Murtal district

location
Basic data
state	Styria
NUTS III region	AT-226
Administrative headquarters	Judenburg
surface	1676 km²
Residents	71,698 (January 1, 2020)
Population density	43 inhabitants / km²
License Plate	MT
District Commission
District chief	Ulrike Buchacher
website	www.bh-murtal. ; steiermark.at
map

The Murtal district is a political district of the state of Styria , the seat of the district administration is Judenburg .

With an area of 1,675.78 km², the Murtal district is the third largest district in Styria in terms of area, and the eighth largest in terms of population.

It borders on the following neighboring districts:

in the north to the Liezen district ,
in the east at Leoben , Graz-Umgebung and Voitsberg ,
in the south to the districts of Wolfsberg and Sankt Veit an der Glan in the federal state of Carinthia and
to the west to the Murau district .

The district abbreviation for the license plates is MT , license plates with this identifier have been issued for new registrations and re-registrations since July 2012.

history

The Murtal district was founded as part of a reform carried out by the Styrian regional government under Governor Franz Voves ( SPÖ ) and his deputy Hermann Schützenhöfer ( ÖVP ) with effect from January 1, 2012.

After the state elections held in 2010, a so-called “reform partnership” was established. In the course of these reforms in politics and state administration, in which municipalities are to be amalgamated and the number of members of the Styrian state parliament is to be reduced, the government parties also decided to merge the two districts of Judenburg and Knittelfeld .

As part of the municipal structural reform 2014/15 , the number of municipalities in the district was reduced from 38 municipalities to 20 on January 1, 2015, since then the district has consisted of the areas of the following municipalities:

Fohnsdorf, Gaal, Hohentauern, Judenburg, Knittelfeld, Kobenz, Lobmingtal, Obdach, Pöls-Oberkurzheim, Pölstal, Pusterwald, Sankt Georgen ob Judenburg, Sankt Marein-Feistritz, Sankt Margarethen bei Knittelfeld, Sankt Peter ob Judenburg, Seckau, Spielberg, Unzmarkt- Frauenburg, Weißkirchen in Styria, Zeltweg.

In the city of Knittelfeld, a citizen service point has been set up for frequently requested business cases (driver's license, passport, etc.), and the forest service for the former Knittelfeld district remains there. In addition, the social department of the BH, the district school council and the district police command , all three responsible for the entire district of Murtal, have their headquarters in Knittelfeld .

Surname

Decisive for the choice of the name for the district, which is named after a region for the first time in Austria, was a suggestion from the initiative “Kraft. Das Murtal ”, the head of the Murtal Chamber of Commerce and the chairman of the Murtal holiday region, which was sent to the state government in a joint letter in July 2011. However, the term is geographically imprecise and was therefore controversial.

Another suggested name, Aichfeld , which has already been used by some companies, would have suited the area (in the valley) of what is now the Murtal district, compared to the neighboring districts ( Murau above and Bruck an der Mur , now Bruck-Mürzzuschlag ) delimited.

Judenburg and Knittelfeld were also united in one district between 1868 and 1946, then under the name Judenburg.

Administrative division

The Murtal district is divided into twenty municipalities , including four towns and seven market towns.

The population in the table is from January 1st, 2020. Regions are small regions of Styria .

local community	Ew	km²	Ew / km²	Judicial district	region	Type	photo	Metadata
Fohnsdorf	7,657	54.7	140	Judenburg	-	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62007
Gaal	1,351	197.47	6.8	Judenburg	-	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62008
Hohentauern	388	92.64	4.2	Judenburg	004 Pölstal	local community	Yes	According to code: 62010
Judenburg	9,853	63.77	155	Judenburg	-	urban community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62040
Knittelfeld	12,597	13.86	909	Judenburg	-	urban community	Yes	According to code: 62041
Kobenz	1,907	17.64	108	Judenburg	-	market community	Yes	According to code: 62014
Lobmingtal	1,839	54.38	34	Judenburg	-	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62039
shelter	3,760	159.11	24	Judenburg	028 Styrian stone pine country	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62042
Pöls-Oberkurzheim	2,961	62.54	47	Judenburg	004 Pölstal	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62043
Pölstal	2,595	270.22	9.6	Judenburg	004 Pölstal	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62044
Pusterwald	436	105.29	4.1	Judenburg	004 Pölstal	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62021
Sankt Georgen ob Judenburg	831	44.33	19th	Judenburg	035 3-G	local community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62026
Sankt Marein-Feistritz	2,036	70.61	29	Judenburg	-	local community	Yes	According to code: 62045
Sankt Margarethen near Knittelfeld	2,687	148.23	18th	Judenburg	-	local community	Yes	According to code: 62046
Sankt Peter ob Judenburg	1,078	50.28	21st	Judenburg	035 3-G	local community	Yes	According to code: 62032
Seckau	1,301	46.24	28	Judenburg	-	market community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62034
Spielberg	5,353	29.7	180	Judenburg	-	urban community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62047
Unzmarkt-Frauenburg	1,302	36.45	36	Judenburg	035 3-G	market community	Yes	According to code: 62036
Weißkirchen in Styria	4,776	149.64	32	Judenburg	032 Weißkirchen	market community	Yes	According to code: 62048
Zeltweg	6,990	8.7	803	Judenburg	-	urban community	Yes	Acc. To code: 62038