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Oberwölz

Oberwölz
Oberwölz is located in Austria
Oberwölz
Oberwölz
Location within Austria
Coordinates: 47°12′10″N 14°16′51″E / 47.20278°N 14.28083°E / 47.20278; 14.28083Coordinates: 47°12′10″N 14°16′51″E / 47.20278°N 14.28083°E / 47.20278; 14.28083
Country Austria
State Styria
District Murau
Government
 • Mayor Hannes Schmidhofer (ÖVP)
Area
 • Total 210.17 km2 (81.15 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2016)
 • Total 3,005
 • Density 14/km2 (37/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Postal codes 8831, 8832
Area codes 03581, 03587
Website Homepage der Region Oberwölz

Oberwölz is a city since 2015 in the Murau District of Styria, Austria. The city was founded as part of the Styria municipal structural reform, at the end of 2014, with the merger of the former independent municipalities Oberwölz Stadt, Oberwölz Umgebung, Schönberg-Lachtal and Winklern bei Oberwölz, whereby the new municipality became ranked as a city ("Stadtgemeinde").

The city territory includes the following eleven sections (populations as of 1 Jan 2015):

The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Hinterburg, Oberwölz, Raiming, Salchau, Schönberg, Schöttl and Winklern.

Rastplatz Oberwölz Umgebung.

Granite block with the crest of town Oberwölz Umgebung

History of the Rastplatz


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