Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg

Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg

Coat of arms
Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg

Location within Austria

Coordinates: 47°06′36″N 14°03′00″E / 47.11000°N 14.05000°E / 47.11000; 14.05000Coordinates: 47°06′36″N 14°03′00″E / 47.11000°N 14.05000°E / 47.11000; 14.05000
Country Austria
State Styria
District Murau
Government
 • Mayor Cäcilia Spreitzer (ÖVP)
Area
 • Total 111.78 km2 (43.16 sq mi)
Elevation 864 m (2,835 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)[1]
 • Total 1,806
 • Density 16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal codes 8850, 8861, 8862
Area codes 03537, 03534
Website www.st-georgen-kreischberg.gv.at/

Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg is since 2015 a municipality in Murau District in Styria, Austria. It was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,[2] out of the former independent towns Sankt Georgen ob Murau und Sankt Ruprecht-Falkendorf. The town church after the changes, which began in November 2013, had continued the name "Sankt Georgen ob Murau", which was corrected through an amendment in April 2014.[3]

Geography

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following six sections or like-named Katastralgemeinden (population and area: as of 1 Jan 2015[4][5]):

Tourismusverband

The municipality formed, together with Ranten and Murau, the tourism agency "Murau-Kreischberg“. The base is the town of Murau.[6]

Wappen

By way of the town merger, the town crests of the fused towns, on 1 Jan 2015, were officially retired. Die Neuverleihung of the crest of Sankt Georgen ob Murau was adopted on 10 February 2015.[7]
The blason (crest description) states:

Growing in a red shield, the silver and nimbowed Saint George, with his right hand on a silver lance thrust into the throat of the red, flame-spewing, winged, silver-toothed dragonhead growing before him from the lower edge of the shield.“

Culture and sights

Carnival Race

The so-called "Faschingsrennen" race takes place in the two-year cycle on Rosenmontag, which in many places of the district is part of the custom. There are several groups in the entire municipality. At the dawn of the morning, the train, accompanied by drummers, breaks open. At the top is the "Wegauskehrer", which is to symbolize the railway. Only the strongest men can take this role, because everyone can get in his way. If the player is defeated in battle, the carnival race is over. Then there are different characters, such as the "hay rattling" (hen's rifle) in the spring gallows, which steals and sells chickens and eggs on the farms. The "Schellfaschinge" wear short leather pants with white long underpants underneath, a white shirt and a wreath (bell) around the waist and a colorful pointed cap on the head. They run in front of each house a "Kranzl" (in a circle). They, the so-called "fair", are followed by the group of "Vetteln", that is, figures offering or begging their services for money: physician, scissors grinder, cheap Jakob (peddler), Rosshändler with horse, bridal couple, unmarried mother with child and beggars.

After a long and strenuous day, there is the meeting of the groups in the village. Evenings are celebrated at the "Schinderhochzeit" (masked ball).

The implementing organizations are the volunteer fire brigade and the music association of the town, which also benefits the revenues. The carnival race counts for Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO.

References

  1. ↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg.
  2. ↑ Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform
  3. ↑ Kundmachung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung vom 24. Oktober 2013 über die Vereinigung der Gemeinden Sankt Georgen ob Murau und St. Ruprecht-Falkendorf, beide politischer Bezirk Murau. Steiermärkisches Landesgesetzblatt of 15 November 2013. Nr. 128, 32. Stück. ZDB-ID 705127-x. p. 634, in der Fassung der Änderung (Namenszusatz „am Kreischberg“ statt „ob Murau“) durch die Kundmachung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung vom 27. März 2014, mit der die Kundmachung über die Vereinigung der Gemeinden Sankt Georgen ob Murau und St. Ruprecht-Falkendorf, beide politischer Bezirk Murau, geändert wird, Steiermärkisches Landesgesetzblatt of 11 April 2014. Nr. 40. p. 1.
  4. ↑ Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung am 1.1.2015 nach Ortschaften
  5. ↑ Katastralgemeinden Stmk. 2015 (Excel-Datei, 128 KB); abgerufen am 29. Juli 2015
  6. ↑ Grazer Zeitung, "Amtsblatt für die Steiermark". 30 Dec 2014, 210. Jahrgang, 52. Stück. Nr. 310. ZDB-ID 1291268-2 p. 627.
  7. ↑ 16. Verlautbarung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung vom 28. Jänner 2016 über die Verleihung des Rechtes zur Führung eines Gemeindewappens an die Gemeinde Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg (politischer Bezirk Murau), abgerufen am 12. Februar 2016
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