Sankt Barbara im Mürztal
| Sankt Barbara im Mürztal | |
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| Coordinates: 47°32′08″N 15°30′42″E / 47.53556°N 15.51167°ECoordinates: 47°32′08″N 15°30′42″E / 47.53556°N 15.51167°E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Styria |
| District | Bruck-Mürzzuschlag |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jochen Jance (SPÖ) |
| Population (1 January 2016) | |
| • Total | 6,726 |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Postal codes | 8661, 8662, 8663, 8664 |
| Area codes | 03856, 03858 |
| Website | st-barbara.gv.at |
Sankt Barbara im Mürztal is since 2015 a market town in Styria, Austria, with 6,726 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2016) in the judicial district of Mürzzuschlag and in the political district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria. As part of the municipality structural reform in Styria, the municipality, which was founded on 1 January 2015, was formed by the merger of the independent municipalities:
This was based on the Styrian municipality Structural Reform Act, StGsrG.
In this case, no major part of one of the (three) outlying communities was used as a new name, but only the district name "Mürztal" (Murtal). The new community is named after the patron saint of miners, St. Barbara. A church designated to St. Barbara was built in 1986, in what is now the district Mitterdorf.
The highest elevation point in the municipality area is the mountain range Hohe Veitsch, with an altitude of 1,981 m (6,499 ft), which simultaneously forms a natural boundary to the west and north-west of the municipality. To the west is the Pretalsattel (1,069 m or 3,507 ft above sea level), as a compound in the Stübmingtal, Turnau and the Aflenzer Basin.
In the east and southeast of the town, borders the town of Fischbacher Alpen.
The municipal area covers seven towns (in parentheses inhabitants as at 1 January 2016):
The community consists of the cadastral (Katastralgemeinden): Großveitsch, Kleinveitsch, Lutschaun, Mitterdorf, Niederaigen, Scheibsgraben, Veitsch Dorf and Wartberg.
The town lies on the southern railway, has 2 train stations of ÖBB ("Mitterdorf - Veitsch" or "Wartberg im Mürztal") and is accessible on the Semmering Schnellstraße S 6 (road exit "Mitterdorf"). The town can also be reached via the L 102 (Veitscherstraße) from Turnau or via the L 118 (Semmering Begleitstraße) from Kindberg and Krieglach.
Since 2016-07-18, a bus of the Mürztaler transport company is run from Kapfenberg and interconnects all 3 districts:
Mining (magnesite from 1881), production of refractory products for smelting furnaces, steel production and processing have a long tradition and are still significant today in the area:
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