Frauenstein, Austria

Ms. Stein is a municipality with 3634 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia.

  • 4.1 Locks
  • 4.2 ruins
  • 4.3 churches
  • 6.1 municipal
  • 6.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

The Township woman stone lies directly northwest of the town of Sankt Veit an der Glan in the hilly landscape in Central Carinthia. The municipality covers large parts of the Wimitzer mountains and is characterized by wooded hills and low mountains. South of the town of Kraig is the Kraiger lake.

Community structure

Mrs. Stone is divided into eight cadastral ( Dörfl, Graßdorf, Kraig, conducting, Obermühlbach, Pfannhof, Steinbichl and foam floor). The municipality includes the following 50 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Outer Wimitz (17 )
  • Biting village (18 )
  • Breitenstein (25 )
  • Dörfl ( 5)
  • Dornhof (95 )
  • Trinity ( 15)
  • Harrows ( 27)
  • Fachau (66 )
  • Föbing (15 )
  • Mrs. Stone (11 )
  • Gassing (81 )
  • Graßdorf (196 )
  • Grassen (10 )
  • Gray (17)
  • Grua (6 )
  • Hammergraben (20 )
  • Hintnausdorf (79)
  • Höffern (15)
  • Hörzenbrunn (5)
  • Hunnenbrunn ( 378)
  • Inside Wimitz (45 )
  • Kraig (572 )
  • Kraindorf (20)
  • Kreuth (12 )
  • Laggen (16 )
  • Derive (33 )
  • Lorenziberg ( 2)
  • Mellach (43 )
  • Nußberg (32 )
  • Obermühlbach (136 )
  • Pfannhof (25)
  • Pörlinghof (166)
  • Predl (34 )
  • Puppitsch (48)
  • Sand ( 139)
  • Foam floor (111 )
  • Seebichl (15 )
  • Seven Aich ( 2)
  • Stammersdorf (32 )
  • Steinbichl (78 )
  • Stone bridges ( 8)
  • Stromberg (52 )
  • Tratschweg (52)
  • Treffelsdorf (147 )
  • About box (471 )
  • Wimitz (33 )
  • Wimitzstein (2)
  • Zedl at Kraig ( 7)
  • Zensweg (197)
  • Twain (26 )

Neighboring communities

History

Kraig 1091, castle stone woman in 1197 was first mentioned. In addition to the dominant landmark located on the present-day municipality more, for the training of the medieval capital of St. Veit important castles and palaces, such as the main palace of the Spannheimer, Freiberg, or Kraiger locks, on which resided the ducal Steward, as well as the castles Nussberg and foam floor.

Until the revolution of 1848 the church today territory belonged to the dominions Kraigerberg and Nußberg. 1849, the local churches foam floor, Obermühlbach and Pfannhof were formed from the existing cadastral municipalities, the latter of which became extinct in 1899 by division. 1973, the current community woman stone from the communities Kraig, Obermühlbach and foam floor and parts of the municipalities Pisweg and Sankt Georgen was formed aL.

Population

The municipality has 3,528 inhabitants Mrs. Stone (2001), of which 96.3 % have Austrian citizenship. 96 % cite German, 0.8 % Slovene as their language.

As a religion give 83.4 % Roman Catholic, 6.6% Protestant, 1.4% Muslim to. 7.3 % have no religious confession.

Culture and sights

On the hills of the village contains many castles and fortresses are (most of them are now ruins ), who served in the Middle Ages as fortifications for the former royal capital of Carinthia, St. Veit.

Castles

  • Mrs. Stein
  • Dornhof
  • Hunnenbrunn
  • Pörlinghof
  • Wimitzstein

Ruins

  • Hochkraig
  • Niederkraig
  • Nussberg
  • Freiberg
  • Pfannhof

Churches

  • Evangelical Church harrows
  • Lorenziberg
  • Catholic branch church hl. Oswald, Nußberg
  • Obermühlbach
  • Provost in Kraig
  • Steinbichl
  • Sanctuary of the Holy Trinity with the tomb of Dr. Arthur Lemisch, Governor of Carinthia 1927-1931.

Economy and infrastructure

The community is from agriculture and forestry dominated (182 farms in 1999). According to the 2001 census, there are 399 employees in the community and in 1174 commuters.

Since 2007, the municipality has a new sports center in About box ( Kraig ). The tennis court has been extended to a fourth place, and a beach volleyball court was built.

Furthermore, located in the municipality of Kraigersee, a popular lake for the local population but also popular with many tourists.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 23 members and is as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

Directly elected mayor, Karl Berger (list of names ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Mrs. Stone shows " in blue on a golden Dreienberg the golden castle woman stone heraldic slightly stylized, the black holes ." The three mountain on the southern front of the eponymous castle is at the crest, does not exist in reality. It symbolizes the three Altgemeinden Kraig, Obermühlbach and foam floor, out of the church today has emerged.

Coat of arms and flag were presented to the community on February 26, 1982. The flag is blue and yellow with integrated crest.

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