Wolfsberg, Austria
Wolfsberg () is a town in Carinthia, Austria, the capital of Wolfsberg District. Geography The town is situated within the Lavanttal Alps, west of the Koralpe range in the valley of the Lavant River, a left tributary of the Drava. In the northeast, the road up to the Packsattel mountain pass connects Wolfsberg with Voitsberg in Styria. Wolfsberg's municipal area of is the fourth largest in Austria. The municipality comprises 40 cadastral communities (Surface area in hectares 31. Dezember 2019): The municipal area is divided into 65 villages (population in brackets as of 1 January 2020): History The area of Wolfsberg belonged to the estates within the medieval Duchy of Carinthia that were ceded to the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg, probably already by Emperor Henry II in 1007. The castle above the town was first mentioned as ''Wolfsperch'' in an 1178 deed of St. Paul's Abbey in the Lavanttal. The adjacent settlement became the administrative centre of Bamberg's Carinthia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Municipality (Austria)
In the Republic of Austria, the municipality (, sometimes also ) is the administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or city. The municipality has municipal corporation, corporate status and local self-government on the basis of parliamentary democracy, parliamentary-style representative democracy: a municipal council () elected through a form of party-list proportional representation, party-list system enacts municipal laws, a municipal executive board () and a mayor (, grammatical gender, fem. ) appointed by the council are in charge of municipal administration. Austria is currently (January 1, 2020) partitioned into 2,095 municipalities, ranging in population from about fifty (the village of Gramais in Tyrol (state), Tyrol) to almost two million (the city of Vienna). There is no unincorporated area, unincorporated territory in Austria. Basics The existence of municipalities and their role as carriers of the right to self-administration are guaranteed by the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Lavant (river)
The Lavant () is a river in the Austrian state of Carinthia, a left tributary of the Drava. It lends its name to the ''Lavanttal'' valley as well as to the Lavanttal Alps. The river originates in the small Lake Lavant (''Lavantsee'') at the southern slope of the Zirbitzkogel mountain in Styria, at a height of . It then runs southeastwards and after reaches the border with Carinthia. The river flows down the ''Lavanttal'' valley with the towns of Bad Sankt Leonhard, Wolfsberg and Sankt Andrä, until it reaches the Drava shortly before the border to Slovenia. Its drainage basin is . The water quality has been affected by large-scale river regulations between the 1930s and 1980s. Most parts of the Lavant belong to the trout zone, while the lowest sections are characterised by barbels. The name ''Lavant'' stems from the Pre-Celtic period, meaning "shining river" in Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the northern Indian subcontinent ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Lutheranism
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched the Reformation in 1517. The Lutheran Churches adhere to the Bible and the Ecumenical Creeds, with Lutheran doctrine being explicated in the Book of Concord. Lutherans hold themselves to be in continuity with the apostolic church and affirm the writings of the Church Fathers and the first four ecumenical councils. The schism between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, which was formalized in the Diet of Worms, Edict of Worms of 1521, centered around two points: the proper source of s:Augsburg Confession#Article XXVIII: Of Ecclesiastical Power., authority in the church, often called the formal principle of the Reformation, and the doctrine of s:Augsburg Confession#Article IV: Of Justification., justification, the material principle of Luther ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Protestant Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a time of major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the beginning of Protestantism. It is considered one of the events that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Europe. The Reformation is usually dated from Martin Luther's publication of the '' Ninety-five Theses'' in 1517, which gave birth to Lutheranism. Prior to Martin Luther and other Protestant Reformers, there were earlier reform movements within Western Christianity. The end of the Reformation era is disputed among modern scholars. In general, the Reformers argued that justification was based on faith in Jesus alone and not both faith and good works, as in the Catholic view. In the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Town Privileges
Town privileges or borough rights were important features of European towns during most of the second millennium. The city law customary in Central Europe probably dates back to Italian models, which in turn were oriented towards the traditions of the self-administration of Roman cities. Judicially, a borough (or burgh) was distinguished from the countryside by means of a charter from the ruling monarch that defined its privileges and laws. Common privileges involved trade (marketplace, the storing of goods, etc.) and the establishment of guilds. Some of these privileges were permanent and could imply that the town obtained the right to be called a borough, hence the term "borough rights" (; ). Some degree of self-government, representation by diet, and tax-relief could also be granted. Multiple tiers existed; for example, in Sweden, the basic royal charter establishing a borough enabled trade, but not foreign trade, which required a higher-tier charter granting staple ri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry II (; ; ; 6 May 973 – 13 July 1024 AD), also known as Saint Henry, Order of Saint Benedict, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor ("Romanorum Imperator") from 1014. He died without an heir in 1024, and was the last ruler of the Ottonian dynasty, Ottonian line. As Duke of Bavaria, appointed in 995, Henry became King of the Romans ("Rex Romanorum") following the sudden death of his second cousin, Emperor Otto III in 1002, was made King of Italy ("Rex Italiae") in 1004, and crowned emperor by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014. The son of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria, and his wife Gisela of Burgundy, Emperor Henry II was a great-grandson of German king Henry the Fowler and a member of the Bavarian branch of the Ottonian dynasty. Since his father had rebelled against two previous emperors, the younger Henry spent long periods of time in exile, where he turned to Christianity at an early age, first finding refuge with the Bishop of Freising and later during his education at the Hildesheim ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Prince-Bishopric Of Bamberg
The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg () was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire. It goes back to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bamberg, Roman Catholic Diocese of Bamberg established at the 1007 synod in Frankfurt, at the behest of King Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor, Henry II to further expand the spread of Christianity in the Duchy of Franconia, Franconian lands. The bishops obtained the status of Imperial immediacy about 1245 and ruled their estates as Prince-bishops until they were subsumed to the Electorate of Bavaria in the course of the German Mediatisation in 1802. States and territories disestablished in 1802 State The Bishops of Bamberg received the Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, princely title by Emperor Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II of Hohenstaufen before his deposition by Pope Innocent IV in 1245, whereby the diocese became an Imperial state, covering large parts of the current Bavarian region of Franconia (region), Franconia ("Main Fra ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Duchy Of Carinthia
The Duchy of Carinthia (; ; ) was a duchy located in southern Austria and parts of northern Slovenia. It was separated from the Duchy of Bavaria in 976, and was the first newly created Imperial State after the original German stem duchies. Carinthia remained a State of the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806, though from 1335 it was ruled within the Austrian dominions of the Habsburg dynasty. A constituent part of the Habsburg monarchy and of the Austrian Empire, it remained a Cisleithanian crown land of Austria-Hungary until 1918. By the 1920 Carinthian plebiscite in October 1920, the main area of the duchy formed the Austrian state of Carinthia. History In the seventh century the area was part of the Slavic principality of Carantania, which fell under the suzerainty of Duke Odilo of Bavaria in about 743. The Bavarian stem duchy was incorporated into the Carolingian Empire when Charlemagne deposed Odilo's son Duke Tassilo III in 788. In the 843 partition b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Wolfsberg - Schloss
Wolfsberg may refer to: Places *Wolfsberg, Carinthia, a district capital in Carinthia, Austria ** Wolfsberg Airport, a private use airport located near Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria ** Wolfsberg Castle (Carinthia), in Wolfsberg, Carinthia * Wolfsberg Castle (Harz), a ruined castle in the Harz mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany * Wolfsberg Castle (Obertrubach), a ruined castle in Obertrubach, in Franconian Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany *Wolfsberg (district), a district of Carinthia, Austria *Wolfsberg im Schwarzautal, a municipality in Styria, Austria *Wolfsberg (Eggenfelden), a district of Eggenfelden, Bavaria, Germany *Wolfsberg (Sangerhausen), a district of Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany *Wolfsberg, Thuringia, a former municipality, today part of Ilmenau, in the district Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany *''Wolfsberg'', the German name for Gărâna village, Brebu Nou Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania Hills * Wolfsberg (Calenberg Land), a hill in Lower Saxony, Germany ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Cadastral Community
A cadastral community (or cadastre community, cadastral r cadastremunicipality, cadastral r cadastrecommune,Problémy s překladem termínu „katastrální území“ do angličtiny. in: Geodetický a kartografický Obzor. Český úřad zeměměřický a katastrální, Úrad geodézie, kartografie a katastra Slovenskej republiky. 3, March 2015. p. 66, 67 cadastral r cadastreunit, cadastral r cadastredistrict, cadastral r cadastrearea, cadastral r cadastreterritory) is a cadastral subdivision of municipalities in the nations of Austria,Cadastral Template for Austria, web-pageCT-AT Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Netherlands, and the Italian provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, Gorizia and Trieste. A cadastral community records property ownership in a cadastre, which is a register describing property ownership by boundary lines of the real estate. The common etymology in the Central European successor states of the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Wolfsberg Markuskirche
Wolfsberg may refer to: Places *Wolfsberg, Carinthia, a district capital in Carinthia, Austria ** Wolfsberg Airport, a private use airport located near Wolfsberg, Carinthia, Austria ** Wolfsberg Castle (Carinthia), in Wolfsberg, Carinthia * Wolfsberg Castle (Harz), a ruined castle in the Harz mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany * Wolfsberg Castle (Obertrubach), a ruined castle in Obertrubach, in Franconian Switzerland, Bavaria, Germany * Wolfsberg (district), a district of Carinthia, Austria * Wolfsberg im Schwarzautal, a municipality in Styria, Austria * Wolfsberg (Eggenfelden), a district of Eggenfelden, Bavaria, Germany * Wolfsberg (Sangerhausen), a district of Sangerhausen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany * Wolfsberg, Thuringia, a former municipality, today part of Ilmenau, in the district Ilm-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany *''Wolfsberg'', the German name for Gărâna village, Brebu Nou Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania Hills * Wolfsberg (Calenberg Land), a hill in Lower Saxon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
|
Styria
Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and clockwise, from the southwest, by the other Austrian states of Carinthia, Salzburg (federal state), Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Burgenland. The state's capital is Graz, the second largest city in Austria after only Vienna. Name The March of Styria derived its name from the original seat of its ruling Otakars, Otakar dynasty: Steyr, in today's Upper Austria, which in turn derives its name from the namesake river of Steyr, stemming from the Celtic Stiria. In the native German the area is still called "Steiermark", while in English the Latin name "Styria" is used. Until the late 19th century however, the German name "Steyer", a slightly modernized spelling of Steyr, was also common. The ancient link between the city of Steyr and S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |