Graz area

location
Basic data
state	Styria
NUTS III region	AT-221
Administrative headquarters	Graz
surface	1086 km²
Residents	156,070 (January 1, 2020)
Population density	144 inhabitants / km²
License Plate	GU
District Commission
District chief	Angelika Unger
website	www.bh-graz Umgebung. ; steiermark.at
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The Graz-Umgebung district is a political district of the state of Styria .

It is located in the center of the federal state and surrounds the regional capital Graz , which is not part of the district , where the seat of the district administration is, which is why Graz-Umgebung is the only district in Styria without its own district capital. After Graz-Stadt, Graz-Umgebung is the district with the second highest number of inhabitants in the state.

geography

Geographical location

The Graz-Umgebung district is located in Central Styria . It has a share in four regions: The west and north-west of the district belong to western Styria and thus to the foothills of the Lavanttal Alps . The north and north-east of the district belong to the Grazer Bergland and thus to the peripheral mountains east of the Mur , while the east is part of the East Styrian hill country . The south of the district ultimately belongs to the Graz Basin .

The Mur , which forms the border between western and eastern Styria, flows through the district from north to south . The larger municipalities of the district are located along the Mur, so that around 70,000 inhabitants live here on around 250 km² (density: 280 inhabitants / km²). The other larger rivers in the district are the Kainach in the southwest and the Rabnitzbach in the northeast. The rest of the district is crossed by many small streams.

The highest mountains in the district are in the northwest in the area of Gleinalpe in the municipality of Übelbach . The highest peaks are formed by Speikkogel (1,988 m), Lärchkogel (1,894 m), Eiblkogel (1,831 m). In the northeast the Schöckl protrudes with a height of 1,445 m.

Expansion of the district

The Graz-Umgebung district measures around 50 km from north to south and around 40 km at its widest point from west to east, the total area is 1,086.36 km².

Neighboring districts

The district encloses the state capital and is surrounded by eight Styrian districts.

Murtal (MT)	Leoben (LN)	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag (BM)
Voitsberg (VO)		Weiz (WZ)
Deutschlandsberg (DL)	Leibnitz (LB)	Southeast Styria (SO)

District Courts

The Graz-Ost judicial district comprises the eastern part of the city of Graz and the southern part of the Graz-Umgebung district.
The Graz-West judicial district comprises the western part of the city of Graz and the northern part of the Graz-Umgebung district.

history

By a ministerial ordinance in 1854, the area of the Graz judicial district, created in 1849, was divided into three district courts: District Court I. Section (area of Graz on the right bank of the Mur), District Court II. Section (area of Graz on the left bank of the Mur), District Court III. Section (Graz area).

The area surrounding Graz continued to operate under the name of the judicial district of Gratz Umgebung from January 1, 1867 .

This formed during the separation of the political from the judicial administration from 1868 together with the jurisdictions Frohnleiten and Voitsberg the environment Graz District .

After the judicial district of Voitsberg was separated from the Graz-Umgebung district by an imperial resolution on October 1, 1891, only the Frohnleiten and Graz Umgebung district remained in the Graz-Umgebung district.

When the municipality of Petzendorf left the Leibnitz district , the area of the district increased by 2.7 km² on January 1, 1924.

From June 1, 1932 to February 28, 1937, the area of the Voitsberg district was part of the Graz-Umgebung district as a political branch .

In the course of the National Socialist administrative organization, on October 15, 1938, numerous surrounding communities were incorporated into the city of Graz, as a result of which the Graz-Umgebung district lost area.

In the 1950s, too, there were major changes to the area in the Graz-Umgebung district. The communities Affenberg and Präbach moved from the Weiz district to the Graz-Umgebung district on April 1, 1952 .

On January 1, 1957, the municipality of Pöls an der Wieserbahn was removed from the Leibnitz district and added to the Graz-Umgebung district.

The Graz-Umgebung district consisted of a total of 57 municipalities until 2014. As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , the municipal areas of Tyrnau and Tulwitz are located in the Weiz district and the Petersdorf II district from the southeast Styria district in the Graz-Umgebung district by amalgamating communities across district boundaries . The boundaries of the districts have been changed in such a way that the new parishes are completely in one district.

District captains

Ferdinand Kirchlehner, August 3, 1868
Franz Stähling, December 20, 1869
Franz Vogl, July 14, 1876
Gustav R. von Crollolanza, 1878
Julius Franzi R. von Vesteneck, March 27, 1881
Franz Lautner, September 25, 1881
Ferdinand Pirner, December 11, 1886
Carl Russ, August 25, 1890
Heinrich Clementschitsch, November 16, 1892
Eugen E. von Schickh, July 9, 1899
Alois E. von Kriehuber, September 17, 1911
Fritz Bajardi, 1919
Richard Schmigotz, August 1, 1919
Paul Hohl, August 8, 1923
Emil Krammer, March 15, 1927
Adolf Rochelt, June 1, 1932
August Sutter, June 26, 1945
Hans Knieili, January 1, 1949
Georg Stecher, January 1, 1958
Heinz Pammer, January 1, 1962
Alexander Mayer, August 1, 1963
Hellmut Fallada, January 1, 1974
Burkhard Thierrichter, January 1, 1998
Angelika Unger, October 1, 2018
Andreas Weitlaner, September 1, 2020

Administrative division

As part of the municipal structural reform 2014/15 , the number of municipalities in the district was significantly reduced from 2015. Since January 2015 the district has consisted of the following 36 municipalities:

In the district of the Graz-Ost district court: Dobl-Zwaring, Eggersdorf near Graz, Feldkirchen near Graz, Fernitz-Mellach, Gössendorf, Hart near Graz, Haselsdorf-Tobelbad, Hausmannstätten, Hitzendorf, Kainbach near Graz, Kalsdorf near Graz, Kumberg, Laßnitzhöhe, Lieboch, Nestelbach near Graz, Premstätten, Raaba-Grambach, Sankt Marein near Graz, Sankt Radegund near Graz, Seiersberg-Pirka , Stattegg, Thal, Vasoldsberg, Weinitzen, Werndorf, Wundschuh.
In the district of the Graz-West district court: Deutschfeistritz, Frohnleiten, Gratkorn, Gratwein-Straßengel, Peggau, Sankt Bartholomä, Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth, Semriach, Stiwoll, Übelbach.

List of municipalities in the Graz-Umgebung district

Regions are small regions of Styria

The population figures are from January 1st, 2020.

local community	Ew	km²	Ew / km²	Judicial district	region	Type	photo	Metadata
Deutschfeistritz	4,409	57.06	77	Graz-West	027 Übelbachtal dissolved August 2, 2014	market community	Yes	According to code: 60659
Dobl-Zwaring	3,544	37.92	93	Graz-East	064 Lower Kainach Valley	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60660
Eggersdorf near Graz	6,808	49.36	138	Graz-East	073 Schöcklland South	market community	Yes	According to code: 60661
Feldkirchen near Graz	6.703	11.58	579	Graz-East	057 GU 8	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60608
Fernitz-Mellach	4,870	20.51	237	Graz-East	078 GU-SÜD dissolved December 30, 2017	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60662
Frohnleiten	6,542	153.84	43	Graz-West	029 GU North	urban community	Yes	According to code: 60663
Gössendorf	4.117	7.21	571	Graz-East	078 GU-SÜD dissolved December 30, 2017	market community	Yes	According to code: 60611
Burr grain	8,052	34.61	233	Graz-West	061 JEGG	market community	Yes	According to code: 60613
Gratwein street angel	12,846	86.69	148	Graz-West	061 JEGG	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60664
Hard near Graz	5,242	11.06	474	Graz-East	078 GU-SÜD dissolved December 30, 2017	local community	Yes	According to code: 60617
Haselsdorf-Tobelbad	1,526	6.68	228	Graz-East	064 Lower Kainach Valley	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60618
Hausmannstätten	3,475	6.78	513	Graz-East	078 GU-SÜD dissolved December 30, 2017	market community	Yes	According to code: 60619
Heat village	7,220	48.88	148	Graz-East	062 Hitzendorf	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60665
Kainbach near Graz	2,802	17.81	157	Graz-East	073 Schöcklland South	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60623
Kalsdorf near Graz	7,572	15.16	499	Graz-East	057 GU 8	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60624
Kumberg	3,840	29.42	131	Graz-East	104 Kumberg	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60626
Laßnitzhöhe	2,756	14.88	185	Graz-East	103 Schemerl dissolved June 1, 2019	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60628
Dear	5,225	11.73	445	Graz-East	064 Lower Kainach Valley	market community	Yes	According to code: 60629
Nestelbach near Graz	2,640	27.34	97	Graz-East	103 Schemerl dissolved June 1, 2019	local community	Yes	According to code: 60666
Peggau	2,335	11.25	208	Graz-West	027 Übelbachtal dissolved August 2, 2014	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60632
Premstätten	6.339	29.27	217	Graz-East	057 GU 8	market community	Yes	According to code: 60670
Raaba-Grambach	4,676	14.64	319	Graz-East	078 GU-SÜD dissolved December 30, 2017	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60667
Saint Bartholomew	1,442	11.72	123	Graz-West	062 Hitzendorf	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60639
Sankt Marein near Graz	3,747	41.71	90	Graz-East	103 Schemerl dissolved June 1, 2019	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60668
Sankt Oswald near Plankenwarth	1,268	11.81	107	Graz-West	062 Hitzendorf	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60641
Sankt Radegund near Graz	2.144	21.55	99	Graz-East	104 Kumberg	local community	Yes	According to code: 60642
Seiersberg-Pirka	11,408	17.36	657	Graz-East	057 GU 8	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60669
Semriach	3,291	60.34	55	Graz-West	-	market community	Yes	According to code: 60645
Stattegg	2,935	25.83	114	Graz-East	-	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60646
Stiwoll	706	13.01	54	Graz-West	091 (name still open)	local community	Yes	According to code: 60647
Thal	2,288	18.51	124	Graz-East	062 Hitzendorf	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60648
Ubelbach	2,022	94.63	21st	Graz-West	027 Übelbachtal dissolved August 2, 2014	market community	Yes	According to code: 60651
Vasoldsberg	4,598	28.08	164	Graz-East	-	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60653
Weinitzen	2,670	18.99	141	Graz-East	104 Kumberg	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60654
Werndorf	2,383	6.24	382	Graz-East	057 GU 8	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60655
Wound shoe	1,629	12.89	126	Graz-East	057 GU 8	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 60656

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Population development

The population of the Graz-Umgebung district is growing faster than the national average. In the years 1951 to 2001 the population increased by 60%, while the whole of Styria had only about 7% growth in the same period. The reasons for this are the proximity to the state capital and the district's good infrastructure (motorways, airport, railways).

politics

The results of the municipal council elections in 2015 brought the following results across the district:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000			1995			1990
Political party	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	31,809	37.63	302	35,749	42.44	443	32,884	40.29	415	31,134	40.91	408	30.163	39.90	363	32,167	42.17	400
SPÖ	25,759	30.48	212	32,699	38.82	342	34,866	42.72	371	29,357	38.57	318	29,043	38.42	325	32,288	42.32	332
FPÖ	11,858	14.03	86	5,845	6.94	46	3,949	4.84	24	8,865	11.65	81	8,345	11.04	78	6,169	8.09	53
The green	5,894	6.97	39	3,560	4.23	27	3,686	4.52	29	2,383	3.13	15th	2,034	2.69	14th	672	0.88	6th
Other lists	9,721	11.50	64	5,743	6.82	64	6.224	7.63	74	4,365	5.74	53	6.012	7.95	65	4,990	6.54	48
Valid votes	84,521			84,230			81,609			76.104			75,597			76.286
voter turnout	69.71%			73.24%			75.27%			77.96%			82.38%			91.24%

traffic

Street

The Graz-Umgebung district has excellent connections to the national road network. The Pyhrn Autobahn A 9 runs from north to south from Linz via Graz to Slovenia . It has one half * and eight full connection points in the district area: Übelbach (exit 157), Deutschfeistritz - Peggau (exit 165), Gratkorn -Nord (170) and Gratkorn-Süd (exit 173) in the north as well as Seiersberg (exit 188), Schwarzlsee * (exit 190), Schachenwald (exit 192), Kalsdorf (exit 194) and Wundschuh (exit 197) in the south of the district.

In the district area is the Graz-West junction of the A 9 with the south A 2 motorway from Vienna via Graz to Klagenfurt , which runs through the district from east to west. It can be reached via four connection points within the district: Laßnitzhöhe (exit 169), Graz Airport / Feldkirchen (exit 182), Premstätten (exit 188) and Lieboch (exit 194). In the north of the district, the Bruck expressway S 35 leads along the Mur to Bruck an der Mur .

The district is traversed by a number of former federal highways, which lead from Graz in (almost) all directions: Packer Straße B 70 runs from Graz to Klagenfurt along the Süd Autobahn, as does Gleisdorfer Straße B 65 from Graz to the state border Hungary . The Grazer Straße B 67 runs from Deutschfeistritz to Slovenia along the Pyhrn motorway. These three streets form the main axes. They also emanate from Rechberg Strasse B 64 from Frohnleiten to Weiz in the north, Weizer Strasse B 72 from Graz to Weiz in the northeast, Radlpass Strasse B 76 in the southwest and Kirchbacher Strasse B 73 in the southeast.

rail

The district is crossed from north to south along the Mur by the Southern Railway , which runs from Bruck an der Mur via Graz to Slovenia. The Koralmbahn, which is under construction, as well as some smaller railway lines such as the Graz-Köflacher Eisenbahn , which serves the south-west, the Styrian Ostbahn , which runs through the east of the district, and the Peggau – Übelbach local line in the north, branch off the southern line in the district area . Due to the mountainous and hilly landscape of the district, the west and north-east in particular cannot be connected to the rail network.

There is no railway station of national importance in the district. Only in the train stations Frohnleiten and Gratwein-Gratkorn is there a connection to all regional express connections to Spielfeld-Strass, Graz, Mürzzuschlag, Unzmarkt and Selzthal. All other stations are only served by regional trains and the Styrian S-Bahn . The InterCity network can only be reached via Graz Central Station .

Airport

Graz-Thalerhof Airport is located in the district in the area of the municipalities of Feldkirchen and Kalsdorf on the southern edge of the state capital.

Special communities

The northernmost municipality is Frohnleiten , the southernmost municipality is Dobl-Zwaring , while the westernmost municipality is Übelbach . The furthest to the east is Sankt Marein bei Graz .

The smallest municipality is Werndorf with 6.24 km², while Frohnleiten is the largest with 153.84 km² and thus exceeds Graz by 26.36 km².

Stiwoll has the fewest inhabitants with 706, Gratwein-Straßengel the most with 12,846 inhabitants (status: January 1, 2020, territorial status 2015).

The most densely populated is the municipality of Seiersberg-Pirka with almost 657 inhabitants per square kilometer, while Übelbach is the least populated with only 21 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The lowest community is Werndorf at 309 m.

Web links

Commons : Bezirk Graz-Umgebung - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

bh-graz Umgebung.steiermark.at District authority Graz-Umgebung

Individual evidence

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: RGBl. 1854, Item VIII, No. 27, pp. 103–118 : "Ordinance of the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Finance of January 31, 1854, regarding the political and judicial organization of the Duchy of Styria."

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: RGBl. Born 1868, XVII. Piece, No. 44. P. 76 ff , "Law of May 19, 1868 on the establishment of political administrative authorities in the kingdoms ..."

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: RGBl. Born in 1868, XLI. Stück, No. 101, pp. 287 ff , "Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior of July 10, 1868, regarding the implementation of the law of May 19, 1868 ..."

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: State Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Duchy of Styria. 1891, X. Piece, No. 33: “Announcement of the k. k. Governor in Styria, regarding the division of the current political district surrounding Graz into two districts and the establishment of a district authority in Voitsberg. "

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: Federal Law Gazette for the Republic of Austria. 1923, 120th item, No. 621: "Ordinance of the Federal Chancellery of December 17, 1923 on the assignment of the local community Petzendorf to the district of the Graz district court and the district of the Graz district administration."

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: LGBl. 37, Item 4, No. 10: "Ordinance of the Styrian Provincial Government ..." The ordinance came into force on March 1, 1937.

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: Ordinance sheet for the official area of the governor for Styria. 1938, 6th piece. No. 10: "Ordinance of the Governor of Styria on the expansion of the area of the city of Graz and some related changes to the area of surrounding communities."

↑ alex.onb.ac.at: State Law Gazette for the State of Styria. 1952, Item 3, No. 18: “Ordinance of the Styrian Provincial Government on the amendment of the ordinance of the Styrian Provincial Government of December 29, 1950, LGBl. No. 63/1951, regarding the allocation of the communities Affenberg and Präbach to the political district of Graz-Umgebung "

↑ State Law Gazette for the State of Styria. 1956, Item 20, No. 60: “Ordinance of the Styrian regional government on the allocation of the municipality of Pöls an der Wieserbahn to the political district of Graz-Umgebung” on alex.onb.ac.at

↑ Ordinance of the Styrian Provincial Government of 10 July 2014, with which the Styrian District Authority Ordinance is changed. Provincial Law Gazette for Styria dated September 10, 2014. No. 99 Volume 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x .

↑ District captains of the BHGU. In: bh-graz Umgebung.steiermark.at. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .

↑ Styria: Andreas Weitlaner will head the Graz-Umgebung district administration from September 1, 2020. In: regionews.at. August 4, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 .

↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)

47.2 15.3Coordinates: 47 ° 12 ' N , 15 ° 18' E

[1] x.onb.ac.at: RGBl. 1854, Item VIII, No. 27, pp. 103–118 : "Ordinance of the Ministers of the Interior, Justice and Finance of January 31, 1854, regarding the political and judicial organization of the Duchy of Styria."

[2] x.onb.ac.at: RGBl. Born 1868, XVII. Piece, No. 44. P. 76 ff , "Law of May 19, 1868 on the establishment of political administrative authorities in the kingdoms ..."

[3] x.onb.ac.at: RGBl. Born in 1868, XLI. Stück, No. 101, pp. 287 ff , "Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior of July 10, 1868, regarding the implementation of the law of May 19, 1868 ..."

[4] x.onb.ac.at: State Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Duchy of Styria. 1891, X. Piece, No. 33: “Announcement of the k. k. Governor in Styria, regarding the division of the current political district surrounding Graz into two districts and the establishment of a district authority in Voitsberg. "