The Municipality is composed by four cadastral land register units: Leibsdorf (Ličja vas), Linsenberg (Lečja gora), Pubersdorf (Pobreže) and St. Michael ob der Gurk (Slovenji Šmihel).

The Municipality encloses also 24 localities and villages (with their respective Slovenian name that is autochthonous in the region) [3] with, in parentheses, the number of inhabitants on 31.

It is in this tradition that developed for example the lower aristocratic domains of Eibelhof (Ovčjak) or Wutschein (Bučinja vas) which gave their names to the respective cadastral land register units.

[6] During centuries, the municipality was characterized by agriculture and it is only in the last decades that the phenomenon of commuters to the regional capital city became more and more important.

During the ethnic cleansing of the Nazis and even before the beginning of WW II, any Slovenian activities as well as the use of the language were forbidden and persecuted and people who would speak it were put into camps at the latest in April 1942.

The black peak is heads down symbolizing the local industry (Notburgahütte) as well the extraction of peat (turf) in the location of Raunachmoss (Blato).

The lance and the shepherds’ stick symbolize the right of possession of arms and the rural culture of the so-called “Edlinger” (“kosezi”) of the times of medieval Carantania, which have kept their privileges much longer.