Mureck


Mureck 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.

Geography

Mureck is situated in the south of Styria, on the border with Slovenia.

Constituent parts of Mureck municipality

The municipality comprises the communities of:

Name

The name Mureck was first attested in 1151 as Mŏrekke. The name is a compound of Mur 'Mur River' + Old High German ecke 'edge, bend' or egge 'hill', 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'. For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare Crngrob, Cven, Dragonja, Sostro, and Spuhlja.

Population

Events

shrine near Mureck

Clubs and organisationshttp://mureck.gv.at/Vereine.41.0.html Index of clubs in Mureck(german)

Marching bands

Twin towns — sister cities

Mureck is twinned with: