Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark () is a municipality since 2015 in the
Leibnitz District
Bezirk Leibnitz () is a Districts of Austria, district of the States of Austria, state of Styria in Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities:
* Allerheiligen bei Wildon
* Arnfels
* ...
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 population was 4,069 residents (as of 1 January 2016).
The municipality, Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark, 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
Sankt Veit am Vogau and
Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling, both in the political district Leibnitz, plus the town
Weinburg am Saßbach in the political
Südoststeiermark District
Bezirk Südoststeiermark (; "South East Styria") is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. It was formed on January 1, 2013 through a merger of the former Radkersburg District and Feldbach District.(21 January 2013)Gemeindefusion: Die neu ...
.
The borders of the Südoststeiermark District and Leibnitz District were shifted, so that the new municipality would lie completely within Leibnitz District.
The former municipality
Weinburg am Saßbach was until the end of 2012 in
Radkersburg District and had the Kfz-code "RA". From the middle of 2013 until the end of 2014, the code had abbreviation "SO"; in 2015 it was set as "LB".
Geography
Municipality arrangement
The municipality territory includes the following 11
Katastralgemeinden and 16 sections (populations as of 1 January 2015):
;Katastralgemeinden
* Hütt ()
* Labuttendorf ()
* Lind ()
* Lipsch ()
* Neutersdorf ()
* Perbersdorf bei St. Veit ()
* Pichla ()
* St. Nikolai ob Draßling ()
* St. Veit am Vogau ()
* Siebing ()
* Weinburg ()
;Ortschaften
*
Hütt (185)
*
Labuttendorf (173)
*
Leitersdorf (135)
*
Lind bei St. Veit am Vogau (220)
*
Lipsch (182)
*
Marchtring (19)
*
Neutersdorf (92)
*
Perbersdorf bei Sankt Veit (146)
*
Pichla bei Mureck (156)
*
Priebing (101)
*
Rabenhof (149)
*
Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling (771)
*
Sankt Veit am Vogau (598)
*
Siebing (272)
*
Wagendorf (515)
*
Weinburg am Saßbach (363)
Neighboring municipalities
The municipality is bordered by seven neighboring towns, four were in
Südoststeiermark District
Bezirk Südoststeiermark (; "South East Styria") is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. It was formed on January 1, 2013 through a merger of the former Radkersburg District and Feldbach District.(21 January 2013)Gemeindefusion: Die neu ...
(SO).
Demographics
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Politics
Mayor
Manfred Tatzl (ÖVP) was elected mayor of the newly formed municipality on 20 April 2015, in the inaugural meeting of the Municipal Council.
[Gemeinde St. Veit in der Südsteiermark]
''Gemeindenachrichten Juni 2015''
(pdf-Dokument, 367 KB), retrieved 15 June 2015. Tatzl was already, at the end of 2014, the mayor of the former municipality of St. Veit am Vogau and led from January 1, 2015, the transactions of the merged municipality as government commissioner.
Josef Pratter, the nearly 25-year mayor of St. Nikolai ob Draßling, was and the former mayor of the municipality of Weinburg am Saßbach, Susanne Lucchesi-Palli, came to the election.
With the results from April 30, 2015, Manfred Tatzl traveled by his council mandate, because he wants to conduct the business of the merged municipality as a "People's Mayor".
The town council also includes the first deputy mayor Gerhard Rohrer, the second Deputy Mayor Harald Schögler, the municipality treasurer Georg Pock and board member Rudolf Reinprecht.
Municipality council
The town council has 21 members. After the 2015 election, the council had the following results:
[Gemeinde St. Veit in der Südsteiermark]
''Gemeindenachrichten März 2015''
(pdf, 500 KB), retrieved 15 June 2015.
* 12 Mandate
ÖVP
The Austrian People's Party ( , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria.
Since January 2025, the party has been led by Christian Stocker (as an acting leader). It is currently the second-largest p ...
* 6 Mandate
SPÖ
The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( , SPÖ) is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (, SDAPÖ) and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria () from 1945 unt ...
* 3 Mandate
FPÖ
The Freedom Party of Austria (, FPÖ) is a political party in Austria, variously described as far-right, right-wing populist, national-conservative, and Eurosceptic. It has been led by Herbert Kickl since 2021. It is the largest of five par ...
The prior elections brought the following results:
Coat of arms
AUT Sankt Veit am Vogau COA.jpg, Sankt Veit am Vogau
AUT Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling COA.jpg, Sankt Nikolai ob Draßling
AUT Weinburg am Saßbach COA.jpg, Weinburg am Saßbach
All three predecessors had a town crest. Because of the merger, the crests lost their official validity on January 1, 2015. The authorization of the municipal coat of arms for the joined community took effect on 25 October 2016.
124. Verlautbarung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung 13 October 2016 über die Verleihung des Rechtes zur Führung eines Gemeindewappens an die Marktgemeinde Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark (politischer Bezirk Leibnitz)
retrieved 28 October 2016.
Blazon
In heraldry and heraldic vexillology, a blazon is a formal description of a coat of arms, flag or similar emblem, from which the reader can reconstruct an accurate image. The verb ''to blazon'' means to create such a description. The visual d ...
(crest description):
: "Above the silvery shield-foot, over a black, silver-floated wave-beam green three grapes growing from common origin upward and two flat wine leaves, in blue a golden, richly arranged and of window and door fifteenfold black perforated with volute gable and two with Knauf and cross at golden towers; between these, a silver lion's head".
References
External links
* Town of St. Veit in der Sudsteiermark
''Official Homepage''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sankt Veit in der Sudsteiermark
Cities and towns in Leibnitz District