Pölstal is a market town since 2015 in the
Murtal District
Bezirk Murtal () is a Districts of Austria, district of the States of Austria, state of Styria in Austria. It was formed on January 1, 2012, through a merger of the former Judenburg District and Knittelfeld District.(30 December 2011)Steirische Fu ...
of
Styria
Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and cloc ...
, Austria.
The municipality, Pölstal, 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. The reform nearly halved the number of Styrian ...
,
at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns
Oberzeiring,
Bretstein
Bretstein is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform
The Styria municipal structural reform (German: ''Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform'') was a ...
,
Sankt Johann am Tauern and
Sankt Oswald-Möderbrugg.
Geography
Municipality arrangement
The municipality territory includes the following nine sections (populations as of January 2015):
*
Bretstein
Bretstein is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform
The Styria municipal structural reform (German: ''Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform'') was a ...
(298)
* Gföllgraben (55)
* Möderbrugg (670)
*
Oberzeiring (629)
* Sankt Johann am Tauern Schattseite (115)
* Sankt Johann am Tauern Sonnseite (352)
* Sankt Oswald (477)
* Zeiringgraben (43)
* Zugtal (105)
The municipality consists of the seven
Katastralgemeinde
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n
Bretstein
Bretstein is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform
The Styria municipal structural reform (German: ''Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform'') was a ...
, Möderbrugg,
Oberzeiring, St. Johann Schattseite, St. Johann Sonnseite and St. Oswald.
Tourism
The municipality formed, together with Pusterwald and Pöls-Oberkurzheim, the tourism agency "Region Pölstal". The base is in the town Pölstal.
[''Grazer Zeitung'', "Amtsblatt für die Steiermark". 30 December 2014, 210. Jahrgang, 52. Stück. Nr. 316. p. 628–629.]
Culture and sights
References
External links
Cities and towns in Murtal District
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