Floing (Styria)

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Floing
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Floing (Styria) (Austria)
Floing (Styria)
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Styria
Political District : Wheat
License plate : WZ
Main town : Lebing
Surface: 13.28 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 16 '  N , 15 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '49 "  N , 15 ° 44' 48"  E
Height : 639  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,204 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code : 8183
Area code : 03177
Community code : 6 17 10
Address of the
municipal administration:
Lebing 5
8183 Floing
Website: www.floing.at
politics
Mayor : Franz Lichtenegger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015)
(15 members)
9
5
1
A total of 15 seats
Location of Floing in the Weiz district
Albersdorf-Prebuch Anger Birkfeld Fischbach (Steiermark) Fladnitz an der Teichalm Floing Gasen Gersdorf an der Feistritz Gleisdorf Gutenberg-Stenzengreith Hofstätten an der Raab Ilztal Ludersdorf-Wilfersdorf Markt Hartmannsdorf Miesenbach bei Birkfeld Mitterdorf an der Raab Mortantsch Naas Passail Pischelsdorf am Kulm Puch bei Weiz Ratten Rettenegg St. Kathrein am Hauenstein Sankt Kathrein am Offenegg St. Margarethen an der Raab Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab Sinabelkirchen Strallegg Thannhausen Weiz SteiermarkLocation of the municipality of Floing (Styria) in the Weiz district (clickable map)
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Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Floing is in District Weiz location municipality of the Austrian federal state of Styria with 1,204 inhabitants (1 January 2020).

geography

Chapel in Unterfeistritz
Floing Chapel

The municipality of Floing is located in the hilly landscape of Eastern Styria at the foot of the Rabenwald and at the beginning of the Styrian Apple Road . The landscape is characterized by orchards, meadows, mixed forests and the Feistritz river .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following three localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

  • Floing (468)
  • Lebing (429)
  • Unterfeistritz (307)

The community consists of the two cadastral communities Floing and Unterfeistritz.

Further information

* Households: 412 (as of 2012)

Economy and tourism

The Feistritztal cycle route R8 runs through the municipality.

Together with Feistritztal, Anger, Puch bei Weiz and Stubenberg, the municipality forms the “Apfelland Stubenbergseetourist association . Its seat is Stubenberg.

politics

Local council election 2010
Turnout: 87.33% (+4.64 pp)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
50.73%
(-1.24  % p )
39.44%
(-8.59  % p )
8.70%
( n. K. )
1.13%
( n.k. )
2005

2010


Personalities

Honorary citizen

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Othmar Tödling
  • Eva Janko (* 1945), track and field athlete

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  2. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 298. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 623.