Festenburg (municipality of Sankt Lorenzen)

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Festenburg ( scattered houses )
locality
Festenburg (municipality of Sankt Lorenzen) (Austria)
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Basic data
Pole. District , state Hartberg-Fürstenfeldf8 , Styria
Judicial district Fürstenfeld
Pole. local community Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel   ( KG  Köppel)
Coordinates 47 ° 27 '37 "  N , 15 ° 54' 48"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 27 '37 "  N , 15 ° 54' 48"  Ef1
height 618  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village 158 (January 1, 2020)
Statistical identification
Locality code 15189
Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk
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Festenburg is a village in the municipality of Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel in Styria with 158 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). Individual houses in the settlement to the right of the Hinteren Waldbach belong to the Waldbach-Mönichwald community .

Festenburg is located northwest of Sankt Lorenzen and can be reached via Bruck an der Lafnitz . The Rotten Demmeldorf, Dorfstatt, Dreibach, Greith and Höfern are also in the local area . The hard castle , originally built in 1200 Monastery Castle, located above the village.

There has been a school in Festenburg since 1712, which was initially housed in the castle and moved into the newly built schoolhouse in Demmeldorf in 1902. In 1973 the school house was expanded and rebuilt. In memory of the poet Ottokar Kernstock , the school today bears the name Dr. Ottokar Kernstock Elementary School .

In Festenburg, Hinterer (with the Breingrabenbach ) and Vorderer Waldbach merge to form the Black Lafnitz .

Web links

Commons : Festenburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual proof

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. Chronicle on st-lorenzen-wechsel.at