Halbenrain
Halbenrain is a market town with 1775 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the southeast of the Austrian province of Styria in the judicial district of Bad Radkersburg or in the political district of Southeastern Styria.
- 3.1 Structures
- 3.2 Sport
- 3.3 Summer Academy
- 6.1 City Council and Mayor
- 6.2 Coat of Arms
- 7.1 freeman
- 7.2 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Geographical location
Halbenrain situated at an altitude of 220 m in the so-called Styrian volcano land, about five kilometers west of Bad Radkersburg.
Community structure
Dietzen (3.46 km ²) Thunder village ( 6.41 km ²) Dornau (1.24 km ²) Drauchen (1.66 km ²) Halbenrain ( 9.79 km ²) Hürth (6.39 km ²) Head Village II (0.76 km ²) Oberpurkla ( 4.61 km ²) Sögersdorf (0.59 km ²) Unterpurkla (3.74 km ²)
Dietzen (D)
Thunder village (D)
Dornau (D) Drauchen (D) Halbenrain (M)
Hürth (D)
Oberpurkla (D)
Unterpurkla (D)
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 - Steiermark list (PDF)
The municipality comprises the following eight villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Dietzen (204 )
- Thunder Village (140 )
- Dornau (59 )
- Drauchen (59)
- Halbenrain (601 )
- Hürth (128 )
- Oberpurkla (295 )
- Unterpurkla (302 )
Neighboring communities
History
Halbenrain was first mentioned in documents in 1244.
Culture and sights
Structures
- Castle Halbenrain
- Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas in Halbenrain
Sports
2002 instead of the Styrian extreme cyclist Wolfgang Fasching a 24 - hour world record in the individual time trial with 856 km in Halbenrain on. This tradition is also Halbenrain annual stopover at the Race Around Austria, an extreme bike race along the border roads around Austria.
In Sport Club Union Raiba Half grove short SVU Raiba Half grove, football is played. In Halbenrain and Unterpurkla there Eisschützenvereine.
Summer Academy
In the granary of Castle Halbenrain is the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts and Hoke school Hortus Niger. Are taught painting, graphic and sculptural design in wood, stone and clay. Speakers will include, inter alia Giselbert Hoke, Gerald Brettschuh, ONA example.
Traffic
The community Halbenrain has two stations on the Radkersburger train, these are Purkla and Halbenrain. All one to two hours courses of the S -Bahn Steiermark Graz or Bad Radkersburg.
Halbenrain is located at the South Styrian border road B 69
Population Development
Policy
City Council and Mayor
The council is composed of 15 members who belong to since the last municipal election in 2010 following parties:
Mayor Dietmar Tschiggerl (ÖVP ).
Coat of arms
The award of the municipality coat of arms was made with effect from 1 August 1981.
The blazon of the arms is: Sable, a silver stag leaping over a growing out of the diamond-shaped sign foot braided silver thorn fence.
Personalities
Freeman
Sons and daughters of the town
- Barthold Stürgkh (1898-1965), farmer and politician