Straß in Styria

market community Straß in Styria
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Surface:	47.58 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 44 '  N , 15 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 43 '38 "  N , 15 ° 37' 28"  E
Height :	254  m above sea level A.
Residents :	6,349 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8471-8473
Area code :	03453
Community code :	6 10 61
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 61 8472 Straß in Styria
Website:	www.strass-steiermark.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Reinhold Höflechner ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (21 members)	18th 4th 2 1 18th 4th 2 1  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 18 SPÖ : 4 GREEN : 2 FPÖ : 1
Location of Straß in Steiermark in the Leibnitz district
Town hall in Strass
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Citizen service point (former town hall) in Spielfeld

Former municipal office in Murfeld

Straß in Steiermark is a municipality with 6349 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Leibnitz district in Styria .

geography

Community structure

The municipal area consists of eleven cadastral communities or towns of the same name (area: as of December 31, 2018; inhabitants: as of January 1, 2020):

Cadastral communities	Localities
Gersdorf (462.37 ha) Graßnitzberg (271.25 ha) Lichendorf (566.52 ha) Obegg (145.07 ha) Oberschwarza (227.64 ha) Obervogau (396.28 ha) Playing field (596.57 ha) Straß (412.70 ha) Unterschwarza (337.38 ha) Vogau (604.58 ha) Weitersfeld (735.57 ha)	Gersdorf an der Mur (393) Graßnitzberg (177) Lichendorf (506) Obegg (37) Oberschwarza (156) Obervogau (893) Playing field (683) Straß in Steiermark (1571) Lower Black (214) Vogau (1164) Weitersfeld an der Mur (555)

In the south and southeast the Mur forms the state border with Slovenia .

The center of Straß is close to the Mur River and can be reached via the Mur Cycle Path . In the municipal area is the Attemsmoor , a flow moor that emerged from an overflow moor.

Incorporations

On January 1st, the following were incorporated:

• 1968 Lichendorf, Oberschwarza, Unterschwarza → Weitersfeld an der Mur
• 1969 Gersdorf an der Mur → Straß in Styria

• 2015 Obervogau, Straß in Steiermark, Spielfeld and Vogau were merged into Straß-Spielfeld.
• 2020 Murfeld (without Seibersdorf ) → Straß in Steiermark

Name changes

• June 1, 1951 Gersdorf → Gersdorf an der Mur
• June 1, 1951 Straß → Straß in Steiermark
• January 1, 1969 Weitersfeld an der Mur → Murfeld
• September 1, 1969 Untervogau → Vogau
• January 1st, 2016 Straß-Spielfeld → Straß in Steiermark

Neighboring communities

Wagna	Gabersdorf	Sankt Veit in southern Styria
Ehrenhausen on the Weinstrasse		Mureck district. Southeast Styria
Kungota ( Slovenia ) Podravska	Šentilj ( Slovenia ) Podravska

history

The municipality was created with the new name Straß-Spielfeld as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the municipalities of Obervogau , Vogau , Straß in Steiermark and Spielfeld, which were dissolved at the end of 2014 . A complaint by the municipality of Vogau against the merger at the Constitutional Court was unsuccessful.

According to a municipal council resolution, from January 1, 2016, the municipality will use the name of the old municipality “Straß in Steiermark”.

At the end of 2019, the neighboring community of Murfeld was dissolved and divided between the two communities Sankt Veit and Straß, the cadastral communities of Oberschwarza, Unterschwarza, Lichendorf and Weitersfeld were incorporated into the market community of Straß. This increased the population to 6349, and the area of ​​the municipality increased by 18.67 km².

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Straß in Steiermark

These are major local attractions

• Princely Eggenberg Castle Straß
• The parish church of Straß (built as a castle church in the 17th century by Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg , laying of the foundation stone on September 9, 1626 by the Prince-Bishop of Seckau , Jakob I. Eberlein; consecration on October 28, 1629).
• Troop museum of the Archduke Johann barracks
• Tegetthof Park

Sports

• The leisure center with hall and sports field offers the opportunity to practice trend sports such as beach volleyball and skating as well as several asphalt lanes for stick shooters (two lanes in the hall).
• In winter you can ice skate and curling on the asphalt rink.
• The tennis club in Straß rents out two tennis courts at the secondary school when there is no play.
• The training ground of the sports club in Straß is available for ball games during non-training times.

Regular events

Every year on December 5th, the Krampus Run takes place in Straß , where two Krampus groups from Strassen ("Südsteirische Teufel" and "Schwarze Straßer Teufel") organize a hustle and bustle along the Krampus mile in Strassen. Carnival meetings are also held every year .

The garrison festival that takes place in summer is known throughout Styria.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Major roads in the municipality are towards Graz and Maribor the Pyhrn motorway A9 and the Grazerstraße B 67. In East-West direction is the Südsteirische Grenzstraße B 69th

At the Spielfeld-Straß train station , the Südbahn in the direction of Graz and Maribor and the Radkersburger Bahn , which are served by the Styrian S-Bahn , meet .

Public facilities

Barracks in Strass

In Castle Strasbourg is located Archduke Johann army barracks of the Austrian Federal Army . The 17 Jäger Battalion ( belonging to JgBrig 7 ), the only hardened Jäger unit (i.e. equipped with Pandur armored vehicles), is stationed here.

education

• four kindergartens: in Straß, Vogau, Obervogau and Spielfeld
• Elementary school in Straß, eight classes (2016/17) with a focus on health education
• Elementary school playing field
• New secondary school in Straß, seven classes (2016/17)

tourism

Together with Ehrenhausen an der Weinstrasse , Leutschach an der Weinstrasse , Oberhaag and Arnfels the community forms the tourism association “The Southern Styrian Wine Route”. Its headquarters are in Leutschach on the Weinstrasse.

politics

mayor

Reinhold Höflechner (ÖVP) was elected mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council in April 2015 .

The community board also includes the first vice mayor Johann Lappi (ÖVP), the second vice mayor Ewald Schantl (SPÖ), the community treasurer Romana Vehovec-Huhs (ÖVP) and the board member Manuel Kahr (FPÖ).

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 21 members. According to the result of the 2015 municipal council election , it is composed as follows:

• 12 mandates ÖVP
• 06 mandates SPÖ
• 03 FPÖ mandates

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2020			2015			2010
	Large community			Straß in Styria						matchfield			Obervogau			Vogau
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP				1457	56	12	709	68	11	194	29	3	360	65	6th	415	61	10
SPÖ				0741	28	06th	244	23	03	272	40	4th	193	35	3	203	30th	04th
FPÖ				0415	16	03	091	09	01	023	03	0	not running			058	09	01
Playing field independent				not running						184	27	2	not running
Eligible voters				4,001			1,454			791			711			899
voter turnout				66%			73%			85%			79%			76%

coat of arms

• 

  Straß in Steiermark
  (until 2014)

• 

  Obervogau

• 

  matchfield

• 

  Vogau

• 

  Murfeld
  (until 2019)

The municipal coat of arms was awarded on September 4, 1625 by Johann Ulrich von Eggenberg.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

"Aine shield posted in two thail, the Vndern thail des Schildts black, on it two yellow thorns with a portten on a green field, through the port ain white streets, the upper thail des Schildts white inside a black rabbit, standing with outstretched wings, the hood of the raven is adorned with a gilded cron. "

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The former municipalities of Obervogau , Spielfeld and Vogau had their own coats of arms until the merger at the end of 2014, as did the municipality of Murfeld, which was largely incorporated in 2020.

The re-award of the municipal coat of arms took effect on June 25, 2016.
The blazon reads:

“In the shield, which is divided from silver to black, a black, gold-crowned raven flying up above, a tinned city wall with two tinned towers, walled in gold on a green field, and broken by a gate; a silver road leads through the gate. "

Community partnerships

Straß maintains a partnership with the market town of Schwarzenfeld , Schwandorf district, Bavaria.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1989: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor

Sons and daughters of the church

• August Krumholz (1844 – after 1914), architect
• Wilhelm Aduatz (1916–1978), architect

Web links

Commons : Straß in Steiermark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Straß in der Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 61061 - Straß in Steiermark. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.strass-steiermark.gv.at Website of the market town

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
4. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 5, Item 2 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014, No. 31, year 2014, ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 3.
5. ↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 24 November 2014 G 117/2014.
6. ↑ 89. Announcement of the Styrian Provincial Government of October 15, 2015 on the change of the municipality name of the market town "Straß-Spielfeld" in the political district of Leibnitz to "Straß in Steiermark" , LGBl., Issued on October 20, 2015
7. ↑ "New community names again" on krone.at on October 13, 2015, accessed on October 21, 2015
8. ^ Murfeld municipality is dissolved. ORF , March 3, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2019 . 
9. ↑ 46th law of April 2, 2019 on the division of the Murfeld community into the adjacent market communities of Sankt Veit in southern Styria and Straß in Styria , accessed on June 17, 2019
10. ↑ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria, December 30, 2014, Volume 210, Issue 52, No. 302, ZDB -ID 1291268-2 , pp. 624–625.
11. ^ Market town of Straß-Spielfeld: Politics & Administration , accessed on June 16, 2015.
12. ↑ ^{a b} Marktgemeinde Straß-Spielfeld: Municipal Council , accessed on June 16, 2015.
13. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 13, 1963, p. 84
14. ↑ 68. Announcement of the Styrian state government of June 7, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Straß in Styria (political district Leibnitz) , accessed on June 23, 2016