Grafendorf bei Hartberg

  • ÖVP: 9
  • SPÖ: 3
  • FPO: 3

Count bei Hartberg is a market town with a population of 2,500 (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the east of Styria in the judicial district Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg - Fürstenfeld. From 1 January 2015 it has joined forces framework of the Styrian municipality structural reform with the community Stambach, the new community will continue to use the name " Count bei Hartberg ".

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 3.1 Museums
  • 3.2 Structures
  • 3.3 Sport
  • 4.1 traffic
  • 5.1 municipal
  • 5.2 Coat of Arms
  • 6.1 freeman
  • 6.2 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Count bei Hartberg is located in the hills of Eastern Styria about six kilometers north of the district capital Hartberg near the border with Burgenland. In the north of the market town rises the Hartberger Untersafen, which they then flows through the length and accommodates numerous smaller streams. The eastern part of the municipality is the Lungitzbach, a right tributary of the Lafnitz, drained.

Community structure

Dirt roads (7.89 km ²) Graf village ( 3.89 km ²) Gräflerviertl (6.92 km ²) Upper Untersafen (3.25 km ²) Seibersdorf (3.15 km ²)

Erdwegen ( ZH)

Count bei Hartberg (M)

Kleinlungitz (ZH)

Lechen ( ZH) Upper Untersafen (R )

Seibersdorf am Hammerwald (D) Untersafen (R )

The most important of the abbreviations used are:

  • M = center of the municipality
  • Stt = district
  • R = Rotte
  • W = hamlet
  • D = village
  • ZH = Scattered houses
  • Sdlg = settlement
  • E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)

The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT

Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.

Source: Statistics Austria -

The market town of Graf bei Hartberg consists of the cadastral dirt roads, Graf village, Gräflerviertl, Upper Untersafen and Seibersdorf and from the villages of dirt roads (200 inhabitants), Count bei Hartberg ( 1012 ), Kleinlungitz (245) Lechen (182 ), Upper Untersafen (156 ), Reibersdorf (70 ), Seibersdorf am Hammerwald (538 ) and Untersafen (144 ) (as at 15 May 2001).

Incorporations

In 1959 the independent communities of dirt roads, Gräflerviertl, Upper Untersafen and Seibersdorf were pooled on Hammerwald with Count bei Hartberg.

Neighboring communities

History

The area around Earl village has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age, as some findings prove. When the Romans were advancing around 15 BC to the Danube, the settlement became the municipality of the province of Noricum. Some findings point to a settlement.

Subsequently, the Slavs settled in the municipality. End of the 8th century it passed by Charlemagne to the Frankish Empire. Soon after, the East Styria was conquered by the Hungarians, so that the settlement. After the reconquest by Henry III was continued.

Around 1130 the place Graf village of Egbert II of form Bach Pitten was founded as a two-line grave village complex. In 1144, Graf village was first mentioned in a document referred to as well-known. 1158 the monastery Vornbach was a gift landlord, the management was carried out by the provost stretches out. In the possession of the monastery Vornbach Graf village remained until the Imperial Diet in 1803, after which it fell to the state and in 1815 sold to the owner of a glass factory. From 1831 to 1838 the Vorau was landlord of Graf village before it became an independent municipality in 1849. 1964 Graf village was elevated to municipality.

Population Development

1869-1910

1923-1961

1971-2013

Culture and sights

Museums

The local museum Graf village shows interesting insights into the development of the municipal area of the Neolithic period through the Roman period and the Middle Ages until today. It is open by appointment only.

Structures

  • Schloss Kirchberg am Walde was first built in 1130 as a castle. She was seat of power and the starting point for the colonization of the municipality. After being destroyed by the Turks in 1532, the castle was built by the Count Trautmansdorff that were 1443-1669 Owner, again. Since 1923, the present castle is home to an agricultural school and training center for agriculture and forestry in eastern Styria.

Sports

The three castles hiking trail leads past the three castles of the communities Stambach, Earl village and Eichberg: Schloss Kirchberg, castle and castle Aichberg Reitenau.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Count bei Hartberg is right on the street exchange B54 to Friedberg and Hartberg. The South A 2 motorway to Graz and Vienna can be reached via the junction Hartberg ( 115), and about nine miles away.

On a hill outside the village is the railway station of Earl village. It provides access to the spa web with the lines Friedberg - Hartberg - Fehring and two hourly regional train connections.

Graz Airport and Flughafen Wien -Schwechat are both approximately 100 km away.

Policy

Parish council

The last municipal elections brought the following results:

Coat of arms

The Styrian government has the market town of Graf bei Hartberg awarded its own coat of arms on 1 August 1964. Blazon: "In a silver shield a Red Cross. "

Personalities

Freeman

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Anton Weidinger (1907-1991), politician of the ÖVP, Member of the Styrian parliament 1953-1959, Member of Parliament 1959-1970
Eichberg, Styria Greinbach Sankt Johann in der Haide Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor Friedberg, Styria Bad Blumau Bad Waltersdorf Blaindorf Burgau, Styria Dechantskirchen Dienersdorf Ebersdorf, Styria Hainersdorf Hartl Hofkirchen bei Hartberg Kaibing Limbach bei Neudau Nestelbach im Ilztal Neudau Pinggau Puchegg Rabenwald Rohr bei Hartberg Rohrbach an der Lafnitz Sankt Johann bei Herberstein Sankt Lorenzen am Wechsel Schachen bei Vorau Schlag bei Thalberg Siegersdorf bei Herberstein Sonnhofen Vornholz Wenigzell
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