title: Hirschegg-Pack
text: # Hirschegg-Pack
  
  Hirschegg-Pack is since 2015 a municipality with 1,054 residents (as of 1 January 2016) in Voitsberg District in Styria in Austria. It was created as part of the Styria municipal structural reform, at the end of 2014, by merging the former towns Hirschegg and Pack.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Pack liest west of Graz near Pack Pass, on the border between Styria and Carinthia.
  
  ## Municipality arrangement
  
  The municipality territory includes the following two sections (population as of 1 January 2016):
  
  * Hirschegg (651)
  * Pack (403)
  
  The municipality consists of the Katastralgemeinden Hirschegg-Piber, Hirschegg-Rein and Pack.
  
  ## Politics
  
  The town council, with 15 members, was voted in 2015 as the following portions: 11 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 1 FPÖ.
  
  ### Mayor
  
  * 2018 Johann Schmid (ÖVP)
  * 2015-2018 Gottfried Preßler (ÖVP)
  
  ## Culture and sights
  
  ### Hirschegg
  
  * Pfarrkirche Hirschegg
  
  ### Pack
  
  * Schloss Pack
  * Pfarrkirche Pack
  * Freiländer Alm
  * Hebalm und Hebalmkapelle
  
  ## Tourism
  
  The two sections Hirschegg and Pack joined with the places Edelschrott, Modriach and St. Martin am Wöllmißberg as the tourism agency Steirische Rucksackdörfer.
  
  