Premstätten

This article explains the Styrian community; For the locality of Vasoldsberg see Premstätten (community Vasoldsberg) .

market community Premstätten
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Main town :	Unterpremstätten
Surface:	29.27 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 58 '  N , 15 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '53 "  N , 15 ° 24' 15"  E
Height :	351  m above sea level A.
Residents :	6,339 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8054, 8141, 8143, 8144, 8401
Area code :	03136
Community code :	6 06 70
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 151 8141 Unterpremstätten
Website:	www.premstaetten.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Anton Scherbinek ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2020) (25 members)	16 6th 2 1 16 6th 2 1  A total of 25 seats ÖVP : 16 SPÖ : 6 GREEN : 2 FPÖ : 1
Location of Premstätten in the Graz area
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Premstätten is a market town in the Graz-Umgebung district in Styria ; in 2015 it was called Unterpremstätten-Zettling .

It emerged as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the formerly independent municipalities Unterpremstätten and Zettling . A complaint filed by the municipality of Zettling against the merger with the Constitutional Court was unsuccessful.
According to a municipal council resolution, the municipality has been renamed “Premstätten” since January 1st, 2016.

geography

The municipality of Premstätten is located in the Kaiserwald on the western edge of the Grazer Feld . The most important rivers are the Gepringbach , the Poniglbach and the Laabach .

Community structure

The municipality includes the following six localities and cadastral communities of the same name (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Bierbaum (799 Ew .; 245.62 ha) including shooting range
• Hautzendorf (1010 Ew .; 407.28 ha) including Rehweg settlement and Tobelbad
• Laa (540 Ew .; 399.75 ha)
• Oberpremstätten (1325 Ew .; 471.63 ha) including Tobelbad
• Unterpremstätten (2256 Ew .; 908.22 ha) including Johannissiedlung, Kaiserwaldsiedlung, New World, Schachenwald and Unterberg
• Zettling (409 Ew .; 493.35 ha) including Kaiserwaldsiedlung

Culture and sights

Premstätten Castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Premstätten

Economy and Infrastructure

safety

A police station (PI) has been set up in Premstätten, Hauptstrasse , which is subordinate to the Graz-Umgebung District Police Department. The PI is locally responsible for the municipal areas of Premstätten and Dobl-Zwaring .

Furthermore, the Autobahn Police Inspection (API) Graz West for the A2 and A9 motorways has its headquarters in Premstätten, Bäckweg, founded in 1974 as a service of the Autobahn gendarmerie .

tourism

At Schwarzlsee , which opened in 1984 as a bathing lake after gravel mining , the so-called Lake Festival with EDM music took place every summer from 2010-2017 , which attracted up to 120,000 visitors and for which bathing was interrupted for a few days. The floating stage, a pontoon, floating in the south of the lake near the shore, remained permanently installed. In 2018 and 2019 there was no more Lake Festival.

politics

mayor

The first mayor after the amalgamation of the municipalities, Anton Scherbinek (ÖVP), was elected by the municipal council on April 20, 2015 as part of the constituent meeting. Until then, government commissioner Günter Scherübl had been in charge of official business since January 1, 2015.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 25 members who, due to the municipal council election, are made up of mandataries from the following parties:

• 12 ÖVP
• 7 List Ingrid Baumhackl
• 4 SPÖ
• 1 FPÖ
• 1 The Greens

In September 2019 Ingrid Baumhackl closed her list and switched to the ÖVP.

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010 1)
	be right	%	Mandates	St.	%	M. 2)
ÖVP	1378	45	12	1593	53
List Ingrid Baumhackl	877	28	7th	not running
SPÖ	488	16	4th	638	21st
FPÖ	209	7th	1	251	8th
The green	133	4th	1	136	5
With Josef Eisner for Unterpremstätten	not running			370	12
voter turnout	64%			73%

¹⁾ The amalgamation of municipalities that has now taken place was reflected in the election results.
^{2) In the} case of merged municipalities, the fictitious comparison vote shows the total number of votes from the original municipalities. Therefore, mandate comparisons are not possible.

coat of arms

• Old municipal coat of arms
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  Unterpremstätten

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  Sheet
   

Due to the amalgamation of the municipalities, the coats of arms of the dissolved municipalities lost their official validity on January 1st, 2015. The new award took place with effect from January 25, 2016.
The blazon (description of the coat of arms) reads:

"Above a shield base with a red, silver jointed brick wall split, on the right in silver a green spruce, on the left in blue three natural bees."

Personalities

Politician

• Franz Gruber († 2019), Mayor of Premstätten 1970–1993
• Matthias Pokorn (* 1992), Member of the State Parliament and 1st Vice Mayor of Premstätten
• Berthold Roithner (1897–1967), Member of the National Council and Vice Mayor of Unterpremstätten

Web links

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

• 60670 - Premstätten. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Homepage of the community

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ↑ Section 3, Paragraph 3, Item 5 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. ↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 9 December 2014 G 127/2014.
4. ↑ Local council minutes from May 19, 2015 ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2016 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. 
5. ↑ krone.at - "New parish names again"
6. ↑ Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of October 20, 2015, 90th announcement in the RIS
7. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
8. ↑ http://www.regionews.at/newsdetail/40_Jahre_Autobahnpolizei_Graz_West-95837 40 Years Autobahn Police Graz-West, Regionews.at October 9, 2014, accessed December 25, 2015
9. ↑ Lake Festival demanded hundreds of missions every day. In: steiermark.orf.at. August 23, 2015, accessed October 22, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Lake Festival 2015: Austria's biggest EDM party festicket.com, 19. – 22. August 2015, accessed April 14, 2018.
11. ↑ Lake Festival (2017): Between pulsating EDM and energetic water sports festicket.com, accessed April 14, 2018. - “Will not take place in 2018”, waiting list for information on 2019.
12. ↑ Robert Preis: Premstätten: Surprising reinforcement for ÖVP kleinezeitung.at, September 25, 2019, accessed January 25, 2020.
13. ↑ 1. Announcement of the Styrian state government of January 14, 2016 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Premstätten (political district Graz-Umgebung) , accessed on January 26, 2016