Lendorf

Lendorf is a municipality with 1778 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia.

• 6.1 municipal
• 6.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

Lendorf is on the Lurnfeld and is bordered to the east by Spittal an der Drau and in the west on the community Lurnfeld. The municipal area extends from the Hohe Tauern (Hohe Leier ) in the north on the eastern flank of the mountain chicken to the valley floor of the river Drava.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into the two cadastral Lendorf and Hühnerberg, the municipality includes the following nine districts (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Feicht (108 )
• Feichtenschlager village (56 )
• Freßnitz (25)
• Hühnerberg ( 447 )
• Lendorf (940 )
• Litzlhof ( 1)
• Rojach (98 )
• Sankt Peter in Holz (91 )
• Wind Schnurn (31)

History

In Roman times here grew from about 50 BC the city Teurnia approach, which was the capital of the Roman province of Noricum in from the 5th century and lasted until about the year 600. Extensive excavations have here numerous plants and finds uncovered from this period, which opened in 1913 " Museum Teurnia " can be seen.

Teurnia was 591 last time called as a bishop 's seat, then it went under in the course of the Slavic immigration. In the High Middle Ages, the mother parish of St. Peter was important in the ancient ruins in wood. This church was in the Middle Ages next Molzbichl, St. Athanas at mountain in the Drau valley and Kühweg iG a place of worship of the Holy Nonnosus.

A local church Lendorf was constituted for the first time in 1850, but was incorporated in 1864 to Spittal. On February 12, 1887 Lendorf became independent again and has been an independent municipality.

Population

According to 2001 census Lendorf has 1,776 inhabitants, of which 96.1 % and 1.5% Austrian Turkish citizens. 88.0 % of the population are Roman Catholic, 7.3% for the Protestant Church and 1.9 % to Islam, 4.5 % have no religious confession.

Culture and sights

• Teurnia Museum in St. Peter in Holz ( Roman excavations )
• Litzlhof
• Parish Church of St. Peter in Holz
• Branch church Maria am Unterbichl

Economy and infrastructure

The community has traditionally been heavily agricultural and has Litzlhof in an agricultural college.

Through the municipal area the Drau Valley road (B 100 ) and a shuttle to Spittal / Millstätter See the Tauern motorway (A 10). From the Drau Valley railway, which in Lendorf has a railway station, branches at Pusarnitz the Tauern railway in the direction from the Tauern.

Policy

Parish council

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

• 6 SPÖ
• 5 FPK
• 4 ÖVP

Directly elected mayors is Gottfried Willenegger ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Lendorf shows the motives of two finds from the Late Antiquity, alluding to the importance Teurnias to this time. The braid comes from a barrier plate from the cemetery church, which separated the priest from the church area. The eagle is flying up a design from the eastern row in the mosaic of the church and a symbol of Christ who protects his children like an eagle in the nest. The T in the clutches of the eagle stands for the sunken Teurnia.

The coat of arms was awarded to the community on May 22, 1987, the following blazon: " In the black head of the shield a silver, zweistrangiges, circular intricate and filled with silver rosettes braided, set off by a silver thread below in red with a silver, the mosaic of Teurnia replicated auffliegender bird with linksgewendetem head in its claws a silver T cautious. "

The flag is red and white with integrated crest.