title: Geistthal-Södingberg
text: # Geistthal-Södingberg
  
  Geistthal-Södingberg is, since the beginning of 2015, a municipality within Voitsberg, Styria. The municipality of Geistthal-Södingberg was created as part of the Steiermärkische Gemeindestrukturreform (Styrian Area Structure Reform) in Styria, which combined Geistthal and Södingberg.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Communities
  
  The municipal area includes the following five localities (population from January 2015 in parentheses):
  
  * Eggartsberg (297)
  * Geistthal (262)
  * Kleinalpe (109)
  * Södingberg (816)
  * Sonnleiten (133)
  
  The district has an area of 52.59 km² and comprises the four Cadastral communities of Eggartsberg, Geistthal, Kleinalpe Södingberg and Sonnleiten.
  
  ## Historical landmarks
  
  * The area of Södingberg in Landesaufnahmen in the period between 1789 and 1910
  * Södingberg in the Josephinian Land Survey 1790
  * Södingberg am Nordrand des Kainachtals, Aufnahmeblatt der Landesaufnahme um 1878
  
  ## Literature
  
  * Ernst Lasnik: Södingberg. Porträt einer Landschaft. Södingberg 2009
  