Paternion

Paternion (Slovenian: Špaterjan ) is a market town with 5962 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Villach-Land in Carinthia.

• 3.1 Demographics

• 6.1 municipal
• 6.2 Coat of Arms
• 6.3 twinning

Geography

Geographical location

The market Paternion is located in the Lower Drau Valley about 18 km north- west of Villach. The municipal area covers parts of the Lower Drautale and the Gail Valley Alps.

Community structure

The municipality is divided into six cadastral ( Feistritzwerke an der Drau, Kamering, crosses, Nikelsdorf, Paternion, Rubland ). The municipality includes the following 20 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Aifersdorf (122)
• Floor (25)
• Duel ( 86)
• Ebenwald (68 )
• Feffernitz (329)
• Feistritz an der Drau ( 1,763 )
• Feistritz an der Drau - Neusiedlung (131 )
• Kamering (167 )
• Crosses ( 129)
• Mühlboden (126)

• New Feffernitz ( 1,248 )
• Nikelsdorf ( 586 )
• Pate Village (12 )
• Paternion ( 671 )
• Pobersach (85 )
• Pogöriach (201 )
• Pöllan (162 )
• Rubland (92 )
• Tragail ( 2)
• Tragin ( 7)

Neighboring communities

Neighboring municipalities are, in the north, starting clockwise: remote village, Fresach, White Stone, Bad Bleiberg, Sankt Stefan in the Gail Valley, Hermagor- Egger lake Weissensee and Stockenboi.

History

North of Feistritzwerke in the gusset of the Drava and Weissbach the approximately 11 -acre Lower Terrace is located on the Gorizia, on the mountain can be found as the Holzer at Lendorf traces of settlement of a Celtic oppidum from the La Tène period. In the late 1920s here zweiperiodiger Wall was identified. A detailed chronology of the complex rampart was not possible because of the recent finds. The ratio of this settlement to Teurnia about 20 km away, is unclear.

As various finds ( stone axes, grave ) show the municipal area, the area has been inhabited continuously since the Hallstatt period. Important for this were the lead, zinc, copper and iron deposits, but also the gold-bearing gravel and sands of some streams. A Roman period grave inscription is located on the southern exterior wall of the church for the locals Tinco, Banana and Ambidrabus, one died at 20 years Auxiliarreiters, where his parents on the Gorizia at Feistritzwerke erected a grave stone. This stone is considered an important indicator for determining the Ambidravi (Latin ), the Umwohners of Dravus, the Drautaler that were originally a Celtic or strongly keltisierter ancient European tribe in the kingdom of Noricum ( Regnum Noricum ) and the later Roman province of the same name and in the centuries before the birth of Christ in Upper Carinthia had their tribal area. It may be that the settlement on the Gorizia one of the central places of Ambidravi. In a settlement on the Nikelsdorfer field it was a Mithrasgemeinde, here the " unconquered god Mithras " was consecrated stone found which is located on the south porch of the parish church and its inscription was chiselled off a few decades ago.

Along the main thoroughfare in ancient times by the Drau valley enclosed settlements established early on. On the hill Dueler a late antique fortifications were built around 400 AD. Here was also an early Christian pillar basilica, of which only the foundations remain. The plant was destroyed by 600. Castle and church on the hill Dueler were 1928/29, excavated under the direction of Rudolf Egger.

1296 the name St. Paternianus was first mentioned, the ( † about 340) of the Diocese of Aquileia goes back to the bishop Paternianus to the south of the Drava Carinthia 811-1786 canonically belonged. The castle was first mentioned in 1354. From the 14th century Paternion was a center for lead and iron ore mining, from the 15th century for gold. In the near Buchgraben were mined cinnabar and mercury. In this boom time of mining immigrants came, among others whose family name can still be found as of Germany into the country, in the area eg the Stabers.

Ferdinand I granted Paternion as the capital between Spittal and Villach on 28 June 1530, the market rights. In the 16th century, was also a regional court.

1599 acquired Bartholomew ( Barthlme ) Khevenhüller the rule Paternion. He died in 1613. The heir Hans VI. Khevenhüller, son of the third marriage of Barthlme Khevenhüller, had to leave for religious reasons Carinthia and dispose of the rule in 1629. Then a native of Villach Venetian merchant Hans Widmann bought the castle and dominion, which today are still in the possession of his descendants, the Foscari - Widmann Rezzonico.

In the early 18th century, the rule of St. Paternion was a stronghold of the underground Protestantism. After religious unrest in Salzburg more and more people openly acknowledged the Lutheran faith, in unsupervised churches (about Feistritz an der Drau ) found alternative services are held. The rule then went massively against the " heresy " before. Confessing Protestants ended up in prison, were forcibly recruited and deported: In five transports a total of about 100 people were 1734-1736 spent under military escort to Transylvania. The deportations, setting off a wave of refugees from among the remaining Protestants. Despite the measures taken by the Counter-Reformation of the 17th and 18th centuries many Protestant residents Paternions remained true to their faith, so that the community is still around 30% has a relatively high proportion of residents Protestant faith.

In 1850 the greater community Paternion, the 1865 resolution local church Rubland was connected, the cadastral Kellersberg and Töplitsch were in 1899 separated, however, from them was temporarily independent local church basement Mountain, which merged in the town of White Stone in 1905 was constituted.

During World War II were used in Rubland forced laborers in the community Paternion.

Population

In the first census in 1869 recorded Paternion 2,490 inhabitants. In 1951, the previous high was reached with 7,670. While there was an increase from the 1991 Census and 2001, the population is now back again and is currently at 6,106 inhabitants.

Of the inhabitants of the municipality Paternion ( as of 2001) 93.4 % possess German citizenship Austrian, Bosnian 2.5% and 1.2%.

61.9 % of the population are Roman Catholic and 30.2% for the Protestant Church, 2.6% Islam, 4.2 % have no religious confession. In Feffernitz is an evangelical church.

Demographics

Culture and sights

• Church of St. Paternianus in Paternion ( baroque building, completed in 1676 )
• Castle Paternion
• Castle Pöllan
• Castle crosses
• Church of St. George in Feistritz / Drau
• Church of St. Mary on Unterbichl in Feistritz / Drau
• Ruins of Fliehburg in Duel
• Koflachgraben - long canyon of the Cross Erbaches of crosses to Mögere, durchwanderbar walk
• New church in Feffernitz
• Farchtensee
• Pöllaner pond
• Dog Church
• Evangelical Church Feffernitz

Economy and infrastructure

According to the 2001 census, there are 251 workplaces with 1,830 employees in the community and 1,618 commuters and 1,014 commuters ( 2001). There are 130 agricultural and forestry holdings ( including 53 prime-, 1999). The forestry usable area is 74.3 km ², the agricultural area 16.6 km ².

Situated in the village there is next to a main ski school another secondary school, four elementary schools, special schools and three kindergartens.

The transport infrastructure is via the Tauern motorway ( A 10), the Drau Valley road (B 100 ) and state roads L31, L33, L34 and L41. The station Paternion - Feistritz is located on the Drau Valley Railway, but is located in the municipality of white stone. Below the Draukraftwerks Paternion is the railway station market Paternion, the center is 3 km away. This is where all regional trains and some regional express trains of the Drau Valley train to Villach and Spittal an der Drau.

Policy

Parish council

The local council of Paternion has 27 members and is composed as follows since the municipal elections in 2009 together:

Directly elected mayor since 2009, Alfonso Arnold ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

A coat of arms and seal guide is demonstrated for the market town since at least 1713, it became the market probably awarded in the 17th century or simply taken over. The template for the current coat of arms yielded the oldest known seal from the year 1713. Since Paternium was never walled, the bezinnten walls and the tower in the sign symbolize probably the bourgeois self-defense, out of which grows the parish and market patron Paternianus as guardians and defenders.

Coat of arms and flag of the market town on 2 June 1980 were officially awarded. The heraldic description is:

Twinning

• Ladenburg, Germany

Personalities

• In Kamering the writer Josef Winkler was born on March 3, 1953
• Franz -Joseph Huainigg, writers and Austrian People's Party Member of Parliament
• Jutta Fastian (born 1969 ), actress