Fernitz-Mellach is since 2015 a municipality with 4,654 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in

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. It lies in the south of

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 ...

. 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 ...

, at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Fernitz and Mellach.

Geography

Geographical layout

Fernitz-Mellach is located in the south part of the

, about south 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 ...

. The municipality runs along the Mur River.

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following five sections (population as of 1 January 2015): * Dillach (365) * Enzelsdorf (294) * Fernitz (2954) * Gnaning (402) * Mellach (595) and consists of the Katastralgemeinden Fernitz, Gnaning and Mellach.

History

The municipality was founded on 1 January 2015 by merger of the municipality areas of Fernitz and Mellach.

References

External links

- collection of videos, documents {{authority control Cities and towns in Graz-Umgebung District