Mureck (Slovene: Cmurek, archaic: Cmürek[3]) is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck.
Mureck
Cmurek | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Mureck Location within Styria#Location within Austria  Mureck Mureck (Austria) | |
| Coordinates: 46°42′27″N 15°46′12″E / 46.70750°N 15.77000°E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Styria |
| District | Südoststeiermark |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Anton Vukan (SPÖ) |
| Area | |
• Total | 38.68 km2 (14.93 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 237 m (778 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 3,551 |
| • Density | 92/km2 (240/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 8480, 8482 |
| Area code | 03472 |
| Vehicle registration | SO |
| Website | www |
Geography
editMureck is located in southern Styria, on the border with Slovenia.
Constituent parts of Mureck municipality
editThe municipality comprises the communities of:
Name
editThe name Mureck was first attested in 1151 as Mŏrekke (and as Murekke in 1181, Můrekke in 1183, and Muregk in 1500). The name is a compound of Mur 'Mur River' + Old High German ecke 'edge, bend' or egge 'hill' (sometimes 'fortification'), and thus means 'bend on the Mur River' or 'hill/fortification on the Mur River'. The Slovene name Cmurek is borrowed from the Middle High German prepositional phrase ze Murekke, literally 'at Mureck'.[4] For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Crngrob, Cven, Dragonja, Sostro, and Spuhlja.
Population
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Events
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- Weckruf: since 1954 the local marching band Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck has performed the so-called wakening call (in German, Weckruf) each May 1, waking every friend of brass-band music with marching music in the early morning hours. Until 1964 all of this happened by foot; later the band started using a nicely restored truck.[5]
Marching bands
edit- Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck
Fire departments
edit- FF Eichfeld
- FF Gosdorf
- FF Hainsdorf-Brunnsee
- FF Misselsdorf
- FF Mureck
- FF Oberrakitsch
Sports clubs
edit- Beachvolleyballclub
- ESV Mureck
- TUS Mureck
Charity and service clubs
edit- Leo Club South Styrian Unity
- Lions Club Bad Radkersburg-Mureck
International relations
editTwin towns — sister cities
editMureck is twinned with:
References
edit- ^ "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ Krempl, Anton. 1845. Dogodivšine Štajerske zemle: z posebnim pogledom na Slovence. Graz: Franc Ferstl, p. 209.
- ^ Snoj, Marko. 2009. Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 91.
- ^ "History of Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck(german)". Archived from the original on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
- ^ Index of clubs in Mureck(german) Archived 2013-07-15 at the Wayback Machine
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