Sankt Veit am Vogau


Sankt Veit am Vogau is a former municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark.

[Homophobia] and [Islamophobia]

In March 2013 the small town created a large nationwide publicity, when the town's mayor, Manfred Tatzl from ÖVP told falter.at in an interview, "Wir sind hier auf dem Land, Homosexualität verurteilt ein jeder." and added, " "Gott sei Dank" keine Muslime im Ort" in order to defend the town's reverend Karl Tropper, who had been preaching against homosexuality and Islam for years.