Oberwölz is a city since 2015 in the Murau District of Styria, Austria.

The city was founded as part of the Styria municipal structural reform,[3] at the end of 2014, with the merger of the former independent municipalities Oberwölz Stadt, Oberwölz Umgebung, Schönberg-Lachtal and Winklern bei Oberwölz, whereby the new municipality became ranked as a city ("Stadtgemeinde").

[4] The city territory includes the following eleven sections (populations as of 1 Jan 2015[5]): The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Hinterburg, Oberwölz, Raiming, Salchau, Schönberg, Schöttl and Winklern.