Deutsch-Griffen

German - handles is a municipality with 949 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia.

  • 6.1 municipal
  • 6.2 Coat of Arms
  • 6.3 Partner community

Geography

Geographical location

German handles located in the north of Carinthia approximately 30 km northwest of Klagenfurt in a left tributary of the Gurktal the handle Erbach. The municipal area extends from Gurkfluss to Carinthian- Styrian border in the eastern Nock Mountains. On the northern edge of the village there is the valley of the Paalbaches, which drains into the river Mur. This sparsely populated part of the township is served by the Flattnitz and accessible from German handles only with great detour and is therefore counted colloquially to Flattnitz. The neighboring municipalities in Carinthia are Glödnitz and Albeck. In the north the municipality borders on the Styria.

Community structure

The municipality consists of a single cadastral German handles. The municipality includes the following 25 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Silly (18 )
  • Arlsdorf (11 )
  • Bach ( 44)
  • Bishop Mountain (15 )
  • Brunn ( 19)
  • German handles ( 383 )
  • Lazy angle ( 2)
  • Gantschach ( 0)
  • Göschelsberg (30)
  • Graben (9 )
  • Gray (15)
  • Behind harrows ( 19)
  • Albeck ( 2)
  • Leßnitz (39)
  • Meisberg (13 )
  • Messa harrows ( 15)
  • Mitteregg (68 )
  • Oberlamm ( 3)
  • Pesseneggen (10)
  • Ratzendorf ( 2)
  • Rauscheggen (67 )
  • Sand ( 21)
  • Spitzwiesen (83 )
  • Tanzenberg (50 )
  • Under lamb ( 2)

History

Griffen was first mentioned in 927 as " Grivinne ". To 1043, a church was called. The present parish church was first mentioned in 1157, when the Bishop of Gurk came into their possession.

The municipality was constituted in 1850, which developed into the present name only in the 60s of the 19th century. 1920, compared to the neighboring community Albeck limit corrections, 1973 German -Griffen was integrated into the newly formed United municipality Weitensfeld - Flattnitz, but became independent in 1991 after a referendum again.

Population

The municipality has 1023 inhabitants German -Griffen (2001), of which 97.8 % 1.6% Austrian and German citizens. 93.9 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 2.5 % for the Protestant Church, 3.2 % have no religious confession.

Economy and infrastructure

According to the 2001 census, there are 82 employees in the community and 271 commuters. Economically dominant is the agriculture and forestry. There are 96 agricultural and forestry holdings ( including 38 in the main acquisition ), which together manage 5169 ha ( 1999). In the north of the municipal area is the ski Albeck, which also includes the community Albeck.

German has handles on the road L 64 connections to the southern boundary of the municipality vorbeiführende Gurktal Straße (B 93).

Culture and sights

Other attractions in the German municipality handles include the parish church of St. James the Elder, a Romanesque core and extended later -developed and the fortified church building from the 12th century, the Nativity Museum in Pfarrstadel, the mill trail and the fast cloth. On the Flattnitz stands on the municipality of German handles a lime kiln.

Pfarrstadel with Krippenmuseum

Kalkbrandofen on the Flattnitz

Policy

Parish council

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

  • 9 FPK
  • 4 ÖVP
  • 2 SPÖ

Directly elected mayor is Hans Prodinger ( FPK ).

Coat of arms

The municipality German - handles was awarded a coat of arms with the following blazon on 12 September 1995: "In green a silver slant right bar in the form of a covered with shingles and between brick pillars over a railing of wooden slats black openwork Ganges, accompanied above by a silver gothic finial, down from a silver uprooted spruce. " The flag is green and white with integrated crest.

The design of the oblique right bar is modeled after a landmark of the municipality, the long stairway to the situated above the village parish church of St. James the Greater. The finial indicates the ornaments that are attached to the pinnacles of the triumphal arch wall to the left of the church choir. The spruce stands for the forest wealth and its importance for the forestry industry as well as for tourism.

Partner community

  • Utenbach, since 1994 part of the municipality of Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Gurk (river) Mur (river) Flattnitz Pass Apolda Guttaring Kappel am Krappfeld Klein Sankt Paul Liebenfels Metnitz Micheldorf
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