Pölstal

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| subdivision_name1 = Styria

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| subdivision_name2 = Murtal

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| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Alois Mayer

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| postal_code = 8762, 8763, 8765

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| website = [http://www.poelstal.gv.at/ www.poelstal.gv.at]

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Pölstal is a market town since 2015 in the Murtal District of Styria, Austria.

The municipality, Pölstal, was created 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 Oberzeiring, Bretstein, Sankt Johann am Tauern and Sankt Oswald-Möderbrugg.§ 3 Abs. 8 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 vom 2. April 2014. Nr. 31, Jahrgang 2014. {{ZDB-ID|705127-x}}. p. 3.

Geography

= Municipality arrangement =

The municipality territory includes the following nine sections (populations as of January 2015[http://www.statistik.at/wcm/idc/idcplg?IdcService=GET_PDF_FILE&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&dDocName=103419 Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung am 1.1.2015 nach Ortschaften]):

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  • Bretstein (298)
  • Gföllgraben (55)
  • Möderbrugg (670)
  • Oberzeiring (629)
  • Sankt Johann am Tauern Schattseite (115)
  • Sankt Johann am Tauern Sonnseite (352)
  • Sankt Oswald (477)
  • Zeiringgraben (43)
  • Zugtal (105)

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The municipality consists of the seven

Katastralgemeinden Bretstein, Möderbrugg, Oberzeiring, St. Johann Schattseite, St. Johann Sonnseite and St. Oswald.

= Tourism =

The municipality formed, together with Pusterwald and Pöls-Oberkurzheim, the tourism agency "Region Pölstal". The base is in the town Pölstal.Grazer Zeitung, "Amtsblatt für die Steiermark". 30 December 2014, 210. Jahrgang, 52. Stück. Nr. 316. {{ZDB|1291268-2}} p. 628–629.

Culture and sights

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