Pölstal

market community Pölstal
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Murtal
License plate :	MT (from July 1, 2012; old: JU)
Main town :	(unknown)
Surface:	270.22 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 17 ′  N , 14 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	915  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,595 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8762, 8763, 8765
Community code :	6 20 44
Address of the municipal administration:	In the village 2 8763 Möderbrugg
Website:	www.poelstal.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Alois Mayer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2020 ) (15 members)	7th 6th 1 1 7th 6th 1 1  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 7 SPÖ : 6 FPÖ : 1 NEOS : 1
Location of Pölstal in the Murtal district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pölstal is a market town in the Murtal district in Styria .

geography

Community structure

The municipality of Pölstal was created at the beginning of 2015 as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the municipalities of Oberzeiring , Bretstein , Sankt Johann am Tauern and Sankt Oswald-Möderbrugg, which were dissolved at the end of 2014 .

She took over the rank of market town from Oberzeiring .

The municipal area comprises nine localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Bretstone (286)
• Gföllgraben (57)
• Möderbrugg (625)
• Oberzeiring (587)
• Sankt Johann am Tauern shady side (106)
• Sankt Johann am Tauern sunny side (335)
• Saint Oswald (463)
• Zeiringgraben (37)
• Zugal (99)

The former parishes are run as districts , with Sankt Oswald and Möderbrugg, which were united in 1850, are separated again.

The community consists of the six cadastral communities Bretstein , Möderbrugg , Oberzeiring , St. Johann Schattseite , St. Johann Sonnseite and St. Oswald .

Neighboring communities

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Culture and sights

Hanfelden Castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Pölstal

• Hanfelden Castle
• Oberzeiring Bridge
• Catholic parish church Bretstein hl. Catherine
• Catholic parish church Oberzeiring hl. Nicholas
• Catholic branch church Oberzeiring hl. Elisabeth
• Catholic parish church Sankt Johann am Tauern hl. John the Baptist
• Evangelical parish church Sankt Johann am Tauern
• Catholic parish church Sankt Oswald

economy

Together with Pusterwald and Pöls-Oberkurzheim, the community forms the “Region Pölstal” tourism association . Its seat is the municipality of Pölstal.

politics

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal elections in Styria in 2015 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 5 SPÖ and 3 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Styria 2020 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 6 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ and 1 NEOS.

mayor

• since 2015 Alois Mayer (ÖVP)

Web links

Commons : Pölstal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Web presence of the market town of Pölstal

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 8, Item 2 of the Act of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG). Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014. No. 31, year 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 3.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ Figures & Facts , poelstal.gv.at, accessed November 16, 2019.
5. ^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 316. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 pp. 628-629.
6. ^ Election results for the 2015 municipal council elections in Pölstal. State of Styria, March 22, 2015, accessed on July 20, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Results of the municipal council election 2020 in Pölstal. State of Styria, June 28, 2020, accessed on July 20, 2020 .