Haus im Ennstal

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House is a market town with 2402 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Expositur Groebming in Liezen ( district court Schladming ) to the west of the Austrian province of Styria, as well -known resort and as a venue for alpine skiing World Cup races internationally.

• 2.1 Ecclesiastical center
• 2.2 Tourism

• 4.1 educational institutions
• 4.2 Sport

Geography

The municipality is located on the top Styrian Enns valley in the Dachstein -Tauern region. The municipal area extends to the north of the Dachstein Plateau, to the south in the Schladming Tauern to Höchstein ( 2,543 m). " Mountain" of the church is the south of the Enns Located Hauser Kaibling ( 2,015 m).

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following eight villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Birnberg (143 )
• Ennsling ( 359)
• Gumpenberg (74 )
• House ( 870)
• Fief (139 )
• House of Lords (178 )
• Oberhausberg (59 )
• Weissbach (560 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Ennsling, House, House of Lords and Weissbach.

Geologically the north the Enns situated, belonging to the Dachstein Massif community areas, while the south of the river lying areas are a part of the Northern Limestone Alps to the crystalline rocks formed from Schladming Tauern.

History

Ecclesiastical center

• The first mention of the market dates back to the year 927 (or 928), after which a Bavarian nobleman his possessions with a fortified building ( in the former parlance " hus" ) gave the Archbishop of Salzburg. As part of the diocese won house in its role as the main parish seat and ecclesiastical center of Enns in importance, and managed all diocesan parishes of the Styrian- Salzburgian border to St. Martin am Grimming and in the Sölktäler.
• 1786 this area was detached to the main parish house of the archbishopric of Salzburg and transfer of the newly formed Diocese of Leoben.
• A representative Baroque church in the center, and the associated Romanesque Chapel of St. Catherine testify today of the ecclesiastical and religious history of the place. Other historic buildings from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries dot the village.

Tourism

• In 1908 was laid with the construction of curved wooden hut on the Hauser Kaibling the foundation for the transformation of the city to the tourism center.
• First ski race in 1914, construction of the first person cable cars Styria in 1951 and the holding of the 1963 Alpine Skistaatsmeisterschaften bustling tourism, which reached its first climax with the staging of all Women's FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1982.

Population

Since 1869, the population of 1,314 at that time steadily increased; Interruptions, there were only 1880 to 1890 (-2.7 %), from 1910 to 1923 (-4.8 %) and 1981 to 1991 (-0.9 %). After that there were up again in 2001, an increase of 12.6%, which was due to both the positive birth rate as well as the positive migration balance. Currently, the community has 2,400 residents.

70 % of the inhabitants are Roman Catholic, and 23 % of the population are Protestant.

Economy and infrastructure

The most important economic factor in the house is tourism (70 % winter, 30 % summer), followed by smaller and medium-sized craft and commercial enterprises, as well as agriculture and forestry.

Most important transport links is the Ennstalbundesstraße B 320, it runs from west to east through the municipality, 25 km west to the Tauern motorway, 50 km east to Phyrn motorway. Moreover house has a non- within walking distance, from the village railway station on the Enns Valley Railway although the railway line a few hundred meters at the center passes. The nearest railway station is the railway station of Schladming.

The medical care of the residents is ensured by a doctor with a pharmacy and a dentist.

Educational institutions

• Elementary school
• New secondary school (Hauptschule)

Sports

Basis of the success of the tourist resort is its reputation as a venue for the Alpine World Skiing Championships in 1982, as a venue for the Alpine Ski World Cup races, as well as its tourist accommodation, ski lifts and ski slopes.

• Mountain - climbing and hiking ( starting point in the Schladming Tauern )
• Golfing ( Dachstein -Tauern Golf and Country Club )
• Cycling and mountain biking

As well as tennis, football, skating, swimming, rafting on the river Enns, ice skating, curling ( curling in winter, asphalt shooting in the summer), shooting range, bowling, mini golf and Pit-Pat

• Skiing and snowboarding in the 4 -mountain ski Hauser Kaibling - Planai - Hochwurzen Reiteralm (part of "Ski amadé ").

Culture and sights

Structures

• Baroque parish church of St.. John the Baptist in the market house with St. Catherine's Chapel - the oldest sacral building of the Upper Enns Valley with a Romanesque crucifix from the time around 1150
• Filial church of St. Margaret in the upper house with the famous "dragon pulpit "
• Center of the market house with well-preserved buildings from the 15th, 16th and 17th century

Museums

• Office of the Dean Museum in the Catholic parsonage in the market house (dependance of the Diocesan Museum Graz, Diocese of Graz -Seckau, permanent exhibition on the cultural, artistic and religious history of the region)
• Winter Sports Museum in the old grain store on the Schlossplatz ( development of winter sports in the region)

Natural Monuments

• Luserwasserfall
• Gradenbach waterfall
• Alpine nature reserve Kaiblingloch

Regular events

• Ski-Opening (annually in early December )
• Ski season finale (annually beginning of April)
• Hauser singer meetings (annually in mid-May )
• Mid Europe - Concert band music ( every July )
• Krumm wooden mountain bike race (annually beginning of September)

Music

• Music Chapel House
• Sängerrunde Weissbach ( Men's Choir )
• Church choir " Shalom "

Specialty

• Donuts in different variations
• Steirerkäs
• Kasnockerl
• Zirbenschnaps

Personalities

Freeman

• Altlandeshauptmann Friedrich Dutch
• Former mayor William Kraml
• Main pastor I.R. Josef Ladenhaufen
• Master carpenter Hans Stiegler

Sons and daughters of the house

• Guido Schenzl (1823-1890), Benedictine abbot and the pin Admont and scientists
• Walter Stipperger (1919-2005), author and historian Regional
• Helmut höflehner (* 1959), two-time overall World Cup champion in downhill skiing ( alpine skiing), ski lift operators today at Hauser Kaibling ( " Höfi Express" )