Mureck


Mureck is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck.

Geography

Mureck is located in southern Styria, on the border with Slovenia.

Constituent parts of Mureck municipality

The municipality comprises the communities of:
  • Diepersdorf
  • Eichfeld
  • Fluttendorf
  • Gosdorf
  • Hainsdorf-Brunnsee
  • Misselsdorf
  • Mureck
  • Oberrakitsch

    Name

The name Mureck was first attested in 1151 as Mŏrekke. The name is a compound of Mur 'Mur River' + Old High German ecke 'edge, bend' or egge 'hill', 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, Sostro, and Spuhlja.

Population

Events

Source:

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

    International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Mureck is twinned with: