Greifenburg

Access castle is a market town with 1805 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013 ) in the Upper Drau Valley. It belongs to the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia.

  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Museums
  • 4.3 Sport
  • 5.1 municipal
  • 5.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.3 Town twinning

Geography

Geographical location

Access castle is located in a narrow valley basin of the Upper Drau Valley between the Kreuzeckgruppe the north and the Gail Valley Alps in the south. The water-rich Drau Valley, which is usually just 1 km wide and is expanding at grasping castle and the adjacent east Steinfeld to approximately twice the width.

During the southern slope of the valley initially only moderately increases up to a Talschulter, the north slope is up to 70% steep. Five kilometers north-west is the mountain floor of Hochtristen ( 2536 m ), on the southern flank of the Emberger Alm (1800 m). At the mountain pasture, which is also known as snow-sure ski area and for their clear vision, leads a mountain road. When Alpenhof Sattlegger a small observatory was built by Astroverein Stella Carinthia, on which there is a telescopic international meeting every autumn.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into the three cadastral Bruggen, Reaching castle and Kerschbaum. The municipal area includes the following towns (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Amberg ( 62)
  • Amlach (42 )
  • Eben ( 9)
  • Egg ( 5)
  • Gnoppnitz (55 )
  • Reaching Castle ( 1072 )
  • Gries (88 )
  • Hauzendorf (128 )
  • Kalch (6 )
  • Kerschbaum (69 )
  • Kreuzberg ( 7)
  • Pobersach (73 )
  • Rasdorf (14 )
  • Tröbelsberg (18 )
  • Waisach (85 )
  • Water Theuermann (12 )
  • Weneberg (10)

Population

According to the 2001 census, the municipality Greifenburg has 1911 inhabitants, of which 91.7 % are Austrian citizens, 4.0 % are from Croatia and 1.9 % from Bosnia- Herzegovina. 86.7 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 7.2% for the Protestant Church and 1.9 % Islam, 3.1% are without religious confession.

History

The room grasping castle was inhabited in Roman times, as evidenced by finds. In today's municipal area was probably the Roman road station Bilachium. From the Antonine Itinerary missing the information for the Drau Valley ( San Candido / Littamum to Villach / Santicum ), but let the distance information for those of Aquileia to the north, leading to the Alps Via Iulia Augusta, with the course of Aquileia - Tricesimum - Julio Carnico ( Zuglio ) - Larice ( St.Daniel / Weidenburg ) - Bilachium ( Radlach ), accept this. At the same time it was the head station for the Roman roads from Kreuzbergsattel.

The place was first mentioned in 1166, when the Lords of Greifenburg acted as witnesses for the Archbishop of Salzburg. 1267 Access castle was mentioned as a market, with early conditioning of the market is not excluded at the junction between the Drau Valley and Kreuzbergstraße under the Carinthian Duke Bernhard of Spanheim to 1210.

The citizens won mainly by the growing trade in the late 14th century in importance.

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Castle Castle Access
  • Parish Greifenburg
  • Parish Waisach

Museums

  • Mountain Farm Museum Gnoppnitz

Sports

  • Paragliding and Hang Gliding on the Emberger Alm: In recent years, gripping castle was known to be an important venue for competitions in both sports, with all pilots Greifenburg is an airman Eldorado.
  • In 2004, here the hang gliding world championships (FAI 1) of the ladies, the fixed-wing aircraft (FAI 5 ) and for Swift devices (FAI 2) took place
  • The SV Greifenburg plays under the symbol SVG in the Carinthian minor league.

Policy

Parish council

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

  • 7 FPK
  • 5 ÖVP
  • Two SPÖ
  • 1 BLG ( civil list Greifenburg )

Directly elected mayor is Franz Mandl ( FPK ).

Coat of arms

The Market Access castle was awarded on October 20, 1593 by Archduke Maximilian the right to bear a coat of arms, which was used unchanged in a larger and a smaller seal until the 19th century. The coat of arms was the market town in 1971 to certify again. The heraldic description of the emblem is:

The mythical beast griffin is shown with the body of a lion, the head, wings and talons of an eagle. With the Austrian shield should probably be expressed through the market, the rule of the Habsburgs.

The flag is red and white with integrated crest.

Twinning

  • Ship Weiler, Germany

Personalities

  • Peter Funder, (1820-1886), Prince-Bishop of the Diocese of Gurk from 1881 to 1886, was born in Bruggen
  • Erika Iberians (1906-1984), writer
  • Baldur Preiml (* 1939 in Bruggen ), ski jumpers, trainers and "father" of the Austrian ski jumping miracle team of the 1970s, former teacher at the ski school in Stams, former head of the sports department of the Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Sports, Author
Kreuzeck group Ski resort Star party Via Julia Augusta Kreuzberg Saddle Bernhard von Spanheim Bad Kleinkirchheim Baldramsdorf Berg im Drautal Dellach im Drautal Kleblach-Lind Lendorf Lurnfeld Oberdrauburg Obervellach Rangersdorf Rennweg am Katschberg
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