Rauris

• ÖVP: 8
• WGR submission: election diagram / ​​Maintenance / Symbol: 4
• SPÖ: 7

Rauris is a market town in the province of Salzburg, Zell am See in Austria with 3052 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

• 2.1 Population development

• 3.1 Overview of Historical Development
• 3.2 The settlement
• 3.3 transit station and commercial traffic
• 3.4 Origin of parish Rauris
• 3.5 The gold mining
• 3.6 The market

• 4.1 Establishment weather station Sonnblick
• 4.2 The 20th century

• 5.1 Municipal Council
• 5.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

The municipality is located in the Pinzgau in Salzburg at the Rauris Ache below the Sonnblick group in the heart of the Hohe Tauern National Park and spans the valley of Rauris. Rauris is the geographically largest municipality in Salzburg. By the end of 2002, the village belonged to the district court Taxenbach, since 2003 she has been part of the judicial district of Zell am See.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following 12 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

• Bucheben (174 )
• Fröstlberg (68 )
• Grub ( 62)
• Dog village (195 )
• Market area (52 )
• Rauris ( 1149 )
• Seidlwinkl (340 )
• Lowlands (87 )
• Vorstanddorf (101 )
• Board area (308 )
• Worth (318 )
• Woerth Mountain (210 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Bucheben, Rauris, Seidlwinkl, lowlands, board area and Wörth mountain.

Population

Demographics

History

Overview of Historical Development

The Rauris Valley is one of the few permanently inhabited Tauern valleys. The fact that the paths via the Tauern Rauris ( high door ) were already committed very early, show various findings, such as a massive, gold-plated neck ring on the Maschlalm, who hails from the La Tène period around 400 BC. In the market six silver coins were found, three of which the head of King Philip of Macedon, who reigned 360-336 BC in the Balkans show. Further findings are a small statue of Hercules from the Roman period, significant even older finds a bronze sword from the period 1300 BC, and a scarab from the time of Ramses II around 1200 BC

The settlement

The colonization of the valley was from the south. It began with the creation of Schwaigen in the 12th century. The present town was formerly Rauris after Gaisbach, on the alluvial fan it was established, named and is already mentioned in 1120. 1122, when Bishop Heinrich von Freising his brother, Count Friedrich von Peilstein here gave two courtyards, the first time the name seems to Rurise and called the whole valley.

The etymology of the name is unclear, and is returned as the neighboring Gastein, certainly on vorbairische origin. It appears to result about the common Indo-European root * ru / * reu for rivers, which is also taught here Slavic or directly Romanesque as in the neighboring valleys.

Transit station and commercial traffic

Already 1230 Wörth detectable as an important transit point for wagon and commercial traffic via the Tauern south ( Seidlwinkl ) and the mining area ( Hüttwinkl ).

The Seidlwinkltal formed the eastern access to Heiligenblut Tauern ( high door ), the over all other Tauern transitions had the advantage of being open longer. This led to the establishment of there also preserved today Rauris Tauern house, which in other valleys had supply and care responsibilities for driving the trade hemmer as the other Tauern houses and already in 1491 got the fully licensed.

Emergence of the parish Rauris

Built in 1203 Chrysant of Einoed a chapel in honor of St. Michael. 1339 the new building of the church is requested and already completed 15 years later. The restoration and the new building of the church, see 1411 again recorded mention. Only since 1858, there is a separate parish in Rauris. The parish church of Rauris is dedicated to St. Martin and St. Jacob.

The gold mining

Importance was the valley by the gold mining industry, which may be already in 1354 is documented. From 1377 to 1802 Rauris had his own country and mountain court. The mining industry was in its heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries. From the wealth of this time still bear witness to the trades houses with ogee arch doors and bay windows. In 1500, the valley had more than 3,000 residents.

As of 1636 the gold mining was carried out by the Archbishops of Salzburg.

The market

1478 seems to Rauris first time the term " market " on. 1884 confirmed Emperor Franz Josef market rights. 1928 this was awarded again.

In the course of Protestants expulsion in 1732, had to leave the Raurisertal 166 Protestants.

Culture and sights

Establishment of a meteorological station Sonnblick

The trades Ignaz Rojacher revived in the 19th century again the gold mining industry. He set up in 1886 under very difficult circumstances, the weather center at Sonnblick as the world's first high-altitude meteorological observation station.

The ropeway on Sundays look to supply the weather observatory was completed in 1954. Until then, all that was needed, had to be carried from the valley to the summit.

The 20th century

After the beginning of this century gold mining in the Gastein and Rauris had come to a virtual standstill, OBR Ing Imhof tried and after the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, the Prussian mining and metallurgical AG ( Preussag ), the gold mining again to revive. However, he was set back in 1944.

In the recent time a possible resumption of the gold removal in the public has been discussed but rejected by the market town of Rauris and the communities of the Gastein valley as environmental and tourism- hazardous.

Policy

Municipal council

The municipal council of Rauris has 19 members and is composed as follows for the local council elections in 2014 together:

• 8 ÖVP
• 4 Wählergemeinschaft Rauris ( WGR )
• 7 SPÖ

Directly elected mayor is Peter Loitfellner ( SPÖ).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms is a red-gold of left diagonally divided blade, where the top of the division line a goat grows and below two crossed black mine hammers are shown.

The coat of arms depicts the goat an allusion to the former name of the market Rauris, which used to be called " Gaisbach ", whereas the mine hammers remember the former gold mining in the valley and on the importance of place as the seat of trades.

Economy and infrastructure

Rauris is a bi-seasonal tourism destination with more than 420,000 overnight stays per year.

Furthermore, be broken in Rauris marble and quartzite. The family-owned Rauris stone center builds in two quarries had reported 50,000 tons of rock from.

Personalities

• Ulrike Maier (1967-1994), alpine skier
• Reinhard Schwabenitzky ( b. 1947 ), film director, producer and screenwriter

Culture

Rauris Rauris Literature is the seat of days.