Garanas
- ÖVP: 9
Garanas until the end of 2014 a municipality with 267 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Germany mountain district in the Austrian state of Styria, at the foot of the Kor. As part of the Styrian community structure reform, it is merged in 2015 with the communities of Swan Mountain, Hollenegg and Gressenberg, the new community will continue to bear the name of Swan Mountain. This is based on the Styrian community structure reform law - StGsrG.
Garanas ( 52.28 km ²) Upper Fresen (7.57 km ²)
Garanas ( ZH) Upper Fresen ( 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 locality 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 -
Policy
Parish council
The council consists of nine members, from all the ÖVP since the municipal election in 2000.
Coat of arms
In the Middle Ages the way across the Koralpe with wood and brambles was blocked in times of war, so scrub is shown in the center of the emblem. The place name " Garanas " comes from the Old Slavic and originally meant " heckenumfriedeter, spine reinforced place ".
As the country was settled, the farmers had to tear out the birches, in the upper and lower part of the emblem these bushes are shown.
Because the name Garanas is unique in Austria, the upper part of the undergrowth were added three flowers. The red and white colors of the emblem symbolize the medieval landowners: The bishops of Salzburg and Brixen.
Culture and sights
Others
The High Moor
Garanas is known for the highest high moorland in Austria that has healing powers, especially for back pain. Balneologists appreciate that the location at 1,300 meters above sea level raised bog was built back 60,000 years ago.
In the nearby Swan Mountain Moor spa treatments are offered with Garanaser peat.
Buddhist meditation center " Kalachakra Kalapa Center"
The former Youth of Garanas was rebuilt in 2002 on the International Summer Meditation Center " Kalachakra Kalapa Center". Here every year Buddhist meditation classes and retreats offered during the summer months. On a hill behind the house a Buddhist stupa was built in 2002.
Garanaser trilogy
The writer Matthias Mander used the place as a venue Garanas and living area for its hero in the Garanaser trilogy.
- Garanas or the litany. Czernin Verlag, Wien 2002.
- The bridge case or the lathe dog. Novel, Czernin, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7076-0060-2.
- The obligation to collect or Garanaser filaments. Prose, Czernin, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7076-0429-0.