Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley

market community Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag
License plate :	BM
Surface:	38.05 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 29 '  N , 15 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 28 '48 "  N , 15 ° 22' 15"  E
Height :	560  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,703 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8642
Area code :	03864
Community code :	6 21 28
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstraße 4 8642 Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley
Website:	stlorenzen.at
politics
Mayor :	Alois Doppelhofer ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2015 ) (21 members)	9 6th 4th 2 9 6th 4th 2  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 9 SPÖ : 6 WE : 4 FPÖ : 2
Location of Sankt Lorenzen in the Mürz Valley in the Bruck-Mürzzuschlag district
Center of Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Nechelheim Castle near St. Lorenzen, lith. Around 1830, JF Kaiser, Graz

Sankt Lorenzen im Mürzzuschlag is an Austrian market town with 3703 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the judicial district of Bruck an der Mur and in the political district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria .

geography

The center of Sankt Lorenzen is at an altitude of 560  m above sea level. A. , the highest point in the municipality is the Töllmarkogel in the north at 1366  m .

Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley is northeast of the town of Kapfenberg . Other neighboring communities are (clockwise) Parschlug , Turnau , Kindberg , Allerheiligen in Mürz Valley , Mürzhofen and Sankt Marein in Mürz Valley .

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following 10 localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Alt-Hadersdorf (72) including a forest path
• Fushes (6)
• Gassing (580) including Schimpelhof
• Lesing (119)
• Mödersdorf (182)
• Mürzgraben (123) including Mürzgrabenstrasse and Wiedenberg
• Nechelheim (2)
• Pogusch (48)
• Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley (2555) including Herrenberg, Rammersdorfer-Siedlung, Spiegelfeldsiedlung
• Scheuchenegg (16)

The community consists of the cadastral communities Pogusch, Rammerstorf , Rumpelmühle and St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley.

history

Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley was first mentioned in a document in 860 . The place went down in history because of the Lorenz window lintel on May 8, 1921.

On August 18, 1929, parallel rallies by the Schutzbund and Heimwehr led to a street battle with initially one dead and 57 injured. 30 of them were seriously injured, two of whom died soon afterwards. This event was one of the reasons for the resignation of the Federal Government Streeruwitz .

Culture and sights

Parish church of Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley

Interior of the parish church

See also : List of listed objects in Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley

• Catholic parish church hl. Laurentius with former cemetery and war memorial

politics

mayor

Mayor of the market town is Alois Doppelhofer (ÖVP).

After the constituent meeting of the municipal council on April 21, 2015, the municipal board also includes the first vice mayor Richard Thomüller (FPÖ), the second vice mayor Josef Tonweber (SPÖ), the community treasurer Georg Steiner (WIR - party-independent list) and board member Dieter Schiroky (SPÖ ) on.

Head of office is Georg Steiner.

List of community leaders and mayors

from	to	Surname	Profession, note	Political party
1850	1860	Heinrich Knauer	surgeon
1860	1870 (?)	Johann Pacher	Innkeeper and baker
1870 (?)	1877	Michael Grassauer
1877	May 11, 1895	Georg Kollment	Wagner and landowner in Lesing
May 11, 1895	May 21, 1895	Karl Gortan	Merchant
May 21, 1895	January 10, 1931	Johann Stoll	Innkeeper and butcher	CS
January 10, 1931	May 14, 1932	Raphael Zoescher	Farmer in Hadersdorf	CS
May 14, 1932	July 29, 1934	Franz Hammer	general practitioner	GDVP
August 1934	March 12, 1938	Raphael Zoescher	Farmer in Hadersdorf	VF
March 12, 1938	May 1945	Franz Hammer	general practitioner	NSDAP
May 31, 1945	December 19, 1945	Johann Königshofer	provisional mayor	SPÖ
December 19, 1945	April 29, 1950	Raphael Zoescher	Farmer in Hadersdorf	ÖVP
April 29, 1950	5th December 1951	Ignaz Weiss		SPÖ
January 6, 1952	April 17, 1955	Josef Koller	Master carpenter	ÖVP
April 17, 1955	April 30, 1965	Anton Kuchler	locksmith	SPÖ
April 30, 1965	April 21, 1990	Walter Brass	Laboratory technician	SPÖ
April 21, 1990	July 7, 2009	Willi Weberhofer	Post office worker	ÖVP
July 7, 2009	20th January 2014	Johann Haberl	Production manager	ÖVP
20th January 2014		Alois Doppelhofer	Electrical engineer	ÖVP

Municipal council

The municipal board after the constituent meeting on April 21, 2015 with Mayor Alois Doppelhofer in the center of the picture

The municipal council consists of 21 members and, following the 2015 municipal council elections, was made up of mandataries from the following parties:

• 9 ÖVP ,
• 6 SPÖ ,
• 4 WIR - party-independent list St. Lorenzen im Mürz valley and
• 2 FPÖ .

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:

Political party	2015			2010			2005			2000
	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	872	40	9	1019	49	11	1045	50	11	1028	52	11
SPÖ	625	28	6th	800	38	08th	823	40	09	646	33	07th
FPÖ	268	12	2	187	09	02	123	06th	01	195	10	02
WIR - Party-independent list St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley	435	20th	4th	not running			not running			not running
The green	not running			088	04th	00	089	04th	00	093	05	01
voter turnout	74%			74%			77%			78%

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1996: Johann Pabst (1916–1999), politician of the ÖVP , member of the Styrian Landtag 1961–1970, member of the Federal Council 1970–1975

Sons and daughters of the church

• Otto Fraydt von Fraydenegg and Monzello (1851–1939), civil servant and politician
• Johanna König (born Donnerbauer, * 1958), writer
• Johann Pabst (1916–1999)
• Sylvester Rosegger (1912–2006), agricultural scientist and university professor

People related to the community

• Nikolaus Beuttner (before 1592 - after 1610), German teacher, church servant and editor of a Catholic hymn book
• Gotthold Hasenhüttl (* 1933), theologian, worked as a chaplain in Sankt Lorenzen from 1962 to 1964.
• Heinrich Krapff (before 1334-1387), Bishop of Lavant , 1362/63 pastor of Sankt Lorenzen
• Mario Lang (* 1988), musician, grew up in Sankt Lorenzen
• Paul von Störck (1850–1920), landowner and politician, pioneer of the cooperative system in Austria (honorary citizen)

literature

• Otto Fraydenegg-Monzello: St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley - From old and new times. Festschrift, published by the municipality of St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley, 2004

Web links

Commons : Sankt Lorenzen im Mürz Valley  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62128 - Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• official website of the municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ^ Hugo Portisch : Austria I: The underestimated republic . Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3-218-00485-5 , p. 364 f .
3. ^ Municipality of St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley: result of the election of the municipality board (PDF document, 567 KB; accessed on April 27, 2015)
4. ↑ Otto Fraydegg-Monzello in St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley from old and modern times , self-published by the municipality of St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley, 2004, p. 187
5. ↑ Market town of St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley: Announcements from the market town of St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley , p. 6 (PDF document, 1.94 MB; accessed on April 27, 2015)
6. ^ Parish of St. Lorenzen im Mürz Valley: Parish (accessed on April 27, 2015)
7. ↑ Neue Zeit (Edition Mürz Valley) (February 9, 1996), p. 23.