Judenburg

Judenburg is a ancient metropolis in Styria, Austria. It is the administrative centre of the Murtal district, which become created on 1 January 2012 from the former Judenburg District and former Knittelfeld District. Until 31 December 2011, it become the capital of the Judenburg District. On 1 January 2015, the adjacent municipalities of Oberweg and Reifling were merged into Judenburg. It is placed inside the Upper Styrian vicinity, on the western quit of the Aichfeld basin, stretching alongside the Mur River from Judenburg right down to Knittelfeld within the east. The broad valley is sure by the Niedere Tauern range inside the north and the Noric Alps inside the south.

The municipal vicinity also accommodates the cadastral groups of Tiefenbach and Waltersdorf, a former municipality integrated in 1963. Archaeological findings imply that the area was settled at least because the days of the Celtic state of Noricum. Judenburg itself turned into first referred to in a 1074 staple right deed as mercatum Judinburch, a market city within the estates of Eppenstein Castle, the ancestral seat of the Bavarian Eppensteiner noble circle of relatives, who ruled as Styrian margraves within the 11th century.