Weinburg am Saßbach

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The place Weinburg from the southeast

Weinburg am Saßbach was a municipality in Styria , it was in the Radkersburg district until the end of 2012 and in the southeastern Styria district since 2013 . As part of the municipal structural reform in Styria , it was merged with the municipalities of Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling and Sankt Veit am Vogau (both in the Leibnitz district) on January 1, 2015 . The new municipality bears the name Sankt Veit in southern Styria . The basis for this was a joint application from these communities.

Likewise, with effect from January 1, 2015, the judicial districts were redefined in the “District Courts Ordinance Styria 2015” due to the changes in the framework of the municipal structural reform in Styria . Therefore, the former municipality has been in the Leibnitz judicial district since 2015 .

geography

The area of ​​the former municipality of Weinburg am Saßbach is to the east and not far from the Mur valley, since 2015 in the Leibnitz district ( Styria ).

structure

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

• Perbersdorf near Sankt Veit (144)
• Pichla near Mureck (154)
• Priebing (93)
• Siebing (260)
• Weinburg am Saßbach (345)

The community consisted of four cadastral communities (area: as of December 31, 2017):

• Perbersdorf near St. Veit (410.07 ha)
• Pichla (696.27 ha)
• Siebing (526.22 ha)
• Weinburg (933.31 ha)

Neighboring places

Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling	Mettersdorf	Sankt Peter am Ottersbach
St. Veit am Vogau		Eichfeld
	Mureck

history

General

Weinburg Castle, lithograph around 1830

Weinburg was mentioned for the first time in 1211, Weinburg Castle for the first time in 1278. The abolition of the manorial lords took place in 1848. The local community as an autonomous body was established in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community came to the Reichsgau Steiermark. From 1945 to 1955 it was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.

Population development

religion

Ecclesiastically, Pichla belongs to the Mureck parish , all other localities to the parish of Sankt Veit am Vogau .

Culture and sights

Weinburg Castle

See also:  List of listed objects in Sankt Veit in Südsteiermark

• Weinburg Castle with “St. Katharina "

politics

Municipal council elections

 %

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

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68.55%
(+ 11.96  % p )

31.45%
(+ 3.16  % p )

n. k.
(-15.12  % p )

ÖVP

unity

SPÖ

2005



2010



The last mayoress was Susanne Lucchesi Palli. The last municipal council after the 2010 elections was composed as follows:

• 10 ÖVP
• 5 Unity pays off

coat of arms

Blazon :

"In a shield divided from blue to green, above a silver castle flanked by towers with a pointed roof with an open gate on a silver mountain of three, below a golden grape."

Personalities

Honorary citizen

• 1987: Josef Krainer (1930–2016), Governor of Styria 1980–1996

Individual evidence

1. ^ Styrian municipal structural reform .
2. ^ Announcement of the Styrian state government of November 28, 2013 on the unification of the market community Sankt Veit am Vogau and the community Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling, both political district Leibnitz, and the community Weinburg am Saßbach, political district Southeast Styria. Provincial Law Gazette for Styria dated June 26, 2014. No. 72, volume 2014. ZDB -ID 705127-x . P. 1.
3. ↑ Federal Law Gazette II No. 298/2014 : District Courts Ordinance Styria 2015. ZDB -ID 1361921-4 p. 1.
4. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
5. ↑ Regionalinformation.zip  (Excel file, 1,210 KB); accessed on January 4, 2018
6. ↑ Kleine Zeitung (October 14, 1987), p. 16.

Web links

Commons : Weinburg am Saßbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 62373 - Weinburg am Saßbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .