| Kirchbach-Zerlach | |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Pushpin Map: | Austria |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 270 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Austria |
| Coordinates: | 46.9333°N 15.6667°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Austria |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Styria |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Südoststeiermark |
| Parts Style: | para |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Franz Löffler |
| Elevation M: | 334 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | 8082, 8081, 8083 |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
| Area Code: | 03116 |
| Website: | www.kirchbach.at |
Kirchbach-Zerlach is since 2015 a municipality with 3,271 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in the Südoststeiermark District of Styria, Austria. In 2015 the municipality was called Kirchbach in der Steiermark.
The municipality of Kirchbach-Zerlach was formed as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,[1] at the end of 2014, from the former towns of Kirchbach in Steiermark and Zerlach.[2]
After a municipal council agreement, from 1 January 2016, the municipality bears the name "Kirchbach-Zerlach".[3] [4]
The municipality territory includes the following 12 sections (populations as of 1 January 2015[5]) and three cadastral communities (area 2015):
The area population has generally increased after 1869, as shown in the bar graph below.
ImageSize = width:550 height:auto barincrement:28PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20DateFormat = x.yPeriod = from:0 till:3400TimeAxis = orientation:horizontalAlignBars = lateScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:500 start:0ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:250 start:0BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo
PlotData= color:skyblue width:22 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1869 from:0 till:2813 text:2,813 bar:1880 from:0 till:2873 text:2,873 bar:1890 from:0 till:2882 text:2,882 bar:1900 from:0 till:2840 text:2,840 bar:1910 from:0 till:2879 text:2,879 bar:1923 from:0 till:2890 text:2,890 bar:1934 from:0 till:3022 text:3,022 bar:1939 from:0 till:2911 text:2,911 bar:1951 from:0 till:2997 text:2,997 bar:1961 from:0 till:2878 text:2,878 bar:1971 from:0 till:3033 text:3,033 bar:1981 from:0 till:3047 text:3,047 bar:1991 from:0 till:3147 text:3,147 bar:2001 from:0 till:3395 text:3,395 bar:2011 from:0 till:3281 text:3,281 bar:2016 from:0 till:3272 text:3,272
TextData= fontsize:M pos:(35,20) text:"Source: Statistik Austria, all data read as of 2016"
The town mayor is Franz Löffler (ÖVP).
Further of the council, the 1st vice-mayor Anton Prödl (ÖVP), the 2nd vice-mayor Karl Süßmaier (Liste "Gemeinsam mehr bewegen"), the town treasurer Thomas Zach (ÖVP), and the board member Josef Luttenberger (ÖVP).[6]
The town council in 2015 had 21 members (prior 30 = 15 in Kirchbach + 15 in Zerlach) and convened with the following parties:
The last town election had the following results:
| Party | 2015 | 2010 | 2005 | 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| merged municipality | Kirchbach | Zerlach | Kirchbach | Zerlach | Kirchbach | Zerlach | ||||||||||||||||
| Stimmen | % | Mandate | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | ||
| style=text-align:left | ÖVP | 1488 | 66 | 15 | 551 | 53 | 8 | 1056 | 89 | 14 | 529 | 50 | 8 | 1024 | 85 | 13 | 594 | 59 | 10 | 947 | 83 | 13 |
| style=text-align:left | SPÖ | 196 | 9 | 2 | 197 | 19 | 3 | 137 | 11 | 1 | 166 | 16 | 2 | 186 | 15 | 2 | 65 | 6 | 1 | x | ||
| style=text-align:left | FPÖ | 166 | 7 | 1 | x | 35 | 3 | 0 | x | 48 | 5 | 0 | 71 | 6 | 1 | |||||||
| style=text-align:left | Die Grünen | 48 | 2 | 0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||
| style=text-align:left | Gemeinsam mehr Bewegen | 349 | 16 | 3 | x | x | x | x | x | x | ||||||||||||
| style=text-align:left | United Namelist Town Kirchbach | x | 298 | 28 | 4 | x | 337 | 32 | 5 | x | x | x | ||||||||||
| style=text-align:left | Unabhängige Namensliste | x | x | x | x | x | x | 120 | 12 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| style=text-align:left | Kirchbacher Heimatliste Walter Patschok | x | x | x | x | x | x | 174 | 17 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| style=text-align:left | Heimatliste Zerlach | x | x | x | x | x | x | 121 | 11 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Votes | 2,260 | 1,061 | 1,472 | 1,077 | 1,438 | 1,007 | 1,307 | |||||||||||||||
| Electoral participation | 81% | 81% | 82% | 82% | 85% | 82% | 88% | |||||||||||||||
x = not candidate
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