Premstätten is since January 2016 a new market town with 5,784 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in
Graz-Umgebung District
Bezirk Graz-Umgebung (, lit. ''Graz Surroundings'') is a Districts of Austria, district of the States of Austria, state of Styria in Austria. It forms a continuous ring around Graz, the capital city of Styria and also the seat of the Districts of A ...
of
Styria
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, Austria. However, it was previously founded in January 2015 as the town name "''Unterpremstätten-Zettling''".
The municipality was founded 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. The reform nearly halved the number of Styrian ...
,
on 31 December 2014, from the dissolved independent municipalities
Unterpremstätten and
Zettling.
One petition from the municipality Zettling against merging, at the Constitutional Court, was introduced but was unsuccessful.
After a corresponding municipal council, the municipality carries since 2016 the name "Premstätten".
Geography
Municipality arrangement
The municipal territory includes the following six sections or like-named
Katastralgemeinden (areas and populations as of 1 January 2024):
* Bierbaum (916; )
* Hautzendorf (1085; )
* Laa (593; )
* Oberpremstätten (1469; 471.63 ha)
* Unterpremstätten (2526; )
* Zettling (492; )
Politics
Mayor
The first mayor after the merger, Anton Scherbinek (ÖVP), was elected by the municipal council on 20 April 2015 during the constitutive session. Until then, the Commissioner of the Government, Günter Scherübl had been in charge of official business since 1 January 2015. He was re-elected in 2020 and stayed in office until June 2021. Matthias Pokorn (ÖVP) is mayor since then.
Town council
The council consists of 25 members, which are made up of the following groups:
* 12
ÖVP
The Austrian People's Party ( , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria.
Since January 2025, the party has been led by Christian Stocker (as an acting leader). It is currently the second-largest p ...
* 7 Liste Ingrid Baumhackl
* 4
SPÖ
The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( , SPÖ) is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (, SDAPÖ) and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria () from 1945 unt ...
* 1
FPÖ
The Freedom Party of Austria (, FPÖ) is a political party in Austria, variously described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and Eurosceptic. It has been led by Herbert Kickl since 2021. It is the largest of five par ...
* 1
Die Grünen The Greens or Greens may refer to:
Current political parties
*The Greens – The Green Alternative, Austria
*Australian Greens, also known as ''The Greens''
* Greens of Andorra
* The Greens (Benin)
*The Greens (Bulgaria)
* Greens of Bosnia and He ...
The prior elections brought the following results:
1) The municipality amalgamation now carried was followed in the voting results.
2) The notional comparison election shows at Fusion municipalities summed votes of the original communities. Therefore, comparisons are not possible.
Coat of arms
The coats of arms of the dissolved communities lost their official validity on January 1, 2015. The new award took effect on 25 January 2016.
The
blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...
(crest description) reads:
: "Above a shield-foot with a red, silver-grooved brick wall, on the right in silver, a green spruce, on the left in blue, three natural bees".
Infrastructure
Transport
Premstätten has a station on the
Köflach railway line
The Köflach railway line () is a standard gauge railway line in the province of Styria in Austria. It runs from a junction with the Southern Railway (Austria), Southern railway line at Graz Hauptbahnhof to Köflach. (GKB) owns and operates th ...
, which runs between
Graz Hauptbahnhof and
Köflach
Köflach is a small city in the district of Voitsberg (district), Voitsberg in the Austrian state of Styria, at the foot of the Stubalpe mountain. The town has a federal stud in the village of Piber that supplies the Lipizzaner horses to the famous ...
. Multiple services of the
Styria S-Bahn stop at the station.
Safety
In Premstätten, the Polizeiinspektion (PI) established that the district police command is under Graz-Umgebung. The PI is locally responsible for the municipalities of Premstätten and Dobl-Zwaring.
Furthermore, the highway patrol inspection (API) Graz West for the A2 and A9 motorways has its headquarters in Premstätten Bäckweg, founded in 1974 as a department of the highway
gendarmerie
A gendarmerie () is a paramilitary or military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The term ''gendarme'' () is derived from the medieval French expression ', which translates to " men-at-arms" (). In France and so ...
.
[http://www.regionews.at/newsdetail/40_Jahre_Autobahnpolizei_Graz_West-95837 40 Jahre Autobahnpolizei Graz-West, Regionews.at 9 October 2014, retrieved 25 December 2015.]
Culture and sights
References
External links
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Cities and towns in Graz-Umgebung District