Guttaring

Guttaring is a market town with 1500 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the north of Carinthia in Austria.

• 6.1 City Council and Mayor
• 6.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located in a south-facing open, beck -like landscape ( Guttaringer basin) between Krappfeld and Görtschitztal and is drained by Silver Creek. It is part of the Noric Alps.

Community structure

Guttaring in seven Katastralgemeinden ( Baier mountain, your mountain, Guttaring, Guttaringberg, Hollerberg, Verlosnitz, Waitschach ) structured and includes the following 24 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Baier Berg ( 49)
• Roof Mount (13 )
• Your mountain ( 65)
• Dobrich ( 1)
• Gobertal (7)
• Guttaring ( 866)
• Guttaringberg (74)
• Höffern (16)

• Hollerberg (76 )
• Maria Hilf ( 7)
• Oberstranach (1)
• Rabachboden (20 )
• Ratteingraben (25)
• Saint Gertrude (26 )
• Schalkendorf ( 5)
• Rogue mountain ( 29)

• Schrottenbach ( 0)
• Sun mountain ( 6)
• About Berg ( 99)
• URTL (36)
• Urtlgraben (52 )
• Verlosnitz (8)
• Waitschach (21 )
• Wine Village (14 )

History

Historically significant is the area around your mountain with the former parish church. The walled- in the western vestibule Roman stone inscriptions testify to an early settlement of the area above the present village center, which once was a swamp.

The present municipality came into the possession of the Archbishopric of Salzburg, which set up here the mother parish for the whole upper Görtschitztal and made ​​it the seat of an archbishop Guttaring Office in the 10th century. In August 1201 a synod was held at the Salzburg Archbishop Eberhard II and under the presence of the later Duke Bernhard of Spanheim.

The historic iron production in the Noricum region, especially on the nearby hut Erzberg and the Lölling, Guttaring made ​​it a place of transit and resting place on the way to Althofen. In Guttaring itself but iron was also up to the year 1834 Urtlgraben in a raft oven, the oldest of its type in Europe, melted. In 1346 the town received a keep, which is in ruins today. 1542 was the survey of the market by the Archbishop Ernst von Salzburg.

Guttaring suffered a series of disasters, including the earthquake of 25 January 1348, which caused a complete destruction, as in almost all of Carinthia. End of the 15th century it came several times to devastating Turkish invasion, in 1483 to a plague of locusts. The plague raged in 1348 and again in 1715 with 399 deaths.

The congregation formed in 1850 Guttaring already grew in 1865 by the amalgamation of Waitschach to; 1973 her a smaller portion of the dissolved municipality Wieting was also connected.

Population

According to the 2001 census has Guttaring 1,565 inhabitants, of which 97.5 % and 1.0 % German Austrian citizen. 90.2 % of the population are Roman Catholic, and 3.1 % to the Protestant Church, 5.2% is no religious persuasion.

Culture and sights

Culture History is the Romanesque-Gothic parish church of St. Rupert with Baroque high altar, which was documented as early as first mentioned in 1160, is important.

In the former parish and today Filialkirche Your mountain in 1968 and 1969 valuable frescoes were discovered in the mid-14th century and exposed in the course of restoration over the years. North of the church is a watchable Karner, a Romanesque rotunda with bay- shaped eastern apse.

Clearly visible above the town is the late Baroque pilgrimage church Maria Hilf. The more remote, high-altitude late gothic pilgrimage church of Maria Waitschach is a former subsidiary church of Guttaring and also a popular hiking destination.

The ruins of a product originating in the 16th century raft furnace with adjacent service station - the former so-called Verweserhaus - in the URTL evidence of historical iron production. A special feature of the place is the "field of the Stone lenses " between Guttaring and St. Gertraud, in which one finds easily reminiscent in shape and size of lenses fossils, called Nummulites.

Guttaring has a number of well-maintained and well-documented by GPS data trails, through which you can access the various churches.

Founded in 1872, the men's choir Guttaring one of the oldest choral societies in Carinthia.

Economy and infrastructure

Economically, agriculture, wood processing and tourism of some importance. The most important operation is generated for the timber and sawmill industry Maschinenfabrik Stingl, machinery and control systems. Many workers commute from, especially in the neighboring community Althofen.

Policy

City Council and Mayor

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

• 7 FPK
• 5 SPÖ
• 3 ÖVP

Directly elected mayor is Herbert Kiss ( FPK ).

Coat of arms

The market Guttaring was on September 8, 1618 granted by King Ferdinand II a coat of arms, showing the parish patron Rupert, the first Bishop of Salzburg in the episcopal vestments.