Pinggau

The market town Pinggau with 3102 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) is located in eastern Styria ( Austria ) in the judicial district Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg - Fürstenfeld at the foot of the bill.

2.1 Population development

3.1 municipal
3.2 Mayor
3.3 Coat of Arms

4.1 Music
4.2 Sport
4.3 Regular events

6.1 traffic
6.2 Established businesses
6.3 energy

Geography

Geographical Location

Pinggau is located about 20 km north of the district capital of Hartberg in the northeast of the district. The municipality is crossed by the Pinka River, a tributary of the Raab. The Pinka rises in the extreme northwest of the municipality, which is drained by numerous tributaries.

Pinggau is bounded on the north by the change and has there with the low exchange ( 1,669 m), the Irrbühel ( 1,423 m), the Windhag ( 1,395 m ) and the high mountain ( 1,314 m), its highest elevations. To the east, the municipality falls to Pinka out. Pinggau has grown together with its neighboring city of Friedberg.

The municipality is bordered to the north by Lower Austria ( Mönichkirchen ) and in the south Burgenland ( Pinkafeld ).

Community structure

Baumgarten ( 9.76 km ²) Haideggendorf (3.28 km ²) Pinggau (2.21 km ²) Schaueregg ( 19.55 km ²) Sinnersdorf (2.73 km ²) Sparberegg ( 7.04 km ²) Tanzegg ( 5.28 km ²) Wiesenhöf ( 9.16 km ²)

Baumgarten ( D)

Dirnegg (R) Haideggendorf (R) Koglreith (R)

Pinggau (M) Schaueregg (D)

Sinnersdorf (D) Sparberegg (R )

Styrian- diving ( ZH) Tanzegg (ZH) Wiesenhöf (ZH)

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

M = center of the municipality
Stt = district
R = Rotte
W = hamlet
D = village
ZH = Scattered houses
Sdlg = settlement
E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

Pinggau is made up of eight local villages and their associated localities together (as of 15 May 2001):

Neighboring communities

History

An early tollbooth proves that Pinggau is an old road junction. Nevertheless Pinggau and his church were first mentioned only in 1377.

The territory included already in the community formation in 1849, the current size of Schaueregg in the north to Sinnersdorf at the former Hungarian kingdom border in the south. An exception is the cadastral Sparberegg that came with January 1, 1969 by Schäffern to Pinggau.

The guide called market town was awarded the Styrian parliament on 11 June 1931.

Demographics

Policy

Parish council

The last municipal elections brought the following results:

Mayor

Mayor 's Leopold Bartsch (ÖVP ). 1st Vice Mayor Herbert Zingl (ÖVP ), 2nd Vice Mayor Johann Koschatko ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality Pinggau is described as follows: " A golden shield, a golden pedestals in the on the scene of the Lamentation of the supernatant removed from the cross body of Christ is shown. Behind the corpse sitting three saints: in the middle of the Mother of God at the right hand of the Apostle John, to the left Mary Magdalene. The Mother of God, dressed in a red robe, a gold-trimmed blue coat, a white cloth, and a main of the same color neckerchief, supports with her right hand raised to the upper body of Christ's body and keeps the left arm with her left hand. Saint John, dressed in a green robe with golden cuff and with a red, gold-trimmed coat, supports with both hands the head of Christ. The holy Mary Magdalene, dressed in a red-green robe and head covered with a white cloth, in her right hand holding a golden Salbölgefäß; her left arm is raised. The shield surrounds an ornamental, bronze-colored edging. "

Culture and sights

Music

The Marktmusikkapelle Pinggau was founded on 28 August 1932. The highlight of the musical year is the spring concert, musical home the club is opened in summer 2009 " House of Music ".

Sports

The natural lake is re- filled every spring. Two major habitats clean the water naturally. In 1947 Pinggau founded together with the Municipality of Friedberg football club FC Pinggau / Friedberg.

Regular events

Pinggau is since 1996 an annual venue for the Bosch Super Plus Rallye, a race in the Austrian Rally Championship.

Parish Pinggau - pilgrimage Maria hazel

The church was named after a legend: shepherds said to have been found in a hazel an der Pinka a picture of Mary. This was later transferred to the neighboring church, which was first mentioned in 1377 and is equipped with frescoes by Johann Cyriak Hackhofer. Next to the church there is the chapel, built in 1698 Brunn with a stone Pieta from the year 1717. Their flowing mineral spring the place is a spiritual place of power for many men of prayer.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Through the municipal area leads the South A 2 motorway from Vienna to Graz, via the junction Pinggau / Friedberg ( 95) is achieved. In addition, cross at Pinggau the well-developed in the municipality change road B 54 from Wiener Neustadt to track village and the Steinamangerer road B 63 after Pinkafeld and Oberwart.

In the municipality there are four railway breakpoints. The breakpoints Pinggau market and Diving Schaueregg be due to the change train from Friedberg to Wiener Neustadt. The line offers two hourly regional train connections Wiener Neustadt and the subsequent Therme train to Hartberg. The breakpoints Pinggau leisure center and Sinnersdorf lie in the 2011 set-aside for passenger Pinkatalbahn direction Oberwart.

Graz Airport and Flughafen Wien -Schwechat are each about 100 km away.

Established businesses

The Bleyle GmbH sales in 1988 as the successor to the insolvent company Bleyle Stuttgart until 2009 Ladies' knitted clothing. She has taken the brand name of the parent company.

Energy

In Haideggendorf is an oil pumping station of the Adria-Wien pipeline. Through the municipal area also extend Trans-Austria gas pipelines.

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