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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Stadl-Predlitz

Stadl-Predlitz is a municipality since 2015 in the Murau District of Styria, Austria.

It was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform, at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Stadl an der Mur and Predlitz-Turrach.

Geography

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following seven sections (populations as of January 2015):

  • Einach (235)
  • Paal (127)
  • Predlitz (380)
  • Sonnberg (81)
  • Stadl an der Mur (448)
  • Steindorf (297)
  • Turrach (150)

The municipality consists of three Katastralgemeinden (areas 2015):

  • Einach (2,328.33 ha or 5,753.4 acres)
  • Predlitz (12,657.36 ha or 31,277.0 acres)
  • Stadl (10,633.40 ha or 26,275.7 acres)

Neighboring municipalities

The municipality borders on one Styrian, three Salzburger, and six Kärntner municipalities (TA = Tamsweg District, SV = Sankt Veit an der Glan District, FE = Feldkirchen District, SP = Spittal an der Drau District).

Incorporations

  • In 1969 the independent municipalities Einach and Predlitz were joined into municipality Predlitz-Turrach.
  • In 2015 the municipalities Stadl an der Mur and Predlitz-Turrach were joined into new municipality Stadl-Predlitz.

Demographics

Culture and sights

Parish church in Predlitz
  • Saints Primus and Felician church in Predlitz. A Romanesque church that was expanded to the west in 1707/1709 and whose choir was built around 1452.

Politics

Municipal council

The prior elections brought the following results:

Partei 2015
Stadl-Predlitz
2010
Stadl an der Mur and Predlitz-Turrach
Votes % Mandate Votes % Mandate
SPÖ 507 39,73 % 6 578 42,38 % 9 + 2
ÖVP 429 33,62 % 5 504 36,95 % 5 + 4
FPÖ 340 26,65 % 4 282 20,67 % 1 + 3
Wahlbeteiligung 85.2%

The ÖVP held with Johannes Rauter as mayor.

Wappen

Crests of former towns
Stadl an der Mur
Predlitz-Turrach

The granting of the town crest came into effect on 10 January 2016.
The blazon (crest description) reads:

"In a diagonal-split shield, at lower left on silver a black wheeled Bessemerburner with three red flames, at upper right on green a silver capped window Salzstadl with a blue Schwert."

Notable people

References

  1. ^ "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  3. ^ Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform.
  4. ^ § 3 Abs. 7 Z 3 des Gesetzes vom 17. Dezember 2013 über die Neugliederung der Gemeinden des Landes Steiermark (Steiermärkisches Gemeindestrukturreformgesetz – StGsrG). Landesgesetzblatt für die Steiermark vom 2. April 2014. Nr. 31, Jahrgang 2014. ZDB-ID 705127-x. p. 3.
  5. ^ Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung am 1.1.2015 nach Ortschaften
  6. ^ Katastralgemeinden Stmk. 2015 (Excel-Datei, 128 KB); accessed on 29 July 2015
  7. ^ 130. Verlautbarung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung vom 17. Dezember 2015 über die Verleihung des Rechtes zur Führung eines Gemeindewappens an die Gemeinde Stadl-Predlitz (politischer Bezirk Murau), accessed on 2 January 2016