Lurnfeld

Lurnfeld (as of 1 January 2013 ) is a market town in the district of Spittal an der Drau in Carinthia in Austria, with 2577 inhabitants.

• 4.1 pilgrimage church of Maria in the High Castle
• 4.2 High Castle ruins
• 4.3 Roman milestone in Moellbruecke
• 4.4 Other buildings

• 5.1 City Council and Mayor
• 5.2 Coat of Arms

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 6.2 associated with Lurnfeld personalities

Geography

Geographical location

Lurnfeld is an area municipality, and is located on the western edge of the basin landscape, is on the end of the upper Drava Valley. The main town Moellbruecke lies at the mouth of the Möll in the Drava, a few kilometers west of Spittal an der Drau. The rising in the west of the municipality Kreuzeckgruppe separates the Moelltal from the Upper Drau Valley.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into four Katastralgemeinden: Moellbruecke I Moellbruecke II, III and Moellbruecke Pusarnitz.

The municipality includes the following 13 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Altenmarkt (69 )
• Drauhofen ( 8)
• Göriach (279 )
• Metnitz (42 )
• Moellbruecke ( 1198 )
• Pattendorf (164 )
• Premersdorf (42 )

• Pusarnitz (506 )
• Sankt Gertraud (30 )
• St Stephen ( 5)
• Stone Village (182 )
• Stöcklern (39)
• Tröbach (16)

Neighboring communities

History

At the time of the Romans in Carinthia vallis Lurna was mentioned in documents since the Lurnfeld 891 (as Liburnia ) is known.

The village Moellbruecke was first mentioned in a document from 1253 as mölnprukke and was later than 1307 seat of the District Court of the Counts of Gorizia.

Pusarnitz, first mentioned in 1072, acquired by the Peace of Pusarnitz that in 1460 the conflict between the Emperor Frederick III. and Count Johann of Gorizia ended around the county Cilli and supraregional importance. While in the neighboring Saxony castle had already developed in the 13th century an important market town, Moellbruecke won mainly by a brass mill, which consisted of approximately 1597 to 1775, nationwide importance.

In August 1825 the Vienna Alpinist and Hofkammerbeamte Kyselak Josef ( 1799-1831 ) came with his Austria migration of Lendorf coming in Moellbruecke. He wrote: " In half an hour away on the driveway Moellbruecke - just a few houses where some flows below the Möll in the Drava river. Over the bridge by the Old Market, the road leads to the Tyrol, on this side on the left bank of the roaring Möll to Salzburg. At the bridge show some signs of thinking some misfortune which cultivates in anger exercise this irrepressible Nympfe often. Since houses were washed away, buried ec trucks including driver in the floods. , You should Reluctant this massive Alps daughter be enemy, and yet we are happy up in her contemplation of those always pittoreskerees Granittal to wander. "

In the formation of local churches in 1850 formed on the current municipal area next to the old market town of Saxony castle first Pusarnitz the community, which was already incorporated in 1865 to Saxony Castle, but back in 1889 - together with the village Moellbruecke - became independent. 1909 Moellbruecke split off from the community Pusarnitz. The three municipalities Sachsenburg, Moellbruecke and Pusarnitz were merged to form the new large community Lurnfeld in the community structure reform in 1973, from the Saxon castle became independent again after a referendum in 1992.

Population

At the time of the 2001 census Lurnfeld had 2718 inhabitants, of whom 85.4 % were Austrian citizens. 82.2 % of the population declared themselves with the Roman Catholic and 7.8 % for the Protestant Church and 1.1% to Islam. 6.4% of the population were without religious confession.

Culture and sights

Pilgrimage Church of Maria in the High Castle

High above the broad valley of the Lurnfeld between Spittal an der Drau and Moellbruecke is 974 m above sea level on the sunny side a small white church, the Church of Mary in the High Castle.

The small chapel almost had the same fate as the High Castle above it. With the setting up of a statue of Mary Altötting 1706 but was from the old chapel St. Mary's Church High Castle. The oldest parts of the chancel and the south portal, still date from the Carolingian period.

1714 an altar was set up with a nice grid before the occasion of an enlargement of the chapel. 1776, the church was extended by avulsion of the rock to the west, built a higher tower and the choir. To cope with the expected stream of visitors to the 250 - year celebration of the pilgrimage church better, 1956, the fitting of Hirschbergstraße by the High Castle was expanded.

The panoramic view from the forecourt of the church includes the Millstaetter lake, the Nock Mountains, Spittal an der Drau, the lower Drau to Mittagskoge in Villach, the Karavanke Goldeck, Latschur, tear Kogel, the Kreuzeckgruppe, and the Salzkofel to the Mallnitzer Mountain.

High Castle ruins

The church rises a vertical sloping rock on which originating from the 9th century ruins of the former High Castle, seat of the Earls of Lurn that the Lurngau managed - can still be admired. Already in 1149, died last count this generation as bishop of Trent. The castle came into the possession of the bishops of Salzburg, the rest of the county Lurn shared the Gorizia and Ortenburgers noble houses. The Salzburg was the steep climb well too troublesome, they built in the valley of the Feldberg Castle (ruins west of Pusarnitz ); the High Castle was doomed to decay.

Roman milestone in Moellbruecke

For the personal construction of the Carinthian timber FX Wirth was found in 1944 the milestone from the year 218 AD. The site is located at a distance of exactly one Roman mile, or 7.5 kilometers from Teurnia.

The preparation of the stone was carried out by the Austrian Draukraftwerke and the market town of Lurnfeld. The site is about 100 meters away on the site of the hydropower plant Moellbruecke from the locality. The stone is the property of F.X. Wirth.

Other buildings

• Castle ruins Feldberg west of Pusarnitz
• Church of St. Leonhard in Moellbruecke, first mentioned in 1234, fortified church in late Gothic style
• Zoggermühle in Stöcklern
• Castle Drauhofen
• Church of St. Michael in Pusarnitz, built about 1000 years ago, fortified church in the Gothic style

Policy

City Council and Mayor

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

• 10 FPK
• 6 SPÖ
• 2 ÖVP
• 1 Green

Following the resignation of Mayor Rudolf Hartlieb and Vice Mayor Joseph Stanitznig (both FPÖ, formerly FPK and AAF ) was on August 25, 2013 Mayor election instead, from the Gerald Preimel ( SPÖ) emerged as the winner.

Coat of arms

The municipality received on 30 November 1983, the right to bear a coat of arms and a flag with the following description:

Pedestrian bridge and symbolize both the confluence of the Drava and Möll as well as trade and transport to the historic bridge position. The colors blue and yellow are derived from the old Saxon Burger coat of arms, since Saxony castle at the time the coat of arms ceremony was part of the market town Lurnfeld.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Wolfgang Thaler ( * 1958 ), cameraman, director
• Christian Schmölzer (* 1968 ), Sports Manager

Associated with Lurnfeld personalities

• Horst Pirker ( born 1959 ), manager