Fresach

Fresach is a municipality with 1262 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Villach-Land in Carinthia. Fresach is also a health resort.

  • 6.1 municipal
  • 6.2 Coat of Arms
  • 7.1 freeman

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located entirely within the Nock ( Mirnock - Verditz ) between the lower and Gegendtal Drau Valley. Only in the south-west, the Drava river forms the border.

Community structure

Fresach ( 10.55 km ²) Moss Forest ( 16.94 km ²) Wear Winkl ( 11.31 km ²)

Amberg ( ZH) Fresach (D)

Laas ( ZH) Mitter Berg ( ZH) Moss forest ( ZH) Carrying angle ( ZH)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

  • M = center of the municipality
  • Stt = district
  • R = Rotte
  • W = hamlet
  • D = village
  • ZH = Scattered houses
  • Sdlg = settlement
  • E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

The municipality is divided into the three cadastral Fresach, moss forest and carrying Winkl. The municipal area includes the following towns (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Amberg ( 33)
  • Fresach ( 576 )
  • Laas (87 )
  • Mitter Berg ( 166)
  • Moss forest (264 )
  • Carrying angle ( 106)

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are, from the north clockwise beginning: Feld am See, Afritz, meetings, white stone, Paternion and remote village.

History

First finds there from the Bronze Age (axes ). Around 590 AD, the Slavs settled in the area in the 8th century the Bavarians.

The counts of Ortenbourg were enfeoffed to the 11th century with the territory. In the 12th century the first church was built in Fresach. 1478 Fresach was destroyed by the Turks. After the extinction of Ortenburgers 1518 the area came under Habsburg rule. In the early 16th century, the majority of the population was Protestant. Even after the Counter-Reformation, which forced the conversion to the Catholic Church, many of their beliefs remained secretly faithful ( crypto- Protestants ). After the Edict of Tolerance Emperor Joseph II a Protestant parish Fresach Founded in 1782 again. 1787 the first school house was built.

1849, the two communities moss forest and Fresach were founded, which in 1963 merged.

Population

The municipality has 1316 inhabitants Fresach (2001), of which 99.3 % are Austrian nationals. As a religion give 66.6 % Evangelical, 30.0 % Roman Catholic, 0.2% Islamic about. 2.5 % have no religious confession.

Culture and sights

  • New building for the Protestant diocesan museum was built in 2011 for the Carinthian Provincial Exhibition 2011 and received a Landesbaupreis
  • ( Built in 1784 ) Toleranzbethaus and rectory ( end of 17th cent.) Belong to the Museum
  • Evangelical Church (1949-1951)
  • Parish Church of St. Blaise ( 1565)
  • Cancer hiking mile (stone crabs )

Economy and infrastructure

According to Census of 2001, there are 33 workplaces with 98 employees in the community and 449 commuters. There are 104 agricultural and forestry enterprises ( of which 35 are in the main acquisition ), which together manage 3,502 ha ( 1999).

Fresach is a " climatic health resort", whereby the Tourism plays a certain role.

The transport infrastructure is via the country roads L 37, L 39 and L 40

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 15 members. Since the local elections of 2009, the mandates are distributed as follows:

  • 7 FPK
  • 6 SPÖ
  • 2 ÖVP

Mayor Walter Bernstein ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Fresach shows the split sign out front in gold a hanging green birch leaf, which stands for the place name ( of Slovenian BRÉZÉ = where in the birch wood ), in the back of green a golden chalice with about floating white wafer as a symbol of the Protestant faith. Coat of arms and flag were presented to the community on 31 August 1978. The municipality flag is yellow-green with integrated crest.

Personalities

Freeman

  • Franz Klammer ( born 1953 ), skier, Olympic champion Innsbruck 1976 departure from moss forest
  • Oskar Sakrausky (1914-2006), bishop of the Evangelical Church in Austria
  • Prof. Walther Nowotny, head of the Carinthian Writers' Association and founder of the Fresacher writers conference
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