Vorau
Vorau with 1367 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) is a market town in Styria ( Austria ). From 1 January 2015 it has joined forces framework of the Styrian municipality structural reform with the communities Puchegg, Riegersberg, Schachen at Vorau Vornholz, the new community will continue to use the name " Vorau ". Vorau is known by the Augustinian Canons Vorau with its famous for its ancient manuscripts library.
- 4.1 Erdställe in the region Vorau
Geography
The municipality is located in the judicial district Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg - Fürstenfeld.
Community structure
Vorau (4.72 km ²)
Vorau (M)
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 locality code)
The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT
It should be noted that some locations may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.
Source: Statistics Austria -
Vorau consists of a single, same cadastral or village.
History
Documented Vorau is mentioned in 1149 for the first time. 1163 it is founded in the pen Vorau by Margrave Ottokar III. , Which is crucial for the further development of the town.
Infrastructure
Today, there are Vorau an elementary school, a new middle school, a polytechnic course and an agricultural college for health and nutrition (in cooperation with St. Martin).
Furthermore, very important for the region is the Marienkrankenhaus Vorau, on the one hand as an employer, but also for medical care. The main contributing factors, two general practitioners, a dentist and the Augustinus- pharmacy in the village.
Culture and sights
In addition to the five churches that exist in Vorau, is the open-air museum " museum village Vorau " another tourist attraction.
Open-air museum Vorau - Open Shed
Open-air museum Vorau - classroom of a local school
Erdställe in the region Vorau
A Erdstall is a man-made underground, not brick-lined duct system. Around the region Vorau, such a set, complex system of Erdställen whose purpose is not fully resolve until today.
Personalities
- Sigi Bergmann ( born 1938 ), journalist and Boxkommentator
- Ferdinand field Hofer ( * 1979 ), football player
- Norbert Hofer ( * 1971 ), politician ( FPÖ)
- Ottokar core floor ( * 1848, † 1928), poet, priest and Augustinian Canons ( Vorau )
- Reinhold Lopatka (* 1960), politician ( ÖVP)
- Felicitas Pauss ( b. 1951 ), Physicist
- Mario Sonnleitner ( born 1986 ), football player