Mölbling

Mölbling is a municipality with 1347 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia.

  • 6.1 municipal
  • 6.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Geographical location

Mölbling is located approximately 27 km north- north-east of Klagenfurt. The municipality is located on the western edge of the madder field and in the Wimitzer mountains. The area is drained by the Gurk, which runs through the eastern edge of the community, and in which the Tatschgerbach flows, which itself receives several tributaries, such as the Welsbach and Meisel things Bach.

The neighboring communities of Mölbling are from the north clockwise: Strasbourg, Althofen, Kappel am Krappfeld, Sankt Georgen aL, Mrs. Stone and Weitensfeld in Gurktal.

Community structure

Mölbling is divided into five cadastral ( Dielach, Gunzenberg, Meiselding, Rabing, grid box ). The municipality includes the following 29 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Mine trench ( 38)
  • Breitenstein ( 19)
  • Brugga (169 )
  • Dielach (56)
  • Drasenberg (39 )
  • Eixendorf ( 4)
  • Gaming ( 35)
  • Gerach ( 0)
  • Gratschitz (12)
  • Gunzenberg (18 )
  • Mail ( 22)
  • Meiselding (317 )
  • Mölbling (202 )
  • Pirka (31 )
  • Rabing (29)
  • Rastenfeld (23 )
  • Ringberg (21 )
  • Saint Kosmas ( 4)
  • Sankt Stefan am Krappfeld (40 )
  • Stone (10 )
  • Stoberdorf (15)
  • Straganz (43 )
  • Treffling (37 )
  • Tschatschg (13)
  • Under Mountains (60 )
  • Under Deka (51 )
  • Wattein (13)
  • Welsbach (11 )

History

The Church in St. Stefan was first documented in 1131, the church in Meiselding 1216.

The present municipality belonged until 1848 to the District Courts Freiberg and hochosterwitz. 1850 has been the church Rabing built from the cadastral Rabing, grid box and Gunzenberg, which was renamed in 1956 in Mölbling. 1973 Mölbling has been extended to a large proportion of the dissolved municipality Meiselding.

1893 acquired Carl Freiherr Auer von Welsbach Lock staple box. In the nearby town Welsbach he erected buildings for his inventions ( Gasglühstrumpf, Osmiumlampe, pyrophoric alloys).

Population

The municipality has 1273 inhabitants Mölbling (2001), of which 97.2 % have Austrian citizenship. The main towns are Meiselding with 288, 169 and Mölbling with Brugga with 131 inhabitants. As a religion give 90.5 % of the population are Roman Catholic, 3.1% Protestant, 0.9% Muslim to. 4.3 % have no religious confession.

Culture and sights

  • Mine trench ( derelict silver mine )
  • Parish Church of St. Stefan in St. Stefan am Krappfeld
  • Pilgrimage Church of St. Cosmas
  • Branch Church St.. Michael in Treffling
  • Parish Church of St. Florian in Gunzenberg
  • Parish Church of St. Andreas in Meiselding
  • Lock staple box, first documented in 1241 for the first time mentioned, octagonal structure of the 15th/16th. Built centuries, and north of that castle Welsbach, Storey building in late historical style, for the industrialist Carl Auer von Welsbach, 1898-1900
  • Gurkbrücke at Mölbling, three-arched stone baroque arch bridge ( old main road 17, now Meisel Dinger road L 66 )

Economy and infrastructure

According to the 2001 census, there are 141 employees in the municipality and 437 commuters. There are 84 farms ( of which 39 are full- time farmers ) who farm together 4,434 ha ( 1999).

Through the municipal area lead the federal highway 317 and state roads 66, 66a and 67b.

Policy

Parish council

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

Directly elected mayor is Franz Rainer ( FPK ).

Coat of arms

In the coat of arms of Mölbling the silver gridded disc plays with the eight Spickeln on the invention of the gas lights by the famous municipality citizens Carl Auer von Welsbach; the number of gusset could also be an allusion to the eight churches in the municipality. The rising silver wolf goes back to a seal of Henry Raspen to 1333, the castle Rastenfeld was an important local center of power. The silver torch was taken from the heart of the plate manufacturer Auer von Welsbach.

The official blazon of the arms is: " About semicircular growing, black diagonally gridded silver disc a green, eight silver Spickeln occupied arch bar; about it in a rising green, silver, red bezungter and red wolf reinforced with hanging rod in his front paws holding a silver torch. "

Coat of arms and flag were presented to the community on January 5, 1994. The flag is green and white with integrated crest.

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