Waldbach-Mönichwald

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Styria

Political District :

Hartberg-Fürstenfeld

License plate :

HF (from 1.7.2013; old: HB)

Main town :

Carnival District

Surface:

53.97 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 27 ' N , 15 ° 53' E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '50 " N , 15 ° 52' 57" E

Residents :

1,473 (January 1, 2020)

Postcodes :

8251, 8252, 8253

Community code :

6 22 79

Address of the
municipal administration:

Carnerviertel 8
8252 Mönichwald

Website:

waldbach-moenichwald.gv.at

politics

Mayor :

Stefan Hold ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : (Election year: 2020)
(15 members)

12

2

1

12 2 1

A total of 15 seats

ÖVP : 12
SPÖ : 2
FPÖ : 1

Location of Waldbach-Mönichwald in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

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Parish Church “St. Georg ”in Waldbach

Parish Church “St. Peter and Paul ”in Mönichwald

Waldbach-Mönichwald has been a municipality in the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district in Styria since the beginning of 2015 .

The municipality emerged as part of the municipal structural reform in Styria from the municipalities Waldbach and Mönichwald, which were dissolved at the end of 2014 .

A challenge to the merger, which the community of Waldbach had brought to the Constitutional Court , was unsuccessful.

geography

Community structure

The municipality comprises six localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Arzberg (396)
Breitenbrunn (75)
Karnerviertel (543) with Bergfeldsiedlung, Bruck an der Lafnitz, Demmeldorf, Karndorf, Langegg, Lechen, Mönichwald, Neudorf bei Mönichwald, Rieglhof, Schwarzenbach, and Weghof
Rieglerviertel (79)
Schmiedviertel (279) with Dörfl, Dorfsiedlung, Mönichwald, Sulzgraben, Unter der Alm and Wetzelberg
Shrimp (101)

The community consists of five cadastral communities :

Arzberg, Karnerviertl, Rieglerviertl, Schmiedviertl and Schrimpf.

Neighboring communities

Rettenegg	Aspangberg-Sankt Peter
Saint Jacob in the forest		Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel
Wenigzell	Advance

Tourism association

Together with Fischbach, Miesenbach, Ratten, Rettenegg, Strallegg, St. Kathrein am Hauenstein, St. Jakob im Walde, Birkfeld, Wenigzell and Vorau, the municipality forms the " Joglland - Waldheimat " tourist association . Its seat is in St. Jakob im Walde.

history

Population development

The population development up to 2011 is listed separately for the former communities Mönichwald (dark blue) and Waldbach (light blue). The numerical values are the sums. After 2011, the total value is shown as a wide bar:

Culture and sights

Catholic parish church Mönichwald Hll. Peter and Paul
Catholic parish church Waldbach hl. George

politics

City council election 2020

%

80

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

74.28
(+19.93)

18.54
(-6.72)

7.18
(-13.21)

mayor

At the constituent meeting of the municipal council in April 2015, Stefan Hold (ÖVP) from Mönichwald was elected the first mayor of the newly formed municipality.

The community board also includes the deputy mayor Arrigo Kurz (ÖVP) and the community treasurer Martin Übelher (SPÖ), both from Waldbach.

Until December 31, 2014, Andreas Riegler ( ÖVP ) in the municipality of Waldbach and Josef Freiberger (ÖVP) in the municipality of Mönichwald were the incumbent mayors . As a result of the amalgamation of the municipality, there was initially no mayor. Since none of the former municipal politicians agreed to lead the municipality in protest against the amalgamation, the Provincial Government of Styria appointed Franz Schröck, an employee of the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district administration, as government commissioner. Until the new election of the mayor, he was responsible for the official business at the constituent meeting of the municipal council.

Municipal council

The municipal council consists of 15 members. According to the result of the 2020 municipal council election , the municipal council is composed as follows:

12 mandates ÖVP ,
2 mandates SPÖ and
1 FPÖ mandates .

In the composition of the municipal council, emphasis was placed on the balanced representation of the former municipalities, because eight municipal councils come from Waldbach and seven from Mönichwald.

The last municipal council elections brought the following results:
Political party	2020			2015			2010						2005						2000
	Fusion community			Fusion community			Waldbach			Mönich- forest			Waldbach			Mönich- forest			Waldbach			Mönich- forest
	M.	be right	%	M.	be right	%	M.	Sti	%	M.	Sti	%	M.	Sti	%	M.	Sti	%	M.	Sti	%	M.	Sti	%
ÖVP	621	74.28	12	581	54	8th	303	59	6th	394	63	6th	282	51	5	361	57	6th	329	62	6th	339	57	9
SPÖ	155	18.54	2	270	25th	4th	133	26th	2	178	29	3	184	34	3	230	36	3	136	26th	2	200	34	5
FPÖ	60	7.18	1	218	20th	3	077	15th	1	050	08th	0	083	15th	1	041	06th	0	064	12	1	058	10	1
Eligible voters	1,280			1,323			629			744			646			753			620			746
voter turnout	66.56%			82%			83%			85%			85%			85%			87%			82%

Web links

Commons : Waldbach-Mönichwald - Collection of images, videos and audio files

62279 - Waldbach-Mönichwald. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Waldbach-Mönichwald community: waldbach-moenichwald.gv.at official website

Individual evidence

↑ Local council election 2020 - results Waldbach-Mönichwald. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 .

^ Styrian municipal structural reform .

↑ Section 3, Paragraph 4, Item 6 of the StGsrG, State Law Gazette for Styria No. 31, volume 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x .

↑ recognition of the Constitutional Court of 23 September 2014 G 44/2014, 46/2014 V on the requests of the community forest stream.

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

^ Grazer Zeitung , Official Gazette for Styria. December 30, 2014, 210th year, 52nd piece. No. 307. ZDB -ID 1291268-2 p. 626.

↑ A look at the community of Waldbach-Mönichwald. (PDF) Statistics Austria, accessed on May 26, 2020 .

↑ Local council election in Waldbach-Mönichbach 2020. In: orf.at

↑ ^a ^b ^c Waldbach-Mönichwald municipality : Municipal Council (accessed on May 28, 2015).

↑ Kleine Zeitung of December 30, 2014: Civil servant takes over office of mayor . Retrieved April 19, 2015

[1] Local council election 2020 - results Waldbach-Mönichwald. orf.at , accessed on August 22, 2020 .

[2] Styrian municipal structural reform .