Waldbach-Mönichwald is a municipality since 2015 in the
Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District
Hartberg-Fürstenfeld is a district in Styria, Austria. It came into effect on January 1, 2013, by merging of the districts of Hartberg and Fürstenfeld.
Municipalities
Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the followi ...
of
Styria
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, Austria.
The municipality was created as part of the
Styria municipal structural reform
The Styria municipal structural reform (German: ''Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform'') was a local government reform in the Austrian state of Styria, which was made effective January 1, 2015. This reform nearly halved the number of Styrian ...
,
at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns
Waldbach and
Mönichwald.
A petition against the merger, raised by the town Waldbach at the
constitutional court
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, was not successful.
Geography
Municipality arrangement
The municipality territory includes the following six hamlets (populations as of January 2015):
* Arzberg (415)
* Breitenbrunn (81)
* Karnerviertel (567)
* Rieglerviertel (83)
* Schmiedviertel (303)
* Schrimpf (97)
The municipality consists of the five
Katastralgemeinde
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n: Arzberg, Karnerviertl, Rieglerviertl, Schmiedviertl and Schrimpf.
Tourism
The municipality formed, together with Fischbach, Miesenbach, Ratten, Rettenegg, Strallegg, St. Kathrein am Hauenstein, St. Jakob im Walde, Birkfeld, Wenigzell and Vorau, the tourism agency "
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 (Kraftspendedà ...
-
Waldheimat". The base is in the town St. Jakob im Walde.
Politics
Mayor
In the election for the town council in April 2015, Stefan Hold (ÖVP) from Mönichwald was elected as the first mayor of the newly formed municipality.
[Gemeinde Waldbach-Mönichwald]
''Gemeinderat''
(accessed on 28 May 2015).
The municipal court also included deputy mayor Arrigo Kurz (ÖVP) and the town treasurer Martin Übelher (SPÖ), both from Waldbach.
Until 31 December 2014, Andreas Riegler (
ÖVP
The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria.
Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is currentl ...
) in town
Waldbach and Josef Freiberger (ÖVP), in the town
Mönichwald, were the incumbent
mayor
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s. In the merger of the municipalities, there was at first no mayor. Thereby in protest against the merger, none of the former town politicians were to be mayor, and from the Landesregierung Steiermark with Franz Schröck, a Mitarbeiter of the Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, was installed as interim commissioner. This had led to the resulting duties until the election of the mayor during the inaugural meeting of the Municipal Council.
Kleine Zeitung
''Kleine Zeitung'' (, ''Small Newspaper'') is an Austrian newspaper based in Graz and Klagenfurt. As the largest regional newspaper in Austria, covering the federal states Styria and Carinthia with East Tyrol, the paper has around 800,000 readers ...
30 December 2014
''Beamter übernimmt Amt des Bürgermeisters''
(retrieved 19 April 2015)
Municipal council
The municipal council consists of 15 members. After the results of the 2015 election, the council convened with the following members:
* 8 Mandate
ÖVP
The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria.
Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is currentl ...
,
* 4 Mandate
SPÖ
The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ...
and
* 3 Mandate
FPÖ
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.
At the session of the town council, the groups of both former municipalities were there, with eight members from Waldbach and seven from Mönichwald.
The prior elections brought the following results:
Demographics
References
External links
* Gemeinde Waldbach-Mönichwald
''official Internet page''(accessed on 27 May 2015).
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Cities and towns in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District