Mureck | |
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Coordinates: 46°42′27″N 15°46′12″E / 46.70750°N 15.77000°E | |
Country | Austria |
State | Styria |
District | Südoststeiermark |
Government | |
• Mayor | Anton Vukan ( SPÖ) |
Area | |
• Total | 38.68 km2 (14.93 sq mi) |
Elevation | 237 m (778 ft) |
Population (2018-01-01)
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• Total | 3,551 |
• Density | 92/km2 (240/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+2 ( CEST) |
Postal code | 8480, 8482 |
Area code | 03472 |
Vehicle registration | SO |
Website |
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Mureck ( Slovene: Cmurek, archaic: Cmürek [3]) 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.
Mureck is situated in the south of Styria, on the border with Slovenia.
The municipality comprises the communities of:
The name Mureck was first attested in 1151 as Mŏrekke (and as Murekke in 1181, Můrekke in 1183, and Muregk in 1500). The name is a compound of Mur ' Mur River' + Old High German ecke 'edge, bend' or egge 'hill' (sometimes 'fortification'), 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'. [4] For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Crngrob, Cven, Dragonja, Sostro, and Spuhlja.
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Mureck is twinned with: