Ehrenhausen

Ehrenhausen
Former municipality
Marktplatz, Town Center of Ehrenhausen
Coat of arms
Ehrenhausen Location within Austria
Coordinates: 46°43′35″N 15°35′04″E
Country	Austria
State	Styria
District	Leibnitz
Area
• Total	3.03 km^2 (1.17 sq mi)
Elevation	258 m (846 ft)
Population  (1 January 2016)[1]
• Total	1,019
• Density	340/km^2 (870/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	8461
Area code	+43 3453
Website	www.ehrenhausen.at

Ehrenhausen is a former municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Ehrenhausen an der Weinstraße.[2]

Geography

Ehrenhausen lies on the Mur river in southeastern Styria south of Leibnitz close to the border of Slovenia.

Personalities

The district was at one time the seat of a branch of the Eggenberg dynasty and the Schlossberg to Ehrenhausen features the mausoleum of Ruprecht von Eggenberg and his nephew Wolf von Eggenberg which was designed by Italian painter and architect Giovanni Pietro de Pomis, who was the court painter and architect of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.

References

1. Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Ehrenhausen.
2. Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark

Mausoleum of Freiherr Ruprecht von Eggenberg and his nephew, Freiherr Wolff von Eggenberg on the Schlossberg to Ehrenhausen