Pirka (municipality of Seiersberg-Pirka)

Pirka (Former municipality) Pirka village ; Windorf Cadastral municipality Pirka-Eggenberg
Basic data
Pole. District , state	Graz-Umgebung  (GU), Styria
Judicial district	Graz-East
Coordinates	47 ° 0 '1 "  N , 15 ° 23' 31"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '1 "  N , 15 ° 23' 31"  E
height	350  m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	3288 (October 31, 2013)
Building status	1132 (2011 )
Area  d. KG	9.43 km²
Post Code	8054
prefix	+ 43/316
Statistical identification
Community code	60669
Locality code	15002, 15003
Cadastral parish number	63263
Counting district / district	Pirka (60669 003)
Location of the former municipality in the Graz-Umgebung district
Independent municipality until the end of 2014 Source: STAT : Local directory ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk

Pirka was a municipality with 3288 inhabitants (as of October 31, 2013) southwest of Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district of the federal state of Styria . Since January 1, 2015, it has been merged with the municipality of Seiersberg as part of the Styrian municipal structural reform , the new municipality is called Seiersberg-Pirka .

geography

Geographical location

Pirka is located in western Styria , at the northern end of the Kaiserwald , about five kilometers southwest of the provincial capital Graz in the Graz Basin . A popular local recreation area is the Windorf pond near the village of the same name.

Community structure

The former municipal area comprises the following five localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Bischofegg (93)
• Neupirka (194)
• Neuwindorf (324)
• Pirka (2290)
• Windorf (642)

The community consisted of the only cadastral community Pirka-Eggenberg.

Neighboring communities by the end of 2014

Seiersberg	Seiersberg	Seiersberg
Haselsdorf-Tobelbad		Feldkirchen near Graz
Haselsdorf-Tobelbad	Unterpremstätten	Unterpremstätten

history

The area of ​​Pirka in the Josephinische Landesaufnahme , around 1790

The districts of Pirka and Windorf were first mentioned in 1265 as "Pircha" and "Windendorf". In 1865 the municipality of Pirka was founded. At that time Pirka, Windorf and Bischofegg belonged to the Archbishop of Salzburg .

Population development

year Pop. 1869 465 1880 530 1890 495 1900 473 1910 492 1923 523 1934 665 1939 654

year Pop. 1951 0.930 1961 1.306 1971 1,659 1981 1,815 1991 2,255 2001 2,759 2013 3,288

Culture and sights

The sculpture " Windorf Bear Catcher" commemorates the partnership with the Bavarian community of Windorf .

See also:  List of listed objects in Seiersberg-Pirka

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Pirka is located directly at the Graz-West junction, where the A 2 south motorway and the A 9 Pyhrn motorway intersect. The closest junctions are Seiersberg (188) on the Pyhrn Autobahn in about two kilometers and Unterpremstätten (188) on the Süd Autobahn in about four kilometers. Packer Strasse B 70 runs through the municipality from Graz to Klagenfurt .

The Graz-Köflacher Railway runs through Pirka , but there is no train station in Pirka. The closest train stations on this route are Premstätten-Tobelbad about four kilometers away and Straßgang about two kilometers away. They offer hourly regional train connections to Graz and Köflach or Deutschlandsberg . The central station Graz is about ten kilometers away.

The distance to Graz Airport is about ten kilometers.

Established businesses

The Omya company produces marble aggregates.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council consisted of 15 members and, since the municipal council election in 2010, has consisted of mandates from the following parties:

• 8 SPÖ - provided the mayor and the deputy mayor
• 6 ÖVP
• 1 BZÖ (not occupied)

mayor

Mayor was Horst Göttfried (SPÖ) from 1991 until the end of 2007. Heimo Hofgartner (SPÖ) was elected mayor on January 4, 2008. On March 11, 2009, Andreas Grauf (SPÖ) was elected the new mayor of Pirka in the municipal council, after the incumbent mayor Heimo Hofgartner unexpectedly resigned from his position at the end of January 2009 for professional reasons.

Most recently, until the dissolution of the community on December 31, 2014, Thomas Göttfried was mayor (SPÖ).

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded with effect from March 1, 1977.
Blazon (coat of arms description):

"In the green shield a silver ox yoke, above it growing out of the edge of the shield, a golden bishop's staff placed obliquely to the left."

Personalities

The Renner-Buben (Austrian flight pioneers) lived in the villa of today's Bohr company in Windorf. Across from their former residential building, a street was named after them "Rennerweg".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State of Styria: Final population status on October 31, 2013 ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 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. (Excel file, 85 KB; accessed May 2, 2015) 
2. ^ Announcement of the Styrian regional government of November 28, 2013 about the union of the communities Pirka and Seiersberg, both political district Graz-Umgebung. Styrian Provincial Law Gazette of December 12, 2013. No. 160, 36th issue. ZDB ID 705127-x . Pp. 690-691.
3. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
4. ↑ http://neu.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/graz/graz/2712022/oranger-gemeinderat-sicht-fuer-bzoe-schwarz.story  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Communications from the Styrian State Archives 28, 1978, p. 31

Web links

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