Book-St. Magdalena

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Book-St. Magdalena
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Book-St.  Magdalena
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Styria
Political District : Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
License plate : HF (from 1.7.2013; old: HB)
Main town : Subbook
Surface: 26.41 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 14 '  N , 16 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '35 "  N , 16 ° 0' 54"  E
Height : 430  m above sea level A.
Residents : 2,145 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes : 8272, 8274, 8294
Area code : 03332
Community code : 6 22 05
Address of the
municipal administration:
St. Magdalena 55
8274 Buch-St. Magdalena
Website: www.buch-stmagdalena.at
politics
Mayor : Gerhard Gschiel ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2020)
(15 members)
12
2
1
12 
A total of 15 seats
Location of Buch-St. Magdalena in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district
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Catholic parish church hl. Magdalena in St. Magdalena am Lemberg
Local chapel in Geiseldorf

Book-St. Magdalena is a municipality in the judicial district of Fürstenfeld or Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district in Styria in Austria . It was created as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform through the amalgamation of Sankt Magdalena am Lemberg and Buch-Geiseldorf on January 1, 2013.

geography

Geographical location

Book-St. Magdalena is located in the thermal region of the east Styrian hill country about seven kilometers south of the district capital Hartberg and about 40 km east of the provincial capital Graz . The Hartberger Safen flows through the municipality from north to south . In the west, the community is bounded by the Dombach, which a short time later flows into the Hartberger Safen. Book-St. Magdalena lies on the western edge of an extensive forest area.

Community structure

The municipality of Buch-St. Magdalena consists of
eight cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2017)
Cadastral parish Area ha Cadastral parish Area ha
Hostage village 347.59 Oberbuch 280.06
Hopfau 375.57 Subbook 557.78
Längenbach 146.05 Unterdombach 276.77
Lviv 302.71 Vineyard 344.61

The municipality includes the following localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

  • Geiseldorf (179) with Hell and Lebenhof
  • Hopfau (378) with Mitterberg, Noiberg, Steinbüchl and Tonleiten
  • Langenbach (39)
  • Lviv (238)
  • Mitterndorf (72)
  • Oberbuch (132) with Leiten and Totterfeld
  • Unterbuch (567) with Burgstall, Grubberg, Jungberg and Neudörfl
  • Unterdombach (133) with Ritterhof
  • Weinberg (407) with Buchberg and Hartl

Incorporation and amalgamation of municipalities

The former municipality of Buch was founded in 1850 from the two current cadastral municipalities of Oberbuch and Unterbuch . In 1959 it was merged with the municipality of Geiseldorf to form the municipality of Buch-Geiseldorf .
In 1969, the municipality of Buch-Geiseldorf was given the current cadastral municipality of Unterdombach by the municipality of Wenireith when the latter became part of the municipality of Hartberg surroundings .

On January 1, 2013, Buch-Geiseldorf was united with Sankt Magdalena am Lemberg to form the first newly created community in Styria (Buch-St. Magdalena) on the occasion of the municipal structural reform 2010–2015 .

Neighboring communities

Hartberg surroundings Hartberg , Sankt Johann in der Haide Rohr near Hartberg
Kaindorf , Ebersdorf Neighboring communities Rohr near Hartberg
Ebersdorf Bad Waltersdorf Bad Waltersdorf

Population development

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The south autobahn A2 runs through the municipality, but has no junction in this area. The nearest junction is Sebersdorf / Bad Waltersdorf (exit 126). The Wechsel Straße B 54 from Hartberg to Gleisdorf can be reached via the neighboring town of Hartberg.

The thermal railway runs through the municipality, but has no stop here. Since the Buch and Geiseldorf stops are no longer served, the nearest train station is in Sebersdorf, about five kilometers away. It offers regional train connections to Vienna and Fehring every two hours .

The Graz Airport is about 65 km away.

education

In Sankt Magdalena there is the VS St. Magdalena am Lemberg (founded in the early 18th century, 2013 Meistersinger for the school choir)

Culture and sights

politics

mayor

In the constituent meeting of the municipal council in April 2015, Mayor Gerhard Gschiel (ÖVP) was confirmed in his office. Gschiel headed the municipality of St. Magdalena am Lemberg before the merger and was also appointed government commissioner until the new elections in April 2013 .

The municipality board also includes the vice mayor (ÖVP) and the municipal treasurer (ÖVP).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and, after the 2015 municipal council election, was composed of mandataries from the following parties (in brackets the comparison with the first joint municipal council election in 2013):

Local partnerships

Coat of arms Schmalegg.svg

St. Magdalena has been partnered with Schmalegg , a town in the city of Ravensburg ( Baden-Württemberg , Germany ) since 1977 . The new church took over this partnership.

coat of arms

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The municipality was given a coat of arms with effect from April 1, 2015, which combines the contents of the coats of arms of the previous municipalities. His description is:

"A red ointment vessel in a golden shield with a red inner rim, which is covered with eight golden beech leaves."

The new municipal coat of arms was designed in accordance with the Styrian regional government in such a way that “if possible, both municipal coats of arms are retained in the new coat of arms”.

Coats of arms of the previous municipalities

Buch-Geiselsdorf listed "In a red shield four golden beech leaves growing cross-shaped from a common origin ." (The speaking beech leaves for the four parts of the community, red for the founder of Geiseldorf , Gisela von Assach, Gisela Geisel in the sense of martyrdom ). The coat of arms was awarded in 2001.

St. Magdalena carried "a silver ointment vessel in a red shield with a silver inner rim , which is covered with green clover leaves ." (The saints attributes of St.  Mary Magdalene and Patrizius ). The coat of arms was awarded in 1988.

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Ludwig Hirsch (* 1946 in Weinberg; † 2011 in Vienna), songwriter and actor

Web links

Commons : Buch-Sankt Magdalena  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Local council election 2020 - results Buch-St. Magdalena. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 .
  2. Regionalinformation.zip  (Excel file, 1,210 KB); accessed on January 4, 2018
  3. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  4. ^ Kramer, Mirsch, Rupp: At home in ... Documentation of the communities in the Hartberg district. Scripta Verlag, 1996, p. 90 .
  5. Styria State Law Gazette No. 106/2012 (pdf, ris.bka ).
  6. Buch-Geiseldorf community, St. Magdalena am Lemberg community (ed.): Information, questions and answers on the Buch-St.Magdalena community association. Information sheet , 2012 ( pdf , st-magdalena-lemberg.steiermark.at, accessed 5/2013).
  7. ^ VS St. Magdalena am Lemberg
  8. Photo gallery ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , former municipal website st-magdalena-lemberg.steiermark.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-magdalena-lemberg.steiermark.at
  9. ^ Municipality of Buch-St. Magdalena: Municipal Council , accessed on May 18, 2015
  10. Elections. Retrieved March 25, 2020 .
  11. ^ Announcement of the Styrian regional government of March 12, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Buch-St. Magdalena (political district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria from March 19, 2015. No. 23, year 2015. ZDB -ID 705127-x .
  12. It can also be an existing coat of arms of a municipality. Indication of information, questions and answers to the community association book-St. Magdalena , question What happens to the previous coats of arms of the municipalities? , P. 3.
  13. Gernot Peter Obersteiner: The Styrian municipal coats of arms awarded in 2001 and 2002 . In: Mitteilungen des Steiermärkisches Landesarchivs 52/53, 2004, pp. 59–63 ( pdf , landesarchiv.steiermark.at).
  14. Page no longer available , search in web archives: coat of arms of the municipality of St. Magdalena am Lemberg , former municipal website st-magdalena-lemberg.steiermark.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.st-magdalena-lemberg.steiermark.at