Sankt Barbara im Mürztal

Sankt Barbara im Mürztal
Sankt Barbara im Mürztal

Location within Austria

Coordinates: 47°32′08″N 15°30′42″E / 47.53556°N 15.51167°E / 47.53556; 15.51167Coordinates: 47°32′08″N 15°30′42″E / 47.53556°N 15.51167°E / 47.53556; 15.51167
Country Austria
State Styria
District Bruck-Mürzzuschlag
Government
  Mayor Jochen Jance (SPÖ)
Population (1 January 2016)[1]
  Total 6,726
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal codes 8661, 8662, 8663, 8664
Area codes 03856, 03858
Website st-barbara.gv.at

Sankt Barbara im Mürztal is since 2015 a market town in Styria, Austria, with 6,726 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2016) in the judicial district of Mürzzuschlag and in the political district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria. As part of the municipality structural reform in Styria, the municipality, which was founded on 1 January 2015, was formed by the merger of the independent municipalities:

This was based on the Styrian municipality Structural Reform Act, StGsrG.[2][3]

In this case, no major part of one of the (three) outlying communities was used as a new name, but only the district name "Mürztal" (Murtal). The new community is named after the patron saint of miners, St. Barbara. A church designated to St. Barbara was built in 1986, in what is now the district Mitterdorf.[4]

Geography

The highest elevation point in the municipality area is the mountain range Hohe Veitsch, with an altitude of 1,981 m (6,499 ft), which simultaneously forms a natural boundary to the west and north-west of the municipality. To the west is the Pretalsattel (1,069 m or 3,507 ft above sea level), as a compound in the Stübmingtal, Turnau and the Aflenzer Basin.

In the east and southeast of the town, borders the town of Fischbacher Alpen.

Neighboring municipalities (as of 2015)

Municipality arrangement

The municipal area covers seven towns (in parentheses inhabitants as at 1 January 2016):[5]

The community consists of the cadastral (Katastralgemeinden): Großveitsch, Kleinveitsch, Lutschaun, Mitterdorf, Niederaigen, Scheibsgraben, Veitsch Dorf and Wartberg.

Economy and sights

Transportation

The town lies on the southern railway, has 2 train stations of ÖBB ("Mitterdorf - Veitsch" or "Wartberg im Mürztal") and is accessible on the Semmering Schnellstraße S 6 (road exit "Mitterdorf"). The town can also be reached via the L 102 (Veitscherstraße) from Turnau or via the L 118 (Semmering Begleitstraße) from Kindberg and Krieglach.

Since 2016-07-18, a bus of the Mürztaler transport company is run from Kapfenberg and interconnects all 3 districts:

Route 85 (Pretal-) Groß-Veitsch - (Dorf-Veitsch-) Niederaigen - Mitterdorf im Mürztal - Wartberg im Mürztal station.

Industry

Mining (magnesite from 1881), production of refractory products for smelting furnaces, steel production and processing have a long tradition and are still significant today in the area:

Education

Notable people

References

  1. Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Sankt Barbara im Mürztal.
  2. Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform.
  3. § 3 Abs. 1 Z 4 des Gesetzes vom 17. Dezember 2013 über die Neugliederung der Gemeinden des Landes Steiermark (Steiermärkisches Gemeindestrukturreformgesetz – StGsrG). Landesgesetzblatt für die Steiermark vom 2. April 2014. Nr. 31, Jahrgang 2014. ZDB-ID 705127-x. S. 2.
  4. http://www.katholische-kirche-steiermark.at/?org=1578 Pfarre Wartberg im Mürztale, Katholische Kirche Steiermark, abgerufen 4. September 2015.
  5. Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung am 1.1.2016 nach Ortschaften
  6. http://www.pilgerkreuz.at/
  7. Trachtenverein D’Rauschkogler z’Veitsch
  8. Tanzbeschreibung (abgerufen 3. Oktober 2016).
  9. Ultra-Alpin-Marathon/Veitscher Grenzstaffellauf
  10. http://www.grenzstaffellauf.com/ergebnisse/
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