Rachau
Rachau is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in Styria, Austria with 626 inhabitants. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Sankt Margarethen bei Knittelfeld.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cerana, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pfarrkirche Rachau and Gobernitzberg.
Gobernitzberg
Peak
Photo: Clemens Stockner, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gobernitzberg is a peak, which is situated 3½ km west of Rachau.
Moar-zu-Hof-Bühel
Peak
Photo: Liuthalas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Moar-zu-Hof-Bühel is a peak, which is situated 3½ km east of Rachau.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sankt Lorenzen bei Knittelfeld and Feistritz bei Knittelfeld.
Sankt Lorenzen bei Knittelfeld
Village
Photo: Cerana, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sankt Lorenzen bei Knittelfeld is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Sankt Margarethen bei Knittelfeld. Sankt Lorenzen bei Knittelfeld is situated 4 km north of Rachau.
Feistritz bei Knittelfeld
Village
Photo: Cerana, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Feistritz bei Knittelfeld is a former municipality in the district of Murtal in Styria, Austria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Sankt Marein-Feistritz. Feistritz bei Knittelfeld is situated 6 km north of Rachau.
Knittelfeld
Photo: Guschi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Knittelfeld is a city in Styria, Austria, located on the banks of the Mur river. The name of the town has become notorious for the Knittelfeld Putsch of September 7, 2002, a party meeting of the Freedom Party of Austria, which resulted in the 2002 Austrian elections.
Rachau
- Type: Village with 348 residents
- Description: former municipality in Austria
- Categories: rural municipality of Austria, municipality of Austria, and locality
- Location: Sankt Margarethen bei Knittelfeld, Murtal District, Styria, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.21637° or 47° 12′ 59″ northLongitude
14.91368° or 14° 54′ 49″ eastPopulation
348Elevation
796 metres (2,612 feet)Open location code
8FVP6W87+GFOpenStreetMap ID
node 240092338OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2768139Wikidata ID
Q696204
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Rachau” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Rachau”
- Catalan: “Rachau”
- Cebuano: “Rachau”
- Chechen: “Рахау”
- Chinese: “拉豪”
- Dutch: “Rachau”
- French: “Rachau”
- German: “Rachau”
- Hungarian: “Rachau”
- Irish: “Rachau”
- Italian: “Rachau”
- Kazakh: “Raxaw”
- Kazakh: “Рахау”
- Kazakh: “راحاۋ”
- Ladin: “Rachau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rachau”
- Persian: “راخائو”
- Russian: “Рахау”
- Slovak: “Rachau”
- Swedish: “Rachau”
- Tatar: “Рахау”
- Turkish: “Rachau”
- Uzbek: “Rachau”
- Uzbek: “Raxau”
- Uzbek: “Рахау”
- Uzbek: “Рачау”
- Volapük: “Rachau”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rachau”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gemeindeamt Rachau and Teufelswand.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rachau”. Photo: Cerana, CC BY-SA 3.0.