Ágfalva

	Ágfalva
	Ágfalva
	Ágfalva
Basic data
State :	Hungary
Region :	Western Transdanubia
County :	Győr-Moson-Sopron
Small area until December 31, 2012 :	Sopron-Fertőd
Coordinates :	47 ° 41 ′ N , 16 ° 31 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ N , 16 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E
Area :	13.08 km²
Residents :	2,164 (Jan. 1, 2011)
Population density :	165 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code :	(+36) 99
Postal code :	9423
KSH kódja:	04880
Structure and administration (status: 2014)
Community type :	local community
Mayoress :	Zsuzsánna Pék (independent)
Postal address :	Soproni et al. 3 ; 9423 Ágfalva
Website :	www.agfalva.hu
	(Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal )

Ágfalva [ aːkfɒlvɒ ] ( German : Agendorf , Croatian : Agendrof ) is a municipality in the county Győr-Moson-Sopron in the northwest of Hungary . The place is on the Austrian border and is two kilometers from Sopron ( Ödenburg ).

history

Brennberg, 1899, postcard motifs

Agendorf / Ágfalva with the Brennberg mining area (right) west of Ödenburg, around 1880 (recording sheet of the state survey )

Street in Agendorf

bilingual place-name sign

Agendorf, the German name of the old Hungarian place name Dág mentioned as early as 1194 , is mentioned in a document from Pope Innocent III. from the year 1207 mentioned. From the end of the Middle Ages, the place was a town village of Ödenburg and, like today's Austrian Burgenland, belonged to Hungary, but was predominantly German-speaking as part of German-West Hungary. A lignite mine in the nearby Brennberg was built in 1785 and has long been an important economic factor. Since 1898, due to the Magyarization of the Government of the new Hungarian name Ágfalva used in Budapest officially. After the end of the First World War , after tough negotiations, German-West Hungary was awarded to Austria in the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon in 1919. After the Austrian government had initially unsuccessfully requested a vote in the summer of 1920, Hungarian irregulars opposed the Austrian conquest in the area around Ödenburg. On August 28, 1921 there was an Austro-Hungarian shootout in Agendorf, which ended with the death of the militant László Baracsi. On September 8, 1921, the Battle of Agendorf took place . Thereupon Austria and Hungary agreed in the Venice Protocol of October 13, 1921, to schedule a binding referendum in December of the same year. In Ágfalva, 82.2% of those eligible to vote voted for annexation to Austria, 17.1% for remaining with Hungary. In the entire Ödenburger Kreis , however, a majority was in favor of Hungary. Since the voting area was viewed as a unit, Ágfalva remained with Hungary. In the years 1944/45 the place was a scene of fighting between the German Wehrmacht and the Red Army. After the end of the Second World War , a large part of the German-speaking population was expelled in April 1946. The mine in Brennberg was closed in 1951.

Attractions

Evangelical church , with an organ by Johann Gottfried Malleck .
St. Georg (Catholic Church)
Local museum
Mine railway between Brennberg and Agendorf
Mine museum in the former mining village of Brennberg
Monuments
- Heroes Monument
- 1848 monument
- Monument to the insurgent László Baracsi
- Monument to the displaced
- Millennium Monument (896–1896) 1000 years of Hungary