Dieschitz is an Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n village in the municipality of Velden (Vrba) am Wörthersee

Wörthersee

The Wörthersee is an alpine lake in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia.-General facts:The lake is elongated, about 20 km long and 1–2 km wide. It stretches from the Carinthian capital Klagenfurt in the east to Velden in the west...

, Villach

Villach

Villach is the second largest city in the Carinthia state in the southern Austria, at the Drava River and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 58,480.-History:...

 (Beljak) – district - countryside, federal state or Bundesland Carinthia

Carinthia (state)

Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...

 (German Kärnten, Slovenian Koroška). In this article the Slovenian

Slovenian language

Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic language spoken by approximately 2.5 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia. It is the first language of about 1.85 million people and is one of the 23 official and working languages of the European Union...

 place-names follow the German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 in brackets written in italic.

Geography

Dieschitz (Deščice) is located approximately 5 km to the south of Velden (Vrba) in the eastern part of the meander of Rosegg (Rožek) of the Drau

Drava

Drava or Drave is a river in southern Central Europe, a tributary of the Danube. It sources in Toblach/Dobbiaco, Italy, and flows east through East Tirol and Carinthia in Austria, into Slovenia , and then southeast, passing through Croatia and forming most of the border between Croatia and...

 river (Drava). Dieschitz (Deščice) has two parts: Unterdieschitz = Dieschitz in the strict sense (Deščice) and Oberdieschitz (Močile).

Population

According to the census of 2001 Dieschitz (Deščice) has a population of 122 inhabitants. A part of the inhabitants (still) is bilingual

Multilingualism

Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of...

. Censuses of the colloquial language gave the following numbers of Slovenian-speakers (pay attention to the fluctuation of the percentages although there were no remarkable migration):

1951: 79,0%

1961: 53,1%

1971: 39,3%

1981: 16,8%

1991: 26,2%

2001: 15,4%

Economy

The Pub and the brick factory were closed in the 50's, the store in 1970 and the carpentry in 1996. The inhabitants, in the past in their majority farmers, have to travel to their work to Villach

Villach

Villach is the second largest city in the Carinthia state in the southern Austria, at the Drava River and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 58,480.-History:...

 (Beljak) or to Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt

-Name:Carinthia's eminent linguists Primus Lessiak and Eberhard Kranzmayer assumed that the city's name, which literally translates as "ford of lament" or "ford of complaints", had something to do with the superstitious thought that fateful fairies or demons tend to live around treacherous waters...

 (Celovec), few found a use in the proximity in St. Egyden (Šentilj), Schiefling am See (Škofiče) or Velden (Vrba).

Celebrities

• Anton Wornig, composer
• Stanko Finžgar, member of the International Brigades
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• DI Dr. Ernest Gröblacher, director of the Chamber of Agriculture of Carinthia
  Carinthia (state)
  Carinthia is the southernmost Austrian state or Land. Situated within the Eastern Alps it is chiefly noted for its mountains and lakes.The main language is German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Austro-Bavarian group...
  
  
• Franz Richau, member of the Federal Council of Austria
  Federal Council of Austria
  The Federal Council of Austria or Bundesrat is the second chamber of the Austrian parliament, representing the nine States of Austria on federal level. As part of a bicameral legislature alongside of the National Council of Austria , it can be compared with an upper house or a senate...