Dechantskirchen
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Dechantskirchen | |
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 Coat of arms | |
  Dechantskirchen Location within Austria | |
| Coordinates: 47°25′00″N 16°01′01″E / 47.41667°N 16.01694°E | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Styria |
| District | Hartberg-Fürstenfeld |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Waltraud Schwammer (ÖVP) |
| Area | |
• Total | 28.84 km2 (11.14 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 531 m (1,742 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 2,042 |
| • Density | 71/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 8241 |
| Area code | 03339 |
| Vehicle registration | HF |
| Website | dechantskirchen |
Dechantskirchen is a municipality in the district of Hartberg-Fürstenfeld in Styria, Austria. At 1. January 2015 it was expanded by a part (Katastralgemeinde Schlag) of the to this date existing immediate neighbor municipality Schlag bei Thalberg within the scope of the Gemeindestrukturreform.[3]
Geographical position
Dechantskirchen is placed in the northeast of the district Hartberg-Fürstenfeld and also of Styria. The municipality resides approximately 15 km north of the district capital Hartberg. The highest place of the municipality territory is the Hochkogel (1.314 m), the moust southern one thousand mountain of the Wechsel.
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Municipality structure
The municipality is composed of three Katastralgemeinden Dechantskirchen, Hohenau, Kroisbach und Schlag respectively of eight small towns (population 1. January 2019[4]):
- Bergen (106) mit der Rotte Drei Häuser
- Burgfeld (125) mit Höttling
- Dechantskirchen (665)
- Hohenau am Wechsel (100) mit der Streusiedlung Jockl im Hof
- Kroisbach (391) mit Killer
- Limbach (25)
- Schlag bei Thalberg (390) mit Lehen und Thalberg-Siedlung
- Stögersbach (240)
Annexations
At 1. January 1967 the municipality Hohenau am Wechsel was incorporated to Dechantskirchen.
History
Because of many archeological evidences,[citation needed] there is reason to expect that human settlement existed already in prehistoric time, like 3000 to 1500 before Christ, at the arey of Dechanstkirchen.
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