Bretstein is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in the

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n state of

Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

. Since the 2015

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, it is part of the municipality

Pölstal Pölstal is a market town since 2015 in the Murtal District of Styria, Austria. The municipality, Pölstal, was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform, at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Oberzeiring, Bretstein ...

.Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark
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Geography

Bretstein lies in the

Niedere Tauern The Lower TauernThe New Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol. 1, 2003, p. 86. or Niedere Tauern () are a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps, in the Austrian states of Salzburg and Styria. For the etymology of the name, see Tauern. Geography ...

References

Rottenmann and Wölz Tauern Cities and towns in Murtal District {{Styria-geo-stub