Lebring-Sankt Margarethen

market community Lebring-Sankt Margarethen
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Leibnitz
License plate :	LB
Main town :	Lebring
Surface:	7.6 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 52 '  N , 15 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 51 '49 "  N , 15 ° 31' 40"  E
Height :	286  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,210 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8403
Area code :	03182
Community code :	6 10 21
Address of the municipal administration:	Grazerstraße 1 8403 Lebring-Sankt Margarethen
Website:	lebring-st-margarethen.at
politics
Mayor :	Ing.Franz Labugger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (15 members)	12 3 12 3  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 12 SPÖ : 3
Location of Lebring-Sankt Margarethen in the Leibnitz district
Local authority Lebring-St. Margarethen
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Parish Church “St. Margaretha "

Military cemetery from the First World War of the 2nd Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army

Power house of the Lebring power plant

Lebring stop at the Südbahn

State Fire Brigade Association of Styria

Lebring-Sankt Margarethen is a Styrian market town with 2210 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Leibnitz district .

geography

Lebring is located on the right bank of the Mur about four kilometers south of Wildon and eight kilometers north of the city of Leibnitz .

Community structure

On January 1, 1954, the communities of Lebring and Sankt Margarethen near Lebring were merged to form the community of Lebring-Sankt Margarethen.

Since then, the community has consisted of the two cadastral communities Lebring and St. Margareten.

Localities (residents as of January 1, 2020) are:

• Bachsdorf (407),
• Lebring (1005) and
• Sankt Margarethen near Lebring (798).

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are (alphabetically): Gralla , Hengsberg , Lang , Ragnitz , Tillmitsch and Wildon .

history

In 1066 a church is mentioned in a document "within the Hengistburg". It is not certain whether it was St. Margarethen. In any case, in 1136 the church of St. Margaret was transferred to the Suben monastery . As the southernmost parish of the diocese of Seckau at that time , St. Margarethen "iuxta Wildoniam" (near Wildon) is named in its founding document in 1218/19. The parish, which included the towns of Lebring and St. Margarethen, was looked after by the canons of the monastery until the reforms of Joseph II (1784). Murstätten Castle is also located in the village.

The earliest written document about Lebring is from 1153 and is "Lewarn". The name goes back to the Old High German leo (hill, burial mound). Lewarn is the dative ('Bei den Menschen am Hügel').

In 1896 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. The Raiffeisenkasse St. Margarethen bei Lebring was founded in 1899. In 1902 the Lebring power station was built.

In 1915 a barrack camp was built in Lebring, the large barracks , probably a hundred in number, were divided into four square groups and were ready for military use. The main purpose of the accommodation was the placement of the squad or the replacement battalion of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Infantry - Regiment . No. 2. A large part of the camp later served as a prisoner of war camp . The cemetery of this camp with 1670 graves is located in the neighboring municipality of Lang.

A separate gendarmerie post was set up in 1919. In 1973 the Lebring Fire Brigade and Civil Protection School was established. Federal President Dr. Rudolf Kirchschläger opened the Philips color picture tube plant in Lebring in 1974. The grand opening of the secondary school took place in 1978. The State Fire Brigade Association for Styria has been based in Lebring since 1992 . In 1994 the market survey of the place took place.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Lebring-Sankt Margarethen

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Lebring can be reached by train with the S-Bahn from Graz and Spielfeld - Straß . The S-Bahn line S5, which runs every hour, stops more often during rush hour. In Lebring there is also a junction for the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9.

The place is characterized by its location on the B67 state road. This comes from the Wildonerberg in the north, shows a junction to the west to the A9 connection and about in the center of the village an east to a bridge over the Mur a little further south.

The level, but partly unpaved, right bank Mur cycle path is briefly connected to the village.

economy

The community accounts for twelve percent of all jobs in the secondary sector in the Leibnitz district.

Lebring is known in the area for the "Gady-Markt". In March and September - March 2020, the dealer Gady is holding for the 108th time - a sales exhibition with agricultural machines , tractors and cars , combined with a tent festival and amusement park.

AXIS Flight Training Systems develops and produces civil flight simulators.

The Styrian Fire Brigade and Civil Protection School and the Styrian Fire Brigade Command are located in Lebring .

The ÖAMTC operates a driving technique center in the neighboring municipality of Lang . Less than 1/10 of the total area is in the Lebringer area.

Lebring is on the Mur Cycle Path . On the Mur there is a modern river power plant in the town center, a historic one, which has been open as a show power plant for a few years. The meadow landscape in the slightly dammed area is used by water birds as a refuge and breeding ground.

landscape

The elongated ridge of the Buchkogel dominates the plains on the middle course of the Mur (river) as a landmark . Its highest point is at a height of 550 m. Geographically, the mountain is a reef from the Pannonian Sea of ​​the Tertiary period. On the east side of the mountain, at the transition from the steep drop to the flat slope, the surf throat of the primeval sea is still visible today.

The forest area on the Buchkogel in the border area of ​​the Murfeld and Leibnitzerfeld in the communities Wildon, Lebring-St. Margarethen, Lang and Hengsberg have been declared a "Wildoner Buchkogel Nature Reserve". The aim is to protect the near-natural beech forest and the species-rich flora in this area. These plants include beech , Wolfs-Eisenhut , broad leaf, Schmalblatt- and purple Waldvöglein , lily of the valley , Alpenzyklame , Illyrisch- crocus , daphne , helleborine , dog tooth violet , hedge hellebore , spring snowflake , Turk's cap lily , wholesale Two Leaf , Vogelnestwurz , White forest hyacinth , earth primrose , forest violet , grove violet .

politics

mayor

Ing.Franz Labugger (ÖVP) was elected mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council in April 2015 . He thus succeeded Johann Weinzerl (ÖVP), who had headed the Lebring-Sankt Margarethen community since January 2004. Weinzerl was the successor to Franz Steiner (ÖVP), who was head of the community for 15 years.

The community board also includes the deputy mayor Johann Kießner-Haiden (ÖVP) and community treasurer Ing.Stefan Sturm (ÖVP).

Head of office is Karl Mörth, who is also the registrar of the community.

Municipal council

The municipal council has 15 members. According to the result of the 2020 municipal council elections , it is composed as follows:

• 12 mandates ÖVP ,
• 3 mandates SPÖ .

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2020			2015			2010			2005			2000
	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	912	71.70	12	765	58.26	9	740	59	9	698	56	9	662	54	9
SPÖ	300	23.58	3	433	32.98	5	414	33	5	333	27	4th	261	21st	3
FPÖ	60	4.72	0	115	8.76	1	103	8th	1	225	18th	2	223	18th	3
The green	not running			not running			not running			not running			059	05	0
Austrian motorists and citizens' interest party	not running			not running			not running			not running			013	01	0
Eligible voters	1,852			1,775			1,667			1,609			1,464
voter turnout	69%			76%			77%			79%			85%

Others

Lebring has a soccer club, SV Lebring, from which the professionals Christoph Martschinko (Austria Vienna) and Stefan Stangl (Austria Vienna) emerged. The golf course "Gut Murstätten" is located in the village.

The market town also has a traditional music association, the traditional costume band Lebring-St. Margarethen, as well as a fire brigade, the Lebring - St. Margarethen volunteer fire brigade.

Since 2009, the community together with the communities of Hengsberg , Lang , Stocking , Wildon and Weitendorf have formed the Hengist Culture Park . (During the municipal structural reform in Styria , the majority of the Stocking municipality and the Weitendorf municipality were merged with the market municipality of Wildon from 2015.)

Honorary citizen

• Werner Bachofen von Echt (1902–1973)

Personalities

• Christl Ditfurth (* 1943), Austrian ski racer
• Hans Sebinger (1898–1981), Austrian politician
• Franz Gady (1937–2015), Austrian entrepreneur

Web links

Commons : Lebring-Sankt Margarethen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Internet presence of the culture park Hengist

• 61021 - Lebring-Sankt Margarethen. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Fritz Frhr. Lochner von Hüttenbach: On the name property of the early Middle Ages in Styria (=  magazine of the Historical Association for Styria . Volume 99 ). Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2008, p. 51 ( historerverein-stmk.at [PDF; 16.9 MB ]).
3. ↑ Gernot Peter Obersteiner: Barracks in the landscape. (with sketch of the camp area). ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed August 23, 2016). 
4. ↑ District authority Leibnitz: Ordinance of the district captain of Leibnitz of December 16, 2013 on the declaration of the forest at the Wildoner Buchkogel as a plant protection area. Grazer Zeitung, Official Gazette for Styria. December 20, 2013. Year 2013, 51./52. Piece. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 722-723.
5. ↑ ^{a b} community Lebring-Sankt Margarethen: Parish Council ( Memento of the original June 12, 2015 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 11, 2015) 
6. ↑ Karl Brodschneider in “Neues Land”: With new top candidates (PDF document, 152 KB; accessed on June 11, 2015)
7. ↑ Lebring Volunteer Fire Brigade - St. Margarethen .