# Mureck

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**Mureck** (Slovene: *Cmurek,* archaic: *Cmürek*[1]) is a municipality in the district of [Südoststeiermark](/source/S%C3%BCdoststeiermark_District) in the [Austrian](/source/Austria) state of [Styria](/source/Styria). Administrative reforms in Styria led to the merging on 1 January 2015 of the formerly separate municipalities of Mureck, [Gosdorf](/source/Gosdorf), and [Eichfeld](/source/Eichfeld), which includes the villages of Hainsdorf-Brunnsee and Oberrakitsch. The new municipality is named Mureck.

## Geography

Mureck is located in southern [Styria](/source/Styria), on the border with [Slovenia](/source/Slovenia).

### Constituent parts of Mureck municipality

The municipality comprises the communities of:

- Diepersdorf (pop. 138)
- [Eichfeld](/source/Eichfeld) (349)
- Fluttendorf (59)
- [Gosdorf](/source/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](/source/Mur_(river))' + [Old High German](/source/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](/source/Middle_High_German) prepositional phrase *ze Murekke*, literally 'at Mureck'.[2] For similar Slovene geographical names based on foreign-language prepositional phrases of location, compare *[Crngrob](/source/Crngrob)*, *[Cven](/source/Cven,_Ljutomer)*, *[Dragonja](/source/Dragonja)*, *[Sostro](/source/Sostro)*, and *[Spuhlja](/source/Spuhlja)*.

## Population

Historical population Year Pop. ±% 1869 1,302 — 1880 1,472 +13.1% 1890 1,570 +6.7% 1900 1,532 −2.4% 1910 1,541 +0.6% 1923 1,411 −8.4% 1934 1,529 +8.4% 1939 1,519 −0.7% 1951 2,140 +40.9% 1961 1,890 −11.7% 1971 1,824 −3.5% 1981 1,737 −4.8% 1991 1,585 −8.8% 2001 1,690 +6.6% 2011 1,571 −7.0% 2016 1,597 +1.7%

## Events

- *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.[3]

## Clubs and organisations

Source:[4]

### 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](/source/Leo_clubs) South Styrian Unity
- [Lions Club](/source/Lions_Clubs_International) Bad Radkersburg-Mureck

## International relations

See also: [List of twin towns and sister cities in Austria](/source/List_of_twin_towns_and_sister_cities_in_Austria)

### Twin towns — sister cities

Mureck is [twinned](/source/Town_twinning) with:

- [Lenauheim](/source/Lenauheim), [Romania](/source/Romania)

## References

1. Krempl, Anton. 1845. *Dogodivšine Štajerske zemle: z posebnim pogledom na Slovence.* Graz: Franc Ferstl, p. 209.

1. Snoj, Marko. 2009. *Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen*. Ljubljana: Modrijan and Založba ZRC, p. 91.

1. ["History of Grenzlandtrachtenkapelle Mureck(german)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20130920042921/http://gtk-mureck.at/chronik). Archived from [the original](http://gtk-mureck.at/chronik) on 2013-09-20. Retrieved 2013-04-15.

1. [Index of clubs in Mureck(german)](http://mureck.gv.at/Vereine.41.0.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130715073048/http://www.mureck.gv.at/Vereine.41.0.html) 2013-07-15 at the Wayback Machine

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