Krumpendorf

Krumpendorf am Wörthersee ( Slow Kriva Vrba ) is one of the lakes communities with 3386 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) at the Wörthersee of the federal state of Carinthia.

• 4.1 Structures 4.1.1 Buildings of the Wörthersee architecture
• 4.1.2 sacred buildings
• 4.1.3 Locks
• 4.1.4 Other Structures

• 5.1 traffic

• 6.1 municipal
• 6.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

Krumpendorf is in southern Austria in Carinthia lowlands on the north shore of Lake Wörth and borders the provincial capital of Klagenfurt. The municipality extends over a relatively narrow strip on the lakeshore, which crosses the Nohrenberg, and with an area of 11.89 km ² of the federal state of Carinthia the smallest.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into four cadastral ( Pritschitz, Krumpendorf, Drasing and Gurlitsch II) organized and includes the following five villages (population as at 31 October 2011):

• Görtschach (86 )
• Krumpendorf ( Kriva Vrba ) ( 3136 )
• Nußberg (34 )
• Pritschitz ( Pričiče ) ( 49)
• Tultschnig ( Cajnče ) (32)

Neighboring communities

History

Krumpendorf 1216 was documented as Chrumpendorf the first time. The name might be derived from Krumpenfelferdorf, where Felfer a dialectal term for pasture was (the term krump is crooked ). The Slovenian name for the place ( Kriva Vrba ) is also derived from crooked willow from ( an alternative name is Podvrbo, that is, under the willow tree ).

Krumpendorf was dominated by agriculture until in the last two decades of the 19th century, the summer tourism Pörtschach starting also reached the villages in the municipality, and it changed the long term.

The boundaries of the church today were already established in 1573. The local church was constituted in the year 1850. 1920 their share of the village of St. Primus and 1938, the newly formed cadastral Gurlitsch the neighboring provincial capital of Klagenfurt was slammed. Since 1987, the municipality shall bear the suffix " am Wörthersee " in the name, which was amended on July 1, 2012 "at the Wörthersee ".

Population

The census of 15 May 2001 showed a resident population of 2848, with 46.6 % women and 53.4 % men share.

94.0 % of the population have Austrian citizenship among the foreign nationalities have residents from Germany ( 1.8%) and Bosnia - Herzegovina (1.0%) for the largest share. 94.3 % of citizens gave German as their everyday language. The second largest language group is Croatian ( 1.6% ), followed by Slovenian ( 1.1%).

70.8 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 10.2% Protestant Church. 0.8 % are Muslims and 13.4 % no religious persuasion.

Culture and sights

Structures

Buildings of the Wörthersee architecture

• Lake restoration, 1902, Client: Mayor Joseph Pamperl
• Villa Madile, 1890 (formerly Villa Baron Basso of Godel Lannoy ), Vogelsberg 26, Design and execution: city architect Franz Madile
• Station Hotel, ( today Kärntnerhof ) Krumpendorf, main road
• Villa Haybäck, Am Hang 6, designed by Karl Haybäck in the years 1902/ 03
• Schindler House, Kaiser Allee 28, designed by Franz Baumgartner in 1911/12
• Villa Swallow's Nest (formerly Villa Janesch ) Berthastrasse 59, designed by Friedrich Siegmundt, 1888/89

Schindler House in the Imperial Avenue 28

Villa swallow's nest in the Berthastraße 59

Sacred buildings

• The parish church of St. George is situated on a hill in the west of Krumpendorf. It was built to replace an older facility in the years 1959 to 1962.

• The Branch Church of St. Ulrich, a Romanesque church in the core choir tower with four-storey tower, located in the former village of Pirk. It was first mentioned in 1321 and originally belonged probably to Maria Wörth or Viktring, in 1466 she was the parish of Maria Saal assumed. Today it is a branch church of the parish Krumpendorf. From the attachment of the former fortified church today is nothing more to see.

• The Martin Luther Church is a tent-like, small building, which was built and consecrated in 1969.

Branch Church of St Ulrich in Pirk

Martin Luther Church on Südbahnweg

Parish Church of St. John the Baptist in Tultschnig

Castles

• The Drasing castle, situated on a wooded hill north of Krumpendorf, is a three storey castle- like Renaissance. In its place there was probably already at the time of the Carolingian an earlier building, which served as bailey zur Pfalz Moosburg. Was mentioned in a document lock Drasing 1284 and 1362. The building was originally built in the mid- 14th century and received in the course of the 16th century, its present shape. 1842/43 the castle was repaired, and from 1994 to 1996 restored again. It is privately owned.

• The Krumpendorf lock on the main road in Krumpendorf was built in 1735-40.

• Hornstein Castle is situated on a wooded hillside north of Krumpendorf. It was built in the 15th century by Ulrich Hornsteiner and is now privately owned.

Castle Krumpendorf

Hornstein Castle

Other Buildings

• Near the railway line and close between the Kärntner Straße B83 and mountainside is a shot tower, which the company abbreviation BBU wore Bleiberger mining Union until 1970.
• On Südbahnweg in the west of the municipality a milestone is placed next to a fountain; he bears the inscription 1 mile from Klagenfurt. Almost certainly an Austrian Postal mile is meant, about 7.586 km. This corresponds to the distance from the then outskirts of Klagenfurt up to this mark point on the bike path to Pörtschach.
• Good Walter churches: some controversy and political bickering, there was to sell the goods Walter churches from the Land of Carinthia in the wood industrialist Hans Tilly. The expansion and renovation of the former building into a feudal age residence could not be prevented despite the legal provisions. Quite a few trees from the previously dense trees were felled. In 2008 the old manor house was demolished and in its place a new building, which was completed in 2009. On the southern headland of the goods at Wörthersee shore is a wooden tower, clad in shingled larch planks building that is highly visible from the south-facing shore of Lake Wörth.

Building of good Walter churches

Observation tower at Good Walter churches

Natural Monuments

• North of the good wives tooth Walter churches in the district Pritschitz located in the pine forest on a slope, a large boulder. He is called wives tooth and has dimensions of approximately six meters in length, a maximum width of about three meters and an average height of about two meters. As part of fertility rituals he was used as a slip stone.
• Pothole on the Halleggerstraße in the district Görtschach The inn Jerolitsch. From there, turn in the Drasingerstraße and follow it about 150 m to the well-marked turnoff in a forest on the right. After a walk of about seven minutes, the orange markers lead up to the middle lying in the forest pothole, which was formed during the last ice age coming to an end by dripping glacier - melt water in a rock formation which came to light. It is noteworthy that these glacial phenomenon has been preserved in the form of the cup- shaped depression in the rock block over the millennia.

Pothole in Gurlitsch - Görtschach

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Krumpendorf has with the nearby Alpe Adria Airport an international connection.

North at Krumpendorf passes the A2 motorway, which acts as a liaison to Graz or Vienna and Villach to the node with the other connections to Salzburg A10 and Italy. Railway Technical features Krumpendorf with its railway station via a connection to the Southern Railway. Krumpendorf is also connected to the public transport company network of the city of Klagenfurt.

Policy

Parish council

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

• 8 ÖVP
• 6 SPÖ
• 4 FPK
• 1 Green

Directly elected mayor since 2009, Peter Nemec ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Krumpendorf, which was awarded to the community on August 9, 1960, symbolized by the fish in the blue sign foot location at lake Wörthersee, sailboat stands for water, especially for the yearly held in Krumpendorf sailing regattas, and the stylized representation of the castle Drasing refers to the most important historical building and the rule history of the township. The blazon of the arms is:

The flag is red - yellow-blue with integrated crest.