Sankt Marein near Graz

market community Sankt Marein near Graz
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Styria
Political District :	Graz area
License plate :	GU
Main town :	Sankt Marein near Graz market
Surface:	41.71 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 1 '  N , 15 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '56 "  N , 15 ° 41' 15"  E
Height :	398  m above sea level A.
Residents :	3,747 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	8323
Area code :	03119
Community code :	6 06 68
Address of the municipal administration:	Markt 25 8323 Sankt Marein near Graz
Website:	www.st-marein-graz.gv.at
politics
Mayor :	Franz Knauhs ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2020) (21 members)	16 3 1 1 16 3 1 1  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 16 GREEN : 3 FPÖ : 1 SPÖ : 1
Location of Sankt Marein bei Graz in the Graz-Umgebung district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Sankt Marein bei Graz is a municipality in the Graz-Umgebung district between Graz and Feldbach with 3747 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Styria . In 2015, the previously independent communities Krumegg and Petersdorf II were incorporated.

geography

Geographical location

Sankt Marein bei Graz is located about 20 km east of the provincial capital of Graz in District Graz- the East Styrian Hill Country .

The Pickelbach, a tributary of the Raab, flows through the community . Sankt Marein bei Graz is the easternmost municipality in the district.

Community structure

The community is divided into five localities (residents as of January 1, 2020):

• Kohldorf (266) including Kocheregg
• Krumegg (1149) including Brunn, Dornegg, Hohenegg, Lanergraben, Pirkwiesen and Prüfing
• Petersdorf II (878)
• Sankt Marein near Graz-Markt (693)
• Sankt Marein bei Graz-Umgebung (761) including Elxenbach, Graberberg, Holzmannsdorf, Holzmannsdorfberg, Mareinberg, Tirschenberg, Trausdorf and Trausdorfberg

The municipal area consists of three cadastral communities (area as of December 31, 2019):

• Krumegg (1,619.42 ha)
• Petersdorf II (1,512.25 ha)
• St. Marein am Pickelbach (1,025.09 ha)

Incorporation

As part of the Styrian municipal structural reform , Sankt Marein bei Graz was merged with the municipality of Krumegg and the municipality of Petersdorf II (at that time in the district of Southeast Styria ) from 2015 . The basis for this was the Styrian Municipal Structural Reform Act - StGsrG. The boundaries of the districts of Southeast Styria and Graz-Umgebung were changed so that the new municipality lies entirely in the Graz-Umgebung district.

The former municipality of Petersdorf II was in the Feldbach district until the end of 2012 and had the vehicle code "FB". From the middle of 2013 to the end of 2014 license plates with the abbreviation “SO” were assigned, since 2015 it has been “GU”.

Neighboring communities

Three of the seven neighboring communities are in the district of Südoststeiermark  (SO), one each in the Leibnitz district  (LB) and one in the Weiz district  (WZ).

	Nestelbach near Graz	Sankt Margarethen an der Raab (WZ)
Nestelbach near Graz		Kirchberg an der Raab (SO)
Empersdorf (LB) Pirching am Traubenberg (SO)	Kirchbach-Zerlach (SO)

history

The local church as an autonomous body was established in 1850.

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the municipalities became part of the Reichsgau Steiermark, from 1945 to 1955 they were part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish Church of St. Marein

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Marein bei Graz

• The parish church stands on a raised plateau, surrounded by a niche wall with two covered staircases. First mentioned in 1224, it is a late Gothic building around 1550 with an onion dome .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Sankt Marein bei Graz lies off the main roads. The A 2 Südautobahn is about eleven kilometers away and can be reached via the Laßnitzhöhe junction (exit 169). The Feldbacher Straße B 68 from Gleisdorf to Feldbach is about six kilometers away, the Kirchbacher Straße B 73 from Graz to Kirchbach in Styria about eight kilometers.

There is no train station in Sankt Marein. Access to the Styrian Eastern Railway is at the Studenzen - Fladnitz station in approx. 7 km with hourly regional train connections to Graz and Gleisdorf or to Feldbach.

The Graz Airport is about 23 km away.

education

• kindergarten
• Elementary school
• New middle school
• Polytechnic school

politics

The municipal council was newly elected on June 28, 2020, consists of 21 members and is composed as follows:

• 16 ÖVP - provided the mayor, 1st vice mayor, community treasurer and the other board member
• 3 Greens - represents the 2nd Vice Mayor
• 1 SPÖ
• 1 FPÖ

coat of arms

• Coats of arms of the previous municipalities
• 

  Krumegg

• 

  Petersdorf II

• 

  Sankt Marein near Graz

With the merger of the three municipalities, the coats of arms of the merged municipalities lost their official validity. The first municipal coat of arms for Sankt Marein bei Graz was awarded with effect from July 1, 1966. The blazon (description of the coat of arms) read:

"In a black shield there is a golden, curved tip that extends to the upper edge of the shield , which is covered with a blue lily and accompanied on both sides by an inward-facing golden crescent ."

Here the name of the parish church and the market town was designated by the lily as a symbol of the Mother of God. The golden crescents in black are taken from the coat of arms of the Lords of Gleispach, who held Pirkwiesen Castle in the 16th century.

A new municipal coat of arms for the merged municipality was awarded by the Styrian state government with effect from June 15, 2020.

The changed blazon reads:

"In the red shield there is a golden, curved tip that extends to the upper edge of the shield and is covered with a blue lily, on the right two silver posts, covered with a silver bar, in which an adjoining bar in the color of shadows is tinned on both sides, on the left silver and upright an inward-facing Gothic key . "

The new coat of arms has thus combined elements from all previous municipalities.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1970: Josef Krainer (1903–1971), Governor of Styria 1948–1971

Sons and daughters of the market town

• Johann Joseph Fux (1660–1741), composer
• Maria Lichtenegger (1906–1923)
• Alois Kraxner CSsR (1933–2010), religious and episcopal vicar for religious in the Archdiocese of Vienna
• Marianne Graf (* 1951), co-founder and chairwoman of the Albania-Austria partnership .
• Leonore Gewessler (* 1977), Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology of the Republic of Austria ( Federal Government Short II )

Web links

Commons : Sankt Marein bei Graz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 60668 - Sankt Marein near Graz. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• www.st-marein-graz.gv.at Website of the municipality

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Regionalinformation , bev.gv.at (1,094 kB); accessed on January 10, 2020.
3. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
4. ↑ § 4 paragraph 1 of the law of December 17, 2013 on the reorganization of the municipalities of the State of Styria ( Styrian Municipal Reform Act - StGsrG), State Law Gazette for Styria of April 2, 2014, No. 31, year 2014, ZDB -ID 705127-x , P. 4.
5. ↑ Ordinance of the Styrian Provincial Government of 10 July 2014, with which the Styrian District Authority Ordinance is changed. Provincial Law Gazette for Styria of September 10, 2014, No. 99, year 2014, ZDB -ID 705127-x .
6. ^ Announcements from the Styrian State Archives 18, 1968, p. 137
7. ↑ 57. Announcement of the Styrian state government of May 28, 2020 on the granting of the right to use a municipal coat of arms to the market town of Sankt Marein bei Graz (political district Graz-Umgebung) , ris.bka.gv.at, accessed on June 19, 2020 .
8. ↑ Südost-Tagespost (March 8, 1970), p. 5.