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19-452: The municipality consists of the twelve Katastralgemeinden Aich ( Dob ), Bleiburg, Grablach ( Grablje ), Kömmel ( Komelj ), Moos ( Blato ), Oberloibach ( Libuče ), Rinkenberg ( Vogrče ), Sankt Margarethen ( Šmarjeta ), Schattenberg ( Senčni kraj ), Unterloibach ( Libuče ), Weißenstein ( Belšak ) and Woroujach ( Borovje ). According to a 2001 census, 30.4% of the population are Carinthian Slovenes (in 1971, they were 52.8%). The border town

38-593: Is a cadastral subdivision of municipalities in the nations of Austria , 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

57-664: Is located in the valley of the Feistritz creek, a right tributary of the Drava , north of the Peca massif of the Karavanke mountain range. It is home to a district court , military barracks and to the local productive and services industry. The name of Bleiburg, literally meaning 'Lead Castle', can be attributed to the lead mining operations in the Peca mountain. The area was part of

76-621: Is today Hungary , the concept and term ( Hungarian : kataszteri község ) existed only in the past. In 1764, at the behest of Empress Maria Theresa , a complete survey of the Habsburg lands was begun, initiated by the general staff of the Imperial and Royal Army under Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun , who had become aware of the lack of reliable maps in the Seven Years' War . Maria Theresa's son Emperor Joseph II ordered

95-520: The 1848 revolutions . Most of the nowadays Katastralgemeinden once had been independent communes and were incorporated on the occasion of a municipal territory reforms. They can be further divided into smaller villages and localities ( Ortschaften ). There were 7,847 Katastralgemeinden in Austria in 2014. For land registration, the unit identifier used in a Katastralgemeinde is "KG-Nr" (KG-Nummer, or number). The Dutch system of kadastrale gemeenten

114-609: The Liupicdorf estate in the Duchy of Carinthia , which about 1000 Bishop Albuin I of Brixen dedicated to his brother Count Aribo . The oldest surviving document mentioning the town as castrum et forum Pliburch is dated to 1228. The comital estates of Bleiburg Castle were seized by the Habsburg dukes Albert III and Leopold III in 1369, the settlement received town privileges the next year. On 16 March 1393 Duke Albert granted

133-480: The real estate . The common etymology in the Central European successor states of the Habsburg monarchy comes from German : Katastralgemeinde (KG; literally "cadastral municipality" or "cadastral community"), plural: Katastralgemeinden , translated as Italian : comune censuario or comune catastale , Slovene : katastralna občina , Croatian : katastarska općina . In Czech and Slovak,

152-669: The Carinthian Regional Prosecution started a legal procedure against Governor Haider and his deputy Gerhard Dörfler for official misconduct in the case of the Bleiburg place sign. Investigations were scrapped after the governor had died in a traffic accident on 11 October 2008. Upon another verdict by the Constitutional Court on 9 July 2010, proper bilingual signs were finally erected at the behest of Haider's successor Gerhard Dörfler. Seats in

171-547: The citizens the right to hold the annual Wiesenmarkt ('meadow market') fair, which has taken place on 1 September every year up to today at least since 1428. In 1601 the castle was ceded to the Thurn-Valsassina comital family, who had it rebuilt in its present Renaissance style and still owns it today, together with the nearby Castle Hagenegg in Eisenkappel-Vellach . Between 1918 and 1920, Bleiburg

190-472: The constituency of Bleiburg, however, a slim majority of the population (51%) cast its vote for Yugoslavia. In the territory of the present-day municipality of Bleiburg, 59.8% of the voters chose Yugoslavia over Austria. On 15 May 1945, the Independent State of Croatia capitulated to the victorious Yugoslav Army in Bleiburg. It was the initial location of a series of extrajudicial executions, in

209-687: The course of which Partisans killed thousands of Croatian Home Guard and Ustaše , Slovene Home Guard and Serbian Chetnik troops, who had surrendered to the British forces in Allied-occupied Austria and been repatriated in Operation Keelhaul . Bleiburg/Pliberk became famous in Austrian and Slovenian media in the years 2005 and 2007, due to a long controversy over the erection of a bilingual place name. The controversy

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228-741: The erection of a bilingual sign in accordance to the decision of the Court. Nevertheless Governor Jörg Haider refused to carry out the ordinance, further fanning the controversy's flames. In August of the same year, Haider personally added a small plaque with the Slovene name of the town ( Pliberk ) under the German one. In December 2006, the Austrian Constitutional Court declared such action illegal, reiterating its decision that proper bilingual signs should be erected. In February 2007,

247-554: The historical name ( Czech : katastrální obec , Slovak : katastrálna obec , literally "cadastral municipality/community") was changed to Czech : katastrální území and Slovak : katastrálne územie (literally "cadastral area" or "cadastral territory") in 1928 and today, on official websites, it is usually translated to English by the (misleading) terms "cadastral unit" in Czechia and "cadastral district" in Slovakia. In what

266-765: The implication of a complete urbarium for property tax purposes in 1785. The present-day cadastre was completed after the Napoleonic Wars from 1817 onwards under Emperor Francis I of Austria ( Franziszeischer Kataster ). Since then, the Austrian (i.e. Cisleithanian ) crown lands were subdivided in Katastralgemeinden ; surveying in the Hungarian (Transleithanian) lands started in 1850. Municipalities as administrative subdivisions with certain rights of self-governance were not established until after

285-431: The municipal council (elections as of 2003): The mayor of Bleiburg is Stefan Visotschnig from SPÖ. Katastralgemeinde A cadastral community (or cadastre community , cadastral [or cadastre ] municipality , cadastral [or cadastre ] commune , cadastral [or cadastre ] unit , cadastral [or cadastre ] district , cadastral [or cadastre ] area , cadastral [or cadastre ] territory )

304-664: Was occupied by Yugoslav troops. In spite of the overwhelming Slovene majority in the area, the town remained in Austria after the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire along national/ethnic lines after the end of World War I . In the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920, in fact, the inhabitants of southern Carinthia rejected the proposal to unite with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (the later Yugoslavia), and chose to remain in Austria. In

323-625: Was part of a decade-long Carinthian "place sign struggle" ( Ortstafelstreit , Slovene : Boj za postavljanje dvojezičnih napisov ) between representatives of the Carinthian Slovenes and right-wing politicians of the German-speaking mainstream society. In December 2005, the Constitutional Court of Austria ruled that the topographic sign at the entrance to the town of Bleiburg was unconstitutional, since it

342-504: Was set up around 1830. When municipalities are merged, often the cadastral communes remain as they were, so one civil municipality can consist of more than one cadastral commune; but again, a cadastral commune can never be part of more than one civil municipality. Gerhard D%C3%B6rfler Gerhard Dörfler (born 29 May 1955) is an Austrian politician , who served as Governor of Carinthia from 27 October 2008 (acting since 11 October), following Governor Jörg Haider 's sudden death in

361-546: Was written only in German, and ordered the erection of a bilingual, German-Slovene sign. In February 2006, the Carinthian governor Jörg Haider made a great stir by personally moving the German sign for a few meters, hoping to create a new legal situation that would require a new decision of the Constitutional Court. However, already in March 2006, the district commissioner of Völkermarkt issued an official ordinance, enforcing

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