Sankt Veit am Vogau explained

Sankt Veit am Vogau
Settlement Type:Former municipality
Pushpin Map:Austria
Pushpin Mapsize:270
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Austria
Coordinates:46.7478°N 15.6267°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Austria
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Styria
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Leibnitz
Parts Style:para
Area Total Km2:25.9
Elevation M:262-297
Population Total:1918
Population As Of:1 January 2016
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Density Km2:auto
Timezone:CET
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset:+1
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Registration Plate:LB
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:8423
Area Code Type:Area code
Area Code:03453
Website:www.st-veit-vogau.gv.at

Sankt Veit am Vogau is a former municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark.[2]

Homophobia and Islamophobia

In March 2013 the small town created a large nationwide publicity, when the town's mayor, Manfred Tatzl from ÖVP told falter.at in an interview, "Wir sind hier auf dem Land, Homosexualität verurteilt ein jeder." ("We are living in a rural area, everybody here condemns homosexuality.") and added, "[es gebe] "Gott sei Dank" keine Muslime im Ort" (there were, "Thank God, [...] no muslims in town.")[3] in order to defend the town's reverend Karl Tropper, who had been preaching against homosexuality and Islam for years.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.statistik.at/wcm/idc/idcplg?IdcService=GET_NATIVE_FILE&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&dDocName=080904 Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016)
  2. http://www.gemeindestrukturreform.steiermark.at/cms/dokumente/11820435_97007261/c19ab0d1/Liste%20Gemeinden_GSR%20Gesamt.pdf Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark
  3. https://www.falter.at/falter/2013/03/19/hochwuerden-hetzt/ falter.at
  4. http://kurier.at/chronik/oesterreich/st-veit-am-vogau-nach-predigtverbot-darf-pfarrer-karl-tropper-wieder-zurueck/8.452.302 kurier.at