Trofaiach

Trofaiach is a municipality in the Leoben district of the state of Styria in Austria, the site of a post World War II British sector displaced persons camp. On 1 January 2013, it was merged with the neighbouring municipalities of Hafning bei Trofaiach and Gai. The municipality had 11,003 inhabitants on 1 January 2023.

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Settlement.name: Trofaiach
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_skyline: Trofaiach Panorama.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 270px
Settlement.image_caption: Trofaiach
Settlement.image_shield: AUT Trofaiach COA.jpg
Settlement.shield_size: 80x110px
Settlement.pushpin_map: Austria
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 270
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location within Austria
Settlement.map_caption: Location within Leoben district
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Austria
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Styria
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Leoben
Settlement.parts_style: para

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Trofaiach
Population: 11125
Area: 143.63
Elevation: 660
Official website: trofaiach.steiermark.at
Image: Trofaiach Panorama.jpg
Dialing code: 03847
Licence plate code: LN

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Commons category: Trofaiach
postal code: 8793
number of houses: 1654
email address: mailto:[email protected]
budget: 24003200
total expenditure: 26065700
native label: Trofaiach

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Sons and daughters of the town
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==Sons and daughters of the town== Josef Forster (1838-1917), composer, he wrote several, at that time successful, but now forgotten operas Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), grew up in Trofaiach, Austrian mathematician and professor of geometry at the Vienna University of Technology. Hannes Arch (1967-2016), aerobatics pilot, first Austrian participant in the Red Bull Air Race Series Monika Maierhofer (born 1967), former ski racer