Dechantskirchen

Dechantskirchen
Municipality
Coat of arms
Dechantskirchen Location within Austria
Coordinates: 47°25′00″N16°01′01″E / 47.41667°N 16.01694°E / 47.41667; 16.01694
Country	Austria
State	Styria
District	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld
Government
•  Mayor	Waltraud Schwammer (ÖVP)
Area [1]
• Total	28.84 km2 (11.14 sq mi)
Elevation	531 m (1,742 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01) [2]
• Total	2,042
• Density	71/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	8241
Area code	03339
Vehicle registration	HF
Website	dechantskirchen.gv.at

Dechantskirchen is a municipality in the district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria, Austria. At 1. January 2015 it was expanded by a part (Katastralgemeinde Schlag) of the to this date existing immediate neighbor municipality Schlag bei Thalberg within the scope of the Gemeindestrukturreform. ^[3]

Geographie

Geographical position

Dechantskirchen is placed in the northeast of the district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld and also of Styria. The municipality resides approximately 15 km north of the district capital Hartberg. The highest place of the municipality territory is the Hochkogel (1.314 m), the moust southern one thousand mountain of the Wechsel.

Municipality structure

The municipality is composed of three Katastralgemeinden Dechantskirchen, Hohenau, Kroisbach und Schlag respectively of eight small towns (population 1. January 2019 ^[4] ):

• Bergen (106) mit der Rotte Drei Häuser
• Burgfeld (125) mit Höttling
• Dechantskirchen (665)
• Hohenau am Wechsel (100) mit der Streusiedlung Jockl im Hof
• Kroisbach (391) mit Killer
• Limbach (25)
• Schlag bei Thalberg (390) mit Lehen und Thalberg-Siedlung
• Stögersbach (240)

Annexations

At 1. January 1967 the municipality Hohenau am Wechsel was incorporated to Dechantskirchen.

History

Because of many archeological evidences,^{[ citation needed ]} there is reason to expect that human settlement existed already in prehistoric time, like 3000 to 1500 before Christ, at the arey of Dechanstkirchen.

Culture and sights

Tower of the parish church Dechantskirchen

Also look at the list of as historic protected monuments of Dechantskirchen.

• Pfarrkirche Dechantskirchen
• Burg Thalberg

Infrastructure

Dechanstkirchen can be reached by train and by car. It resides at the railway track Thermenbahn and the Wechsel Straße B 54.

The airports Graz and Vienna are each around 100 km remote.

References

1. "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
2. "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
3. "Landesgesetzblatt für die Steiermark vom 2. April 2014. Nr. 31, Jahrgang 2014". 2014-04-02. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07.
4. "Statistik Austria: Bevölkerung am 1.1.2019 nach Ortschaften (Gebietsstand 1.1.2019)". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.