Bad Schwanberg (; Slovene: ''Labodovec'') is a market town in the

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

n 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 ...

, in the district of

Deutschlandsberg Deutschlandsberg (; ) is a town in Deutschlandsberg district of Styria, Austria. It is located in southern Austria, near the border with Slovenia. It is approximately 35 km from Graz Graz () is the capital of the Austrian Federal states of Au ...

. It is situated on the eastern slopes of the Koralpe mountain range on the river Schwarze Sulm (''Black Sulm''), a major tributary of the river Sulm. Schwanberg was expanded 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 with the former municipalities Hollenegg, Gressenberg and

Garanas Garanas is a former municipality in the district of Deutschlandsberg in the Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform The Styria municipal structural reform (German: ''Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform'' ...

, but continuing with the name "Schwanberg" until it was finally renamed "Bad Schwanberg" from 1 March 2020.

People from Bad Schwanberg

* Wilhelm Gericke (1845-1925), conductor

Population in town as of 2015

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Cities and towns in Deutschlandsberg District Spa towns in Austria {{Styria-geo-stub