GroÃŸkirchheim

Great Kirchheim is a municipality with 1391 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia.

5.1 municipal
5.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

Großkirchheim is in average 1024 meters above sea level in the region of the Hohe Tauern Grossglockner, in the west it is Sonnblick, bounded by the east of the Schober group. About 40 % of its territory located in the Hohe Tauern National Park.

Neighboring municipalities are Heiligenblut, Flattach and Mörtschach, in the north bordering the municipality of the province of Salzburg, on the west by East Tyrol.

Community structure

Großkirchheim is divided into five cadastral Doellach, middle, Putschall, Sagritz and angle Sagritz, the municipality includes the following 14 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

Allas (46 )
On Putzenhof (15 )
Doellach (442 )
Egg ( 16)
Göritz (34 )
Kraß (73 )
Middle Village (116 )

Centers ( 150)
Putschall (69 )
Ranach (40 )
Sagritz (185 )
Untersagritz (116 )
Winklsagritz (58)
Zirknitz (48 )

History

To 1140/50 the United Kirchheim Castle at "locus Chyrichaim " ( Kirchheim ) was first mentioned.

Already at the time of the Celts and the Romans in Carinthia gold was mined in the Hohe Tauern. The mining of precious metals experienced here in the Middle Ages and from the end of the 15th century, its heyday. A written document in 1338 gave the rights to the pit " goldärtzt in the parish Haimer court and located the Tauern bey the assiduity ". Even into the 17th century was mined in what is now the municipality for gold only after ice by advancing the Pasterze more and more mines, mining had to be abandoned.

1850 constituted themselves in today's municipal area, the first independent local churches Doellach, Sagritz and mids, with the latter two in 1856 combined. From 1939 Doellach and Sagritz had a common mayoralty, 1956 they merged to form the community Doellach - Sagritz, and they renamed themselves and in 1983 - the historic importance of the castle and the District Court Following up - to upper Kirchheim.

Throughout the 20th century, the United Kirchheim developed into a two seasonal tourist town (about 45,000 overnight stays) and the seat of the office of the National Park Hohe Tauern. Through the municipal area leads the Grossglockner road (B 107).

Population

According to Census 2001, United Kirchheim 1,606 inhabitants, of which 96.6 % 2.6% Austrian and German citizens. 95.8 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 2.1% for the Protestant Church, 1.5 % have no religious confession.

Culture and sights

Castle Großkirchheim ( with museum ) in Doellach
Parish Church of St. Georgen in Sagritz
Branch Church of St. Andrew in Doellach
Pilgrimage Church of Maria Dornach in Central Village
Gartlwasserfall
Tauerngold exhibition at Putzenhof

Policy

Parish council

The Municipal Council of Great Kirchheim has 15 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

9 FPÖ
4 ÖVP
2 SPÖ

Directly elected mayor is Peter Suntinger (FPÖ ).

Coat of arms

The central motif of the coat of arms of the municipality is the Grand Kirchheimer castle, which was built by Melchior plaster of Kirchheimegg († 1583 ). This resulted in his coat of arms both three golden roses in the red shield head, as well as three wild rose fruits ( " Cleaning " ) as " persuasive " share; both were transferred to the municipal coat of arms. In the lower part of the crest of the mountain Two golden plays with the valley cut to one (as well as the mine characters) on the gold mining industry, on the other hand on the place name Doellach (of slow. Doljah in the valley inhabitants ) on.

The blazon of the coat of arms, which was awarded to the community on September 5, 1978 is:

The flag is green - red with integrated crest.

Personalities

Hubert Sauper (born 1966 ), film director
Anton Granig, priests and resistance fighter ( born September 17, 1901 in the middle, † April 15, 1945 executed in Stein on the Danube )
Joseph Kahn, Bishop of Gurk ( born April 11, 1839 in Doellach in Moelltal, † February 15, 1915 in Klagenfurt)

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