Fernitz-Mellach

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Fernitz-Mellach

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| settlement_type = Municipality

| image_skyline = Erzherzog-johann-park-fernitz.jpg

| image_caption = View of Fernitz

| image_shield = AUT Fernitz-Mellach COA.svg

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| pushpin_map = Austria

| pushpin_mapsize = 270

| pushpin_map_caption = Location within Austria

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| map_caption = Location within Graz-Umgebung district

| coordinates = {{coord|46|58|27|N|15|29|54|E|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Austria

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Styria

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Graz-Umgebung

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| parts_style = para

| p1 =

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Robert Winkler

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| population_density_km2 = auto

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| timezone = CET

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset = +1

| utc_offset_DST = +2

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| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 8072, 8410

| area_code_type = Area code

| area_code = 03135

| website = www.fernitz-mellach.gv.at

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Fernitz-Mellach is since 2015 a municipality with 4,654 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in Styria, Austria. It lies in the south of Graz-Umgebung District. The municipality was founded as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,[http://www.gemeindestrukturreform.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/11558627/69294537 Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform].

at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Fernitz and Mellach.§ 3 Abs. 3 Z 2 des Gesetzes vom 17. Dezember 2013 über die Neugliederung der Gemeinden des Landes Steiermark ([https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/LgblAuth/LGBLA_ST_20140402_31/LGBLA_ST_20140402_31.pdfsig Steiermärkisches Gemeindestrukturreformgesetz] – StGsrG). Landesgesetzblatt für die Steiermark'', of 2 April 2014. Nr. 31, Jahrgang 2014. {{ZDB-ID|705127-x}}. p. 3.