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Halbenrain is a market town with 1,731 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the southeast of the Austrian state of Styria in the judicial district of Feldbach and in the political district of Southeast Styria .

geography

Geographical location

Halbenrain is located at an altitude of 220 m in the so-called Styrian Vulkanland , around five kilometers west of Bad Radkersburg .

Community structure

The municipality includes ten cadastral (two uninhabited, originally the municipality Abstall were lying in Slovenia today) and is divided into eight same villages (in brackets: Area status December 31, 2019 and Population as of January 1, 2020):

Dietzen (346.43 ha; 182 Ew.) Including Dietzendörfl
Donnersdorf (642.53 ha; 126 Ew.) Including Oberau and Unterau
Dornau (124.54 ha; 59 Ew.)
Drauchen (166.17 ha; 55 Ew.)
Halbenrain (979.55 ha; 605 Ew.) Including Dorntal and Lahndörfl
Hürth (638.90 ha; 111 Ew.) Including Kreuzberg
Leitersdorf II (76.02 ha)
Oberpurkla (461.06 ha; 302 Ew.) With large karter and Kröpflschneider
Sögersdorf (59.33 ha)
Unterpurkla (376.29 ha; 291 Ew.) Including Bachbrucken and Steinfeld

Incorporations

On January 1, 1965, the communities Dietzen, Donnersdorf, Dornau, Drauchen, Hürth (part) and Oberpurkla were merged with Halbenrain. The community Unterpurkla was incorporated on January 1st, 1969.

Neighboring communities

Straden	Tieschen	Kloch
German Goritz		Bad Radkersburg
Mureck	Apače ( Slovenia )

history

Halbenrain Castle, 1830

Halbenrain was first mentioned in a document in 1244.

On January 1, 1985, the municipality was given the designation "Marktgemeinde".

Population development

Culture and sights

Halbenrain parish church

Catholic parish church Halbenrain hl. Nicholas
Halbenrain Castle : In the granary of Halbenrain Castle is the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts and the Hoke School Hortus Niger . Painting, graphics and sculptural design in wood, stone and clay are taught. Lecturers are u. a. Giselbert Hoke , Gerald Brettschuh , ONA B.

societies

The club life in Halbenrain is well developed:

The Strawanzer
Grenzlandmusik Halbenrain
ÖKB local group Halbenrain
Singing circle Halbenrain
Slotcar Club Halbenrain
SV Union Halbenrain
Halbenrain tennis club

Sports

In 2002 the Styrian extreme cyclist Wolfgang Fasching set a 24-hour world record in the individual time trial of 856 km in Halbenrain. As a result of this tradition, Halbenrain is also an annual stopover at the Race Around Austria , an extreme bike race along the border roads around Austria.
Football is played in the Union Raiba Halbenrain sports club, or SVU Raiba Halbenrain for short. The tennis court in Halbenrain has been in operation again since 2014. There are ice rifle clubs in Halbenrain and Unterpurkla .

Fire brigades

The following five volunteer fire brigades are responsible for fire protection and technical assistance in the area of the market town of Halbenrain:

FF Dietzen
FF Halbenrain
FF Huerth
FF Oberpurkla
FF Unterpurkla

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Rail: The municipality of Halbenrain has two train stations on the Radkersburger Bahn , these are in Purkla and Halbenrain. Every one to two hours trains of the Styrian S-Bahn run towards Graz or Bad Radkersburg .
Road: Halbenrain is on the South Styrian border road B 69.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has a total of 15 members. After the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council had the following distribution:

10 ÖVP
2 FPÖ
2 GREEN
1 SPÖ .

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2020			2015			2010			2005			2000
Political party	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	605	61.05	10	800	76	12	953	77	12	871	71	11	911	76	12
FPÖ	143	14.43	2	not running			not running			not running			115	10	01
GREEN	157	15.84	2	not running			not running			not running			not running
SPÖ	86	8.68	1	249	24	03	279	23	03	213	17th	02	170	14th	02
Citizens' list Halbenrain	not running			not running			not running			148	12	2	not running
Eligible voters				1,521			1,540			1,533			1,494
voter turnout				75%			84%			83%			83%

mayor

since 2005 Dietmar Tschiggerl (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from August 1, 1981. The blazon of the coat of arms reads:

"In black a jumping silver stag over a diamond-shaped braided silver thorn fence growing from the base of the shield."

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

1968: Josef Krainer (1903–1971), Governor of Styria 1948–1971
1977: Franz Wegart (1918–2009), Deputy Governor
1982: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), Governor of Styria 1980–1996
2004: Waltraud Klasnic (* 1945), Governor of Styria 1996–2005

Sons and daughters of the church

Leopold Potzinger (1870–1933), clergyman and politician ( CSP )
Barthold Stürgkh (1898–1965), farmer and politician ( CS , VF , ÖVP )

Web links

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

62326 - Halbenrain. Community data, Statistics Austria .
halbenrain.gv.at Market town of Halbenrain

Individual evidence

↑ Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 kB); accessed on January 10, 2020.
↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ ^a ^b Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
↑ Marktgemeinde Halbenrain, Festschrift on the occasion of the market survey
↑ Elections. Accessed August 21, 2020 .
↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 32, 1982, p. 33
↑ Südost-Tagespost on November 12, 1968, p. 5.

[1] Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 kB); accessed on January 10, 2020.

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-2] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[aenderungen-3] Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945

[4] Marktgemeinde Halbenrain, Festschrift on the occasion of the market survey

[5] Elections. Accessed August 21, 2020 .

[6] Communications from the Styrian State Archives 32, 1982, p. 33

[7] Südost-Tagespost on November 12, 1968, p. 5.