Ožbalt
Ožbalt ( German St Oswald in Drauwald, St. Oswald an der Drau ) is a town in northern Slovenia.
Geography
Ožbalt is located on 306 m above sea level in the valley of the Drava. It belongs to the municipality Podvelka ( Podwölling ) in the region of Lower Styria. The place is located on the left bank ( north bank ) of the river Drava at the confluence of the north, in the area of Kapla ( Kappel ) coming Ožbaltski Potok ( Oswaldbach or Oswald grave Bach) on the road between Maribor and Carinthia. To the south lies the wooded area of Pohorje. East of the village leads another stream also from the Drau valley to the north. In him the Črmenica flows.
History
The area of Ožbalt located in Drauwald, the border area between the historic Lower Carinthia ( Karantanija Duchy of Carinthia, County Jauntal ) and the Mark of the Drava ( "Mark behind the Drauwald ", seen from Carinthia ). This cord was connected by 1147 to Mark an der Mur, so it belongs to the core region of Styria in the Middle Ages. As a border line in Drauwald the running waters of the Velka ( Wölka ) is - Drava Črmenica ( Tschermenitzen Trench east Ožbalt ) accepted. The pre-merger market areas, the area of Ožbalt was thus the easternmost part of the former Lower Carinthia. Whether there was already a settlement at this time is not occupied. Ožbalt 1372 called for the first time.
After the district classification of Styria in 1462 Ožbalt was in the " district between Mur and Traa " ( Drava ). In the 15th and 16th centuries Ožbalt lay in the territory of the District Courts Mahrenberg and Remschnig. It belonged to the parish of the branch church " Sant Osswaldt bey the Traa " the parish "Our Frawen zw Fresen ."
From 1770, in the first person and houses collection in Austria, houses and people from Ožbalt in Numerierungsabschnitt are captured when westerly place Brezno. Together with the other Numerierungsabschnitten in Mahrenberg and Remschnig belonged to the field of Ožbalt first to Werbbezirk Faal (now Fala ) and later a Werbbezirk Mahrenberg (today Muta ) in the Marburg district. As a parish, the area of Ožbalt only in 1787 became independent.
Until 1818/19 the "little Velka " and the " storm vineyards " slabs of rock in the river Drava at Ožbalt, obstacles to the Drau shipping were. They were then removed together with other obstacles.
The trench in which the Oswaldbach flows is called in older maps Oswaldgraben ( not to be confused with the homonymous cadastral " Oswaldgraben " at Kainach ), the running of the Črmenica was formerly listed as Tschermenitza Trench. Since the 19th century Ožbalt is coaching. 1822 is occupied by 17 children a trivial school. From Oswald grave Bach then a mill of the paid and foreign grain was ground was ( toll mill), a tamped and two saws driven.
In the restructuring of municipalities in 1850 the hitherto existing community ( cadastral ) Ožbalt was included in the new local church Fresen. The village belonged to the parish of order of the district court and tax office Mahrenberg in the District Commission Windisch Gratz. Ožbalt then had 229 inhabitants (souls). Vicarage was St. Oswald. Ožbalt comprised 1465 yoke 683 square fathoms ( = 843.3 acres ) and was 11 ¼ hours from the seat of the district administration and the 4 ¼ hours from the seat of the district court away ( on foot or oxcart ).
Ožbalt was a mining town: in the north- west on the road to Kappel is a lead deposits, until 1855 a molten lead was operated. An ore mine was when Divjakhube at Offberg in Remschnigg. In the mica schist of the municipality quartz veins, galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and siderite were found that were smelted to 1840 in the community.
In Ožbalt there was a toll booth at the Drauwalder ( Carinthia ) Reichsstrasse. 1898 this tollgate was moved to Wurmath, but in 1900 moved back to the house No. 21 in the former St. Oswald.
Infrastructure
The Slovenian main road 1 " Mariborska cesta " ( Marburger Straße ) results in the area of Ožbalt by the Drau Valley. In Ožbalt two roads branch off to the north. A from the center in the valley of the creek Ožbaltski ( Oswald creek ), a second a few hundred meters to the east in the valley of Črmenica brook. These routes pass through the area of Kappel and then over the Poßruck in southern Styria: either Remsnik / Remschnigg (border crossing Arnfels / Kapla ) to Arnfels or via border crossings in Gradišče / Schlossberg or Duh na Ostrem vrhu ( Hl.Geist ) / Großwalz in the area of the castle Schmirnberg and after Leutschach. These ways are not passable by car, they are availed by a number of hiking, mountain biking or cycling routes, such as the Austria- Slovenija - bike ride. Ožbalt is located on the bus route Maribor ↔ Radlje whether Dravi and at the railway Maribor Dravograd lead castle -Klagenfurt ( Drau Valley Railway, the former route of the Southern Railway Company ). About ten buses and four trains daily connect Ožbalt with Maribor. The train journey for the 28 km route takes 40-50 minutes after Prevalje and Holmec on the border with Austria ( Austrian next station lead castle ) are something needed by the passenger train for 47 km more than 1 hour.
Power station
One kilometer east of Ožbalt is downstream on the river Drava a hydroelectric power plant. This power plant was built in 1957-1960. After a renovation in the years to 2005, it may with its three turbine sets with a capacity of up to 73 MW of energy. The upper water ( with a filled reservoir) is 299.22 meters above sea level, underwater at 281.80 meters, resulting in a drop height of up to about 17 meters. The reservoir has a volume of 10.5 million cubic meters, of which 1.4 million cubic meters can be availed. It is 12.7 km long and reaches until the drauaufwärts lying power plant at Vuhred ( usury ).
Parish Church
Namesake of the place and Patron ( patron ) of the parish church of St. Oswald, an English king from the 7th century. The St. Oswald applies, and others as the patron of cattle, Reapers and helpers against the plague. His worship is associated with the " Scots mission," a mission shaft by Irish monks in southern Germany in the 12th and 13th century in connection. The name Oswald is returned to the Old High German combination of " Odin" and " exercise " ( reign ), which means " God reigns " in a generic sense to be translated. Memorial of St. Oswald is the 5th August.
The existing church was built from 1813 to 1817, its tower dates from the year 1859. Ožbalt A church in 1495 is already mentioned in the " Faaler land register ". On August 21, 1510, the Bishop Lavantiner Leonhard Peurl consecrated in this church an altar dedicated to St. Andrew and St. Ursula with their companions (Latin: " Vrsule et sodalium eius "). As relics of the altar and those of St. George, and also of St. Mary and the saints Hermagoras ( as " Hermachora ") and Fortunatus were specified in Konsekrationsprotokoll besides those of the foregoing. The parish is part of the Dean's Office Mahrenberg. From Ožbalt from the parish Kapla ( Kappel ) is co-supervised. This parish was built in 1893, before the church was 1795, a Localie ( chaplaincy ) of Ožbalt. The parish Ožbalt / St. Oswald can be confused in the open due to the formulations of the older literature with the parish ( known there as " Localie " ) of St. Oswald. In the 19th century, the patronage of the parish was perceived by the religious fund. The church is entered in the Slovenian Cultural Heritage Register under the number 3216.