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Gratwein-Straßengel
Since 2015 Gratwein-Straßengel () is a market town in the Graz-Umgebung District of Styria, Austria. The town took effect as part of the Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform, Styria municipal structural reform, from the end of 2014 with the merging of the former municipalities Gratwein, Judendorf-Straßengel, Eisbach (Steiermark), Eisbach and Gschnaidt. The merger made the market town population to be the 6th-largest in Styria. A petition by the mayor of Eisbach, to the constitutional court, against the merger was not successful. Likewise a petition from the town Gschnaidt was not successful. Geography Municipality layout The town lies to the west (right) bank of the Mur (river), Mur River, about northwest of the Styrian capital Graz. The section Rein, with its famous Stift Rein, Stift, is the seat of a Bundesgymnasium. Municipality arrangement The town contains 11 sections with a total of 12,803 residents (as of 1 January 2016): * Eisbach (Steiermark), Eisbach (1,01 ...
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Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform
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 municipalities from 542 to 287. The reform was intended to reduce costs and ease election of new town officials. The terms of the reform is formalized in the Styrian Municipality Structural Reform Act. (StGsrG). The law was adopted on December 17, 2013 by the , and promulgated on April 2, 2014. Background As a result of the reform, the number of municipalities in Styria was reduced from 542 to 287 municipalities, a decrease of 255. Though the main parts of the reform didn't come into effect until 1 January 2015, several changes happened before then: On 1 January 2013, the former '' Gemeinden'' (municipalities) of Buch-Geiseldorf and Sankt Magdalena am Lemberg were merged as the new municipality Buch-St. Magdalena. Likewise, the fo ...
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Steiermark Maria Strassengel 2
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 clockwise, from the southwest, by the other Austrian states of Carinthia, Salzburg (federal state), Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Burgenland. The state's capital is Graz, the second largest city in Austria after only Vienna. Name The March of Styria derived its name from the original seat of its ruling Otakars, Otakar dynasty: Steyr, in today's Upper Austria, which in turn derives its name from the namesake river of Steyr, stemming from the Celtic Stiria. In the native German the area is still called "Steiermark", while in English the Latin name "Styria" is used. Until the late 19th century however, the German name "Steyer", a slightly modernized spelling of Steyr, was also common. The ancient link between the city of Steyr and S ...
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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 Austria#District commissions, district commission. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities: * Deutschfeistritz * Dobl-Zwaring * Eggersdorf bei Graz * Feldkirchen bei Graz * Fernitz-Mellach * Frohnleiten * Gössendorf * Gratkorn * Gratwein-Straßengel * Hart bei Graz * Haselsdorf-Tobelbad * Hausmannstätten * Hitzendorf * Kainbach bei Graz * Kalsdorf bei Graz * Kumberg * Laßnitzhöhe * Lieboch * Nestelbach bei Graz * Peggau * Premstätten * Raaba-Grambach * Sankt Bartholomä * Sankt Marein bei Graz * Sankt Oswald bei Plankenwarth * Sankt Radegund bei Graz * Seiersberg-Pirka * Semriach * Stattegg * Stiwoll * Thal, Austria, Thal * Übelbach * Vasoldsberg * Weinitzen * Werndorf * Wundsch ...
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Gschnaidt
Gschnaidt is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Gratwein-Straßengel Since 2015 Gratwein-Straßengel () is a market town in the Graz-Umgebung District of Styria, Austria. The town took effect as part of the Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform, Styria municipal structural reform, from the end of 2014 with the me .... Population References Lavanttal Alps Cities and towns in Graz-Umgebung District {{Styria-geo-stub ...
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Judendorf-Straßengel - Maria Straßengel, Gesamtansicht
Judendorf-Straßengel () is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Gratwein-Straßengel. Geography The town is located a few kilometres north of Graz on the right bank of the Mur river. History The town was first mentioned in the year AD 860 as ''Strazinolum''. Sights The fourteenth century Gothic Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel that stands on a hill overlooking the town was constructed between 1346 and 1355, and contains an important high altar. Economy The town also has a rehab clinic, a chemical plant, and a punching tool factory. Tourism Straßengel attracts 23,774 overnight stays in tourism. Plankenwarth Castle is located nearby. Notable people Notable people that were born or lived in Judendorf-Straßengel include: * Amalija Knavs Amalija Knavs (; July 9, 1945 – January 9, 2024) was a Slovene-American woman who was the mother of ...
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Eisbach (Steiermark)
Eisbach is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Gratwein-Straßengel Since 2015 Gratwein-Straßengel () is a market town in the Graz-Umgebung District of Styria, Austria. The town took effect as part of the Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform, Styria municipal structural reform, from the end of 2014 with the me .... Population References Lavanttal Alps Cities and towns in Graz-Umgebung District {{Styria-geo-stub ...
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Judendorf-Straßengel
Judendorf-Straßengel () is a former municipality in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Gratwein-Straßengel. Geography The town is located a few kilometres north 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 ... on the right bank of the Mur river. History The town was first mentioned in the year AD 860 as ''Strazinolum''. Sights The fourteenth century Gothic Pilgrimage Church Maria Straßengel that stands on a hill overlooking the town was constructed between 1346 and 1355, and contains an important high altar. Economy The town also has a rehab clinic, a chemical plant, and a punching tool factory. Tourism Straßengel attracts 23,774 overnight stays in touris ...
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Gratwein
Gratwein () was a municipality of Austria, merged in 2015 to form Gratwein-Straßengel in the district of Graz-Umgebung in the Austrian state 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 ....Steiermärkisches Gemeindestrukturreformgesetz – StGsrG, ''Landesgesetzblatt des Landes Steiermark''. Nr. 31/2014 (Styria State Official Gazette, in German). Population References Cities and towns in Graz-Umgebung District {{Styria-geo-stub ...
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Municipality (Austria)
In the Republic of Austria, the municipality (, sometimes also ) is the administrative division encompassing a single village, town, or city. The municipality has municipal corporation, corporate status and local self-government on the basis of parliamentary democracy, parliamentary-style representative democracy: a municipal council () elected through a form of party-list proportional representation, party-list system enacts municipal laws, a municipal executive board () and a mayor (, grammatical gender, fem. ) appointed by the council are in charge of municipal administration. Austria is currently (January 1, 2020) partitioned into 2,095 municipalities, ranging in population from about fifty (the village of Gramais in Tyrol (state), Tyrol) to almost two million (the city of Vienna). There is no unincorporated area, unincorporated territory in Austria. Basics The existence of municipalities and their role as carriers of the right to self-administration are guaranteed by the ...
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Chert
Chert () is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2). Chert is characteristically of biological origin, but may also occur inorganically as a precipitation (chemistry), chemical precipitate or a diagenesis, diagenetic replacement, as in petrified wood. Chert is typically composed of the petrified remains of siliceous ooze, the biogenic sediment that covers large areas of the deep ocean floor, and which contains the silicon skeletal remains of diatoms, Dictyochales, silicoflagellates, and radiolarians. Precambrian cherts are notable for the presence of fossil cyanobacteria. In addition to Micropaleontology, microfossils, chert occasionally contains macrofossils. However, some chert is devoid of any fossils. Chert varies greatly in color, from white to black, but is most often found as gray, brown, grayish brown and light green to rusty redW.L. Roberts, T.J. Campbell, G.R. Rapp Jr., ...
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Hand Ax
A hand axe (or handaxe or Acheulean hand axe) is a prehistoric stone tool with two faces that is the longest-used tool in human history. It is made from stone, usually flint or chert that has been "reduced" and shaped from a larger piece by knapping, or hitting against another stone. They are characteristic of the lower Acheulean and middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian) periods, roughly 1.6 million years ago to about 100,000 years ago, and used by ''Homo erectus'' and other early humans, but rarely by ''Homo sapiens''. Their technical name (biface) comes from the fact that the archetypical model is a generally bifacial (with two wide sides or faces) and almond-shaped (amygdaloidal) lithic flake. Hand axes tend to be symmetrical along their longitudinal axis and formed by pressure or percussion. The most common hand axes have a pointed end and rounded base, which gives them their characteristic almond shape, and both faces have been knapped to remove the natural cortex, at least part ...
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