Mooskirchen

  • ÖVP: 9
  • SPÖ: 4
  • FPÖ: 2

Moss churches is a market town with 2094 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013 ) in the judicial district or district Voitsberg in Western Styria.

  • 2.1 townscape design
  • 3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 4.1 freeman

Geographical Location

Moss churches located southwest of Graz.

Community structure

Fluttendorf (3.85 km ²) Pour Mountain (2.58 km ²) Moss churches (1.37 km ²) Neudorf bei Mooskirchen (1.97 km ²) Stoeger village ( 8.19 km ²)

Bubendorf (R ) Fluttendorf (D) Pour Mountain (R ) Kniezenberg (R ) Moss churches (M) Neudorf bei Mooskirchen (R )

Rauchegg (R )

Rubmannsberg (R) Stoeger village (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 -

Culture and sights

Townscape design

Within the European competition " Entente Florale Europe " Moss churches was awarded September 24, 2009 with a gold medal in the village.

Policy

Coat of arms

The award of the municipality coat of arms came into effect on 1 August 2007. Blazon (Coat of Arms description): In green plate over black sign foot and a reduced silver, black fluted shaft bar a silver church with two arched windows and right attached presbytery, the church tower with pointed roof, two tall rectangular windows and black openwork circular portal left hired right beseitet of a silver tripod cauldron.

Personalities

Freeman

Historical Maps

  • The area of moss churches and its surroundings in the country footage of approximately 1789 to 1910

Francisco - Josephinian land survey, 1910

Middle reaches of the Kainach, receiving sheet of the 1:25,000 Topographic Surveys 1878

Stainz, Rosenkogel, Reinischkogel, 1877/78

Voitsberg District Edelschrott Gallmannsegg Graden Hirschegg Kainach bei Voitsberg Kohlschwarz Krottendorf-Gaisfeld Ligist Modriach Pack, Styria Piberegg Rosental an der Kainach Salla, Styria
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