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Spielfeld ( Slovene: ''Å pilje'') is a former municipality in the district of
Leibnitz Leibnitz (Slovenian: ''Lipnica'') is a city in the Austrian state of Styria and on 1 Jan. 2017 had a population of 12,176. It is located to the south of the city of Graz, between the Mur and Sulm rivers. The town is the capital of the Leibni ...
in
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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
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 ...
, it is part of the municipality
Straß in Steiermark Straß in Steiermark is a municipality in the district of Leibnitz in the Austrian state of Styria. Geography Straß in Steiermark is situated in the south of Styria, on the border with Slovenia. Constituent parts of Straß municipality The ...
.Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark
/ref> It was an Austria-Slovenia border crossing checkpoint until 21 December 2007, when all immigration and customs checks ended after Slovenia joined the
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. The Slovene town opposite Spielfeld is Å entilj. In 2015, a new
Austrian border barrier Austrian border barriers are border barriers and migration management facilities constructed by Austria between November 2015 and January 2016 on its border with Slovenia and in 2016 on its border with Italy, as a response to European migrant crisi ...
was erected at Spielfeld.


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File:Austria spielfeld.jpg, Pre-
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passport stamp File:Austria spielfeld autobahn.jpg, Pre-
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Autobahn border passport stamp File:Spielfeld passport stamp.jpg, Passport stamp (before Slovenia joined the
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)


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Austria–Slovenia border crossings Cities and towns in Leibnitz District {{Styria-geo-stub