Tamsweg

ÖVP: 12
SPÖ: 7
FPO: 4
GREEN: 2

The market town of Tamsweg is the district capital of the Lungau region in the Austrian state of Salzburg with 5666 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

3.1 Demographics
3.2 religions

4.1 Mayor
4.2 Municipal Council

7.1 traffic

8.1 schools
8.2 offices
8.3 Other government institutions
8.4 health and care facilities

Geography

Tamsweg is located on the eastern Preber Lungau basin in a broad valley at the confluence of the Mur, Lungau Taurach and Leißnitzbach. In the north of the Lower Tauern surround the pool. Tamsweg bordered to the east by Styria, and is mainly developed from there.

Community structure

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

Haiden (246 )
Keusching (44 )
Lasaberg (184 )
Mörtelsdorf (936)
Sauerfeld ( 456)
Lake Valley (137 )
Tamsweg ( 3436 )
Wölting (189 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Haiden, Keusching, Lasaberg, Mörtelsdorf, Sauerfeld, Seethal, Tamsweg and Wölting.

Neighboring communities

Adjoin Tamsweg

In the north Lessach
In the east Ranten
In the southeast Sankt Ruprecht - Falkendorf, barn on the river Mur and Predlitz -Turrach
In the south Ramingstein
In the southwest Unterberg
In the West Mary Parish
In the northwest Sankt Andra im Lungau

History

The Lungau was inhabited from about 600 of Slavs and from about 700 of the Bavarians. The name is mentioned in a document around 1156 as Taemswich and may have come from a gentleman Domes, who with his family settled around the year 700 here. Back then handed the Carinthian nobles Eberhard von der Drau the Salzburg cathedral chapter at an estate near Tamsweg.

1246 bought Archbishop Eberhard II lungauischen the possession of the Lords of Ptuj and gave the church and half the market the cathedral chapter. Even then Tamsweg likely to have been a separate parish. A church is first mentioned in 1231, then still as a branch church of Mary Parish.

From 1428 to 1433 the Sanctuary of St. Leonhard was built on a hill south of the village. Tamsweg became a well-known on the borders of Austria and pilgrimage experienced a significant economic upturn.

A check was 1490, when Tamsweg during the wars of the Emperor Frederick III. against the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, whose troops had established themselves in the fortified St. Leonhard church was pillaged and plundered by imperial troops. The Reformation brought a decline in the pilgrimages that took a new lease until the settlement of Capuchin monks during the Counter Reformation in 1644.

1571 was the place of residence of Baron von Kuenburg. The Salzburg Archbishop George of Kuenburg gave the place in 1587 a coat of arms market. The oldest verifiable weekly market privilege dates back to the year 1416; but the market right should have to go back to the time of Ptuj.

From about 1700 formed a brisk trade with salt and iron, which was a major source of income Tamsweg citizenship for more than 200 years.

1797 Tamsweg was occupied during the First Coalition War by French troops and had to make a pillaging of 4518 guilders. In addition, 222 oxen and larger quantities of food and feed were requisitioned.

After the Peace of Luneville, the former archbishopric of Salzburg came as crown land and thus Tamsweg in Austria. The 19th century brought a descent into insignificance, was accompanied by the decline of population, poverty and development deficits for the region.

It was not until the turn of the century to the 20th century, the region experienced another boom, so 1894 Murtalbahn was opened in 1897 a power plant and a water line built in 1908 and was followed by the opening of the hospital.

In 1936, six surrounding rural communities incorporated and the municipality enlarged to the present size.

Population

Demographics

Religions

Of the population, the vast majority belongs to ( 88.2 %) of the Roman Catholic denomination. The second largest denomination is Islam, to which 3.4% profess. Evangelical are 1.3 % of the population. 6% of the inhabitants are without religious confession.

Bishop Johann Ebser of Chiemsee inaugurated on September 20, 1433 the new church. In addition to Mariazell and St. Wolfgang was one of the most beautiful sanctuary of St. Leonhard whether Tamsweg the late Middle Ages to the most visited pilgrimage sites in today's Austrian territory.

Policy

Mayor

Municipal council

The municipal council of Tamsweg has 25 members and is composed as follows for the local council elections from March 1, 2009, together:

Coat of arms

The emblem of letter of 1587 the coat of arms is described as follows " Ainen gold colors or yellow Schildt, and thereof to underist drey pointed rocks whose ainer higher than the other, and ain in the gold color or yellow field Gämbß, with the anterior Leuffen straight yber against him the right side Jumping T, and steent with the stop on the nideristen rocks (...). "

Blazon: "In the golden shield three pointed, natural -colored, from left to right rising rocks next to each other. From the left Crag a chamois leaps across the other two crags. "

Culture and sights

Sanctuary of St. Leonhard whether Tamsweg
Deanery Church of St. Jacob the Elder
The club United to Tamsweg, a funeral Brotherhood, founded in 1738 by craftsmen in the regional environment of Tamsweg was recorded in 2010 as Intangible World Heritage, as declared by UNESCO in the list of Austria ( National Treasure ). Accompany funerals, participate in church processions and held annually between January 1 and the Saturday after Ash Wednesday, the Vereinigtenoktav (a hard week ) from.
Schlossberg castle ruins ( Tamsweg)

Economy

The shopping center Coop Shopping Center is the largest trading company in the Lungau with a sales area of 3,600 sqm. To complement the core of branches in the main town, the City Center Tamsweg opened its doors in December 2005.

Traffic

Tamsweg can be reached from the east by the Mur valley over the Turracher road B 95 and the Murtalbahn and Krakow village on the Mur valley road B 96. The B 95 leads from Tamsweg further west to Mauterndorf where they in the Katschberg road B 99 has a sequel on the Radstadt Tauern Pass to Radstadt. The B96 runs through the Mur valley to St. Michael im Lungau, where she also leads into the B 99 on the Katschberg to Spittal an der Drau. In St. Michael im Lungau also connection is on the Tauern motorway A 10

In addition Tamsweg also has a railway station of the narrow- Murtalbahn of Unzmarkt to Mauterndorf.

Public institutions

Tamsweg is the main town and thus seat of a number of agencies and authorities as well as schools.

Train

Elementary schools: Tamsweg
Sauerfeld ( for the localities Atzmannsdorf, Postal, Penk, Sauerfeld and Traning )
Lake Valley

New secondary school - Sport and Technology

Higher schools: Bundesgymnasium
Bundeshandelsakademie
Federal Trade School for Information Technology
Golf Performance Center West

School of Agriculture
Landesberufsschule
Polytechnic School
Special school / Special Education Centre

Offices

District Commission
District court
Tax Office
District Police command and police inspection

Other state institutions

Post office
Employment Service
Strucker barracks of the Austrian Armed Forces ( JGB 26)

Health and care facilities

Public hospital
Seniorenwohnheim

Personalities

Franz Essl ( born 1957 ), farmer and politician
Manfred Grübl ( b. 1965 ), artist
Adolf Ritter von Guttenberg (1839-1917), professor of forestry
Emil Ritter von Guttenberg (1841-1941), Marshal Lieutenant and Railway Minister
Dietbert Kowarik (* 1974), politician
The family of painters Lederwasch was established in Tamsweg
Sandro Lindschinger ( born 1985 ), football player
Eva Moser ( b. 1982 ), chess player
Florian Pagitsch (* 1959), organist and music teacher
Max Prodinger (* 1976), tenor
Ramona Siebenhofer (* 1991), alpine skier
Leonhardstein Turner (1889-1961), priest and resistance fighter against National Socialism
Ingrid Stöckl (born 1969 ), alpine skier
Franz Zaunschirm (* 1953 ), high school teacher, musician and composer

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