Voitsberg district

location
Basic data
state	Styria
NUTS III region	AT-225
Administrative headquarters	Voitsberg
surface	679 km²
Residents	51,044 (January 1, 2020)
Population density	75 inhabitants / km²
License Plate	VO
District Commission
District Captain	Hannes Peißl
website	www.bh-voitsberg. steiermark.at
map

The Voitsberg district is a political district in the state of Styria . It is included in the West Styria region .

The administrative building of the district administration in Voitsberg

history

The Voitsberg district was split off from the Graz-Umgebung district on October 1, 1891 and comprised the area of the Voitsberg judicial district with its 59 municipalities.

As part of the municipal structural reform 2014/15 , in the course of which the outer borders of the district were not changed, the number of municipalities in the district was reduced from 25 to the following 15 municipalities from January 1, 2015:

Bärnbach, Edelschrott, Geistthal-Södingberg, Hirschegg-Pack, Kainach near Voitsberg, Köflach, Krottendorf-Gaisfeld, Ligist, Maria Lankowitz, Mooskirchen, Rosental an der Kainach, Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg, Söding-Sankt Johann, Stallhofen, Voitsberg.

In the run-up, the non-partisan citizens' platform "Kernraumfusion" tried to achieve that by merging the nine core municipalities Köflach, Voitsberg, Bärnbach, Maria Lankowitz, Rosental, Piberegg, Salla, Graden and Gößnitz, a new city should emerge through a voluntary merger, which also had the status a statutory city . But this idea was not implemented.

Head of the district administration

• Franz Herzog (1891-1910)
• Eugen Ritter Mor von Sunegg and Torberg (1910–1916)
• Oskar Kordin (1916-1918)
• Raoul Schadek von Degenburg (1918)
• Emil Krammer (1918–1924)
• Franz Klampfl (1924–1932)

From 1 June 1932 to 28 February 1937, the area of the district Voitsberg as part Political Expositur the environment Graz District .

• Josef Schmidinger (1937–1938)
• Josef Pelpik (1938)
• Hermann Lutz (1939–1943)
• Ernst Friedrich (1944–1945)
• Willibald Kral (1945)
• Georg Stecher (1945–1958)
• Roland Petrischek (1958–1967)
• Luitpold Poppmeier (1967–1988)
• Heinz Schille (1989–1991)
• Klaus Mayer (1991-2008)
• Hannes Peißl (since 2008)

Administrative division

The Voitsberg district covers 679.22 km² and is divided into 15 communities , including three towns and five market communities.

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

List of municipalities in the Voitsberg district

Regions are small regions of Styria

local community	location	Ew	km²	Ew / km²	Judicial district	region	Type	photo
Bärnbach		5,658	31.58	179	Voitsberg	053 Voitsberg core space alliance	urban community
Precious scrap		1,715	87.69	20th	Voitsberg	018 Oberland	market community
Geistthal-Södingberg		1,496	52.6	28	Voitsberg	091 (name open)	local community
Hirschegg pack		1,013	99.13	10	Voitsberg	018 Oberland	local community
Kainach near Voitsberg		1,612	83.44	19th	Voitsberg	052 Upper Kainach Valley	local community
Köflach		9,726	43.28	225	Voitsberg	053 Voitsberg core space alliance	urban community
Krottendorf-Gaisfeld		2,451	17.05	144	Voitsberg	043 Middle Kainachtal	local community
Ligist		3,222	34.62	93	Voitsberg	043 Middle Kainachtal	market community
Maria Lankowitz		2,771	104.25	27	Voitsberg	053 Voitsberg core space alliance	market community
Mooskirchen		2,207	17.97	123	Voitsberg	043 Middle Kainachtal	market community
Rosental on the Kainach		1,679	6.54	257	Voitsberg	053 Voitsberg core space alliance	local community
Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg		818	25.76	32	Voitsberg	018 Oberland	local community
Söding-Sankt Johann		4,105	19.37	212	Voitsberg	043 Middle Kainachtal	local community
Stallhofen		3.152	27.32	115	Voitsberg	043 Middle Kainachtal	market community
Voitsberg		9.419	28.62	329	Voitsberg	053 Voitsberg core space alliance	urban community

See also : List of localities in the Voitsberg district

Population development

literature

• Ernst Lasnik: Around the Holy Mountain. History of the Voitsberg district. Graz – Vienna – Cologne 1982.
• Ernst Lasnik, Gerhard Pelko: Harmony from opposites. The Voitsberg district. Graz – Vienna 1995.

Web links

Commons : District Voitsberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• http://www.bh-voitsberg.steiermark.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ alex.onb.ac.at: State Law and Ordinance Gazette for the Duchy of Styria. Born 1891, X. Piece, No. 33, p. 35: “Announcement of the k. k. Governor in Styria dated August 31, 1891, regarding the division of the current district of Graz into two districts and the establishment of a district authority in Voitsberg. "
2. ↑ Study "Nine Communities - One Big City" by the association "Kernraumfusion"
3. ↑ alex.onb.ac.at: LGBl. 37, Item 4, No. 10: "Ordinance of the Styrian Provincial Government ..." (This ordinance came into force on March 1, 1937.)
4. ↑ Statistics Austria - Population at the beginning of 2002–2020 by municipalities (area status 01/01/2020)

Coordinates: 47 ° 3 '  N , 15 ° 9'  E