Flattach

Flattach (presumably of Slovenian Blato for moss ) is a municipality with 1212 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the south of Austria in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia.

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

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in Moelltal at 699 m above sea level. The 98.7 km ² municipal area is north of the Goldberg group and south of the Kreuzeckgruppe. The highest point is the Schareck with 3122 m above sea level. A.

Community structure

The community Flattach with the two cadastral Flattach and Fragant includes nine villages (as in brackets inhabitants October 31, 2011 ):

• Außerfragant (267 )
• Flattach (404 )
• Flattachberg (103 )
• Grafenberg (37 )
• Innerfragant (64 )
• Small village (131 )
• Laas (105 )
• Smelters (98 )
• Honeycomb (30)

History

The community Flattach was constituted in 1895 as a spin- off of the market town Obervellach. In addition to the still prevailing Agriculture and Forestry played here also used the copper mining an important role. During the 20th century, tourism ( Raggaschlucht and ski area on Molltal Glacier) and the storage power station in the Außerfragant to economically important factors within the community were.

Culture and sights

• Parish Church of St.. Matthias in Flattach
• Catholic branch church of Our Lady in Außerfragant

Population

According to 2001 census Flattach has 1,373 inhabitants, of which 97.0 % have Austrian and 1.6% of German citizenship. 95.1 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 1.6% for the Protestant Church, 1.8% of the population has no religious persuasion.

Economy and infrastructure

The municipality is situated on the Flattach Mölltalstraße (B 106).

The Serviced has become like everywhere else in the Alps to a hobby or a modest extra income. Until the 1970s there was a cart path through which the cattle of Kolm Saigurn in the Salzburg via the Tauern Fraganter ( 2,754 m) was driven to the high pastures of the Fragant.

In the past, ore was mined at various locations, some of studs are still preserved today. Thus, the name of the hamlet smelters still points to the montane past. Most important was the copper mining in the valley of Großfragant, which began in the 17th century and the First World War reached its peak and end.

In Außerfragant is the turbine building of the power plant group Fragant, a storage power plant KELAG, the water refers not only from reservoirs in the Fragant, but also from the Zirknitz and Wölla.

Today, tourism is a mainstay. In the community Flattach is the Molltal glacier. In addition, there are the well-known Raggaschlucht and the Duisburg steel of the DAV, the Fraganter shelter and Dr. Hans Aries Youth of the Alpine Club Klagenfurt ( OeAV ) and the Weißseehaus nature friends in the community.

Policy

Parish council

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

• 7 FPK
• 6 FGL
• 2 DU

Directly elected mayor since 2009, Kurt Schober ( FPK ).

Coat of arms

The church laid in 1959 with reference to an earlier use with the Gezähe (Hammer and Schlegel ) the subject of a coat of arms fixed but got no license for it, and also as a result could not be considered further because of the content, designs or formal defects. Attempts of the Carinthian Provincial Archives, 1977 elements of the landscape and economy as well as introduce later a cancer ( Slow rak ) as the eponymous symbol of the Raggaschlucht failed. In 1990, the municipality adopted a coat of arms with scenic - tourist motives (cable car, Raggaschlucht ), but this was not granted by the state government due to heraldic defects. So only another attempt in 2005 was the breakthrough, as the coat of arms set in as it stands from a combination of different designs - Flattach was thus the last Carinthian village, which was awarded a coat of arms.

The municipality received on 8 May 2006, the right to bear a coat of arms and a flag with the following description:

The silver wedge represents the striking Raggaschlucht, from which protrudes a stylized mountain backdrop of the Molltal glacier. The red Pelton wheel stands for the power generation by the storage power station Fragant.

Partner community

Flattach maintains a partnership with Waghaeusel in Baden- Württemberg ( Germany ).