Deutsch-Griffen

Deutsch-Griffen
Deutsch-Griffen
	St. Jacob Church
	; Coat of arms
	Deutsch-Griffen Location within Austria
	Coordinates: 46°51′N14°4′E / 46.850°N 14.067°E Coordinates: 46°51′N14°4′E / 46.850°N 14.067°E
Country	Austria
State	Carinthia
District	Sankt Veit an der Glan
Government
• Mayor	Michael Reiner (FPÖ)
Area [1]
• Total	71.44 km2 (27.58 sq mi)
Elevation	847 m (2,779 ft)
Population (2018-01-01) [2]
• Total	908
• Density	13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	9572
Area code	+43 (0) 4279
Website	www.deutsch-griffen.at

Last updated March 27, 2019

Deutsch-Griffen (Slovene : Slovenj Grebinj) is a municipality in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in Austrian state of Carinthia.

Slovene or Slovenian belongs to the group of South Slavic languages. It is spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 2.1 million Slovenian people and is one of the 24 official and working languages of the European Union.

The District of Sankt Veit an der Glan is an administrative district in Carinthia, Austria.

Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in Central Europe comprising 9 federated states. Its capital, largest city and one of nine states is Vienna. Austria has an area of 83,879 km² (32,386 sq mi), a population of nearly 9 million people and a nominal GDP of $477 billion. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Hungary and Slovakia to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The terrain is highly mountainous, lying within the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 m (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 m (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speaks local Bavarian dialects as their native language, and German in its standard form is the country's official language. Other regional languages are Hungarian, Burgenland Croatian, and Slovene.

Geography

Deutsch-Griffen lies in the north of Carinthia, about 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of the state capital Klagenfurt. It is situated in the eastern Nock Mountains, in a left tributary valley of the Gurk River on the Griffnerbach creek. The municipal area extends from the Gurk up to the Styrian border in the north. On the northern edge, there is a sparsely populated area along the Paalbach, which is cut off from the rest of the municipality and can only be reached in a very roundabout way. Therefore, it is locally considered to belong to the Flattnitz plateau, part of the neighbouring municipality of Glödnitz. In the west, Deutsch-Griffen borders on Albeck in the Feldkirchen District.

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee is the capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria. With a population of 100,772, it is the sixth-largest city in the country. The city is the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and home to the University of Klagenfurt.

The Nock Mountains are the westernmost and highest mountain range of the Gurktal Alps in Austria, spread over parts of the federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg and Styria. Their appearance is characterised by numerous dome-like and grass-covered summits (Nocken). Their highest peak is the Eisenhut in Styria which reaches an elevation of 2,441 m (8,009 ft) AA.

The Gurk is a river in the Austrian state of Carinthia, a left tributary of the Drava. With a length of 156 km (97 mi), it is the longest river running entirely within Carinthia. The river basin covers about 27% of the state's territory.

The municipal area comprises the only cadastral community Deutsch-Griffen made up of 25 villages and hamlets.

A cadastral community or cadastral municipality, is a cadastral subdivision of municipalities in the nations of Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, the Italian provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, Gorizia and Trieste, Slovenia, and the Netherlands. A cadastral community records property ownership in a cadastre, which is a register describing property ownership by boundary lines of the real estate.

History

A locality in the March of Carinthia named Grivinne was already mentioned in a 927 deed. In 1043 Countess Hemma of Gurk donated a chapel at the site, the present-day St. Jacob parish church which passed to the Diocese of Gurk in 1157. The Romanesque structure was rebuilt as a fortified church in the 15th century, when it served as a refuge for the villagers during the Ottoman Wars.

The March of Carinthia was a frontier district (march) of the Carolingian Empire created in 889. Before it was a march, it had been a principality or duchy ruled by native-born Slavic princes at first independently and then under Bavarian and subsequently Frankish suzerainty. The realm was divided into counties which, after the succession of the Carinthian duke to the East Frankish throne, were united in the hands of a single authority as a march of defence against the Slavs of Pannonian Croatia. When the march of Carinthia was raised into a Duchy in 976, a new Carinthian march was created. It became the later March of Styria.

Hemma of Gurk, also called Emma of Gurk, was a noblewoman and founder of several churches and monasteries in the Duchy of Carinthia. Buried at Gurk Cathedral since 1174, she was beatified on 21 November 1287 and canonised on 5 January 1938 by Pope Pius XI. Her feast day is 27 June. Hemma is venerated as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, and as patroness of the current Austrian state of Carinthia.

James, son of Zebedee was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, traditionally considered the first apostle to be martyred.

The present-day municipality emerged in 1850. it was later called Deutsch-Griffen to distinguish it from Griffen in Völkermarkt District. In a 1973 administrative reform it was merged into a large municipality with neighbouring Glödnitz and Weitensfeld but regained its independency after a local referendum in 1991.

Griffen is a market town in the district of Völkermarkt in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Völkermarkt District district in Austria

Völkermarkt District is an administrative district in the Austrian State of Carinthia.

Weitensfeld im Gurktal is a market town in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan in the Austrian state of Carinthia.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2015 local elections:

Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 7
Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 3
Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 1

The Freedom Party of Austria is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party in Austria. The party, led by Heinz-Christian Strache, is a member of the Europe of Nations and Freedom group in the European Parliament, as well as of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom.

The Austrian People's Party is a Christian-democratic and conservative political party in Austria. A successor to the Christian Social Party of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was founded immediately following the reestablishment of the Republic of Austria in 1945 and since then has been one of the two largest Austrian political parties with the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In federal governance, the ÖVP has spent most of the postwar era in a grand coalition with the SPÖ. Most recently, it has been junior partner in a coalition government with the SPÖ since 2007. However, the ÖVP won the 2017 election, having the greatest number of seats and formed a coalition with the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Its chairman Sebastian Kurz is the youngest Chancellor in Austrian history.

The Social Democratic Party of Austria is a social-democratic political party in Austria and alongside with the People's Party one of the country's two traditional major parties.

Twin town

Deutsch-Griffen is twinned with:

Utenbach, part of Apolda, Germany, since 1993

References

↑ "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
↑ "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

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[wikidata-f3373d889b3e667af72d1979ec2c3615f4e35537-v3-1] "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.

[wikidata-e49e74cba12ebc857db3ff1e3141c6ab850aaa31-v3-2] "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.