Murfeld

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Former Murfeld municipal office on the village square in Lichendorf

Until the end of 2019, the municipality of Murfeld was the most south-westerly municipality in the judicial district of Feldbach or the district of Southeast Styria and had 1671 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). At the end of 2019, the community was dissolved and divided between the two communities Sankt Veit in southern Styria and Straß in Styria in the Leibnitz district.

geography

The former rural community Murfeld located in the south of the Eastern Styrian hill country at the mouth of Schwarzau in the Mur and is adjacent to the neighboring country of Slovenia . The area is about 20 km west of Bad Radkersburg and about 40 km south of the provincial capital Graz and has no great differences in altitude in the wide Mur valley (240 to 250 meters above sea level).

Community structure

The municipal area covered 24.22 km² and was divided into five localities and cadastral communities of the same name (population: as of January 1, 2020); Area: As of December 31, 2018:

  • Lichendorf (506 Ew .; 566.52 ha)
  • Oberschwarza (156 Ew .; 227.64 ha)
  • Seibersdorf bei Sankt Veit (Ew .; KG Seibersdorf bei St. Veit 553.69 ha)
  • Unterschwarza (214 Ew .; 337.38 ha)
  • Weitersfeld an der Mur (555 Ew .; 735.57 ha)

There is no place called Murfeld.

Former neighboring communities

Two of the four neighboring communities were in the Leibnitz  (LB) district.

Sankt Veit in southern Styria (LB)
Straß in Steiermark (LB) Neighboring communities Mureck (SO)
Šentilj ( Slovenia )

history

The municipality of Murfeld was created on January 1, 1969 from the union of the previously independent municipalities of Lichendorf, Oberschwarza, Seibersdorf bei Sankt Veit, Unterschwarza and Weitersfeld an der Mur.

Parish consolidation

As early as 2015, the Murfeld municipal council passed a unanimous decision in principle that by 2020 the cadastral community of Seibersdorf near St. Veit with the northern neighboring community of St. Veit in southern Styria and the cadastral communities of Lichendorf, Oberschwarza, Unterschwarza and Weitersfeld an der Mur the neighboring municipality of Straß in Styria to the west are to be merged and thus to move from the district of Southeast Styria to the Leibnitz district . There are also unanimous resolutions in the communities of St. Veit in southern Styria and Straß in Styria to support this merger.

On March 11, 2018, in a referendum with 73% voter turnout, 68% of the Murfelders were in favor of “Murfeld should voluntarily strive for a merger with a neighboring municipality (e.g. St. Veit or Strass-Spielfeld)”. The dissolution and division of the municipality was decided by the Styrian Landtag and announced in the State Law Gazette on May 22, 2019.

Population development

Vischer - Topographia Ducatus Stiriae - 468 Weitersfeld near Mureck


Culture and sights

Lichendorf chapel

Regular events

  • Murfeld Advent Run with Nordic Walking: Since 2005, the Murfeld Advent Run Association has organized a charity run every year in mid-December for the benefit of regional aid projects.

sports clubs

  • SVU Murfeld
  • SG Oberschwarza
  • Sports community Seibersdorf
  • ESV Seibersdorf
  • ESV Unterschwarza
  • ESV Weitersfeld

Youth clubs

  • Country youth Murfeld

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The former municipality is located on the southern Styrian border road B 69 between the Pyhrn motorway A 9 and Bad Radkersburg. The Gersdorf junction (exit 226) is on the western edge of the municipality.

The area has three stops on the Radkersburger train in the villages Schwarza, Lichendorf and Weitersfeld an der Mur, where the line S-Bahn Styriaof the S-Bahn Steiermark by pitch - Strasbourg wrong and Bad Radkersburg. The "stop request" was introduced at these three stops with the 2009/10 timetable change.

The Graz-Thalerhof airport is about 40 km away, the Maribor airport about 35 km away.

Fire brigades

The Voluntary Fire Brigade (FF) Oberschwarza looks after the cadastral communities of Oberschwarza and Seibersdorf. In cooperation with the fire department of Unterschwarza, a joint fire station was built and opened on June 10, 2007.

  • FF Lichendorf
  • FF Oberschwarza
  • FF Unterschwarza
  • FF Weitersfeld on the Mur

politics

mayor

Mayor was Werner Grassl (ÖVP).

Furthermore, Vice Mayor Josef Schef and community treasurer Johann Pittner belonged to the community board.

Municipal council

Municipal council elections
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39.55%
(-24.54  % p )
22.23%
(-7.95  % p )
9.20%
(+ 3.48  % p )
29.02%
( n. K. )
BLM
2010

2015


The municipal council consisted of 15 members and, since the municipal council election in 2015, has consisted of mandates from the following parties:

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party 2015 2010 2005 2000
be right % Mandates St. % M. St. % M. St. % M.
ÖVP 443 40 6th 739 64 10 482 45 7th 613 59 9
SPÖ 249 22nd 3 348 30th 05 476 44 7th 260 25th 4th
FPÖ 103 09 1 066 06th 00 116 11 1 168 16 2
Murfeld Citizens List 325 29 5 not running
Eligible voters 1,407 1,407 1,372 1.310
voter turnout 81% 84% 80% 81%

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the municipality of Murfeld
Blazon : “Of blue and red diagonally square , the dividing lines continuously covered with golden lances ; The side fieldsare archedwith two golden clover leaves and the upper field is covered with a golden clover. "
Establishment of the coat of arms: The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from November 1, 1979.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Murfeld municipality is dissolved. ORF , March 3, 2019, accessed on March 3, 2019 .
  2. a b 46th law of April 2, 2019 on the division of the municipality of Murfeld into the adjacent market communities of Sankt Veit in southern Styria and Straß in Styria , accessed on June 17, 2019
  3. Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
  4. CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019
  5. LGBL. STMK. Piece 22, No. 166/1968, p. 176
  6. Where are we going? In: Murfeld community news. (PDF; 1.4 MB) No. 1/2017, November 2017, accessed on May 9, 2019.
  7. Murfeld voted by a majority for merger. In: orf.at, March 11, 2018, accessed on March 11, 2018.
  8. Murfeld Advent run.
  9. Murfeld municipality: Murfeld municipal council ( Memento from April 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 3, 2015
  10. ^ Notices from the Styrian State Archives. 30, 1980, p. 37.

Coordinates: 46 ° 42 ′ 45 "  N , 15 ° 41 ′ 47"  E