Kindberg

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Kindberg is a town with 5398 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the Austrian state of Styria ( Judicial District Miirzzuschlag and in the political district of Bruck- Miirzzuschlag ). As part of the municipality of structural reform in Styria it is merged in 2015 with the municipalities of All Saints in Muerztal and Mürzhofen, This is based on the Styrian community structure reform law - StGsrG.

  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 4.1 Town twinning
  • 4.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 townscape design
  • 6.1 traffic
  • 6.2 Education
  • 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Kindberg is located in Muerztal about 17 km north-east of the district capital of Bruck an der Mur and about 20 km southwest of Miirzzuschlag. In the south, the Fischbacher Alps and in the north the Mürztaler Alps, a forested mountain range located at the southern foot of the northern Alpine high mountains with the Aflenzer Staritzen and Veitschalpe.

Boroughs

Duke Berg ( 10.31 km ²) Kindberg ( 3.59 km ²) Kindbergdörfl ( 10.20 km ²) Child Thal ( 3.26 km ²) Child Thalgraben ( 14.17 km ²)

Kindberg (St)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

  • M = center of the municipality
  • Stt = district
  • R = Rotte
  • W = hamlet
  • D = village
  • ZH = Scattered houses
  • Sdlg = settlement
  • E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Neighboring communities

  • In the North and East: Wartberg in Muerztal
  • The south and southwest: All Saints in Muerztal and punching in Muerztal
  • In the West: Mürzhofen, Sankt Lorenzen im Muerztal and Turnau

History

The area around Kindberg was sparsely populated among the Celts, Romans and Slavs. In the 8th century, the first Bavarian settlers established in Muerztal. More intensive settlement and clearing took place in the 12th century. The first mention of Kindberg to 1172 " Chindeberch "; since the 14th century iron industry, from the 18th century Sense generation. Gothic parish church (1773 /74), in Baroque style; Wall paintings in 1948; surrounded by the remains of a medieval defensive wall; Calvary with Church (1674-1686); Gothic-Baroque church of St. George; Baroque Castle Upper Kindberg (before 1680 conversion 1773/74, since 1980, mining and local history museum ), stucco ceilings; Castle Hart ( 1523); Trades Kindtal Castle ( 18th century).

Favored by the traffic on the " Venedigerstraße " over the Semmering to Vienna, was the 1281 market survey by Rudolf von Habsburg. Since 1982 Kindberg has a city charter.

Population

Demographics

Policy

Twinning

  • Germany Roßdorf ( near Darmstadt ), Germany
  • Austria Voesendorf, Lower Austria

Coat of arms

The coat of arms image goes back to a legend which states that a child who was swept away by a flood, was completely intact washed in Kindberg. They found it there in a meadow sitting and playing with a flower before.

Culture and sights

Townscape design

Within the European competition " Entente Florale Europe " Kindberg 2003 was awarded a gold medal and 1997 silver medal in the category of city.

Economy and infrastructure

End of the 19th century, the tourism gained great importance for the region. Kindberg became a famous spot for the summer.

The iron industry, which has long dominated the townscape of Kindberg and the region evolved from a hammer mill in Aumühl, which today belongs to VOEST -ALPINE AG. To compensate for the end of the 20th century, the economic problems in the iron industry, attempts were made to settle increasingly enterprises of electronic industry.

Traffic

Kindberg is located on the Semmeringschnellstraße S 6 and on the southern railway, which form the transport links to the economy in Lower Austria and Vienna in the northeast and in the south of Italy and Slovenia.

Education

In the city Kindberg an elementary school there. Likewise Kindberg has two main schools, the James Edward Schmölzer main school and the A. Musger secondary school, which are respectively located in the same building complex. The Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium (short BORG ) provides on spot to the Matura.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann upper hammer (* 1879 in Kindberg, † 1956), Upper Austrian politician and Viennese bank director
  • Anton Weber ( * 1878 in Kindberg, † 1950), Viennese politicians
  • Peter Graf ( * 1886 in Kindbergdörfl, † 1977), Mayor of Klagenfurt 1952-1957
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