Trofaiach
Municipality in Styria, Austria
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Trofaiach is a municipality in the Leoben district of the state of Styria in Austria, the site of a post World War II British sector displaced persons camp. On 1 January 2013, it was merged with the neighbouring municipalities of Hafning bei Trofaiach and Gai. The municipality had 11,003 inhabitants on 1 January 2023.
Sons and daughters of the town
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- Josef Forster (1838-1917), composer, he wrote several, at that time successful, but now forgotten operas
- Hellmuth Stachel (born 1942), grew up in Trofaiach, Austrian mathematician and professor of geometry at the Vienna University of Technology.
- Hannes Arch (1967-2016), aerobatics pilot, first Austrian participant in the Red Bull Air Race Series
- Monika Maierhofer (born 1967), former ski racer
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Places adjacent to Trofaiach
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