Himmelberg

Himmelberg is a municipality with 2316 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Feldkirchen in Carinthia.

• 4.1 townscape
• 4.2 Biedermeier architecture
• 4.3 Structures

• 5.1 municipal
• 5.2 Coat of Arms
• 5.3 partner communities

Geography

Geographical location

Sky Mountain is located in the heart of Carinthia northwest of Feldkirchen. The main town of the municipality, which occupies most of the Tiebeltals, is on average 672 meters above sea level. The highest elevation is the Hoferalmkopf ( about 1600 m above sea level. A. ) in the northwest, tiefstgelegener point in the Tiebel Poitschacher trench ( 625 m above sea level. A. ) in the south of the church.

Community structure

Himmelberg is divided into seven Katastralgemeinden exterior Teuchen, Dragelsberg, Himmelberg, Hochegg, Pichlern, Saurachberg and Zedlitzberg. The municipality includes the following 36 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Ausserteuchen (141 )
• Dragelsberg (73)
• Draschen (11)
• Eden ( 0)
• Flatschach (85 )
• Fresen ( 7)
• Gloss ( 2)
• Grilzberg ( 0)
• Grilzgraben (17 )
• Grintschach (48)
• Himmelberg (600)
• Hochegg (6 )

• Kaidern (25 )
• Klatzenberg (37)
• Kösting (16)
• Kraß (60 )
• Let (11 )
• Linz ( 42)
• Manessen (21 )
• Topsoil ( 131)
• Pichlern (142 )
• Pojedl (64)
• Sallach (9 )
• Saurachberg (97 )

• Sneak field (96 )
• Schwaig (20 )
• Sonnleiten (82 )
• Top Unterbichl (12 )
• Tiebel (87 )
• Tiffnerwinkl (133 )
• Tobitsch (80 )
• Sealed reed ( 5)
• Werschling (76)
• Winklern (15 )
• Wöllach (40)
• Zedlitzberg (44)

Neighboring communities

Waters

The Tiebelquellen in the municipality of Himmelberg are the second largest water source area in Austria. 60 to 100 sources with excellent quality form the basis of the nature and adventure trail.

History

In today's municipality of Himmelberg were in the 9th and 10th centuries by clearing some Sundays side slopes on the upper Gurktal, which was heavily waterlogged at the time, opened up for use and occupation. As " Sulca " as area of a Slovenian Zolko the place or the parish church St. Martin was first mentioned in 1065 as a proprietary church of Eppensteiner documented. The castle "Alt - Himmelberg" was built in the 11th or 12th century. The dynasty of Himmelberg, including Wernher von Himmelberg, was first mentioned in documents in 1196. Around this time, seems the Slovenian place names Sokova to have been replaced in the dialect Zólkava, from courtly- high medieval desired name Himmelberch ( 1213). Ulrich von Liechtenstein mentions in his " wife duty " ( 1255 ) one of Zacchaeus Himmelberg as one of the singers that he had defeated in the singing contest to Friesach.

1329, the district court Himmelberg has been extended to areas up to Ossiach, Steuerberg and Reichenau, and the rule Himmelberg enlarged at that time their possessions. The sky Berger Landrichter March Ward of Pibriacher had built the eponymous castle Biberstein 1382-1396.

Along the Tiebels developed from the 16th century, the iron industry, and until the 20th century Himmelberg was known for his scythe makers. In the second half of the 19th century scythes were manufactured annually in Himmelberg up to 250,000. However, few businesses Sense survived the turn of the century and during the economic crisis of the interwar period, production was almost completely set. One of the last scythe trades was the Zeilinger forged " on the drafts ."

The municipality was constituted in 1850. Municipal area from the original 1865, the cadastral Zedlitzdorf and Mitteregg at Reichenau were ceded, and 1895 /96 Katastralgemeinden Gnesau and Gurk were separated to form their own local church Gnesau. 1921 Innerteuchen to Arriach and 1973 smaller parts of its territory was east of the road Gurktal connected to control mountain.

Population

The municipality has 2,336 inhabitants Himmelberg (2011), of which 95.8 % have Austrian citizenship. As religion gave ( in 2001), 66.5 % Roman Catholic and 33.4% Protestant to. 3.9 % have no religious confession.

Culture and sights

Townscape

Factory building important forging with associated residential or trades houses specific to a large extent the village. Especially the mentioned around 1560 as a hammer and mastermind forge " Forging the Tradten " ( " No. 42 and 45 ", trades house, administration building, staff house, a remarkable two-storey brick building, fire station, factory Tate complex) in 1700 out as Scythe, after the takeover by the trades Zeilinger 1874 leader in scythe production. Buildings including the establishment as a witness of an almost extinct branch of production received so far. Sussmann ` cal work in 1843 by Michael Rauter probably built to replace older mill in the east of Himmelberg and taken over in 1904 by brothers Sussmann. In addition to former steeds ` schem hammer mill on the eastern eastern edge, " No. 48 ", factory building with associated residential or trades houses mostly two-storey Stöcklbauten on a square plan with hipped, saddle or Schopfwalmdächern and façade of the 19th century. Especially formative construction, " No. 31 "refers to 1825, three-storey Vollwalmhaus on the road south-west of the castle.

Biedermeier architecture

Bianca Kos: " Due to the scythe and sickle generation at Tiebelbach Himmelberg had acquired a national significance. From the first half of the 19th century, some work building and trades houses date. The house at No. 47 (now School Street No. 1-3) is a representative trades house with the year " MDCCCXXVI " on the basket -arched portal with a scrolled keystone. The Stöcklbau is equipped with a facade from the first half of the 19th century with tassel -shaped decorations on the windows. The trades house of Resser (now loading Hüttenweg No. 5) is a typical Biedermeier building with a gable on the front page. The Coat of Arms Stein is with " 1822 " dated. The " skipper " (today: Turracher Road No. 9) is above the entrance with the year " 1825 " and inscribed " Beatus ille homo, qui sedet in sua domo " ( "Happy is that man who lives in his own house " ) provided. "

Structures

• The ruins Himmelberg, which gave the place its name, the rest is a built in the 11th or 12th century castle above the village at the entrance to the Teuchen. She was already in the 16th century in decline and was represented by Valvasor 1688 only as a ruin.
• The beaver flintlock (also: Piberstein ), mentioned in documents in 1382 and 1396, was built at this time by the county judge Marchwartstrasse the Pibriacher. In 1571 it was purchased by George of Khevenhüller and finally came in 1662 in the possession of the Salzburg prince-bishop Paris Lodron. It has since been the center of a Fideikommiss of the Counts of Lodron and is today privately owned this family.

• The parish church of St. Martin mentioned for the first time in 1060, was rebuilt after a fire in 1711 in Baroque style again. It contains Baroque wall paintings.
• Parish Church of Sts. Rupert and Virgil, 1453, mentioned in a document in Ausserteuchen, late Gothic building from the mid-15th century, with the north tower and spire
• Branch Church Sts. Philip and James in Pichlern, first documented in 1451, late Gothic structure with a polygonal choir, north-facing grown sacristy and wooden roof skylights.
• Branch Church of St. Thomas in Werschling, first documented in 1494, little village surrounded by a cemetery wall construction with low choir tower

Policy

Parish council

The council has 19 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

• 9 SPÖ
• 5 FPK
• 4 ÖVP
• 1 FPÖ

Directly elected mayors is Heimo Rinösl ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

As blazon the coat of arms of the lords of Himmelberg was selected whose gender was first mentioned with Wernher von Himmelberg 1196. The shield with the eagle in the gap and the right oblique beams is attested for Offo of Himmelberg in a document dated July 4, 1322. The eagle is likely to bring the vassalage to the Holy Roman Empire and the German king to express the root of the right oblique beam is unknown.

Coat of arms and flag were presented to the congregation on July 11, 1960. The official blazon of the arms is: Of Gold and Red split triangular shield, front with half black imperial eagle, the back with a silver slant right bar.

The flag is red and yellow with integrated crest.

Partner communities

• Chiusaforte, Italy, since October 26, 1996
• Bad Saulgau, Germany, in July 2005