Thurn
Thurn is a municipality in East Tyrol ( Lienz district, Tyrol ) and is located on the gently rising valley floor of the regional capital Lienz, about 2 km from the city center with views of the mountains of the Lienz Dolomites. Thurn has an area of 1,226 ha and 620 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). Neighboring municipalities are Ainet, Gaimberg, Lienz, Nussdorf- Debant and Oberlienz. The municipality is located in the judicial district of Lienz.
- 4.1 Population structure
- 4.2 Demographics
- 5.1 Workplaces and Employees
- 5.2 Tourism
- 5.3 Transport and Infrastructure
- 5.4 Safety and Health
Geography
Thurn is located in the north ( sunny side ) of Lienz north of the regional capital Lienz to 855 m above sea level. A.. The municipal area extends over the southern slope of Pließriegels, an offshoot of the Schober group and comprises 12.26 km ², which Thurn is the third smallest municipality in the district of Lienz. Thurn is bordered to the north by Nussdorf- Debant, to the east by Gaimberg, to the south of Lienz and on the west by Oberlienz and Ainet.
Community structure
The community Thurn is congruent with the same cadastral and consists of five districts. If you follow the Thurner country road from Lienz to north, one reaches the village of Thurn (855 m above sea level. A. ), in which 297 people lived in 2011. The village comprises the main town of the municipality in 2001 67 buildings, the municipal office, the branch church hl. Nicholas, the elementary school and kindergarten as well as the Gasthof Reiter. The village of Thurn and the east of it lies the district Lampitze is expected. East of the village of Thurn is located with the rotting Zauche (850 m above sea level. A. ), with 48 buildings, 2001, the second largest district in terms of population of the municipality. 2011, there were 198 people. Northeast of Thurn the rotting Oberndorf is located ( 935 m above sea level. A. ) with the hotel Wahlerhof, in the 2011 96 persons were living. North of Thurn and Oberndorf also is the district Prappernitze (997 m above sea level. A. ) in addition to the actual rotting Prappernitze the scattered settlement of a mountain, the highest farmstead Thaler (1304 m above sea level. A. ) and the Eggeralm that Glanzalm, the Jageralm, the New Thurner Alm, the Pettereralm that Stanisalm and Weberalm covers. Pappernitze housed 37 residents in 2011. In Oberndorf and Pappernitze in 2001 were respectively 22 buildings. The smallest and highest hamlet, the cottage area Zettersfeld, which included 67 buildings in 2001. Here lived in 2011 seven people.
Topography
The territory of Thurn extends from about 800 m above sea level. A. in the south to the peaks of the Schober group in about 2900 m above sea level. A.. The lowest point of the municipality is doing in that area where the Thurner country road reaches the municipality of Badia in the South. The highest point of the municipality is the Schleinitz with 2904 meters above sea level. A. Other peaks in the municipality the Rotgabele ( 2696 m above sea level. A. ) and the Goisele are ( 2433 m above sea level. A. ). While the northwestern municipality has high alpine character and includes parts of Neualplseen, Thurn has a share of the high level of winter sports area Zettersfeld in the Northeast. The intermediate Pließriegel is mostly wooded, its not used for alpine pastures. The only notable river is the Zauchenbach, which originates below the new Thurner -Alm and the hamlets of Oberndorf and Zauche flows.
Climate
As in Thurn there is no station, lacking precise records of the climate of the community. It is, however, comparable due to the proximity of the settlements to the weather station in the regional capital Lienz with the measured climate data there. The coldest month of the year in Lienz basin of January, the highest temperatures are measured in the summer months of July and August. The highest rainfall also fall in the summer months, the month of October is almost as rainy. Fog occurs rarely in Lienz basin, but are formed in the winter due to temperature inversions mighty cold air lakes.
History
1308 Thurn is first mentioned. It had two castle sites: the elder was on the " Schlößlbichl ", a knoll in Großbachtale, and may have been a defensive and residential tower, the village of Thurn - so the old spelling for tower - has been given the name. The younger conditioning - Schloss Thurn - stood east of the St. Nicholas Church in the courtyard Mußhauser, a manor, we know nothing about its appearance. Probably enclosed a fish pond which contained from the Großbachtal the water, the semi-circular castle. The Pond Wall is still partly preserved. The Austragsgebäude of Mußhauserhofes stands on old walls that could come from Schloss Thurn.
1938 Thurn lost its independence and was united with Gaimberg the new community Graf village. 1949 was again a separate municipality
Different field names have still retains the former Slavic population through: Lampitze, Fran Czech, Ondelt, Prappernitze.
Coat of arms
The Thurner Coat of Arms was granted to the community on April 19, 1956, the Provincial Government of Tyrol. The blazon is: " A split plate, at right, a silver field a red gezinnter tower, on the left, green field two golden ears and at the lower end of a closed book with 3 apples of gold. " The representation of the tower has the eponymous, as the "tower " called out fortification, while the three balls and the book point to green ground as additional motif of St. Nicholas parish on whose patronage. The flanking ears reminiscent of the former importance of agriculture and the important cereal crops in the Lienz basin.
Population
Population structure
2012 lived 620 people in the community Thurn. End of 2001, 98.6 % of the population Austrian citizens (Tirol: 90.6 % ) until the beginning of 2012 the value dropped to 97.1 % insignificant. (Tirol: 83.4 %) to the Roman Catholic Church in 2001, 95.0 % of the population known, 13 people had no religious confession, six were Protestant.
The average age of the municipality 's population in 2001 was well below the national average. 22.1 % of residents of Thurn were younger than 15 years ( Tirol: 18.4%), 61.7 % from 15 to 59 years old (Tirol: 63.0 %). The percentage of residents over 59 stood at 16.2 %, slightly below the national average of 18.6 %. The average age of the population of Thurn subsequently rose sharply. The proportion of under-15s fell by 1 January 2012 to 13.9 %, while the proportion of people aged between 15 and 59 years increased to 66.3 %. The proportion of 59- year rose to 19.8%. Marital status in 2001 48.7 % of the inhabitants of Thurn were single, 45.0 % married, widowed, 4.7% divorced and 1.6%.
Demographics
The development of the population of the municipality of Thurn was in the late 19th century and early 20th century, far below the average population growth in the district of Lienz and the Federal State of Tyrol. Rather Thurn suffered until 1923 under a shrinking process in which the community 1869-1923 lost 18 % of its inhabitants and 243 inhabitants had previously less populated. Only after that this trend was reversed and Thurn again increased population growth. However, this was below the district average, so that the community needed by 1961 to achieve the total population of 1869. Only then, the growth increased considerably, with Thurn benefited from a strong surplus of births and consequently stronger than the district average grew. Was the birth rate 1971-2001 in every decade strongly positive, the community recorded in the 1970s, virtually no emigration. In the 1980s there was a small exodus in the 1990s, even a hike plus. This has seen the end of 2002 with 642 inhabitants, their previous population high of the church year. Last registered the church 2003-2012 in seven out of ten years, a hike minus that could not be offset by the slight excess of births. This Thurn lost residents.
Economy
Economically, the city has an emphasis in tourism and despite its small size two accommodation establishments. Numerous apartments and private rooms are also offered. Thurn was a mining area, the silver- bearing rock delivered to the brass hut in Lienz. Whether copper or even gold was mined in the area of Neualplseen - Schleinitz has not been established. The names of the Grußen to " St. Johann whether the tower " and the " Holy Trinity " are occupied. Several extant exploratory in Thurner mountain range 5 to 10 m into the rock.
Workplaces and employees
The study conducted as part of the Census Census of 2001 resulted in Thurn 23 workplaces with 64 employees (excluding agriculture ), where 72 % were salaried employees. The number of workplaces showed a rise compared to 1991 by 15 companies ( plus 188 %), increased the number of employees by 48 people (300 %). The most important industry was 2001, the hotel and restaurant industry with seven companies and 23 employees ( 36 % of employees in Thurn ). He was followed by the other community, social and personal service with three workplaces and twelve employees. In addition to tourism establishments are made in Thurn only small commercial and industrial establishments.
Of the 2010 people living in 329 Thurn labor force 3.0% were unemployed. Of the 319 workers, 51 in the manufacturing sector (16%), 41 in administration ( 13%) and 37 in trade ( 12%) worked. Other important industries were the construction industry with 34 employees ( 11%), agriculture and forestry, with 30 employees (33%) and the area of education and teaching with 29 employees ( 9% each ). Of the 315 workers from Thurn (without temporarily employed persons absent from work population ) in 2010 were only 58 people in Thurn to their employment. 257 people or 82 % of the workforce had to commute to work. Of the commuters had 58% of their place of work in Lienz, another 14 % worked in another municipality in the district of Lienz. A further 16 % and 12 % commuted to North Tyrol or in another state, none of the residents had to commute abroad. In turn, worked in 2010 only 26 commuters in Thurn, who came to 88% of the district.
Tourism
Tourism has for the community Thurn especially during the winter season, an important meaning. Tourism intensity ( overnight stays per population) reaching Winter 2011 here in the winter, higher by around 76 % value as the district average, in the summer of 2012, the community was at least still a tourism intensity, which was slightly above the county average. In comparison, however, were numerous Osttiroler communities with respect to their number of overnight stays and tourism intensity before Thurn. Thurn was around 33,000 overnight stays include tourism year 2011/12. In the summer of 2012 Thurn recorded 18,864 nights in the winter half year 2011/12 14.051 overnight stays. While the church thereby achieved an increase of 12 % compared to the turn of the millennium in the summer season, they lost in the winter season, 18 % of their overnight stays.
In Thurn only, there is also a hotel, but a number of private landlords. Important tourist attraction is the winter sports area Zettersfeld. The community markets itself with neighboring communities Gaimberg and Oberlienz under the brand " sun village " where the community like all communities belonging to the East Tyrol East Tyrol Tourist Board. Thurn is organized into the " holiday region Lienz Dolomites ".
Transport and Infrastructure
The territory of Thurn is traffic- Thurner from the road (L 321) developed, which leads in Thurn coming over Patriasdorf from Lienz to branch church. From the village of Thurn subsequently lead roads to Zauche or Lampitze, an additional connection runs via Oberndorf and Prappernitze on the Zettersfeld. Furthermore, lead by Prappernitze from different mountainous forest roads in the alpine areas of the community. To the national public transport network Thurn is connected ( on behalf of the Post AG ), which is led by the Lienz station to station Thurn Rottmann by the bus line 3 from Bundschuh travel. On Lienz train station, there is also the most obvious connection to the rail network ( Drau Valley Railway ).
With the neighboring communities of the Lienz basin itself Thurn has to come together " Abwasserverband Lienz valley " where the wastewater association operates in Dölsacheine treatment plant. 2002 98% of the wastewater producing objects were connected to the local sewage system or sewage treatment plant in Thurn. Only single objects possessed no sewer connection. The waste produced in the community, is disposed of in the Waste Management Association East Tyrol ( AWVO ).
Safety and health
The volunteer fire department Thurn was founded in 1928 and maintains in Oberndorf a fire station with a small fire truck and a fire truck. The FF Thurn has an active strength of around 30 men. Regarding the health Thurn is organized jointly with the Lienz Lienz Sozialsprengel Thurn. In Health Care Ward for example health services such as nursing assistance, home and home help and meals are organized on wheels. The next practitioner is located as well as the nearest hospital in Lienz. The nearest police station is based in the district capital.
Culture and sights
Policy
Mayor of Thurn since March 2004, Reinhold Kollnig.
Pictures
Summer in Thurn
Elementary school
Village