Dobl-Zwaring is a market town with 3,445 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in
Styria
Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...
, Austria. It lies in the southwest part of
Graz-Umgebung District
Bezirk Graz-Umgebung is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities:
* Deutschfeistritz
* Dobl-Zwaring
* Eggersdorf bei Graz
* Feldkirchen bei Graz
...
.
The municipality was founded as part of the
Styria municipal structural reform
The Styria municipal structural reform (German: ''Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform'') was a local government reform in the Austrian state of Styria, which was made effective January 1, 2015. This reform nearly halved the number of Styrian ...
,
on 31 December 2014, from the dissolved independent municipalities
Dobl und
Zwaring-Pöls.
Geography
Geographic layout
Dobl-Zwaring is located in the southwest part of the
Graz-Umgebung District
Bezirk Graz-Umgebung is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities:
* Deutschfeistritz
* Dobl-Zwaring
* Eggersdorf bei Graz
* Feldkirchen bei Graz
...
, about south of
Graz
Graz (; sl, Gradec) is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria and second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of 1 January 2021, it had a population of 331,562 (294,236 of whom had principal-residence status). In 2018, the popul ...
.
The municipality crosses the
Kainach river, a branch of the
Mur. The area belongs to
Weststeiermark.
Municipality arrangement
The municipality territory includes the following 11 sections (populations as of 1 January 2016) ):
* Dietersdorf (285)
*
Dobl (824)
* Fading (186)
* Lamberg (114)
* Muttendorf (575)
* Petzendorf (87)
* Pöls an der Wieserbahn (174)
* Steindorf (188)
* Weinzettl (401)
* Wuschan (215)
* Zwaring (394)
Dobl-Zwaring consists of eight
Katastralgemeinde
A cadastral community or cadastral municipality, is a Cadastre, cadastral subdivision of Municipality, municipalities in the nations of Austria,Cadastral Template for Austria, web-pageCT-AT Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Ser ...
n (areas as of 2015):
* Dietersdorf ()
* Dobl ()
* Lamberg ()
* Muttendorf (512.14 ha)
* Petzendorf (268.45 ha)
* Pöls (332.41 ha)
* Wuschan (352.58 ha)
* Zwaring ()
Incorporations
The municipalities of Zwaring and Pöls were merged on 1 January 1968. Today's settlement was established on 1 January 2015, by merging the municipalities of Dobl and Zwaring-Pöls.
History
Dobl was first mentioned as a "Tobel" in 1219 by Archbishop
Eberhard II. from Salzburg to Sprengel, the newly established Diocese Seckau likewise. For centuries, the history of Dobl was determined by
Gjaidhof Castle, which was a hunting lodge of
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina (german: Maria Theresia; 13 May 1717 – 29 November 1780) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position ''suo jure'' (in her own right). ...
.
The history of Fading dates back to a settlement in Carolingian times. Its settlement history is examined in detail.
[ Heinrich Purkarthofer: ''Fading im Kainachtal. Zur Problematik und Methode siedlungsgeschichtlicher Forschung im Topographiebezirk Graz-Umgebung.'' In: Gerhard Pferschy: ''Siedlung, Macht und Wirtschaft. Festschrift Fritz Posch zum 70. Geburtstag.'' Veröffentlichungen des steiermärkischen Landesarchives. Volume 12. Graz 1982. no ISBN. p. 23–44.] The name is derived from the prefix "Fadi-" as meaning "man" in the sense of "warrior, hero". Names ending in "-ing" can, if added on the place or person names, in the German language area form evidence for settlements from the 7th to 9th century.
The first municipalities were founded as autonomous corporations in 1850. After the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, the municipalities came to the Reichsgau of Styria. Between 1945 and 1955, they were part of the British occupation zone in Austria. The former municipality of Pöls on the Wieserbahn was acquired on January 1, 1957 from the district of Leibnitz in the Graz-Umgebung District.
The municipalities of Zwaring and Pöls were merged on January 1, 1968, on the proposal of the district management team of Graz-Umgebung. Both municipalities voted for the voluntary merger in October 1967, as they received a higher share of the tax revenues. There was disagreement only when the commune was established. While the congregation Zwaring and the district capital pleaded for name "Zwaring-Pöls", the municipality Pöls voiced for "Pöls-Zwaring" because Pöls was first mentioned in 1244 as the older part of the village, and there "Zwaring-Pöls" alphabetically stood at the end of the municipalities in the Graz-Umgebung District.
Coat of arms
The town crests of the dissolved communities lost their official validity on January 1, 2015.
On 29 October 2015, the municipal council decided to establish the former Dobler coat of arms as the coat of arms of the new market municipality, Dobl-Zwaring. After consultation with the National Archives to create a corresponding template, the Styrian government then awarded, with order of 25 February 2016, the market town the right to use the new municipal coat of arms beginning on 10 March 2016.
The
blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct the appropriate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The vis ...
reads:
: "In a shield divided from silver to green, above a pair of red stag antlers, and below a silver hunting horn on a straight string."
Economy and Infrastructure
Transportation
The main village Dobl is located on the South motorway (A2); the nearest interchanges are Lieboch (194) away and Unterpremstätten (188) . The Pyhrn motorway A9 can be reached via the junction Schachenwald (192), 5 km.
The southern part of the municipality is located off the main road, but is well connected to the regional road network. The Pyhrn motorway A9 can be reached via the interchanges Wundschuh (197) and Wildon (202).
A train station is not available in the municipal area, but the neighboring communities offer access to:
* the Graz-Köflach Railway: in Unterpremstätten and Lieboch, the route Graz-Köflach and in Lieboch and Lannach the route (Graz)-Lieboch-Wies-Eibiswald,
* the southern railway and Koralmbahn: in Kalsdorf and Werndorf.
The Graz Airport is easily accessible from all the districts.
Established businesses
The area includes:
* the substation Kainachtal the Austrian electricity-AG.
* the Service Area Kaiserwald on the motorway A 2.
Culture and sights
Buildings
The Pöls castle was first mentioned in 1244 as Zehenthof the Bishop of Salzburg. At the end of the 16th century, it was converted into a nobleman's seat, which in the later period frequently changed hands. Late 18th century, the castle eventually served as a brewery, which was however already in 1801 again closed. In 1840, the estate was owned by the Saffran family, most recently by Ludwig Freiherr von Saffran until 1855. Estate and castle were Pöls were acquired in 1855 by Friederike, Duchess of Oldenburg, nee Baroness from Washington to her marriage to Maximilian Emanuel von Washington, a relative of the first President of the United States,
George Washington
George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of th ...
. The family commissioned the Viennese architect Moritz Wappler with basic reconstruction works, which were partly trained as "buildings in the Swiss township". A contemporary source of the "poultry barn" ... built according to the most rational principles, provided with eggs, brood and mast rooms, offers room for about 30 breeds of different chickens and pheasants, which lead their spurs to the places with low wire grids The garden side. "There was also a luxury horse stallion in the business area of the castle. The estate comprised of land and several hectares of leased land.
The Pöls Castle became an agricultural model enterprise under the Washington family. Maximilian von Washington was in contemporary literature as "one of the finest authorities of Austria in areas of agriculture and farmers".
: The farm was a model for poultry, fish, pigs and horses, but also for working with agricultural machinery. At his coronation as King of Hungary in 1876 the Austrian Emperor
Franz Joseph I
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...
rode on a stallion from the Pölser stable. Maximilian von Washington organized in 1863 in Pöls the first agricultural exhibition of Styria.
: The complex of the castle park, whose grounds were almost bald on the acquisition in 1855, goes back to Friederike von Oldenburg, which also had exotic plants, such as this tulip tree, laciniate Beech, paulownia and other plants. In later years the focus was on poultry farming; is also documented an extensive consignments of hatching eggs within the framework.
: In the years 1870-71, the manor was for family reasons in economic difficulties, but was able to recover it again, stayed in their possession until the death of Friederike von Washington on 20 March 1891, and then went to her son, George von Washington. On the occasion of his second marriage with Maria Kreuzig on November 24, 1924, George von Washington transferred all his property to his wife (with the exception of small donations to his daughter, Hubert von Hohenpriel). Maria von Washington sold the castle, together with its estate, to the family Freiherren von Allesch in 1928, which still exists today. (H. Roessmann, great-grandson of Maria von Washington).
* A sight to mention is the Dobl transmitter, a medium-wave transmitter from the Second World War. The transmission tower stands as well as the broadcasting center, in which the private radio station Antenne Steiermark had its headquarters, as a historical monument.
Natural monuments
On 23 June 2003 in the park at Pöls, a giant spruce (or grand fir) was uprooted, which in 1856 by King I. Otto of Greece (cousin of Emperor
Franz Joseph I
Franz Joseph I or Francis Joseph I (german: Franz Joseph Karl, hu, Ferenc József Károly, 18 August 1830 – 21 November 1916) was Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and the other states of the Habsburg monarchy from 2 December 1848 until his ...
of Austria - the father of Otto I and the mother of Francis Joseph Were siblings and brother-in-law of Marie Friederike von Washington), was planted together with his wife Amalie (duchess of Oldenburg and sister of Friederike von Washington), on the occasion of his visit to Pöls Castle, and had a height of (H. Rößmann - quoted from the Upper Bavarian Archive, Volume 131).
Holy Rinn
The "Holy Rinn" is a mountain spring in a forest area in the south of the municipality. The water of this source is said to have been given special powers, since in the nineteenth century an almost blind woodsman was beginning to see better with this water by washing his eyes. The site was restored in the years 2001-02 and was consecrated on 14 August 2006 by the minister of Preding.
[''Weststeirische Rundschau'', 82. Jahrgang, Nummer 1, 3. January 2009, p. 10.]
Historical maps
Josephinische Landesaufnahme Mooskirchen Grazer Feld.jpg, The area north of Dobl mit Dobelbad and Dobelzipf in the Josephinischen Landesaufnahme c.1790
Josephinische Landesaufnahme Stainz Wildon.jpg , Village Dobl and Fading as „D(orf) Fordern“; c.1790
Aufnahmeblatt 5255-1.jpg , Dobl north of Kainachtals, Franzisco-Josephinische Landesaufnahme c.1878/79
Wildon und Leibnitz 5255.jpg, The town region in Franzisco-Josephinischen Landesaufnahme c.1910
References
External links
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Cities and towns in Graz-Umgebung District