Sankt Veit In Der Südsteiermark

Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark is a municipality since 2015 in the Leibnitz District of Styria, Austria. The population was 4,069 residents (as of 1 January 2016).

The municipality, Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark, was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,
at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Sankt Veit am Vogau and Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling, both in the political district Leibnitz, plus the town Weinburg am Saßbach in the political Südoststeiermark District.

The borders of the Südoststeiermark District and Leibnitz District were shifted, so that the new municipality would lie completely within Leibnitz District.

The former municipality Weinburg am Saßbach was until the end of 2012 in Radkersburg District and had the Kfz-code "RA". From the middle of 2013 until the end of 2014, the code had abbreviation "SO"; in 2015 it was set as "LB".

Geography

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following 11 Katastralgemeinden and 16 sections (populations as of 1 January 2015):
;Katastralgemeinden

* Hütt ()
* Labuttendorf ()
* Lind ()
* Lipsch ()
* Neutersdorf ()
* Perbersdorf bei St. Veit ()
* Pichla ()
* St. Nikolai ob Draßling ()
* St. Veit am Vogau ()
* Siebing   ()
* Weinburg ()

;Ortschaften

* Hütt (185)
* Labuttendorf (173)
* Leitersdorf (135)
* Lind bei St. Veit am Vogau (220)
* Lipsch (182)
* Marchtring (19)
* Neutersdorf (92)
* Perbersdorf bei Sankt Veit (146)
* Pichla bei Mureck (156)
* Priebing (101)
* Rabenhof (149)
* Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling (771)
* Sankt Veit am Vogau (598)
* Siebing (272)
* Wagendorf (515)
* Weinburg am Saßbach (363)

Neighboring municipalities

The municipality is bordered by seven neighboring towns, four were in Südoststeiermark District (SO).

Demographics

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Politics

Mayor

Manfred Tatzl (ÖVP) was elected mayor of the newly formed municipality on 20 April 2015, in the inaugural meeting of the Municipal Council.Gemeinde St. Veit in der Südsteiermark
''Gemeindenachrichten Juni 2015''
(pdf-Dokument, 367 KB), retrieved 15 June 2015. Tatzl was already, at the end of 2014, the mayor of the former municipality of St. Veit am Vogau and led from January 1, 2015, the transactions of the merged municipality as government commissioner.

Josef Pratter, the nearly 25-year mayor of St. Nikolai ob Draßling, was and the former mayor of the municipality of Weinburg am Saßbach, Susanne Lucchesi-Palli, came to the election.

With the results from April 30, 2015, Manfred Tatzl traveled by his council mandate, because he wants to conduct the business of the merged municipality as a "People's Mayor".
The town council also includes the first deputy mayor Gerhard Rohrer, the second Deputy Mayor Harald Schögler, the municipality treasurer Georg Pock and board member Rudolf Reinprecht.

Municipality council

The town council has 21 members. After the 2015 election, the council had the following results:Gemeinde St. Veit in der Südsteiermark
''Gemeindenachrichten März 2015''
(pdf, 500 KB), retrieved 15 June 2015.
* 12 Mandate ÖVP
* 6 Mandate SPÖ
* 3 Mandate FPÖ

The prior elections brought the following results:

Coat of arms

AUT Sankt Veit am Vogau COA.jpg, Sankt Veit am Vogau
AUT Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling COA.jpg, Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling
AUT Weinburg am Saßbach COA.jpg, Weinburg am Saßbach

All three predecessors had a town crest. Because of the merger, the crests lost their official validity on January 1, 2015. The authorization of the municipal coat of arms for the joined community took effect on 25 October 2016.124. Verlautbarung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung 13 October 2016 über die Verleihung des Rechtes zur Führung eines Gemeindewappens an die Marktgemeinde Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark (politischer Bezirk Leibnitz)
retrieved 28 October 2016.

Blazon (crest description):
: "Above the silvery shield-foot, over a black, silver-floated wave-beam green three grapes growing from common origin upward and two flat wine leaves, in blue a golden, richly arranged and of window and door fifteenfold black perforated with volute gable and two with Knauf and cross at golden towers; between these, a silver lion's head".

References

External links

* Town of St. Veit in der Sudsteiermark
''Official Homepage''

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Cities and towns in Leibnitz District