Fehring
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Fehring is a municipality in the district of Feldbach
in Styria, Austria
.
The landscape are rolling hills cutted by the valley of the Raab
. Fehring is on a socket some meters above the valley floor.
The town is bordered to the east by Burgenland
.
Fehring was founded as a marketplace and Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
awarded the market law. A parish is 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.
coat of arms: King Ferdinand
granted arms in Augsburg at 8 July 1550.
Feldbach (district)
Bezirk Feldbach is a district of the state ofStyria in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.* Auersbach** Wetzelsdorf* Aug-Radisch** Aug, Radisch* Bad...
in Styria, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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The landscape are rolling hills cutted by the valley of the Raab
Raab
Raab is a market town in the district of Schärding in Upper Austria.Raab may also refer to:* Broccoli Raab or Rapini, an edible vegetable used in Chinese and Italian cuisine* Raab-Katzenstein, German aircraft manufacturer* 3184 Raab, an asteroid...
. Fehring is on a socket some meters above the valley floor.
The town is bordered to the east by Burgenland
Burgenland
Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...
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Neighbours
- in the North: Johnsdorf-BrunnJohnsdorf-BrunnJohnsdorf-Brunn is a municipality in the district of Feldbach in Styria, Austria....
and Hohenbrugg-WeinbergHohenbrugg-WeinbergHohenbrugg-Weinberg is a municipality in the district of Feldbach in Styria, Austria.... - in the East: Sankt Martin an der RaabSankt Martin an der RaabSankt Martin an der Raab is a town in the district of Jennersdorf in Burgenland in Austria....
and MühldorfMühldorfMühldorf am Inn is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and the capital of the district Mühldorf on the river Inn. It is located at , and had a population of about 17,808 in 2005.-History:... - in the South: KapfensteinKapfensteinKapfenstein is a municipality in the district of Feldbach in Styria, Austria.-External Links:...
- in the West: PertlsteinPertlsteinPertlstein is a municipality in the district of Feldbach in Styria, Austria....
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
Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
Rudolf IV der Stifter was a scion of the House of Habsburg and Duke of Austria and Duke of Styria and Carinthia from 1358, as well as Count of Tyrol from 1363 and first Duke of Carniola from 1364 until his death...
awarded the market law. A parish is 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.
coat of arms: King Ferdinand
Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1558 and king of Bohemia and Hungary from 1526 until his death. Before his accession, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.The key events during his reign were the contest...
granted arms in Augsburg at 8 July 1550.