Sankt_Veit_am_Vogau

Sankt Veit am Vogau

Sankt Veit am Vogau

Place in Styria, Austria

Sankt Veit am Vogau 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 Sankt Veit in der Südsteiermark.[2]

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Homophobia and Islamophobia

In March 2013 the small town created a large nationwide publicity, when the town's mayor, Manfred Tatzl from ÖVP told falter.at in an interview, "Wir sind hier auf dem Land, Homosexualität verurteilt ein jeder." ("We are living in a rural area, everybody here condemns homosexuality.") and added, "[es gebe] "Gott sei Dank" keine Muslime im Ort" (there were, "Thank God, [...] no muslims in town.")[3] in order to defend the town's reverend Karl Tropper, who had been preaching against homosexuality and Islam for years.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Statistik Austria - Bevölkerung zu Jahresbeginn 2002-2016 nach Gemeinden (Gebietsstand 1.1.2016) for Sankt Veit am Vogau.
  2. [2]
    Die neue Gemeindestruktur der Steiermark
  3. [3]
    falter.at
  4. [4]
    kurier.at



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