Geography

Rohrbach an der Lafnitz is in the Joglland, approximately north of

Hartberg Hartberg () is a city in Styria, Austria and the district seat of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District. As of January 1st 2024, it has a population of 6,713 in an area of 21.58 km2. About 68 km up the A2 Autobahn is the large Styrian capital o ...

city. It is located where the River Limbach joins the Lafnitz. The municipality is too small to be subdivided.

Transport

Rohrbach an der Lafnitz has good transportation connections. The Wechsel Straße (B 54) between

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and Hartberg passes through it, and the

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between

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and

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passes approximately away. The Rohrbach-Vorau station on the Thermenbahn provides a rail connection to Vienna and Hartberg. The

and

airports are both approximately away.

Education

The municipality has a kindergarten, a

Volksschule The German term ''Volksschule'' () generally refers to compulsory education, denoting an educational institution every person (i.e. the people, ''Volk'') is required to attend. In Germany and Switzerland it is equivalent to a combined primar ...

and a Neue Mittelschule.

Registered landmarks

*The Roman Catholic parish church of

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, built overlooking the town in 1959–1961, was designed by Eberhardt Jäger and contains a triptych stained glass window by Margret Bilger. *The so-called Zeilbrücke is a lenticular truss bridge carrying the Thermenbahn across the Lafnitz valley. The bridge is shared between Eichberg, Rohrbach and Schlag bei Thalberg; the centre of the river constitutes the border between the latter two.

Notable residents

Hans Gross Hans Gustav Adolf Gross or Groß (26 December 1847 – 9 December 1915) was an Austrian criminal jurist and criminologist, the "Founding Father" of criminal profiling. A criminal jurist, Gross made a mark as the creator of the field of crimina ...

(1930–1992) was made an honorary citizen of Rohrbach an der Lafnitz in 1984.

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Cities and towns in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District {{Styria-geo-stub