Söding-Sankt Johann is since 2015 a municipality with 4,043 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in

Voitsberg District Bezirk Voitsberg () is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. Municipalities Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities: * Bärnbach * Edelschrott * Geistthal-Södingberg * Hirschegg- ...

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, Austria. The municipality Söding-Sankt Johann 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 Söding and Sankt Johann-Köppling. The municipality includes the pilgrimage church of St Sebastian in Kleinsöding.Bernhard Windisch:
Sebastianikirche: Renovierung 2019
'' (PDF) In: ''Gemeindezeitung Söding-Sankt Johann.'' pp. 12–13, Retrieved May 27, 2024.

Geography

Söding-Sankt Johann lies southwest of

Graz Graz () is the capital of the Austrian Federal states of Austria, federal state of Styria and the List of cities and towns in Austria, second-largest city in Austria, after Vienna. On 1 January 2025, Graz had a population of 306,068 (343,461 inc ...

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following 10 sections (population as of 1 January 2016): * Großsöding (672) * Hallersdorf (256) * Hausdorf (128) * Kleinsöding (1,000) * Köppling (504) * Moosing (260) * Muggauberg (192) * Neudorf bei Sankt Johann ob Hohenburg (119) * Pichling bei Mooskirchen (518) * Sankt Johann ob Hohenburg (393) The municipality consists of the

Katastralgemeinde A cadastral community (or cadastre community, cadastral r cadastremunicipality, cadastral r cadastrecommune,Problémy s překladem termínu „katastrální území“ do angličtiny. in: Geodetický a kartografický Obzor. Český úřad zeměm� ...

n Großsöding, Hallersdorf, Hausdorf, Kleinsöding, Köppling, Moosing, Neudorf bei St. Johann, Pichling bei Mooskirchen and St. Johann ob Hohenburg.

Transport

Söding-Sankt Johann has two stations, Söding-Mooskirchen and Köppling, 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 Graz Hauptbahnhof, abbreviated Graz Hbf ( German for Graz Main Station; sometimes translated as Graz Central Station.), is the main railway station in Graz, the capital of the Austrian federal state Styria. The station is located some west of th ...

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 ...

. The

Styria S-Bahn The Styria S-Bahn (), initially also known as "Graz S-Bahn", is a local transport project that connects the metropolitan area of Graz and the central region of Upper Styria of the Austrian States of Austria, state of Styria. "Warum heißt es eig ...

stops at both stations.

References

External links

* Cities and towns in Voitsberg District {{Styria-geo-stub