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Fehring

Municipality in Styria, Austria

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Fehring is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in Styria, Austria. The landscape is rolling hills cut by the valley of the Raab. Fehring is on a socket some metres above the valley floor. The town is bordered to the east by Burgenland.

01Neighbouring municipalities

In the north: Johnsdorf-Brunn and Hohenbrugg-Weinberg
In the east: Sankt Martin an der Raab and Mühldorf
In the south: Kapfenstein
In the west: Pertlstein

02Community structure

The municipality Fehring consists of the villages Hirtzenrigel, Höflach, Petzelsdorf, Petersdorf and Schiefer.

03History

The first mention of Fehring is with 40 homesteads in a document from Ottokar of 1265th. The district Petzelsdorf is already mentioned in the Babenberger Urbar 1220th. Fehring was founded as a marketplace and Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria awarded the market law. A parish has been documented in Fehring since 1305.

There have been a lot of wars and fights around Fehring, therefore a tabor was built in the 15th century.

04Transportation

Fehring railway station is the terminus for S3 services from Graz on the Steirische Ostbahn.

05Coat of arms

King Ferdinand granted arms in Augsburg at 8 July 1550.

Twin towns

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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:

Bild fehring kirche.jpg by Wolfgang Wallner Wolfgangw, CC BY-SA 3.0
Fehringtabor.jpg by 2000ac, Public domain
Fehring von südwesten Panorama.jpg by David Bauer, CC BY-SA 3.0
034 Markt Fehring im Grätzer Kreis - J.F.Kaiser Lithografirte Ansichten der Steiermark 1830.jpg by published by J. F. Kaiser, Graz, Scan and postprocessing by Hubertl, Public domain
RDb-f St.jpg by Jacquesverlaeken, CC0

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