Sankt Lorenzen im Mürztal
municipality in Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District, Styria, Austria
Sankt Lorenzen im Mürztal is a municipality with 3674 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2021) in the judicial district of Bruck an der Mur and in the political district of Bruck-Mürzzuschlag in Styria, Austria.
Geography
The centre of Sankt Lorenzen is at an altitude of 560 m above sea level. A., the highest point in the municipal area is the Töllmarkogel in the north at 1366 m above sea level.
Sankt Lorenzen im Mürztal is located northeast of the town of Kapfenberg. Other neighbouring communities are (clockwise) Parschlug, Turnau, Kindberg, Allerheiligen im Mürztal, Mürzhofen and Sankt Marein im Mürztal.
“Sankt Lorenzen im Mürztal” enters the record as municipality in Bruck-Mürzzuschlag District, Styria, Austria. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sankt, Lorenzen and Mürztal can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q687943. VIAF identifies the subject as 239623885. Authority coordinates are 47.480, 15.371. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 1366.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sankt Lorenzen im Mürztal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.