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Country
  
Austria

District
  
Südoststeiermark

Postal codes
  
8480, 8482

Elevation
  
237 m

Local time
  
Wednesday 12:09 AM

Area code
  
03472

State
  
Styria

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Vehicle registration
  
SO

Area
  
5 km²

Population
  
1,597 (1 Apr 2009)

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Weather
  
11°C, Wind S at 6 km/h, 78% Humidity

Mureck (Slovene: Cmurek, archaic: Cmürek) is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. On 1 January 2015, administrative reform actions in Styria merged the towns of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is called Mureck.

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Map of 8480 Mureck, Austria

Geography

Mureck is situated in the south of Styria at the border to Slovenia.

Parts of the municipality Mureck

The following 8 Towns are part of the municipality Mureck:

  • Diepersdorf (138)
  • Eichfeld (349)
  • Fluttendorf (59)
  • Gosdorf (574)
  • Hainsdorf-Brunnsee (209)
  • Misselsdorf (388)
  • Mureck (1570)
  • Oberrakitsch (334)

    • History

    The 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'. For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Crngrob, Cven, Dragonja, and Sostro.

    Events

  • Weckruf: Since 1954 the local marching band Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck practices the so-called wakening call (in German Weckruf) on every May 1 and wakes all friends of brass music with marching music in the early morning hours. Until 1964 all this happened by foot, later on they started using a nicely restored truck.

    • Marching bands

  • Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck

    • Fire departments

  • FF Eichfeld
  • FF Gosdorf
  • FF Hainsdorf-Brunnsee
  • FF Misselsdorf
  • FF Mureck
  • FF Oberrakitsch

    • Sports clubs

  • Beachvolleyballclub
  • ESV Mureck
  • TUS Mureck

    • Charity and service clubs

  • Leo Club South Styrian Unity
  • Lions Club Bad Radkersburg-Mureck

    • Twin towns — sister cities

    Mureck is twinned with:

  • Lenauheim, Romania

    • References

    Mureck Wikipedia
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