Grambach
- SPÖ: 8
- ÖVP: 7
Gram Bach until the end of 2014 a municipality with 1668 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Styria. As part of the municipality of structural reform in Styria it is merged in 2015 with the community Raaba, the new community will be called market town Raaba -gram stream. This is based on the Styrian community structure reform law - StGsrG.
- 2.1 Population development
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 Coat of Arms
- 5.1 traffic
Geography
Geographical Location
Gram Bach is located approximately 8 km from the city center of Graz in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian province of Styria.
Community structure
There are no other cadastral except Gram Bach.
Neighboring communities
History
1265 Gram Bach was first mentioned in the registers of the Graz Marshal's Office. Until 1848 the town belonged to several manors as the dominions Liebenau, Messendorf - Hintenfeld, Münzgraben, Mühlegg, Schwarzenegg, Vasoldsberg, the Coming Leech of Kreuzerischen Gült, the Dominican Sisters to Graz, the Good Kellerhof and Pfarrgülten Hausmannstätten and Fernitz. The local church as an autonomous body created in 1850. After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the community came to Reichsgau Styria, 1945-1955, she was part of the British zone of occupation in Austria.
Population Development
Policy
Parish council
Mayor is from 3 July 2007 Peter Gspaltl. (1995-2007 Wolfgang Umgeher ) The council continues after the elections of 2010 were as follows: 8 SPÖ, ÖVP 7
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows " in black and gold edged red sign pole, three in the middle oblique links broken golden veins. "
End of the 19th century were founded as special crops in Gram Bach Nurseries, which soon became the most important of the Austrian monarchy. The black and gold edge of the coat of arms of the municipality of Gram Bach, the former imperial line colors equal to the field of the arms, a fence that surrounds the garden. The scion of the pad is placed, with this grow into shrub and tree. But the rice brings life growing in its buds. As the wild stock only the plugging of the scion can be a valuable tree, and the man ennobled by setting good deeds his life. The coat of arms united in its symbolism the importance of place in the 19th and 20th centuries, and suggests with the statement that nature can live and survive in symbiosis with art by a clean cut, the bridge to the future.
Culture and sights
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Although Gram creek bordering the South Motorway (A2 ), but direct access is not possible, because in this area there is no connection point. The closest is the junction Puchwerk the motorway feeder Graz-Ost in about 3 km away. The church Straße (B 73) can be achieved in the neighboring Hausmannstätten in about 2 km.
A train station is not in place. The nearest railway station is located about 2 km in the neighboring Raaba and provides access to the Styrian Eastern Railway.
Graz Airport is 10 km away.