Heiligenblut am GroÃŸglockner

Heiligenblut is a municipality with 1069 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia.

Heiligenblut is a high-altitude alpine village and is an ideal base for visiting the Pasterze and for the ascent of the Grossglockner visited often. Heiligenblut is the starting point of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road.

3.1 Municipal Council
3.2 Coat of Arms

5.1 Demographics
5.2 religions

6.1 Structures
6.2 Customs

Geography

Geographical location

Heiligenblut is located in an average of 1288 m above sea level at the foot of the Grossglockner ( 3798 m ) at the top end of the Moelltal valley in the Hohe Tauern National Park. In Heiligenblut Fleißtal is.

Community structure

Heiligenblut is divided into the cadastral Apriach, Rojach and Zlapp and yard. The municipality comprises the following eleven villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

Aichhorn (33 )
Apriach (129 )
Diligence (42 )
Hadergasse (61 )
Yard ( 186)
Pockhorn (116 )
Rojach (136 )
Schachnern (88 )
Under Tauern (70 )
Winkl (183 )
Wolkersdorf (35 )

Neighboring communities

(both cell Misc a.See, Salzburg. )

History

The name " Holy blood " comes the legend ago by a vial containing the blood of Christ, which Briccius (also Briktius, Brictius, Latin for Friedrich), a Danish prince who was buried here at 914 on the way back from Constantinople Opel by an avalanche in the calf have let grow, to protect it from predators. From the snow, under which he was buried, three ears of corn are grown out, so his body and blood relic were found. When some farmers wanted to bury him, his leg had stubbornly refused to remain under the earth. When they got to the bottom of the thing, you found the bottle, which has since been kept in the tabernacle of the 1460 built until 1491 parish church of St. Vincent. An application of the municipality of Heiligenblut, Briccius canonize was never approved for lack of evidence, what the church has not deterred to build Briccius own crypt and an altar.

In addition to the dominant agriculture and Serviced Gold was mined in Heiligenblut to the 20th century.

The high mountain region around Heiligenblut developed from the late 19th century, first to the classic Sommerfrischenort and from the 1930s to two seasonal tourism region. Significant part of this has opened in 1935 Grossglockner High Alpine Road, the southern starting point is Heiligenblut. Around the community located above the mountains Schareck ( 2606 m) and Gjaidtroghöhe ( 2989 m ), a high alpine ski center with modern lifts between 1301 m above sea level. A. and 2900 m above sea level. A. built.

Policy

Municipal council

Citizens list: 7
FPO: 6
SPÖ: 2

The seats parameter is obsolete and redundant!

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

7 Heiligenblut List (HBL, ÖVP near civil list)
6 Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ -K ) & Independent
2 Social Democratic Party of Austria ( SPÖ)

Directly elected mayor since 1997, is Josef Schachner (HBL ).

Coat of arms

Blazon:

The flag is yellow-blue with integral coat of arms.

The split front coat of arms shows the sanctuary in front of stylized mountain scenery of the Grossglockner, rear symbolize three ears of wheat, and the vial with the blood of Christ, from which emanates a halo, the Bricciuslegende. The coat of arms was awarded to the community on December 9, 1965

Capital of the municipality

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Capital is the village of Heiligenblut. It is located about 55 kilometers north- west of the hospital. It is situated in the municipality, on to 1290 m above sea level. A. amount left on the Möll, at the southern foot of the Schareck ( 2606 m above sea level. A. ), the mountain, on the also leads the cable car. In the village the Grossglockner Road ( B107 ) ends, and begins the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. It belongs to the village court, which therefore represents the nominal municipal seat, and cadastral Zlapp and yard.

The place is a typical village church, and a recent one. It has only developed in the wake of the emergence of tourism, especially from the construction of the High Alpine Road in the 1930s. Today, it has around 70 buildings, which is a scarce 1/7 of the whole community.

Population

According to 2001 census Heiligenblut had 1,185 inhabitants. Of these, 97.7 % and 1.1 % have Austrian German citizenship.

Demographics

Between the 1991 and 2001 censuses, the population has declined due to emigration by 5.9 %; migration could not be offset by a slightly positive birth rate. Before that, since 1981, the population had declined by 5.4%.

Religions

According to the 2001 census, 95.5 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 1.8% are Protestant. The minority denominations are each less than 1%. Without religious beliefs are 0.7%.

Culture and sights

Structures

The parish and pilgrimage church of Saint Vincent, south located below the village on a hillside, is in its present appearance a steep towering Gothic building from the 15th century. A chapel was first mentioned already in 1271; it was renewed from 1273 and completed in 1301. In the late 14th century led to a new building, the choir was completed in 1430. 1909/11, the church was restored and equipped with a new body and new windows. The high altar of 1520 shows at a height of 11 meters, the Coronation of Mary. He comes from the Bolzano school that is the successor of Michael Pacher.

The Briccius Chapel is located west of Winkl in 1629 m height. The small rectangular building was built in 1872. There is a Baroque painting with 16 scenes from the Briccius legend above the altar.
Color stone castle ruins, above Heiligenblut
Grossglockner High Alpine Road, with 2504 m above sea level. A. one of the highest mountain passes in the Eastern Alps.
Mining village Heiligenblut; the Tauern area was since Roman times until the Second World War, the most prolific gold mining district in Europe.
Apriach mills
Filialkirche Pockhorn
Aich Horner Chapel

Customs

The Heiligenblut carolers, a regional type of the star singing was recorded with 2010 in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria.

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