Sankt Peter ob Judenburg

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Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Styria

Political District :

Murtal

License plate :

MT (from July 1, 2012; old: JU)

Surface:

50.28 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 11 ' N , 14 ° 35' E Coordinates: 47 ° 11 '0 " N , 14 ° 35' 0" E

Height :

750 m above sea level A.

Residents :

1,078 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

21 inhabitants per km²

Postal code :

8755

Area code :

03579, 03572

Community code :

6 20 32

NUTS region

AT226

Address of the
municipal administration:

Hauptstrasse 17
8755 Sankt Peter ob Judenburg

Website:

st-peter-judenburg.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Wolfgang Rosenkranz ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2020 )
(15 members)

9

4th

2

9 4th 2

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 9
SPÖ : 4
FPÖ : 2

Location of Sankt Peter ob Judenburg in the Murtal district

View from Falkenberg to St. Peter ob Judenburg

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Peter ob Judenburg is a municipality with 1078 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Austrian state of Styria .

geography

Center of St. Peter

The place Pichl seen from the Falkenberg

View from the Falkenberg to the town of Pichl and the Murtal

View of Rothenthurm from the Falkenberg

View of Rothenthurm and Sankt Peter ob Judenburg from the east

Sankt Peter ob Judenburg and Thalheim from the east

Sankt Peter is located approx. 5 km west of the district capital Judenburg im Murtal on the northernmost foothills of the Seetal Alps , at the foot of the Zirbitz massif or on the right (southern) bank of the Mur, the highest point in the community is the Erslstand at 2124 m .

Community structure

The community consists of the four cadastral communities : St. Peter, Rothenthurm, Feistritzgraben, Möschitzgraben.

There are the following localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Feistritzgraben (81)
Furth (77)
Mitterdorf (32)
Möschitzgraben (67)
Pichl (30)
Rach (13)
Rothenthurm (402)
Sankt Peter ob Judenburg (376)

Neighboring communities

	Pöls-Oberkurzheim
Sankt Georgen ob Judenburg		Judenburg
Scheifling	Judenburg

history

The political community Sankt Peter ob Judenburg was established in 1849/50 and originally only comprised the area of the cadastral community Sankt Peter. After the eastern part (the western part - Schütt - came to what was then Wöll) to St. Peter in 1951 after the dissolution of the municipality of Pichl, the union of the municipalities of Feistritzgraben, Möschitzgraben, Rothenthurm and Sankt Peter ob Judenburg was created on January 1st, 1970 today's municipality of Sankt Peter ob Judenburg.

A community association (3G) was founded with the two neighboring communities of St. Georgen ob Judenburg and Unzmarkt-Frauenburg.

In 2018, the three municipalities also founded a tourism association called Urtal .

Culture and sights

In the parish church of St. Peter ob Judenburg there is a fisherman's pulpit built by the Judenburg sculptor Johann Nischlwitzer in 1774. During the renovation of the interior of the church in the early 1990s, ceiling frescoes of the twelve apostles were exposed.
Museum Furth-Schmiede: The former blacksmith's and equipment shop in the Furth district was renovated on the initiative of an association and is open to the public as a museum.
AuErlebnisWeg Schau die Au: In 2004 the “Schau die Au” educational trail was opened in St. Peterer Au near Furth. At 5 stations, the visitor is brought closer to the fluvial world. Length (there and back): 4 km.

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

Many employed people commute to the neighboring communities, the 145 jobs available in St. Peter are structured (according to the 2001 census) as the graphic shows.

In addition to the growing craft businesses in the districts of St. Peter, Rothenthurm and Furth, an industrial area was opened up around 2000 in the east of Rothenthurm on Triesterstraße. In 2011, the 3G communities of St. Peter ob Judenburg, St. Georgen ob Judenburg and Unzmarkt-Frauenburg built the 3G industrial park east of the Furth district.

traffic

Street: Sankt Peter is located on the busy B317 Friesacher Strasse, which is part of the shortest route from Vienna to Italy. The volume of traffic is correspondingly high. In addition, the B114 Triebener Straße branches off from the B317 in the municipality, the easternmost crossing over the Niedere Tauern .

politics

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The municipal council has 15 members.

With the municipal council elections in Styria in 2000, the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP and 5 SPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Styria in 2005 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 10 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Styria in 2010 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 1 FPÖ.
With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ and 2 FPÖ.

mayor

since 1998 Wolfgang Rosenkranz (ÖVP)

Personalities

Honorary citizen of the community

1985 Franz Sattler (councilor)
1988 Josef Riegler (* 1938) (Federal Minister for Agriculture and Forestry)
1989 Josef Gascha (Mayor of St. Peter ob Judenburg 1970–1975)
1999 Walter Frewein (Mayor of St. Peter ob Judenburg 1985–1998)

People related to the community

Alf Poier (* 1967) cabaret artist
Gerfried Stocker, Head of Ars Electronica
Willibald Cernko (* 1956) bank manager
Martin Gutl (1942 - 1994) Pastor of St. Peter ob Judenburg 1981-1984

literature

Johann Andritsch: St. Peter ob Judenburg with Rothenthurm, Feistritzgraben, Möschitzgraben, Pichl. History of a community. St. Peter ob Judenburg 1993