Hirschegg-Pack Explained

Hirschegg-Pack
Settlement Type:Municipality
Pushpin Map:Austria
Pushpin Mapsize:270
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Austria
Coordinates:47.02°N 14.9583°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Austria
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Styria
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Voitsberg
Parts Style:para
Leader Title:Mayor
Leader Name:Johann Schmid
Elevation M:899
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset:+1
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:8584, 8583, 9451
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code: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,[1] at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Hirschegg and Pack.[2]

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[3]):

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

Culture and sights

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Tourism

The two sections Hirschegg and Pack joined with the places Edelschrott, Modriach and St. Martin am Wöllmißberg as the tourism agency Steirische Rucksackdörfer.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.gemeindestrukturreform.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/11558627/69294537 Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform
  2. § 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. . S. 4.
  3. Web site: Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung am 1. Jänner 2016 nach Ortschaften . 2016-11-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194023/http://www.statistik.at/wcm/idc/idcplg?IdcService=GET_PDF_FILE&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&dDocName=103419 . 2016-03-04 . dead .
  4. http://www.rucksackdoerfer.at/de/orte/ Rucksackdörfer
  5. Grazer Zeitung, Amtsblatt für die Steiermark. 30. Dezember 2014, 210. Jahrgang, 52. Stück. S. 630.