Hard near Graz

This article explains the municipality, for the location see Hart (municipality Thal) .

Hard near Graz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Surface:	11.06 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 3 '  N , 15 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 2 '42 "  N , 15 ° 31' 12"  E
Height :	430  m above sea level A.
Residents :	5,242 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8075
Area code :	0316
Community code :	6 06 17
Address of the municipal administration:	Johann Kamper-Ring 1 8075 Hart near Graz
Website:	www.hartbeigraz.at
politics
Mayor :	Jakob Frey (Citizen List Hart bei Graz)
Municipal Council : (2015) (21 members)	11 8th 3 1 1 1 11 8th 3 1 1 1  A total of 25 seats Citizen list Hart bei Graz : 11 SPÖ : 8 ÖVP : 3 GREEN : 1 FPÖ : 1 NEOS : 1
Location of Hart bei Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Hart bei Graz (formerly Hart bei St. Peter ) is a municipality east of Graz in Styria ( Austria ) with 5242 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Hart belongs to the Graz-Umgebung district . The community is located in the eastern Styrian hill country at 350–500 m above sea level between the provincial capital Graz and Laßnitzhöhe . Determining rivers are the Ragnitzbach in the north and the Raababach in the south of the municipality. The municipality covers an area of ​​11.06 km².

The community consists of the cadastral communities Messendorf and Hart bei Sankt Peter and the localities Hart, Messendorf and Pachern . The districts are Autal, Hohenrain, Klinzelweg, Pachern, Reintal and Sternleiten.

Neighboring communities

Graz	Kainbach near Graz
Graz		Laßnitzhöhe
Graz	Raaba-Grambach

history

As a larger town, Hart emerged from settlements in an extensive wine-growing region in the 16th century . The name comes from the earlier word hart ( large forest ), but has only been in writing since 1608. It should go back to the settlement by the Franks and their clearing in the 8th century. As early as the 6th century, some areas were populated by Alpine Slavs .

The community was formed from individual manors after the abolition of inheritance in 1848 in the course of the land reform . In 1938, the Greater German government incorporated parts of Hart and the then neighboring Messendorf into Greater Graz , and the rest were united under the name of Hart bei St. Peter . Instead, the actual main town, the Rotte Hart , is now in the Raaba community .

In 1986 the community was renamed Hart bei Graz .

Population development

date	Residents
1869	694
1880	737
1890	765
1900	732
1910	783
1923	803
1934	1,089
1939	985
1951	1,212
1961	1,791
1971	2,178
1981	2,525
1991	3,264
2001	4.189
2011	4,413
2016	4,849
2020	5,264

Reinthal Castle

Culture and sights

Buildings

See also:  List of listed objects in Hart bei Graz

• The Filialkirche St. Rupert , also Rupertikirche , named after St. Rupert of Salzburg , is located in Hohenrain , directly on the city limits of Graz (ninth district Waltendorf ) near the Lustbühel Castle . As a branch church it belongs to the parish Graz-St. Peter in the dean's office Graz-Süd of the city ​​church Graz .

Sports

The football club SV Pachern plays in the Styrian league. The ice hockey club EC Rattlesnakes plays in the Styrian elite league.

Economy and Infrastructure

Hart bei Graz is located on the A 2 motorway south . The nearest junctions are Laßnitzhöhe (169) around six kilometers away for the Vienna and Graz-Raaba directions, and Graz-Puchwerk on the Graz-Ost motorway feeder around five kilometers away. In the neighboring municipality of Kainbach bei Graz , Gleisdorfer Straße B 65 can be reached in around seven kilometers .

The Styrian Eastern Railway runs through the town. On September 13, 2010, a new stop was opened in Hart, which replaced the previous stop in Autal . The central station Graz is about eleven kilometers away.

The distance to Graz Airport is approximately 15 kilometers.

The waste water of the municipality are in the water treatment plant of the city of Graz in Gössendorf cleaned and then the Mur fed.

The company Knapp AG has its central headquarters in Hart bei Graz.

politics

Municipal council

In the municipal council election on March 22, 2015, the longstanding absolute majority of the SPÖ was broken. In this election, the SPÖ lost seven seats, the ÖVP one seat and the Greens also lost one seat, and the FPÖ gained one seat. The citizen list Lebenswerte Hart bei Graz has now moved into the municipal council with seven seats and the Neos with one seat. The constituent meeting and the election of the mayor and other functions took place on April 16, 2015.

The last municipal council elections produced the following results:

Political party	2015			2010
	be right	%	Mandates	be right	%	Mandates
SPÖ	868	33	7th	1611	62	14th
ÖVP	387	15th	3	0471	18th	04th
FPÖ	223	08th	2	0167	06th	01
The Greens Hart	196	07th	1	0338	13	02
Citizen list Hart bei Graz worth living in	841	32	7th	not running
NEOS	118	04th	1	not running
voter turnout	69%			72%

mayor

Since the formation of the community in its current form on January 1, 1939, there have been the following mayors in Hart bei Graz (previously Hart bei Sankt Peter):

• 1939–1945 Franz Scholz
• 1945–1946 Josef Hartmann (provisional)
• 1946–1950 Mathias Paulitsch
• 1950–1954 Josef Hartmann
• 1954–1965 Josefine Pacher
• 1965–1976 Rudolf Lantschbauer
• 1976–1987 Peter Schnedlitz
• 1987–2014 Gerhard Payer
• 2014–2015 Michael Bischof
• 2015– 0000Jakob Frey

Acting mayor has been Jakob Frey since April 2015 (citizen list).

The first vice mayor is Andreas Haas (SPÖ), the second vice mayor is Jakob Binder (list of citizens). Together with the mayor and vice mayors, Karl-Heinz Hödl (ÖVP) as the community treasurer and Claudia Strohmeyer (SPÖ) form the community board.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the municipality de: Hart bei Graz in Austria

The municipal coat of arms was awarded by the Styrian state government with effect from May 1, 1996. The design was done by Heinrich Purkarthofer. Because of the abundance of forests in Hart bei Graz, the lichens - the municipality had a scientific study carried out on the abundance of lichen - frame the coat of arms of Schrannen advocate Bartholomäus Rues (Rose), attached to the Reinthal residence, which he built in 1545.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In silver, a rose bush with green leaves and three double red roses, framed by a green shelf covered with silver braids."

Personalities

Karl Philipp (* 1950), Austrian football player

Honorary citizen

• 1972: Paul Anton Keller (1907–1976), writer
• 1986: Hans Groß (1930–1992), Deputy Governor

Sons and daughters of the church

• Karl Maitz (* 1939), politician of the SPÖ , member of the Styrian state parliament 1974–1994, member of the national council 1994–1999

Web links

Commons : Hart bei Graz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60617 - Hart near Graz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Parish website , dates and maps
• Map section Hart and Messendorf

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ordinance of the Governor of Styria of October 21, 1938
2. ↑ ^{a b} Chronicle ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hart bei Graz municipality, www.hartbeigraz.at → Hart bei graz introduces itself ... → Municipality II  
3. ↑ News | SV Pachern club homepage . In: fussballoesterreich.at . August 16, 2017 ( fussballoesterreich.at [accessed April 16, 2018]).
4. ↑ Home. Accessed April 16, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Holding Graz quoted in: Josef Riegler: Chronik der Marktgemeinde Gössendorf . 2nd, updated and expanded edition, Marktgemeinde Gössendorf 2017, pp. 163–165.
6. ↑ Elections. Retrieved April 16, 2018 . 
7. ^ History. Accessed April 16, 2018 (German). 
8. ^ Parish Hart bei Graz: Parish Board ( Memento from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 19, 2015)
9. ↑ Franz Koller: The story of Hart near Graz . Ed .: Municipality of Hart near Graz. 2005, p. 117 .
10. ^ Announcements from the Styrian State Archives 47, 1997, p. 55
11. ↑ Neue Zeit (June 24, 1986), p. 23.