Trofaiach

Trofaiach
Municipality
Trofaiach
Coat of arms
Trofaiach Location within Austria
Coordinates: 47°25′33.69″N15°00′24.12″E / 47.4260250°N 15.0067000°E / 47.4260250; 15.0067000
Country	Austria
State	Styria
District	Leoben
Government
•  Mayor	Mario Abl (SPÖ)
Area [1]
• Total	143.63 km2 (55.46 sq mi)
Elevation	658 m (2,159 ft)
Population  (2018-01-01) [2]
• Total	11,125
• Density	77/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	8793
Area code	+43 3847
Vehicle registration	LN
Website	trofaiach.steiermark.at

Trofaiach is a municipality in the Leoben district of the state of Styria in Austria, the site of a post World War II British sector displaced persons camp. On 1 January 2013, it was merged with the neighbouring municipalities of Hafning bei Trofaiach and Gai. The municipality had 11,003 inhabitants on 1 January 2023.

Sons and daughters of the town

Josef Forster

• Josef Forster (1838-1917), composer, he wrote several, at that time successful, but now forgotten operas
• Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), grew up in Trofaiach, Austrian mathematician and professor of geometry at the Vienna University of Technology.
• Hannes Arch (1967-2016), aerobatics pilot, first Austrian participant in the Red Bull Air Race Series
• Monika Maierhofer (born 1967), former ski racer

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.