Bad Loipersdorf

Bad Loipersdorf
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate :	HF (from 1.7.2013; old: FF)
Surface:	25.01 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 1 '  N , 16 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '48 "  N , 16 ° 6' 5"  E
Height :	249  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,843 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8282, 8280
Area code :	+43 3382
Community code :	6 22 73
Address of the municipal administration:	At Dorfplatz 44 8282 Bad Loipersdorf
Website:	gemeinde.loipersdorf.at
politics
Mayor :	Herbert Spirk ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	12 3 12 3  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 12 FPÖ : 3
Location of Bad Loipersdorf in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
Loipersdorf thermal baths
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Bad Loipersdorf (until 2019 Loipersdorf bei Fürstenfeld ) is a municipality with 1843 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the federal state of Styria . The community is located in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld or in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district in Eastern Styria. Loipersdorf lies on the border with Burgenland and is known for its thermal and spa baths.

As part of the Styrian community structural reform , the previously independent community of Stein was incorporated on January 1, 2015 . The basis for this was the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG.

The Styrian state government has given the approval for the change of the municipality name to "Bad Loipersdorf" as decided by the municipal council with effect from January 1, 2020.

geography

Village square in stone

The municipality of Bad Loipersdorf is located in the south-east of Styria and has consisted of three cadastral communities since the consolidation of the municipalities in 1968 ; on January 1, 2015, the former Stein municipality was added as the fourth cadastral municipality (area: as of December 31, 2017):

• Dietersdorf (586.58 ha)
• Gillersdorf (280.55 ha)
• Loipersdorf (904.75 ha)
• Stone (733.50 ha)

The municipality comprises four localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Dietersdorf near Fürstenfeld (497)
• Gillersdorf (135)
• Loipersdorf near Fürstenfeld (737)
• Stone (474)

Incorporations

On January 1, 1968, the communities Dietersdorf bei Fürstenfeld and Gillersdorf were incorporated.
On January 1, 2015, the Stein community followed suit as part of the Styrian community structural reform.

Neighboring communities

Bad Loipersdorf has

• a neighboring municipality in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district,
• one in the district of Südoststeiermark (SO) and
• three in the Jennersdorf (JE) district, Burgenland

Fürstenfeld		Rudersdorf (JE)
		Königsdorf (JE)
Unterlamm (SO)		Jennersdorf (JE)

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church hl. Florian in Bad Loipersdorf

The altar of St. Florian

Reicherl chapel in the Rehgraben

See also:  List of listed objects in Bad Loipersdorf

• Parish church hl. Florian: built from 1761 to 1768, baroque
• Rectory
• Wayside shrine in Gillersdorf

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Bad Loipersdorf and Dietersdorf from the south

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Gillersdorf from the south

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Gillersdorf and Königsdorf from the west

Economy and Infrastructure

Thermal spring

A thermal spring was discovered during test drilling . Sodium chloride - hydrogen carbonate - thermal brine gushes out of this at 63 ° C. This brine has been used for the Loipersdorf thermal baths since 1982 . As a result, thermal spa hotels, a golf course and an adventure world were created. This led to an expansion of the hotel and restaurant business. With 36,000 m², the thermal bath is one of the largest in Europe today.

politics

mayor

Herbert Spirk (ÖVP), who was in charge of the Loipersdorf community until the end of 2014 and who was responsible for the affairs of the community as government commissioner from January 2015 due to the community merger, was elected mayor of the merged community on April 24, 2015 as part of the constituent meeting of the community council.

The parish council also includes the deputy mayor Franz Siegl and the parish treasurer Gerit Papst.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and is composed as follows according to the results of the 2015 municipal council elections :

• 11 mandates ÖVP
• 04 mandates FPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015				2010							2005							2000
	Merger community				Loipersdorf			stone				Loipersdorf			stone				Loipersdorf			stone
	be right	%	Mandates		St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.		St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.		St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	815	66	11		743	82	13	344	100	9		584	70	11	340	100	9		463	52	9	326	100	9
SPÖ	066	05	00		not running			not running				142	17th	02	not running				051	6th	0	not running
FPÖ	349	28	04th		166	18th	02					113	13	02					093	10	1
WE	not running				not running							not running							283	32	5
Eligible voters	1,609				1,162			417				1,138			414				1,064			390
voter turnout	78%				81%			84%				76%			84%				85%			86%

coat of arms

Former Gem. Stone

Both previous municipalities had a municipality coat of arms. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, these lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality was awarded by the state government with effect from June 30, 2018.

The blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

"A golden crown of leaves over a golden shield base in a surge cut in blue."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1977: Franz Wegart (1918–2009), Deputy Governor
• 1980: Kurt Jungwirth (* 1929), Provincial Councilor
• 1985: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor
• 2017: Hermann Schützenhöfer (* 1952), Governor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local council election 2020 - results Loipersdorf bei Fürstenfeld. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 . 
2. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform
3. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 4, Item 5 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014, No. 31, year 2014, ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 3.
4. ↑ 66. Announcement of the Styrian provincial government of September 12, 2019 on the change of the community name of the community "Loipersdorf bei Fürstenfeld" in the political district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld to "Bad Loipersdorf" , ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on September 17 2019.
5. ↑ Regionalinformation.zip (Excel file, 1,210 KB); accessed on January 4, 2018
6. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Municipality of Loipersdorf bei Fürstenfeld: Municipal Council , accessed on May 22, 2015
8. ↑ 53. Announcement of the Styrian state government of June 21, 2018 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Loipersdorf near Fürstenfeld (political district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld) , ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on June 27, 2018
9. ↑ Südost-Tagepost (October 29, 1980), p. 6.

Web links

Commons : Bad Loipersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62273 - Bad Loipersdorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• gemeinde.loipersdorf.at Website of the Bad Loipersdorf community