Hirschegg-Pack

Hirschegg-Pack is since 2015 a municipality with 1,054 residents in Voitsberg District in Styria in Austria.
It was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,
at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Hirschegg and Pack.

Geography

Pack liest west of Graz near Pack Pass, on the border between Styria and Carinthia.

Municipality arrangement

The municipality territory includes the following two sections :

Hirschegg
Pack

The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Hirschegg-Piber, Hirschegg-Rein and Pack.

Politics

The town council, with 15 members, was voted in 2015 as the following portions: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ.
;Mayor

2018 Johann Schmid
2015-2018 Gottfried Preßler
Culture and sights

;Hirschegg

Pfarrkirche Hirschegg

;Pack

Schloss Pack
Pfarrkirche Pack
Freiländer Alm
Hebalm und Hebalmkapelle
Tourism

The two sections Hirschegg and Pack joined with the places Edelschrott, Modriach and St. Martin am Wöllmißberg as the tourism agency Steirische Rucksackdörfer.