Mureck (Slovene: Cmurek, archaic: Cmürek) is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck.
Mureck railway station
Geography
Mureck is located in southern Styria, on the border with Slovenia.
The name Mureck was first attested in 1151 as Mŏrekke (and as Murekke in 1181, Můrekke in 1183, and Muregk in 1500). The name is a compound of Mur 'Mur River' + Old High Germanecke 'edge, bend' or egge 'hill' (sometimes 'fortification'), and thus means 'bend on the Mur River' or 'hill/fortification on the Mur River'. The Slovene name Cmurek is borrowed from the Middle High German prepositional phrase ze Murekke, literally 'at Mureck'. For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Crngrob, Cven, Dragonja, Sostro, and Spuhlja.
Population
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±%
1869
1,302
—
1880
1,472
+13.1%
1890
1,570
+6.7%
1900
1,532
−2.4%
1910
1,541
+0.6%
1923
1,411
−8.4%
Year
Pop.
±%
1934
1,529
+8.4%
1939
1,519
−0.7%
1951
2,140
+40.9%
1961
1,890
−11.7%
1971
1,824
−3.5%
1981
1,737
−4.8%
Year
Pop.
±%
1991
1,585
−8.8%
2001
1,690
+6.6%
2011
1,571
−7.0%
2016
1,597
+1.7%
Events
Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck playing "Weckruf" on a restored truck on 1 May
Weckruf: since 1954 the local marching band Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck has performed the so-called wakening call (in German, Weckruf) each May 1, waking every friend of brass-band music with marching music in the early morning hours. Until 1964 all of this happened by foot; later the band started using a nicely restored truck.
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