Mureck

Borough Mureck
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Southeast Styria
License plate :	SO (from 1.7.2013; old: RA)
Surface:	38.73 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 43 '  N , 15 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 42 '34 "  N , 15 ° 46' 10"  E
Height :	237  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,521 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8480
Area code :	03472
Community code :	6 23 83
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 30 8480 Mureck
Website:	www.mureck.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Anton Vukan ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2015) (21 members)	10 8th 1 1 1 10 8th 1 1 1  A total of 21 seats SPÖ : 10 ÖVP : 8 FPÖ : 1 GREEN : 1 wild council : 1
Location of Mureck in the district of Southeast Styria
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

The town hall

House at Bahnhofplatz 10

Mureck (Slov. Cmurek ) is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the state of Styria in Austria with 3521 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). It is located in the judicial district of Feldbach . On January 1, 2015, the former municipalities of Eichfeld and Gosdorf were incorporated into the municipality as part of the structural reform in Styria .

The incorporation of the neighboring communities Eichfeld and Gosdorf near the community of Mureck was based on a resolution of the community council of June 27, 2013. The new community continues to bear the name "Stadtgemeinde Mureck".

On June 10, 2018, a referendum took place about the desire to move to the neighboring Leibnitz district, in which 78.8 percent of Mureckers voted for a move to Leibnitz.

geography

Geographical location

Mureck is located in the south of Styria on the Slovenian border. The Mur floodplains with almost untouched nature are in the immediate vicinity of the city.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following eight localities (population in brackets, as of January 1, 2020):

• Diepersdorf (123)
• Eichfeld (333)
• Flood Village (47)
• Gosdorf (574)
• Hainsdorf-Brunnsee (189)
• Misselsdorf (458)
• Mureck (1504)
• Oberrakitsch (293)

The community consists of seven cadastral communities (area as of 2015):

• Diepersdorf (262.24 ha)
• Eichfeld (580.49 ha)
• Fluttendorf (184.84 ha)
• Gosdorf (1,125.84 ha)
• Hainsdorf (441.18 ha)
• Mureck (499.52 ha)
• Oberrakitsch (777.68 ha)

Neighboring communities

Sankt Veit in southern Styria district Leibnitz	Sankt Peter am Ottersbach	German Goritz
Straß in Steiermark Bez. Leibnitz		Halfway
Šentilj ( Slovenia ) Podravska		Apače ( Slovenia ) Pomurska

Mureck around 1830, Wonsidler

history

On June 1, 1975, the community was given the designation "Stadtgemeinde".

Population development

Culture and sights

Buildings

Parish Church of St. Bartholomew in Mureck

See also:  List of listed objects in Mureck

• Parish church hl. Bartholomäus : data going back to the year 1187; During renovation work in the spring of 1998, however, the remains of an 11th century Romanesque church built. Around 1500 construction of a Gothic church. Destruction by the Turks (1532) and by fires in 1756 and 1768. The current church building dates back to a baroque building from 1780. The parish church has a cemetery with the mausoleum of Maria Karolina of Naples-Sicily (1798–1870) (see literature)
• City Hall Mureck: The City Hall is Mureck's landmark and, in contrast to the other buildings, has three floors and a six-story tower.

The ship mill on the Mur

• Town hall bell: The town hall has a baroque bell from 1737, which is of great historical interest. The bell has reliefs of saints, a coat of arms medallion and an inscription that refers to the manufacture. It is a rare and completely preserved bell from the Baroque period.
• Marian column: In 1665 the citizens of the city erected a statue of the Virgin Mary on the square in front of the town hall (until 1938 facing east) due to a plague pledge. The sculpture of St. Mary with the child is from this time. Around 1740 the decorated obelisk and sculptures of the patron saints Florian (fire) and Donatus (weather) were added.
• Ship mill on the Mur (see web links)

View of Mureck

• Auerlebnisweg Mureck: The Auerlebnisweg leads through the Mureck floodplains, which are the second largest floodplain forest area in Austria. The Grenzmurauen offer natural flood protection, are an important groundwater reservoir and are home to a variety of rare plants and animals.

music

• Mureck Border Country Costume Chapel

Regular events

• Entry of Saint Nicholas with his entourage: Every year since 1977, Nicholas and his sinister entourage have moved into the town of Mureck. 16 masks carved out of wood, which have been made one by one over the past few years, create a "hell of a spectacle" in front of the Mureck town hall.

Wake-up call from the Mureck border country costume band on May 1st on a restored truck.

• Wake-up call: The Mureck border costume band has been waking up the early morning hours for May 1st since 1954. Until 1964 you were out on foot and then switched to a truck.
• New Year's wish concert : Since 2006 the Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck has been organizing a concert in the cultural center in Mureck at the beginning of January, at which modern music is performed in addition to typical brass band songs.

Sports

• Beach volleyball club
• ESV Mureck
• ESV Misselsdorf
• TUS Mureck
• Sportunion Judoclub Eichfeld

Service clubs

• Leo Club South Styrian Unity
• Lions Club Bad Radkersburg-Mureck

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Mureck is on the Radkersburger Bahn , today part of the Styrian S-Bahn . From Mureck train station you can reach Spielfeld-Straß in about 15 minutes , where there is a connection to international rail traffic with InterCity and EuroCity trains. Trains to Graz run every one to two hours from Mureck, usually with a change in Spielfeld-Straß. The journey to Graz currently takes around 50 to 70 minutes.

Mureck is located on the Südsteirische Grenzstraße B 69. In Spielfeld, around twelve kilometers from the center of Mureck, there is a connection to the Pyhrn Autobahn A 9.

In Mureck there is a connection to Slovenia via a road bridge .

education

Mureck is a school town whose training and further education facilities are frequented by around 1,000 students every day and offer the residents various employment opportunities.

• Elementary school
• secondary schools
• Polytechnic school
• State Vocational School Mureck
• Federal Institute for Kindergarten Education
• Higher educational establishment for economic professions
• Municipal music and art school: Music and art school for elementary, middle and higher music and art education with public rights
• Special education center

Fire brigades

• FF Eichfeld
• FF Gosdorf
• FF Hainsdorf-Brunnsee
• FF Misselsdorf
• FF Mureck
• FF Oberrakitsch

Leisure and sports facilities

• Murradweg
• Outdoor pool : large adventure pool with three pools, 56 m giant slide, lazy river, children's play stream. Sports at the outdoor pool: in the immediate vicinity are
  • Tennis courts
  • Tennis hall with squash box
  • Beach volleyball facility
  • Football field
  • Mini golf course
  • Volleyball fields
  • Table tennis tables
• Campsite : directly adjacent to the outdoor pool
• Cyclists and youth hostel: right next to the outdoor pool
• Youth center JUZ House: with free internet connection
• Climbing tower of the Mureck Alpine Club
• Long-distance hiking trails Südalpenweg and Grabenlandtrail
• Boat tours on the Mur with the Alpine Club
• Speedway-Mureck: Since 1949, spectacular races have been held on the 427 m long dirt track. In 2012 even the European Championship final.

politics

Municipal council elections

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51.83%
(+ 17.65  % p )

35.07%
(-24.01  % p )

8.15%
(+ 4.84  % p )

4.95%
(+1.51  % p )

SPÖ

ÖVP

FPÖ

GREEN

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2015



Remarks:

^z The values ​​for 2010 resulted from the sum of the individual results of the now merged municipalities in the 2010 election.

mayor

Mayor is Anton Vukan from the SPÖ . He succeeds Waltraud Sudy (ÖVP), who headed the city as mayor until December 31, 2014 and then headed the business as government commissioner.

The community board also included the vice mayor Franz Neubauer (SPÖ), the second vice mayor Klaus Strein (ÖVP), the community treasurer Josef Kaufmann (SPÖ) and the board member is Josef Krenn (ÖVP).

After the municipal council elections in 2020 , Klaus Strein (BL) and Gerda Minauf (ÖVP) were elected vice mayors.

Municipal council

The municipal council was expanded from 15 to 21 mandates in 2015 through the incorporation. The result of the 2015 municipal council election results in the following distribution of mandates:

• 11 SPÖ
• 08 ÖVP
• 01 FPÖ
• 01 green

Since the municipal council meeting on February 2, 2016, the following mandate distribution has been in place:

• 10 SPÖ
• 08 ÖVP
• 01 FPÖ
• 01 green
• 01 non-attached municipal council

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010
	Large community			Mureck			Eichfeld			Gosdorf
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	0822	35	08th	493	55	9	521	79	7th	379	47	7th
SPÖ	1215	52	11	237	27	4th	140	21st	2	429	53	8th
FPÖ	0191	08th	01	078	09	1	not running			not running
The green	0116	05	01	081	09	1	not running			not running
Eligible voters	3,090			1,322			786			994
voter turnout	77%			68%			87%			86%

Town twinning

• Lenauheim in Romania

coat of arms

The municipality's coat of arms was awarded on February 14, 1567 by Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria.
Blazon :

“Ainen Rotten or ruby ​​colored shields basically between two green Pergen or Leytten ain water Stram over the same vnnd from ainer Leytten to the other ain Pruggen of white square stones and raised cynnen, in the middle of the water on a celebrated Seull or Phailler stands on yedemeen Place of the same Prukhen a white round door with cynnes like the Pruggen, open door, and lap gates appear. "

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1st, 2015. The re-award took place with effect from January 10, 2016.
The new blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

"In a red shield over a silver, blue-flooded shield base bordered by two green lines on the side, a silver square and seven-fold tinned arch bridge with a central pillar, on each side of the bridge a silver square and five-fold tinned round tower with a black perforated round arched gate facing the center of the shield silver portcullis. "

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1949: Julius Franz Schütz (1889–1961), writer
• 1952: Franz Platzer (1894–1961), Rector of the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben 1945–1953
• 1976: Friedrich Niederl (1920–2012), Governor of Styria 1971–1980
• 1976: Franz Wegart (1918–2009), Deputy Governor
• 1985: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), governor

sons and daughters of the town

• Joseph Thaddäus Winnerl (1799–1886), clockmaker
• Vinzenz Knödl (1821–1890), Dept.
• Sepp Amschl (1878–1943), teacher and composer
• Max Robathin (1882–1970), painter
• Julius Franz Schütz (1889–1961), writer
• Julius Zerzer (1889–1971), writer and teacher
• Franz Platzer (1894–1961), Rector of the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben 1945–1953
• Lois Pregartbauer (1899–1971), painter and graphic artist

Personalities associated with the city

• Dieter Dorner (1943–2012), moderator
• Sara Nardelli (* 1990), musician

literature

• Heima Kaindl, Franz Kügerl (ed.): The Mureck parish church. History - Architecture - Art , Verlag Diözesanmuseum Graz, Graz, ISBN 3-901810-05-6

Web links

Commons : Mureck  - Collection of Images

Wikisource: Muereck in the Topographia Austriacarum (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• 62383 - Mureck. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Site of the municipality of Mureck
• The Mureck parish church Web presence of the Graz-Seckau diocese
• The Mureck ship mill
• The Mureck border country costume band

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of the Styrian regional government of September 12, 2013 on the unification of the municipality of Mureck and the municipalities of Eichfeld and Gosdorf, all of the political district of Southeast Styria. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 99, 28th issue. P. 555.
2. ↑ Murecker decide on a change of district orf.at, June 9, 2018, accessed June 9, 2018.
3. ↑ orf.at: Mureck: Almost 80 percent for a change of district . Article dated June 10, 2018, accessed June 10, 2018.
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ↑ cadastral communities Styria. 2015 (Excel file, 128 KB); Retrieved July 29, 2015
6. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
7. ↑ Chronicle of the Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Associations / public. Corporations. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Election results of the municipal council election 2015 and calculated values ​​of the now merged municipalities in the 2010 election. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
10. ^ Johann Schleich: Mureck: The city has a new municipal council. In: Small newspaper . August 3, 2020, accessed on August 3, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Elections. Retrieved February 24, 2020 . 
12. ↑ Home Pader the municipality Mureck (Part: The local council). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 4, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 13, 1963, p. 80
14. ↑ 132. Announcement of the Styrian regional government of December 17, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Mureck (political district of Southeast Styria) , accessed on January 2, 2016
15. ↑ Weltpresse Graz (November 12, 1949).
16. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (May 20, 1952), p. 4.
17. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (June 29, 1976), p. 5.
18. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (June 29, 1976), p. 5.