{{Infobox settlement | name = Mureck | native_name = ''Cmurek'' | settlement_type = Municipality <!-- Images --> | image_skyline = Zu Mureck von Obermureck.jpg | image_caption = | image_shield = AUT Mureck COA.jpg | shield_size = 80x110px | shield_link = <!-- Maps --> | pushpin_map = Austria Styria#Austria | pushpin_mapsize = 280 | pushpin_map_caption = Location within Styria#Location within Austria | pushpin_label_position = top | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = Location within Südoststeiermark district <!-- Location --> | coordinates = {{coord|46|42|27|N|15|46|12|E|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Austria | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Styria | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Südoststeiermark | parts_type = | parts_style = para | p1 = <!-- Leaders --> | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Anton Vukan | leader_party = {{Polparty|Austria| SPÖ }} | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = <!-- Statistics --> | area_footnotes = {{Austria population Wikidata|area_footnotes}} | area_total_km2 = {{Austria population Wikidata|area_total_km2}} | elevation_m = 237 | elevation_max_m = | elevation_min_m = | population_as_of = {{Austria population Wikidata|population_as_of}} | population_footnotes = {{Austria population Wikidata|population_footnotes}} | population_total = {{Austria population Wikidata|population_total}} | population_urban = | population_metro = | population_note = | population_density_km2 = auto | established_title = | established_date = | timezone = CET | timezone_DST = CEST | utc_offset = +1 | utc_offset_DST = +2 | registration_plate = SO | postal_code_type = Postal code | postal_code = 8480, 8482 | area_code_type = Area code | area_code = 03472 | website = {{URL|http://www.mureck.gv.at}} | footnotes = }} '''Mureck''' ({{langx|sl|Cmurek,}} archaic: ''Cmürek''<ref>Krempl, Anton. 1845. ''Dogodivšine Štajerske zemle: z posebnim pogledom na Slovence.'' Graz: Franc Ferstl, p. 209.</ref>) is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the Austrian state of Styria. Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, Gosdorf, and Eichfeld, which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck. {{stack|thumb|Mureck railway station}}
== Geography == Mureck is located in southern Styria, on the border with Slovenia. {{Adjacent communities|width=auto | CENTER = Mureck | NORTHWEST = Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark<br /><small>(District Leibnitz)</small> | NORTH = Sankt Peter am Ottersbach | NORTHEAST = Deutsch Goritz | WEST = Straß in Steiermark | EAST = Halbenrain | SOUTHWEST = Šentilj (Slovenia) | SOUTH = | SOUTHEAST = Apače (Slovenia) }} === Constituent parts of Mureck municipality === The municipality comprises the communities of: * Diepersdorf (pop. 138) * Eichfeld (349) * Fluttendorf (59) * Gosdorf (574) * Hainsdorf-Brunnsee (209) * Misselsdorf (388) * Mureck (1570) * Oberrakitsch (334)
==Name== The name ''Mureck'' was first attested in 1151 as ''Mŏrekke'' (and as ''Murekke'' in 1181, ''Můrekke'' in 1183, and ''Muregk'' in 1500). The name is a compound of ''Mur'' 'Mur River' + Old High German ''ecke'' 'edge, bend' or ''egge'' 'hill' (sometimes 'fortification'), and thus means 'bend on the Mur River' or 'hill/fortification on the Mur River'. The Slovene name ''Cmurek'' is borrowed from the Middle High German prepositional phrase ''ze Murekke'', literally 'at Mureck'.<ref>Snoj, Marko. 2009. ''Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen''. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 91.</ref> For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare ''Crngrob'', ''Cven'', ''Dragonja'', ''Sostro'', and ''Spuhlja''.
==Population== {{Historical populations |align=none|cols=3 |1869|1302 |1880|1472 |1890|1570 |1900|1532 |1910|1541 |1923|1411 |1934|1529 |1939|1519 |1951|2140 |1961|1890 |1971|1824 |1981|1737 |1991|1585 |2001|1690 |2011|1571 |2016|1597 }}
==Events == thumb|Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck playing "Weckruf" on a restored truck on 1 May * ''Weckruf'': since 1954 the local marching band Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck has performed the so-called wakening call (in German, ''Weckruf'') each May 1, waking every friend of brass-band music with marching music in the early morning hours. Until 1964 all of this happened by foot; later the band started using a nicely restored truck.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://gtk-mureck.at/chronik |title=History of Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck(german) |access-date=2013-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920042921/http://gtk-mureck.at/chronik |archive-date=2013-09-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{multiple image|total_width=400 |image1=Crucifix.JPG|caption1=A crucifix shrine near Mureck |image2=MurwarteGosdorf.JPG|caption2=Murturm Gosdorf }} {{multiple image|total_width=400 |image1=194 Schloss Ober-Mureck, Trate - J.F.Kaiser Lithografirte Ansichten der Steiermark 1830.jpg|caption1=194 Schloss Ober-Mureck, Trate - J.F.Kaiser Lithografirte Ansichten der Steiermark 1830 |image2=193 Markt Mureck - gez. Wonsidler, Lith. v. Folwarczni - J.F.Kaiser Lithografirte Ansichten der Steiermark 1830.jpg|caption2=193 Markt Mureck - gez. Wonsidler, Lith. v. Folwarczni - J.F.Kaiser Lithografirte Ansichten der Steiermark 1830 }} == Clubs and organisations == Source:<ref>[http://mureck.gv.at/Vereine.41.0.html Index of clubs in Mureck(german)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715073048/http://www.mureck.gv.at/Vereine.41.0.html |date=2013-07-15 }}</ref> === Marching bands === * Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck
=== Fire departments === * FF Eichfeld * FF Gosdorf * FF Hainsdorf-Brunnsee * FF Misselsdorf * FF Mureck * FF Oberrakitsch
=== Sports clubs === * Beachvolleyballclub * ESV Mureck * TUS Mureck
=== Charity and service clubs === * Leo Club South Styrian Unity * Lions Club Bad Radkersburg-Mureck
==International relations== {{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Austria}}
===Twin towns — sister cities=== Mureck is twinned with: * {{flagicon|ROU}} Lenauheim, Romania
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