Pölstal
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| settlement_type = Municipality
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Austria
| subdivision_type1 = State
| subdivision_name1 = Styria
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = Murtal
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| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Alois Mayer
| leader_party = {{Polparty|Austria| ÖVP }}
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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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References
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External links
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