Pirching am Traubenberg

Pirching am Traubenberg
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Southeast Styria
License plate :	SO (from 1.7.2013; old: FB)
Surface:	31.57 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 57 '  N , 15 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '0 "  N , 15 ° 36' 0"  E
Height :	350  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,529 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8081
Area code :	+43 3134
Community code :	6 23 85
Address of the municipal administration:	Pirching am Traubenberg 111 8081 Pirching am Traubenberg
Website:	www.pirching-traubenberg.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Siegfried Neuhold ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2015) (15 members)	A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 12 SPÖ : 2 GREEN : 1
Location of Pirching am Traubenberg in the district of Southeast Styria
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Manning Chapel

Trinity and Vienna Chapel in Pirching

Chapel in Frannach

Pirching am Traubenberg is a municipality with 2529 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in southeast Styria in the district of Southeast Styria . As of January 1, 2015, the former communities of Edelstauden and Frannach were incorporated as part of the structural reform in Styria .

geography

Geographical location

Pirching am Traubenberg is located about 18 km southeast of Graz and about 22 km west of the district capital Feldbach on the eastern edge of the Stiefingtal in the eastern Styrian hill country .

Community structure

The municipality comprises nine localities (residents, as of January 1, 2020):

• Precious perennials (425 Ew.)
• Frannach (203)
• Guggitzgraben (447)
• Kittenbach (111)
• Manning (153)
• Oberdorf (176)
• Upper Lab (172)
• Pirching am Traubenberg (609)
• Rettenbach in East Styria (233)

The community consists of four cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2018):

• Edelstauden (676.44 ha)
• Frannach (804.35 ha)
• Pirching (1,128.83 ha)
• Rettenbach (540.64 ha)

Incorporations

On January 1, 1965, the municipality of Rettenbach in Eastern Styria was merged with Pirching am Traubenberg.

Neighboring communities

Only one of the six neighboring communities is in the same district, one in the Graz-Umgebung district (GU) and four in the Leibnitz district  (LB).

Empersdorf (LB)	Sankt Marein near Graz (GU)
Heiligenkreuz am Waasen (LB)		Kirchbach in Styria
All Saints' Day near Wildon (LB)	Schwarzautal (LB)

history

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Pirching am Traubenberg

• Trinity and Vienna Chapel in Pirching
• Chapel in Frannach
• The Manning Chapel is a modern small church designed by the artist Roswitha Dautermann

politics

Municipal
Board 2015: Mayor Franz Matzer (middle),
Deputy Mayor Siegfried Neuhold (right)
Municipal treasurer Gernot Meier (left)

Parish council

Former fruit grower and now pensioner Franz Matzer (* 1951, ÖVP), who was mayor of the municipality of Pirching am Traubenberg from 1989 to the end of 2014 and then headed the merged municipality as government commissioner, was announced on the occasion of the constituent meeting of the municipal council on April 22, 2015 re-elected as mayor and held office until the beginning of 2019. Siegfried Neuhold (ÖVP) has been the new mayor since January 16, 2019.

Since January 19, 2019, Vice Mayor Gernot Meier (ÖVP) and municipal treasurer Christine Lecker (ÖVP) have also been members of the community board.

Chronicle of the mayor

The chronicle of Pirching am Traubenberg shows the following mayors:

Pirching	Rettenbach
1892–1915 - Franz Frühwirth 1915–1938 - Alois Reisenhofer 1938–1945 - Josef Pechmann 1945–1960 - Felix List 1960–1989 - Johann Neuhold 1989–2019 - Franz Matzer 2019– 0000- Siegfried Neuhold	1892–1898 - Michael Fröhlich 1898–1901 - Fanz Sitzwohl 1901–1924 - Franz Madl 1924–1936 - Josef Eberl 1936–1945 - Leopold Reisenhofer 1945–1950 - Anton Madl 1950–1955 - Franz Zirkl 1955–1958 - Josef Leopold 1958–1960 - Johann Tieber 1960–1964 - Josef Leopold

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members and, based on the results of the 2015 municipal council election, consists of mandates from the following parties:

• 12 ÖVP
• 02 SPÖ
• 01 The Greens

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010
	Large community			Pirching			Precious perennials			Frannach
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.	St.	%	M.
ÖVP	1,193	73	12	912	85	13	157	100	9	301	71	7th
SPÖ	0253	15th	02	161	15th	02	not running			121	29	2
The green	0187	11	01	not running			not running			not running
Eligible voters	2.152			1,289			379			452
voter turnout	78%			84%			74%			95%

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from June 1, 1984. Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coat of arms lost its official validity on January 1, 2015. The re-award took place with effect from November 1, 2015.
The blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

"Split from silver and green by a diminished right-angled bar in confused colors, from which a fertilized birch branch grows above and a leafy grape below."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1984: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), Governor of Styria 1980–1996
• 2019: Franz Matzer (* 1951), Mayor of Pirching am Traubenberg 1989–2019

literature

• Home register of the community of Pirching am Traubenberg, compiled by Gottfried Allmer with the assistance of a local working group, published by the community of Pirching am Traubenberg, 2010

Web links

Commons : Pirching am Traubenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62385 - Pirching am Traubenberg. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.pirching-traubenberg.gv.at Website of the community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Announcement of the Styrian regional government of September 12, 2013 on the union of the communities Edelstauden, Frannach and Pirching am Traubenberg, all political districts of Southeast Styria. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of October 14, 2013. No. 94, 28th issue. P. 553.
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ CSV file from REGIONALINFORMATION.zip  (1,221 kB) ; accessed on January 12, 2019
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945
5. ^ My week of March 11, 2015: Franz Matzer, ÖVP , accessed on May 21, 2015.
6. ^ Community of Pirching am Traubenberg: local council , accessed on July 16, 2019.
7. ^ Home book of the community Pirching am Traubenberg, published by the community Pirching am Traubenberg, 2010, p. 231.
8. ↑ 85. Announcement of the Styrian state government of October 8, 2015 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the municipality of Pirching am Traubenberg (political district of Southeast Styria) , accessed on October 13, 2015.
9. ↑ Neues Land, No. 24 (June 10, 1984), p. 6.
10. ↑ Franz Matzer goes into political pension. meinviertel.at on January 12, 2019, accessed on February 9, 2019.