Sankt Kathrein am Hauenstein

  • ÖVP: 6
  • SPÖ: 3

St. Kathrein am Hauenstein is a Styrian municipality with 671 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Weiz.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 Demographics
  • 3.1 Museums
  • 5.1 Coat of Arms
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Honorary ring bearer

Geography

"This is Your most fame o poet you are so much of beauty wrote. That you at all glory a simple faithful son of the home bliebst. "

Geographical Location

The municipality is located in the valley of Deer creek, a tributary to Feistritzwerke, in the Fischbacher Alps and belongs to Peter Roseggers forest home.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the two villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Landau (122 )
  • St. Kathrein am Hauenstein (560 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Landau and St. Kathrein am Hauenstein.

Landau (7.03 km ²) St. Kathrein am Hauenstein ( 12.23 km ²)

Landau ( ZH) St. Kathrein am Hauenstein

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 -

Neighboring communities

Adjacent to St. Kathrein

  • In the east rats
  • In the southwest Fischbach
  • In the northwest Krieglach

History

Religions

The inhabitants of St. Kathrein are 98.2 % Roman Catholic; 0.3 % are Protestant. Other religions were not represented. Without religious beliefs are 1.3%.

St. Kathrein is seat of a Roman Catholic parish.

Demographics

The population growth reflects the economic circumstances resist ( see also below: economy and infrastructure): The mining industry brought in the first half of the 20th century strong influx in the remote area in which previously only agriculture and forestry had offered employment opportunities, thereby the population more than doubled. Conversely, the closure of the mines led to a striking and still not stopped the decline in population due to migration, so that the community in January 2013 had only 671 inhabitants.

Culture and sights

Museums

Peter Roseggerhaus dedicated a permanent exhibition at the House of Culture. In addition, always find exhibitions on appropriate occasions instead.

Economy and infrastructure

The economic development of the town was in the postwar years marked by the coal mine rat St.Kathrein. After closing the lignite mining in 1960 but many of the people living in the so-called colony families and individuals were forced to look for work in the near and further away. This was a strong move, and the population sank within a short time, almost half of the time around 1800 inhabitants.

As a result of this marked change in the economic situation of the town has changed in a relatively short time to a tourism industry that was in the 1960s, still in development. It is the former leaders managed to put some accents in the tourism industry ( they called it at that time as a summer resort ), and it evolved into a reasonably well-functioning summer tourism. In the 1970s, a double chairlift system was built on the Hauereck to create with the aim of both the summer and winter for a new sports and hiking attraction.

As well as in other regions, this project was subject to a large interaction, and the summer was shut down relatively quickly. The winter however was relatively successful endeavor and was provided only by snowless winter in its economy in question. It was not until the late 1990s, a private group has been found to take the ski lift and was also willing to make major investments, the region developed again to a relatively well known and appreciated for winter sports.

Today, St. Kathrein offers the ski region Hauereck to a equipped with a quad chairlift and snowmaking equipment Winter sports center and is open to visitors from the immediate environment, but also from the neighboring countries of Hungary and the Czech Republic, one often frequented winter sports area.

Policy

The council consists of nine members and is since the municipal elections 2010 mandates the following parties together:

  • 6 ÖVP - represents the Mayor and Deputy Mayor
  • 3 SPÖ - represents the Treasurer

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in 1975, awarded to symbolize the part of name Hauenstein a miners on a golden background, which strikes the stone with a mountain of iron. The Broken Richtrad refers to the patron saint, St. Catherine, and its execution by the wheel

Personalities

Freeman

  • Peter Roseggerhaus (1843-1918), writer
  • Dechant Alois summer
  • Anna Rabitsch

Honorary ring bearer

  • Mayor retired Franz Meier Hofer
  • Mayor retired Ewald Weghofer
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