Straßburg, Austria

Strasbourg is a town with 2142 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Carinthia.

  • 3.1 Demographics
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 5.1 City Council and Mayor
  • 5.2 municipal
  • 5.3 Coat of Arms
  • 5.4 Town twinning
  • 5.5 personalities

Geography

Geographical location

The city is located in the north of Carinthia in the Gurk valley amidst the Gurktaler Alps on the Gurk. Neighboring municipalities are ( clockwise from north) Metnitz, Friesach Michelsdorf, Althofen, Mölbling, Gurk and Weitensfeld.

Boroughs

The city is divided into the three cadastral St. Georgen, Strasbourg country and Strasbourg City. The municipality includes the following 50 places (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Bachl (9 )
  • Buldorf ( 0)
  • Dielach ( 0)
  • Doberman Berg ( 19)
  • Dörfl ( 0)
  • Wire drawing (9 )
  • Edling ( 8)
  • Gassarest (6)
  • Glabötsch (8)
  • Gruschitz (16)
  • Gundersdorf (30 )
  • Hackl (20 )
  • Hausdorf (20 )
  • Cooker ( 25)
  • High field (17 )
  • Höllein ( 5)
  • Krassnitz ( 19)
  • Kreuth (17 )
  • Crosses ( 17)
  • Kulmitzen (1)
  • Long Meadows (31 )
  • Lees (13 )
  • Lieding ( 2)
  • Machuli (53)
  • Claus Village (18 )
  • Mellach (80 )
  • Mitterndorf (15 )
  • Moschitz (6 )
  • Olschnitz ( 19)
  • Olschnitz - Lind (13 )
  • Olschnögg (20 )
  • Pabenberg ( 0)
  • Pöckstein intermediate waters ( 59)
  • Pölling (13 )
  • Ratschach (10 )
  • Sankt Georgen (52 )
  • Sankt Jakob ( 7)
  • Sankt Johann (31 )
  • Sankt Magdalen ( 8)
  • Saint Petersburg ( 19)
  • Schattseite (35 )
  • Schmaritzen (22)
  • Schneßnitz (33)
  • Strasbourg City ( 1,251 )
  • Unteraich (11 )
  • Unterfarcha (13)
  • Under Rain ( 9)
  • Torrent (29 )
  • Wilpling (6)
  • Winklern (25 )

History

The place was first mentioned 864, when King Louis the German gave the Salzburg archbishopric a possession here. The Strasbourg castle was built in 1147 under the fourth Bishop of Gurk Roman I, expanded in the 15th century as a castle and served until in the 18th century as the seat of the Bishops of Gurk. As it was the Bishop of the place the most important place in the Gurk valley and so 1229 Strasbourg was raised to market and already in 1382 first mentioned as a city. The town charter in 1402 by Prince Bishop Konrad III. confirmed by helping mountain.

After the Strasbourg had been badly damaged by an earthquake in 1767, the residence of the bishops was initially eventually moved to Castle Pöckstein and 1787 to Klagenfurt. The offices of the Episcopal Gutsverwaltung remained until 1858 in Strasbourg. By the bishop's seat and estate administration, the city lost rapidly in importance.

The area of ​​the 1850 newly constituted municipality included the district of the former District Court Strasbourg ( without Gurk ), and has not changed since then except for a territorial cession of part of the KG Strasbourg country to Gurk (1924 /25).

Population

According to the 2001 census, Strasbourg has 2,335 inhabitants, of which 95.0 % and 1.3% Austrian Bosnian citizen. 90.8 % of the population are Roman Catholics, 1.0% to 2.2% are Protestant Church and the Islamic faith. 3.3% of the population has no religious persuasion.

Demographics

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Strassburg Castle, former residence of the Prince Bishops of Gurk
  • Castle Pöckstein
  • Parish Church of St. Nicholas
  • Parish Church of St. Margaret to Lieding: Romanesque core construction in 1200, the choir and tower of the 14th century.

Policy

City Council and Mayor

The city council of Strasbourg has five members. Directly elected mayor is Franz Pirolt ( AAF ).

Parish council

The council consists of 19 members and sat down by the local council elections in 2009 were as follows:

  • 7 FPK
  • 6 ÖVP
  • 5 SPÖ
  • 1 FPÖ

Coat of arms

The leadership of a seal is opened for about 1346 ( due to the assumed award of city rights) explicitly in a document dated February 17, 1382 called, but only received on a certificate dated 12 February 1504. For the occasion and reason for the choice of subject of a red rosette there is no evidence.

A certificate from the coat of arms management and the Neuverleihung the flag took place on December 19, 1969 The official blazon of the arms is:. " In Gold an eight-petalled red rose whose calyx is formed by a silver combined blue disk, from the middle of eight golden rays in a star shape to the edge run on the silver midrib of rosette leaves. " the flag is red - yellow-blue with integrated crest.

Twinning

Personalities

  • Pischel Hermann Berger ( born April 7, 1913 in Kreuth, † February 23, 1945 ), a resistance fighter against the Nazi regime, in Vienna LG executed
  • Nik Kershaw ( born April 6, 1962), pop singer and composer
  • Hans Riedl (1919-2007), officer in the Austrian army
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