Puchegg
Puchegg with 560 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) is a municipality in the district court Fürstenfeld and in the political district of Hartberg - Fürstenfeld in Styria ( Austria ). From 1 January 2015, is the framework of the Styrian municipality structural reform with the communities Vorau, Riegersberg, Schachen together with Vorau Vornholz, the new community will continue to use the name " Vorau ".
- 2.1 Population development
- 3.1 Sport
- 4.1 traffic
- 5.1 municipal
- 5.2 Mayor
- 5.3 Coat of Arms
Geography
Geographical Location
Puchegg located in Joglland about 13 km north-west of the district capital Hartberg. The community is located between the Pöllauer valley and the valley of Voraubaches, a tributary of the Lafnitz. The highest point in the municipality is to Masenberg belonging " Pongratzer Kogel " with a height of 1248 m above sea level. A. The church is from the White creek in the west and drained the Steinbach in the east.
Unlike other communities Puchegg has no center, which is characterized by dense colonization. The community consists mostly of farms, which are distributed over the entire Wutzlviertel and the lime quarters.
Community structure
Puchegg ( 13.64 km ²)
Puchegg
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 -
The municipality consists of a single cadastral un village Puchegg.
Neighboring communities
History
In April 1945, the Red Army reached the municipal territory and took it after a few days. In Puchegg burned down many houses.
Demographics
Culture and sights
Sports
Puchegg is a rural community with vast forest areas. Accordingly, the community has numerous trails that some have a beautiful view over the Joglland.
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Puchegg is off the main roads, not even through traffic is in the municipal area available. The South A 2 motorway from Vienna to Graz is about 25 km away and the junction Friedberg / Pinggau (95 ) can be achieved. The distance to the changing road B 54 from Wiener Neustadt to Hartberg is approximately 15 km.
Puchegg is not connected to the railway network. Within a radius of ten kilometers, no station is available.
Graz Airport is about 80 km away.
Policy
Parish council
The last municipal elections brought the following results:
Mayor
Mayor Siegfried Holzer ( ÖVP ) Vice Mayor Johann nurse (ÖVP ).
Coat of arms
The award of the municipality coat of arms was made with effect from 1 June 1993. Blazon (Coat of Arms description): " rafter -shaped green, silver and red divided into sections with beechnuts top and beech leaves below. "