Edelschrott
- ÖVP: 11
- SPÖ: 3
- AAF: 1
Precious scrap is a market town with 1597 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013 ) in the judicial district or district Voitsberg, Styria. From 1 January 2015 it has joined forces framework of the Styrian municipality structural reform with the community Modriach, the new community will be called " precious junk" to continue.
- 4.1 Education
- 4.2 infrastructure
- 5.1 freeman
Geography
Location
The center is located at mid- distance between Koeflach and the pack-saddle on 793 m above sea level. The Weststeirische Hills as well as the Teigitsch, which is dammed on their way to the Kainach to three lakes ( Packer and Hirzmannstausee, Langmann lock), the landscape shape in and around precious scrap.
Main artery of the region is the packers road B70, which runs from Graz to Klagenfurt on the pack.
By, despite the near route of the Southern Motorway (A2 ), quiet location in the Styrian -Carinthian border precious scrap enjoys with its lakes, ski area etc. reputation as a recreational and tourist destination.
Community structure
The municipality consists of the cadastral precious scrap and Kreuzberg.
Precious scrap ( 44.61 km ²) Kreuzberg ( 21.53 km ²)
Precious scrap ( M)
Kreuzberg ( ZH)
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 -
Neighboring communities
At precious scrap borders clockwise
- In the north and Goessnitz Koeflach
- In the east of Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg, Greisdorf and Marhof
- In the south cloister, cadastral Klosterwinkel
- In the West Modriach, pack and Hirschegg.
History
The name " precious junk" is a clearing ( MHG shot " cut piece, block "; MHG grind " (ab) hew, cut (down) " ) and the Slovenian word jelen "Deer" is derived. The name 1245 is as " Gelenschroet ".
1995 stainless scrap was jun Governor Josef Krainer. raised to the market town.
Culture and sights
Economy and infrastructure
Education
In the village there is a local school center with music elementary school, which is run in school experiment for 25 years .. The affiliated high school and Musikhauptschule participates in 2008 launched a pilot project " new middle school " with a focus on " music." In 2007, next to the school center, a community nursery school was built.
Infrastructure
After many post office closures in 2005, the post office Edelschrott became the central distribution of some surrounding communities. In the village there are also some commercial and industrial companies, a general practitioner with house pharmacy and a dentist. It is also one of the seven police stations of the district police commandos Voitsberg in place.
Held every six months in stainless scrap the " central cattle market " takes place, are traded on the mainly cattle.