Murau

Murau () is a town in the western part of the Austrian federal state of Styria. It is the administrative seat of Murau District.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Murau
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Murau - Ortsansicht.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: East view of Murau
Settlement.image_shield: AUT Murau COA.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 80x110px
Settlement.pushpin_map: Austria
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 270
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location within Austria
Settlement.map_caption: Location within Muraua district
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Austria
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Styria
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Murau
Settlement.parts_style: para
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Geography
Climate
History
Population
Events
Politics
Twin towns — sister cities
Notable people
References
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Murau () is a town in the western part of the Austrian federal state of Styria. It is the administrative seat of Murau District.

==Geography== The historic town is located in mountainous Upper Styria in the valley of the Mur river between the Lower Tauern range and the Gurktal Alps. The municipal area comprises the cadastral communities of Laßnitz-Lambrecht, Murau proper and Sankt Egidi, as well as the former independent municipalities of Laßnitz bei Murau, Stolzalpe and Triebendorf which were incorporated in the course of a 2015 administrative reform. Murau currently has a population of 3,688.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Murau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.