Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab

Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab is a market town with 5,421 residents in the district of Weiz in Styria, Austria. In the Styria municipal structural reform on 1 January 2015, the town was merged with the nearby towns Etzersdorf-Rollsdorf and Unterfladnitz.

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Geography

Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab is located in Weiz District on Landesstraße B 64 in the Austrian state of Styria.

Municipality organization

The municipal region covers the following 13 places, of these 9 joined in the merger:
Former regions of Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab:

Fünfing bei Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Grub bei Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Wolfgruben b. Sankt Ruprecht a.d. Raab

Former regions of Unterfladnitz:

Arndorf bei Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Dietmannsdorf
Kühwiesen
Neudorf bei Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab
Unterfladnitz
Wollsdorf

Former regions of Etzersdorf-Rollsdorf:

Etzersdorf
Lohngraben
Rollsdorf.

The municipality includes several Katastralgemeinden communities: Arndorf, Dietmannsdorf, Etzersdorf, Fünfing bei St. Ruprecht, Grub, Kühwiesen, Lohngraben, Neudorf bei St. Ruprecht, St. Ruprecht an der Raab, Unterfladnitz, Wolfsgruben bei St. Ruprecht und Wollsdorf. The town region covers an area of.

History

Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab is one of the oldest places in Styria. At the first Nennung in the year 860, it was named "ad Rapam". Kaiser Friedrich III noted the town on 1 September 1462.