Visitor center Geopark Carnic Alps

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
• 4 SPO
• 4 AAF
• 1 FPÖ

Directly elected mayor since 2009, Christine Ploner ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

In the coat of arms of Dellach the blue wave bar the Gail and the mine symbolizes the earlier resident here mining industry. The lily of the princes of Porcia points to the main owner of the former district court rule.

The blazon of the arms is: ". In gold, a blue diagonally left wave beams, accompanied up of a blue lily, down from a blue sign mine " coat of arms and flag of the municipality was awarded on June 1, 1983. The flag is yellow-blue with integrated crest.

Personalities

• Anton Ronacher (1841-1892), theater entrepreneurs
• Wolfgang Waldner (born 1954 ), Secretary of State, Provincial (Carinthia )
• Gabi Waldner (born 1969 ), journalist and presenter