Rohrbach an der Lafnitz is a municipality in Styria,

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. It is in the judicial district of Hartberg and the political district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld.

Geography

Rohrbach an der Lafnitz is in the

Joglland The Joglland is a heavily forested low mountain region in northeastern Styria in the districts of Bezirk Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, Hartberg-Fürstenfeld and Bezirk Weiz, Weiz. Today it forms the tourist region of ''Joglland–Waldheimat (Kraftspended� ...

, approximately north of the city of Hartberg. It is located where the River Limbach joins the

Lafnitz Lafnitz () is a municipality in the district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria, Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps ...

. The municipality is too small to be subdivided.

Transport

Rohrbach an der Lafnitz has good transportation connections. The Wechsel Straße (B 54) between

Wiener Neustadt Wiener Neustadt (; ; Central Bavarian: ''Weana Neistod'') is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land Distr ...

and Hartberg passes through it, and the

Süd Autobahn The Süd Autobahn (A2) ('South Motorway') is a motorway (''Autobahn'') in Austria. Completed in 1999, it runs from the outskirts of Vienna south via the cities of Graz and Klagenfurt to the border of Italy at Arnoldstein, where it joins the Autos ...

between

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and Graz passes approximately away. The Rohrbach-Vorau station on the Thermenbahn provides a rail connection to Vienna and Hartberg. The Graz and

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airports are both approximately away.

Education

The municipality has a kindergarten, a

Volksschule The German term ''Volksschule'' generally refers to compulsory education, denoting an educational institution every person (i.e. the people, ''Volk'') is required to attend. In Germany and Switzerland it is equivalent to a combined primary ('' ...

and a Neue Mittelschule.

Registered landmarks

*The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Joseph the Worker, built overlooking the town in 1959–1961, was designed by Eberhardt Jäger and contains a triptych stained glass window by Margret Bilger. *The so-called Zeilbrücke is a lenticular truss bridge carrying the Thermenbahn across the Lafnitz valley. The bridge is shared between Eichberg, Rohrbach and Schlag bei Thalberg; the centre of the river constitutes the border between the latter two.

Notable residents

Hans Gross Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß (26 December 1847 – 9 December 1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling. A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of criminal ...

(1930–1992) was made an honorary citizen of Rohrbach an der Lafnitz in 1984.

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Cities and towns in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District {{Styria-geo-stub