Geistthal-Södingberg

Geistthal-Södingberg
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Voitsberg
License plate :	VO
Main town :	Geistthal
Surface:	52.6 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 6 '  N , 15 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '30 "  N , 15 ° 10' 18"  E
Height :	582  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,496 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8152, 8153
Primaries :	03142, 03149
Community code :	6 16 28
Address of the municipal administration:	Geistthal 83 8153 Geistthal-Södingberg
Website:	www.geistthal-soedingberg.at
politics
Mayoress :	Klaudia Stroißnig ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2015) (15 members)	7th 5 2 1 7th 5 2 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 7 SPÖ : 5 Citizen list Geistthal-Södingberg : 2 FPÖ : 1
Location of Geistthal-Södingberg in the Voitsberg district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Geistthal-Södingberg has been a municipality in the Voitsberg district in Styria since the beginning of 2015 . The community Geistthal-Södingberg emerged as part of the structural reform in Styria from the communities Geistthal and Södingberg, which were dissolved at the end of 2014 .

Community structure

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

• Eggartsberg (268)
• Geistthal (223)
• Kleinalpe (102)
• Soedingberg (787)
• Sonnleiten (116)

The community covers 52.6 km² and consists of four cadastral communities (area 2016):

• Eggartsberg (711.73 ha)
• Geistthal (951.57 ha)
• Södingberg (1,606.44 ha)
• Sonnleiten (852.06 ha)

Neighboring communities

The community Geistthal-Södingberg is surrounded by six neighboring communities, three of which are in the Graz-Umgebung district (GU).

	Ubelbach (GU)
Kainach near Voitsberg		Gratwein street angel (GU)
Bärnbach	Stallhofen	Stiwoll (GU)

politics

The municipal council has 15 members. Since the municipal council elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council has the following distribution:

• ÖVP 7
• SPÖ 5
• Citizens' list Geistthal-Södingberg 2
• FPÖ 1

mayor

• from 2015 Johann Hiden (ÖVP), resigned at the end of 2018
• 2019 Andreas Läßer as deputy mayor on an interim basis
• since January 2019 Klaudia Stroißnig

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Geistthal-Södingberg

• Geistthal parish church
• Buchhaus Geistthal
• Women's fountain
• Villa Rustica near Södingberg

Historical maps

• The Södingberg area in regional surveys from around 1789 to 1910
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  Södingberg in the Josephinische Landesaufnahme around 1790

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  Södingberg on the northern edge of the Kainach Valley, recording sheet from the state survey around 1878

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Franz Weiss (1921–2014), painter and sculptor

Personalities associated with the community

• Franz Huber (1857–1953), CS politician and landowner

literature

• Ernst Lasnik: Södingberg. Portrait of a landscape. Södingberg 2009.

Web links

Commons : Geistthal-Södingberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 61628 - Geistthal-Södingberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.geistthal-soedingberg.at Homepage of the community

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of December 19, 2013 about the union of the communities Geistthal and Södingberg, both political district Voitsberg. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 30, 2013. No. 189, 38th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . P. 764.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
5. ↑ Mayor Hiden resigned from office. In: mein district.at. January 7, 2019, accessed July 7, 2019 . 
6. ↑ The time to change is important . Article dated February 20, 2019, accessed February 23, 2019.
7. ↑ Our district has a mayor again . Article from January 21, 2019, accessed on February 23, 2019.