Fehring

Fehring
Fehring
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Fehring Location within Austria
	Coordinates: 46°56′00″N 16°01′00″E / 46.93333°N 16.01667°E
Country	Austria
State	Styria
District	Südoststeiermark
Government
• Mayor	Johann Winkelmaier (ÖVP)
Area
• Total	87.08 km2 (33.62 sq mi)
Elevation	272 m (892 ft)
Population (2018-01-01)
• Total	7,284
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	8350
Area code	+43 3155
Vehicle registration	FB
Website	www.fehring.at

Fehring is a municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in Styria, Austria.^[3] 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.

Neighbouring 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

Community structure

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

History

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.