Gniebing-Weißenbach

  • ÖVP: 11
  • SPÖ: 3
  • FPÖ: 1

Gniebing - Weissbach is a municipality with 2175 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the south- east of Styria in the district of Southeastern Styria. From 1 January 2015 it is merged in the Styrian municipality structural reform with the municipalities box Bach, Auer Bach, Gossendorf, head im Raabtal, Mühldorf in field Bach and Raabau, the new community will continue to use the name " field Bach".

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 5.1 Volunteer Fire Gniebing
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Gniebing - Weissenbach is located approximately 34 kilometers east of Graz, about 3 kilometers north-west of the district capital field creek in East Styrian Hill Country.

Neighboring communities

  • In the north: Auer Bach and precious bei Feldbach
  • In the East: Field Bach, with Rieger Kornberg castle and Mühldorf in field Bach
  • In the South: Gnas and Maierdorf
  • In the West: Oberstorcha and Paldau

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following four localities ( in parentheses population as of 31 October 2011):

  • Gniebing ( 1085 )
  • Oberweißenbach (233 )
  • Paurach (236 )
  • Unterweißenbach ( 627 )

The municipality comprises the cadastral Gniebing and Weissbach.

Population Development

Traffic

Gniebing is accessible via the Eastern Railway of Styrian Graz or track village.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 15 members and is since the last council election mandates from the following parties together:

Coat of arms

The award of the municipality coat of arms came into effect on 1 July 1991. Coat Description: golden shield with two raised ridges in the sign black one of two rows of dots excessive top ten Spickeln.

Culture and sights

See list of monumental objects in Gniebing - Weissbach

Public institutions

Volunteer Fire Gniebing

The volunteer fire department Gniebing has 111 members. In 2006, the volunteer fire department had to move out to 153 missions, with 728 hours were spent there.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

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