Gurk, Carinthia

Gurk ( Slow Krka) is a market town in Carinthia with 1249 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan. Supra-regional importance was the place back as bishop of the diocese of Gurk and by the Romanesque Gurk Cathedral from 1140 on a foundation of the country's mistress Hemma of Gurk ( 995-1045 ).

  • 5.1 municipal
  • 5.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.3 partnership

Geography

Geographical location

The market Gurk is surrounded by mountain meadows and extended high forest and is a center of the little populated Gurktals dar. downstream of Gurk is the small town of Strasbourg, whose fortress once ruled the Prince Bishops of Gurk.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into three cadastral ( Pisweg, Gruska, Gurk ) structured and includes the following 22 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Dörfl (16 )
  • Föbing (6 )
  • Finsterdorf (9 )
  • Gassarest (9)
  • Gloss ( 0)
  • Gruska ( 24)
  • Gurk ( 869 )
  • Gwadnitz (39)
  • Dog village (21 )
  • Kreuzberg ( 9)
  • Kron (10 )
  • Masternitzen (5)
  • Low- village (15 )
  • Pisweg (104 )
  • Ranitz (20 )
  • Rich house (44 )
  • Stråssa (16 )
  • Sutsch (11 )
  • Zabersdorf (18)
  • Zedl (9 )
  • Zedroß (9)
  • Zeltschach (10 )

Neighboring communities

History

The name of Gurk (the " gurgling " ) derives from the eponymous river Gurk. Today's municipal area was already inhabited around 2000 years ago, but did not arrive until after the annexation of Carinthia on Bayern importance. The earliest documented mention of the river comes from the year 831, a Salzburg, found at yard Gurk was called 864. 898, Emperor Arnulf the Hemma ancestors Zwentibold large parts of the Gurktals, including a farmyard Gurk, its location shall be presumed in today Lieding (municipality Strasbourg).

In 975 Emperor Otto II granted the privilege for an existing in Lieding nunnery. This was founded by the Countess Hemma of Gurk 1043-1045 on the site of the present town of Gurk new. However, the pin Gurk did not last long, it was instead of the nunnery in 1072 the diocese of Gurk of the Archdiocese of Salzburg, which had rich possessions in the northern part of Carinthia, was founded. Gurk was until 1787 the seat of the diocese, whose residence is now in Klagenfurt.

Under the rule of the pen developed in the course of the High and Late Middle Ages, a settlement of traders. Gurk received market rights in the 13th century, however, was - like other markets monastery in Carinthia - far from being a market in the full legal sense and led to the 18th century neither crest nor seal.

On June 25, 1988 John Paul II visited the cathedral and prayed in the crypt at the grave of St. Hemma. The first visit of the Pope in the history of Carinthia was also a media event and led thousands of people to an exhibition in the open air in front of the cathedral.

Gurk was recognized in 1998 by the Euro Europe as Europe community.

Population

According to 2001 census Gurk has 1,311 inhabitants, of which 99.0 % have Austrian citizenship. 94.6 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 1.5% for the Protestant Church, 3.5% have no religious affiliation.

Culture and sights

  • Parish and former Cathedral of the Assumption, see Gurk Cathedral
  • Court fountain in Ranitz, a medieval so-called "pagans or Roemerbrunnen "
  • Dwarf Gurktal, amusement park

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 15 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

  • 8 FPK
  • 4 ÖVP
  • Two SPÖ
  • 1 FPÖ

Directly elected mayor Siegfried Kampl ( AAF ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Gurk shows " in blue an elongated Romanesque basilica with two baroque towers the helmeted; the nave is surmounted by a Biedermeier scale ". The scale on the Gurk cathedral was taken over by a market seal from the 19th century; although Lieding had been 975 market rights and also a first settlement of traders at the cathedral in the 13th century got those Gurk led in the 18th century neither crest nor seal. Only after the relocation of the bishopric to Klagenfurt is found at a private deed books, " market Gurk " designated seal, which has a scale Biedermeier, symbol of the market judge and a just government as a motive.

Coat of arms and flag were presented to the community on February 20, 1969, the flag is yellow-blue - yellow with integrated crest.

Partnership

  • Arnstadt in Thuringia ( Germany )
  • Hallein in Salzburg

Personalities

  • Saint Hemma of Gurk
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