Passail

• ÖVP: 11
• SPÖ: 3
• FPÖ: 1

The market town of Passail with 1962 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) is located approximately 30 kilometers northeast of Graz in Styria ( Austria ). As part of the municipality of structural reform in Styria it is merged in 2015 with the communities Arzberg Hohenau an der Raab and Neudorf bei Passail, the new community will continue to bear the name of the market town Passail. This is based on the Styrian community structure reform law - StGsrG.

• 4.1 Coat of Arms
• 4.2 Demographics
• 4.3 religions

Geography

Passail is located in the district of Weiz in the Austrian province of Styria. The municipality is located in the core of the Grazer Bergland Passailer basin at an altitude of 653 meters. Nearby are also the communities Fladnitz at the Teichalp, Hohenau an der Raab, Tulwitz and Arzberg which also belong to the region alpine country.

Although Raab rises in the neighboring community Hohenau, but the first place, by which it flows, is Passail. It opens after leaving Austria in Hungary in the Danube.

Community structure

Katastralgemeinden are (area 2001): Passail 725.13 ha and 655.14 ha Tober

Villages are (population 2011) Hart ( 211), rear Tober (15) Passail ( 1494) and Tober (272).

Neighboring communities

History

Through the discovery of a stone ax in the Tober you can start at an early settlement in the area Passail to 3000 BC. For the Roman period a Roman villa is south-west of today's market Passail suspected and five Roman stones are known for this area. One is walled on the south side of the vicarage. After the Romans, the Slavs settled in the area Passail. Passail is from the Slavic root word " Se ( d) lo" can be derived with the preposition " Po " and. Roughly " at, beside, behind the settlement " mean, as the Slavic settlers already vorfanden a Roman court

Different spellings of Passail were: Pozile, Pozeil, Puzeil, Possel, Poseyle, Posel, Bosaeil, Posewl, Puseyl, Passayl (13th - 16th century. . ). A Slavic settlement is also reflected in the patronage of the parish church, dedicated to St. Vitus, the patron saint of the Slavs. In Styria show such Veit churches to a strong Slavic names, including, among others, in Liezen, Leoben, Veitsch, Paldau, Sochau or reserved by.

Tober, however, was first mentioned in 1240 as " Dobre ", meaning from the Slavic translated: " Gutwasser " as a river name and " fertile area " as a place name.

Finally, set in the 12th century. a Bavarian colonization in a room Passail, which can be the German name Hart ( for forested area ) and sub ​​- Pircha (based on the trees of birches ) are derived. Finally, the Stubenberger inherited the bulk of the Passailer boiler, which sent here in 1200 peasant settlers and chivalrous clearing ladder. It planned scale villages were created first regular -like village settlements, then long drawn Waldhufen settlements and last even remote farmsteads.

The subsequent market town Passail even then came a central role, because of the favorable settlement of the country benefit. On August 30, 1230 Location Passail was first mentioned. In a Stubenberger deed of gift " Herbort of Pozile ", the Administrator and Deputy Stubenberger was called as a witness in the market Passail.

Near the house today Passail the castle was Passail which was the seat of the Lords of Passail. The market itself to a rectangular square with small houses and land, located about 25 to 30 Hofstätten, was founded around 1220-1240. The 120 m long and 40 m wide marketplace was one of the largest squares Styrian markets, which was on its entire length crossed by any cross street. The industrial life developed in the Hofstätten that surrounded the square. However, the first recorded mention as a "market Passail " there was only 1328.

In addition to the worldly possessions had the diocese Seckau, with the parish Passail, some possessions in Passail that were donated by room salvors or their chivalrous people. In addition, other lords had acquired possessions:

• Stubenberger part dominions ( Stubegg, upper and lower Kapfenberg )
• Not Stubenberger dominions ( Freiberg, barn, Gösting )
• Ecclesiastical manors ( Passail parish, parish of St. Lorenzen im Muerztal, bishop Seckau, Rein )

1420, the market was divided. Ulrich von Stubenberg at the castle Stubegg in Arzberg got the western part of the market (now Upper Alley, High Court, Friedhofsweg ) and Friedrich von Stubenberg on the newly built raised hide Sacher / Hechtlturm, ( church today Hohenau an der Raab ) the eastern part.

In modern times, a greater fragmentation of estates took place because Passailer market citizens became owners. 1328 there were 38 citizens in Passail 1527 already 70 town houses. In the 16th century there was a population loss to possession concentrations ( a citizen had several farmsteads ) led. " The recovery of the population is marked by the construction of Anne Chapel on the Lindenberg, which was built in 1510 as thanks for surviving as Pestgefahr.

After the citizens had used up all nature reserves in the spatial Passailer room 1648 of the far distant stately Wulkersbachwald in bear valley on the upper Raab ( in present-day municipality of Hohenau ) was purchased. 1731/32 the dog mountain was purchased by the rule Stubegg to gain enough basic reserves for the management. Until 1800, the market has been expanding by only a few houses in the 19th century. finally began an expansion of the settlement area in the field Lindeberg Büchläcker. After 1945 the more distant Josefine settlement arose.

Since 1849 had Passail, like any other political community, its own mayor and an elected council and also a private market law, eg keep the right markets. In the 19th century. there were always five years markets ( " Kirtage " ), each on Mathiastag (February 24 ), Maundy Thursday, Saint Vitus' Day ( 15 June), Michaelmas (29 September ) and at St. Thomas Day (December 21 ). From 1328 to 1848 there was also a market in Passail court.

The abolition of the manorial system was carried out in 1848., The local church as an autonomous body was established in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938 the congregation to Reichsgau Styria came from 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Policy

Mayor is Günter Berger Linz. The council is made up after the elections of 2010 as follows: 11 ÖVP, SPÖ 3, 1 FPÖ.

Coat of arms

The award of the coat of arms was made on December 15, 1639 by Emperor Ferdinand III. Coat Description: Ainen Blaw, or glaze colors Schildt, in whose Grundt ain white river, mandarins between zwayen to the Schildts Rants Seitten High Rising schroffigen Stainfelßen, ain herwerts to transition geschickhter Hirsch, his natural dyes, with zwayen aufhabenden Geweyen, Every up with zwayen same, VND ain addition to reduced Dreyen Zinckhen, between the Geweyen white or silver farber upright confess parent Anckher, the ring is vnder khehrendt, by the same ain yellow, or Goldtfarber Zopffen against the Linckhen appear durchzogner Thuet.

Demographics

Religions

Culture and sights

• Parish Church of St. Vitus
• Parsonage with Roman inscription stone
• Palm Chapel, built in 1653, now war memorial
• Branch Church of St. Anna on the Lindenberg
• Marian column on the marketplace
• So-called Nagelschmiede on No. 45, a former poorhouse, now Library

Infrastructure

The transport connection is made by the Rechbergstraße (B 64). Passail has a kindergarten, and a composite primary school, secondary school, secondary school, new middle school (NMS ), Polytechnic School. There is a leisure center with a 18- hole golf course together with the community Fladnitz at the Teichalp. There is a nursing home.

The municipality also includes Passail to Almenland.

Secondary school / new middle school

Red Cross, Ortsstelle Passail

Personalities

• Franz Arnfelser (1846-1898), the school director and composer