Styria municipal structural reform

The reform was intended to reduce costs and ease election of new town officials.

[3] The law was adopted on December 17, 2013 by the Landtag of Styria [de], and promulgated on April 2, 2014.

In the second column, the former entire population is shown, but only the relevant part was added into the new sum.

In 21 cases, two old names (or parts of old names) were put together with a hyphen, new names were created by rewording (Ehrenhausen an der Weinstraße, Leutschach an der Weinstraße, Pischelsdorf am Kulm, Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg, Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark) or by simplifying (Aflenz, Krakau, Oberwölz, Schwarzautal, Sölk) from the core term of two.

For Feistritztal, Pölstal and St. Barbara in Mürztal entirely new names were chosen for the new municipality.