Sankt Marein-Feistritz

Sankt Marein-Feistritz is a municipality since 2015 in the Murtal District of Styria, Austria.

Sankt Marein-Feistritz
Municipality
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 47°16′16″N 14°51′38″E
Country	Austria
State	Styria
District	Murtal
Government
• Mayor	Bruno Aschenbrenner (ÖVP)
Area [1]
• Total	70.61 km2 (27.26 sq mi)
Elevation	698 m (2,290 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01)[2]
• Total	2,010
• Density	28/km2 (74/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	8715, 8733
Area code	+43 3515
Website	www.st-marein-feistritz.gv.at

The municipality, Sankt Marein-Feistritz, was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,^[3] at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Sankt Marein bei Knittelfeld and Feistritz bei Knittelfeld.^[4]

Geography

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following 15 sections (populations as of 1 January 2015^[5]):

• Altendorf (211)
• Feistritz bei Knittelfeld (582)
• Feistritzgraben (1)
• Fentsch (130)
• Fressenberg (45)
• Greith (129)
• Hof (115)
• Kniepaß (8)
• Laas (64)
• Mitterfeld (14)
• Moos (6)
• Prankh (123)
• Sankt Marein bei Knittelfeld (299)
• Sankt Martha (190)
• Wasserleith (109)

The municipality consists of the six Katastralgemeinden (areas as of 2015^[6]):

• Feistritz (989.17 ha or 2,444.3 acres)
• Fressenberg (940.78 ha or 2,324.7 acres)
• Greuth (1,002.28 ha or 2,476.7 acres)
• Prank (429.63 ha or 1,061.6 acres)
• St. Marein (482.67 ha or 1,192.7 acres)
• Wasserleith (3,215.08 ha or 7,944.6 acres)

Tourism

The municipality formed, together with Lobmingtal, Kobenz, Seckau, Spielberg, Gaal and Zeltweg, "Tourismus am Spielberg". The base is in the town Spielberg.^[7]

Culture and sights