Aflenz
![Coat of arms of Aflenz](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/AUT_Aflenz_COA.png/80px-AUT_Aflenz_COA.png)
Aflenz is since January 2015 a new market town with 2,421 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District of Styria, Austria.
The municipality was founded as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,[3][4] on 31 December 2014, from the dissolved independent municipalities Aflenz Kurort and Aflenz Land.
Geography
Municipality arrangement
The municipal territory includes the following six sections or like-named Katastralgemeinden (populations as of 1 January 2016,[5] area 2015[6]):
- Aflenz Kurort (998, 1,609.45 ha or 3,977.0 acres)
- Döllach (110, 387.06 ha or 956.4 acres)
- Dörflach (201, 1,705.68 ha)
- Graßnitz (463) KG Grassnitz (895.99 ha)
- Jauring (507, 777.38 ha or 1,920.9 acres)
- Tutschach (142, 129.87 ha or 320.9 acres)
Aflenz is completely surrounded by both nearby towns.
Coat of arms
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/AUT_Aflenz_Kurort_COA.jpg/60px-AUT_Aflenz_Kurort_COA.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/AUT_Aflenz_Land_COA.jpg/60px-AUT_Aflenz_Land_COA.jpg)
By way of the merger, the crests of Aflenz Kurort and Aflenz Land were officially retired on 1 January 2015.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/AUT_Aflenz_COA.png/120px-AUT_Aflenz_COA.png)
The Neuverleihung to the town Aflenz succeeded with Wirkung of 15 June 2016.[7]
The altered blazon states:
- "Between green shield flanks, the front with a silver Bishop staff together with flying ribbon, the back with a silver inverted key, a blue, silver-bordered sky, until in the center section a silver three-peaked mountain with a higher middle peak; these joined by a green leafy appletree."
Tourism
The town along with Thörl has the tourism agency "Hochschwab". The base is the town Aflenz.[8]
Culture and sights
- Pfarrkirche Aflenz - parish church
Notable residents
- Büchsenmacher Rosl (Rosina Maria Friedrich; 1858–1933), famous contortionist
References
- ^ "Dauersiedlungsraum der Gemeinden Politischen Bezirke und Bundesländer - Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ "Einwohnerzahl 1.1.2018 nach Gemeinden mit Status, Gebietsstand 1.1.2018". Statistics Austria. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform
- ^ § 3 Abs. 1 Z 1 des Gesetzes vom 17. Dezember 2013 über die Neugliederung der Gemeinden des Landes Steiermark (Steiermärkisches Gemeindestrukturreformgesetz – StGsrG). Landesgesetzblatt für die Steiermark vom 2. April 2014. Nr. 31, Jahrgang 2014. ZDB-ID 705127-x. S. 2.
- ^ Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung of 1 January 2016 nach Ortschaften
- ^ Katastralgemeinden Stmk. 2015 (Excel-Datei, 128 KB); retrieved 29 July 2015
- ^ 65. Verlautbarung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung 2 June 2016 über die Verleihung des Rechtes zur Führung eines Gemeindewappens an die Marktgemeinde Aflenz (politischer Bezirk Bruck-Mürzzuschlag), retrieved 17 June 2016
- ^ Grazer Zeitung, Amtsblatt für die Steiermark. 30 December 2014, 210. Jahrgang, 52. Stück. Nr. 306. ZDB-ID 1291268-2 S. 626.
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- "Municipal data for Aflenz". Statistik Austria.
- Gemeindedaten, Landesstatistik.Steiermark.at
- Aflenz in Austria-Forum (in German) (at AEIOU)
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