Gutenberg is a municipality since 2015 in the Weiz District of Styria, Austria. It was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform, at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns of Gutenberg an der Raabklamm and Stenzengreith and named Gutenberg-Stenzengreith until May 2023.[1] [2]
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 Coat of arms | |
  Gutenberg Location within Austria  Gutenberg Gutenberg (Austria) | |
| Coordinates: 47°12′32″N 15°33′47″E / 47.20889°N 15.56306°E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Styria |
| District | Weiz |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Vinzenz Mautner (SPÖ) |
| Elevation | 569 m (1,867 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01) | |
| • Total | 1,773 |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 8061, 8160, 8162 |
| Area code | +43 3132, 3172 |
| Vehicle registration | WZ |
| Website | gutenberg.gv.at |
Geography
editMunicipality arrangement
editThe municipality territory includes the following four sections and like-named Katastralgemeinden (populations and areas as of 2023 resp. 2019):
| Katastralgemeinde / Ortschaft |
Area | Population 1 Jan 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| Garrach | 1,038.65 ha (2,566.6 acres) | 491 |
| Kleinsemmering | 415.79 ha (1,027.4 acres) | 780 |
| Stenzengreith | 575.52 ha (1,422.1 acres) | 204 |
| Stockheim | 262.03 ha (647.5 acres) | 161 |
Politics
editMayor
editOn 27 April 2015, Vinzenz Mautner (SPÖ) was elected mayor. Mautner was clear to see the vote prevail against the former mayor of Gutenberg and the interim government commissioner, Thomas Wild, with 7:8 votes.[3] Thomas Wild had to settle for vice-mayor, and town treasurer as Erwin Neubauer (ÖVP) of the municipality.[3]
Town council
editThe municipal council consists of 15 members and convened on the results of the 2020 election as follows:
- 8 Mandatare of ÖVP
- 6 Mandatare of SPÖ
- 1 Mandatar of Die Grünen
The prior elections brought the following results:
| Party | 2015 | 2010 | 2005 | 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
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| merged town | Gutenberg | Stenzengreith | Gutenberg | Stenzengreith | Gutenberg | Stenzengreith | |||||||||||||||
| Stimmen | % | Mandate | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | St. | % | M. | |
| ÖVP | 487 | 41 | 7 | 486 | 58 | 9 | 223 | 57 | 5 | 494 | 58 | 9 | 227 | 60 | 6 | 411 | 55 | 8 | 183 | 52 | |
| SPÖ | 401 | 33 | 5 | 354 | 42 | 6 | 78 | 20 | 2 | 294 | 34 | 5 | 95 | 25 | 2 | 240 | 32 | 5 | 116 | 33 | 3 |
| FPÖ | 132 | 11 | 1 | not running | 92 | 23 | 2 | not running | 55 | 15 | 1 | 50 | 7 | 1 | 53 | 15 | 1 | ||||
| Die Grünen | 182 | 15 | 2 | not running | not running | 65 | 8 | 1 | not running | 48 | 6 | 1 | not running | ||||||||
| Wahlbeteiligung | 83% | 85% | 90% | 85% | 87% | 87% | 89% | ||||||||||||||
Coat of arms
edit The award of the town crest followed with Wirkung of 1 August 1984 to the town Gutenberg an der Raabklamm. By way of the merger, the crest lost its official validity on 1 January 2015. The new award was on 15 February 2015.[4]
Blazon (crest description):
References
edit- ^ "Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform".
- ^ Kundmachung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung vom 10. Oktober 2013 über die Vereinigung der Gemeinden Gutenberg an der Raabklamm und Stenzengreith, beide politischer Bezirk Weiz. Steiermärkisches Landesgesetzblatt of 15 November 2013. Nr. 118, 32. Stück. ZDB-ID 705127-x. p. 630.
- ^ a b Kleine Zeitung of 27 April 2015: Machtwechsel in Gutenberg-Stenzengreith, accessed on 29 April 2015.
- ^ 24. Verlautbarung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung vom 4. Februar 2016 über die Verleihung des Rechtes zur Führung eines Gemeindewappens an die Gemeinde Gutenberg-Stenzengreith (politischer Bezirk Weiz), accessed on 12 February 2016
- ^ Heinrich Purkarthofer. "Die in den Jahren 1984 und 1985 vergebenen steirischen Gemeindewappen" (PDF). Landesarchiv Steiermark. p. 46. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
External links
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- "Municipal data for Gutenberg, Styria". Statistik Austria.
- Town Gutenberg: Offizieller Internetauftritt
- Former town Stenzengreith: Internetauftritt [dead link]
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