Gutenberg-Stenzengreith

coat of arms

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Styria

Political District :

Wheat

License plate :

WZ

Main town :

Kleinsemmering

Surface:

22.92 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 13 ' N , 15 ° 34' E Coordinates: 47 ° 12 '32 " N , 15 ° 33' 47" E

Height :

569 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,623 (January 1, 2020)

Postcodes :

8061, 8160, 8162

Primaries :

03132, 03172

Community code :

6 17 61

NUTS region

AT224

Address of the
municipal administration:

Kleinsemmering 96
8160 Weiz

Website:

www.gutenberg-stenzengreith.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Vinzenz Mautner ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : (Election year: 2015 )
(15 members)

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 7
SPÖ : 5
GREEN : 2
FPÖ : 1

Location of Gutenberg-Stenzengreith in the Weiz district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

BW

Gutenberg-Stenzengreith has been a municipality in the Weiz district in Styria since 2015 . It emerged as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the municipalities of Gutenberg an der Raabklamm and Stenzengreith, which were dissolved at the end of 2014 .

Geology and geography

Community structure

The municipality includes five localities and cadastral communities of the same name (residents: as of January 1, 2020; area: as of December 31, 2018):

Cadastral municipality / locality	Area in ha	Inhabitants January 1st, 2020
Garrach ^G.	1,038.65	494
Kleinsemmering ^G	415.73	769
Plenzengreith ^P	475.95	167
Stenzengreith ^S.	575.51	210
Stockheim ^S.	262.02	150

^G Formerly the community of Gutenberg an der Raabklamm

^P formerly the municipality of Stenzengreith; from 2020 in the Passail community (see #History )

^S formerly the municipality of Stenzengreith

history

The community was created on January 1, 2015 from the merger of the former communities of Gutenberg an der Raabklamm and Stenzengreith. Stockheim, which belongs to the former municipality of Stenzengreith, is one of the earliest Bavarian settlements in the area. Stenzengreith and Plenzengreith are clearing areas.

On January 1, 2020, the cadastral community of Plenzengreith will be separated from the community and incorporated into the neighboring community of Passail .

Culture and sights

Gutenberg Castle with St. Pankraz Chapel on a protruding rock towards the Raab Gorge
Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Maria Loreto above Gutenberg with four initial chapels and cemetery in the district of Kapellenfeld

politics

mayor

On April 27, 2015, Vinzenz Mautner (SPÖ) was elected mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal councils. Mautner was able to prevail in the vote against the former mayor of Gutenberg and interim government commissioner Thomas Wild with 7: 8 votes.

Thomas Wild had to be content with the deputy mayor and, like the community treasurer Erwin Neubauer (ÖVP), belongs to the community board.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and is composed as follows based on the result of the 2015 municipal council election :

7 mandataries of the ÖVP

5 SPÖ mandataries

2 Green mandataries

1 mandate from the FPÖ

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010						2005						2000
	Large community			Gutenberg			Stenzengreith			Gutenberg			Stenzengreith			Gutenberg			Stenzengreith
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	487	41	7th	486	58	9	223	57	5	494	58	9	227	60	6th	411	55	8th	183	52	5
SPÖ	401	33	5	354	42	6th	078	20th	2	294	34	5	095	25th	2	240	32	5	116	33	3
FPÖ	132	11	1	not running			092	23	2	not running			055	15th	1	050	07th	1	053	15th	1
The green	182	15th	2	not running			not running			065	08th	1	not running			048	06th	1	not running
voter turnout	83%			85%			90%			85%			87%			87%			89%

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the former municipality of Stenzengreith

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from August 1, 1984 to the then municipality of Gutenberg an der Raabklamm. Due to the amalgamation of municipalities, the coat of arms temporarily lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new award took place on February 15, 2016.
The blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

" A black whiskers in an ermine ."

Web links

Commons : Gutenberg-Stenzengreith - Collection of images, videos and audio files

61761 - Gutenberg-Stenzengreith. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Community of Gutenberg-Stenzengreith: Official website

Individual evidence

^ Styrian municipal structural reform .

^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 10, 2013 about the union of the communities Gutenberg an der Raabklamm and Stenzengreith, both political districts of Weiz. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of November 15, 2013, No. 118, 32nd issue , ZDB -ID 705127-x , p. 630.

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019

↑ 89. Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 7, 2019 on the change of the border between the community of Gutenberg-Stenzengreith and the market community of Passail, both political district of Weiz. ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on November 14, 2019.

↑ ^a ^b Kleine Zeitung of April 27, 2015: Change of power in Gutenberg-Stenzengreith , accessed on April 29, 2015

↑ 24. Announcement of the Styrian state government of February 4, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Gutenberg-Stenzengreith (political district Weiz) , accessed on February 12, 2016

↑ Heinrich Purkarthofer: The Styrian municipal coats of arms awarded in 1984 and 1985. (PDF) Landesarchiv Steiermark, p. 46 , accessed on June 15, 2015 .

[1] Styrian municipal structural reform .