Hirschegg-Pack

Hirschegg-Pack
Hirschegg-Pack
Location within Austria
Coordinates: 47°01′12″N 14°57′30″E / 47.02000°N 14.95833°E / 47.02000; 14.95833Coordinates: 47°01′12″N 14°57′30″E / 47.02000°N 14.95833°E / 47.02000; 14.95833
Country Austria
State Styria
District Voitsberg
Government
 • Mayor Gottfried Preßler (ÖVP)
Area
 • Total 99.13 km2 (38.27 sq mi)
Elevation 899 m (2,949 ft)
Population (1 January 2016)[1]
 • Total 1,054
 • Density 11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal codes 8584, 8583, 9451
Area codes 03141, 03145
Website www.hirschegg-pack.at

Hirschegg-Pack is since 2015 a municipality with 1,054 residents (as of 1 January 2016 ) in Voitsberg District in Styria in Austria. It was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,[2] at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Hirschegg and Pack.[3]

Geography

Pack liest west of Graz near Pack Pass, on the border between Styria and Carinthia.

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following two sections (population as of 1 January 2016[4]):

The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Hirschegg-Piber, Hirschegg-Rein and Pack.

Politics

The town council, with 15 members, was voted in 2015 as the following portions: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ.

Mayor
  • since 2015 Gottfried Preßler (ÖVP), davor Bürgermeister der ehemaligen Gemeinde Hirschegg

Culture and sights

Hirschegg
  • Pfarrkirche Hirschegg
Pack
  • Schloss Pack
  • Pfarrkirche Pack
  • Freiländer Alm
  • Hebalm und Hebalmkapelle

Tourism

The two sections Hirschegg and Pack joined with the places Edelschrott, Modriach and St. Martin am Wöllmißberg as the tourism agency Steirische Rucksackdörfer.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Hirschegg-Pack.
  2. ↑ Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform.
  3. ↑ § 3 Abs. 10 Z 1 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. Template:ZDB-ID. S. 4.
  4. ↑ Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung am 1. Jänner 2016 nach Ortschaften
  5. ↑ Rucksackdörfer
  6. ↑ Grazer Zeitung, Amtsblatt für die Steiermark. 30. Dezember 2014, 210. Jahrgang, 52. Stück. ZDB-ID 1291268-2 S. 630.
  • "Municipal data for Hirschegg-Pack". Statistik Austria.


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