St. Leonhard is the 2nd district of the Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n city of Graz

Graz

The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...

. It is located in the east of the city along the Leonhardbach and stretches south to the St. Peter City Cementry. It borders the district of Geidorf

Geidorf

Geidorf is the 3rd district of the Austrian city of Graz. It is located north of the first two districts Innere Stadt and St. Leonhard. In the east it streches as far as the Landeskrankenhaus and towards the west it borders the river Mur...

 to the north, Ries

Ries (Graz)

Ries is the 10th district of the Austrian city of Graz. It is named after a hill range in it and borders the districts of Mariatrost and Geidorf to the west, and St. Leonhard and Waltendorf to the south. It had a population of 5,623 in 2011 and covers an area of 10.16 square kilometres...

 and Waltendorf

Waltendorf

Waltendorf is the 10th district of the Austrian city of Graz. It borders the districts of Ries to the north, St. Peter to the south and St. Leonhard mostly to the west. It had a population of 11,619 in 2010 and covers an area of 4.48 square kilometres...

 to the east, Jakomini

Jakomini

Jakomini is the 6th district of Austrian city of Graz. It is named after Kaspar Andreas Ritter von Jacomini and covers an area of 4,06 square kilometers...

 to the south and Innere Stadt

Innere Stadt (Graz)

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to the west.

It had a population of 15,136 in 2011 and covers an area of 1.83 square kilometres. The postal codes of Ries are 8010 and 8016.
Within the district the catholic churches of St. Leonhard (first mentioned in 1361) and Herz Jesu (Jesus heart - finished 1887) as well as the protestant church Heilandskirche are situated.