# Aflenz

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**Aflenz** is since January 2015 a new market town with 2,421 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in [Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District](/source/Bruck-M%C3%BCrzzuschlag_District) of [Styria](/source/Styria), Austria.

The municipality was founded as part of the [Styria municipal structural reform](/source/Steierm%C3%A4rkische_Gemeindestrukturreform),[1][2] on 31 December 2014, from the dissolved independent municipalities [Aflenz Kurort](/source/Aflenz_Kurort) and [Aflenz Land](/source/Aflenz_Land).

## Geography

### Municipality arrangement

The municipal territory includes the following six sections or like-named [Katastralgemeinden](/source/Katastralgemeinde) (populations as of 1 January 2016,[3] area 2015[4]):

- [Aflenz Kurort](/source/Aflenz_Kurort) (998, 1,609.45 hectares or 3,977.0 acres)
- Döllach (110, 387.06 hectares or 956.4 acres)
- Dörflach (201, 1,705.68 ha)
- Graßnitz (463) KG *Grassnitz* (895.99 ha)
- Jauring (507, 777.38 hectares or 1,920.9 acres)
- Tutschach (142, 129.87 hectares or 320.9 acres)

Aflenz is completely surrounded by both nearby towns.

## Coat of arms

By way of the merger, the crests of [Aflenz Kurort](/source/Aflenz_Kurort) and [Aflenz Land](/source/Aflenz_Land) were officially retired on 1 January 2015.

The Neuverleihung to the town Aflenz succeeded with Wirkung of 15 June 2016.[5] The altered [blazon](/source/Blazon) states:

- "Between green shield flanks, the front with a silver Bishop staff together with flying ribbon, the back with a silver inverted key, a blue, silver-bordered sky, until in the center section a silver three-peaked mountain with a higher middle peak; these joined by a green leafy appletree."

## Tourism

The town along with Thörl has the tourism agency "[Hochschwab](/source/Hochschwab)". The base is the town Aflenz.[6]

## Culture and sights

- Pfarrkirche Aflenz - parish church

## References

1. [Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform](http://www.gemeindestrukturreform.steiermark.at/cms/beitrag/11558627/69294537)

1. § 3 Abs. 1 Z 1 des Gesetzes vom 17. Dezember 2013 über die Neugliederung der Gemeinden des Landes Steiermark ([Steiermärkisches Gemeindestrukturreformgesetz](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/LgblAuth/LGBLA_ST_20140402_31/LGBLA_ST_20140402_31.pdfsig) – StGsrG). Landesgesetzblatt für die Steiermark vom 2. April 2014. Nr. 31, Jahrgang 2014. . S. 2.

1. [Statistik Austria, Bevölkerung of 1 January 2016 nach Ortschaften](http://www.statistik.at/wcm/idc/idcplg?IdcService=GET_PDF_FILE&RevisionSelectionMethod=LatestReleased&dDocName=103419)

1. [Katastralgemeinden Stmk. 2015](http://gis2.stmk.gv.at/gis2.stmk.gv.at/gis/content/karten/download/Listen/Katastralgemeinden_stmk_2015.xlsx) (Excel-Datei, 128 KB); retrieved 29 July 2015

1. [65. Verlautbarung der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung 2 June 2016 über die Verleihung des Rechtes zur Führung eines Gemeindewappens an die Marktgemeinde Aflenz (politischer Bezirk Bruck-Mürzzuschlag)](https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/LgblAuth/LGBLA_ST_20160606_65/LGBLA_ST_20160606_65.html), retrieved 17 June 2016

1. [Grazer Zeitung](/source/Grazer_Zeitung), Amtsblatt für die Steiermark. 30 December 2014, 210. Jahrgang, 52. Stück. Nr. 306. S. 626.

## External links

- [Gemeindedaten, Landesstatistik.Steiermark.at](https://web.archive.org/web/20161105095341/http://www.statistik.steiermark.at/cms/dokumente/12256488_103033992/764ca740/62138.pdf)

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