Mureck Explained

Mureck
Native Name:	Cmurek
Settlement Type:	Municipality
Pushpin Map:	Austria Styria#Austria
Pushpin Mapsize:	280
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location within Styria#Location within Austria
Pushpin Label Position:	top
Coordinates:	46.7075°N 15.77°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:	Anton Vukan
Elevation M:	237
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone:	CET
Timezone Dst:	CEST
Utc Offset:	+1
Utc Offset Dst:	+2
Registration Plate:	SO
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Postal Code:	8480, 8482
Area Code Type:	Area code
Area Code:	03472

Mureck (Slovenian: Cmurek, archaic: Cmürek^[1]) is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck.

Geography

Mureck is located in southern Styria, on the border with Slovenia.

Constituent parts of Mureck municipality

The municipality comprises the communities of:

• Diepersdorf (pop. 138)
• Eichfeld (349)
• Fluttendorf (59)
• Gosdorf (574)
• Hainsdorf-Brunnsee (209)
• Misselsdorf (388)
• Mureck (1570)
• Oberrakitsch (334)

Name

The name Mureck was first attested in 1151 as Mŏrekke (and as Murekke in 1181, Můrekke in 1183, and Muregk in 1500). The name is a compound of Mur 'Mur River' + Old High German ecke 'edge, bend' or egge 'hill' (sometimes 'fortification'), and thus means 'bend on the Mur River' or 'hill/fortification on the Mur River'. The Slovene name Cmurek is borrowed from the Middle High German prepositional phrase ze Murekke, literally 'at Mureck'.^[2] For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Crngrob, Cven, Dragonja, Sostro, and Spuhlja.

Events

• Weckruf: since 1954 the local marching band Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck has performed the so-called wakening call (in German, Weckruf) each May 1, waking every friend of brass-band music with marching music in the early morning hours. Until 1964 all of this happened by foot; later the band started using a nicely restored truck.^[3]

Clubs and organisations^[4]

Marching bands

• Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck

Fire departments

• FF Eichfeld
• FF Gosdorf
• FF Hainsdorf-Brunnsee
• FF Misselsdorf
• FF Mureck
• FF Oberrakitsch

Sports clubs

• Beachvolleyballclub
• ESV Mureck
• TUS Mureck

Charity and service clubs

• Leo Club South Styrian Unity
• Lions Club Bad Radkersburg-Mureck

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Austria.

Twin towns — sister cities

Mureck is twinned with:

• Lenauheim, Romania

Notes and References

1. Krempl, Anton. 1845. Dogodivšine Štajerske zemle: z posebnim pogledom na Slovence. Graz: Franc Ferstl, p. 209.
2. Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 91.
3. Web site: History of Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck(german) . 2013-04-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130920042921/http://gtk-mureck.at/chronik . 2013-09-20 . dead .
4. http://mureck.gv.at/Vereine.41.0.html Index of clubs in Mureck(german)