Sankt Gallen, Styria

  • ÖVP: 9
  • SPÖ: 6

Sankt Gallen is a market town with 1412 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the north of Styria in the judicial district or county Lienzen. On January 1, 2015, is joined in the Styrian municipality structural reform with the market town of Weissenbach an der Enns, the new community will continue to bear the name of St. Gallen.

  • 8.1 Coat of Arms
  • 9.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Sankt Gallen is located on a plateau at the Styrian Iron Road near the border of Upper Austria. The municipality is part of the National Park Gesäuse.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following four localities ( in parentheses population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Viertel (125 )
  • Oberreith (390)
  • Reifling quarter ( 129)
  • Sankt Gallen ( 771 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Viertel, Oberreith, Reifling district and St. Gallen.

Neighboring communities

To the north and west of St. Gallen extends the municipality of Weissenbach an der Enns, east of the town Mooslandl begins and to the south the municipality Weng borders in Gesäuse.

History

In antiquity, the present territory of St.Gallen was just a wilderness east of the road Phyrn Catfish Liezen Aquileia. Only after the foundation of the monastery in the 11th century Admont a connection between Phyrn Street and Enns ( waterway ) was sought. At that time the St.Gallener area was called " Silva Nova " ( Neuwald ). Built Gottfried Edler von weather field then in 1152 in honor of Hl.Gallus a church, the collection of the parish was 1160. Given the new traffic route a tavern to strengthen the traveler was established in St.Gallen. The place they proceeded uphill: the end of the 13th century, a certain Master Ulrich worked as a physician in St. Gallen, which refers to the fact that the population must be grown massively. The construction of the castle to protect the pin property in 1278 hints at a certain prosperity. In the 16th century the iron industry is dominant in St.Gallen. The pig iron was imported from iron ore and exported via Enns and the Danube. After the decline of this industry from the mid-19th century, tourism started to develop. The first St. Gallen guide was written in 1879 by Josef Rabl.

Religion

  • Roman Catholic 93.7 %
  • Protestant 1.4%
  • Without rel. Confession 4.0%
  • Other 0.9%

Population Development

Culture and sights

  • Parish Church: 1515-1523 built; late Gothic church with buttresses, stair turrets. Baroque onion dome. Interior designed rich late Gothic net vault with quatrefoil figuration in the eastern nave Jochen and artful Schlingrippengewölbe with sechsstrahligem center star in the western choir area. Baroque extensions: Platz vaults in the western and eastern Langhausjoch choir bay. High altar: Late Baroque powerful structure made ​​of red marble stucco with classical appeal. Altarpiece from 1782 is a representation of the Assumption of Martin Johann Schmidt ( "Kremser Schmidt "). Side altars: the mid-18th century, Bartolomeo Altomonte attributed altarpieces Exterior frescoes on the south-facing wall of the nave outside is a larger than life Christophorus fresco from the first third of the 16th century, with a Mount of Olives scene around in 1530.
  • Castle gallstone from 1278
  • Rafter Chapel: built in 1763-1764
  • Town houses and mansions Hammer

Regular events

  • Festival St. Gallen: music festival of classical concerts each year in the second half of August.
  • ARCANA New Music Festival St. Gallen / Gesäuse

Established businesses

  • Forestry Administration of the Styrian Provincial Forestry
  • Messrs. Stone Rieser ( bottling )
  • Fa Alps -May- Kestag (drill and countersink tools )
  • Greiner Packaging ( Plastics Engineering )
  • Company for timber industrial design ( industrial design, product design, advertising agency, professional photographer)
  • Messrs. Schuster helmet ( shoe stores, nationwide repair service)
  • ABAG petroleum company Handels GmbH - "Your gas station "

Policy

  • Mayor Armin Forstner of the ÖVP.

Coat of arms

The award of the municipality coat of arms was made with effect from 1 June 1952. Coat Description: In a silver shield erect black, red and reinforced bezungter bear holding a natural colored uprooted spruce in his front paws appear abgeledigt.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Karin Buder (born 1964 ), alpine skier
  • Millims Emmerich (1909-1971), painter and graphic artist
  • Arthur Kurtz (1860-1917), painter and writer
  • Augustin Maria Kurtz gallstone (1856-1916), painter
  • Michael Maderthaner (1925-1981), politician of the Social Democratic Party, Member of Parliament 1971-1981
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