Bad Tatzmannsdorf

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Burgenland

Political District :

Oberwart

License plate :

OW

Surface:

11.61 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 20 ' N , 16 ° 14' E Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '4 " N , 16 ° 13' 38" E

Residents :

1,620 (January 1, 2020)

Postal code :

7431

Area code :

03353

Community code :

1 09 01

NUTS region

AT113

Address of the
municipal administration:

Joseph-Haydn-Platz 1
7431 Bad Tatzmannsdorf

Website:

www.bad-tatzmannsdorf.at

politics

Mayor :

Gert Polster ( SPÖ )

Municipal Council : ( 2017 )
(19 members)

7th

3

2

7th 7th 3 2

A total of 19 seats

SPÖ : 7
ÖVP : 7
FPÖ : 3
NOW : 2

Location of Bad Tatzmannsdorf in the Oberwart district

Fountain and bandstand

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Bad Tatzmannsdorf ( Tarcsafürdő in Hungarian , Tarča in Croatian ) is a municipality with 1620 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Oberwart district in Austria and the largest health resort in Burgenland.

geography

The municipality is located in southern Burgenland in the Oberwart district.

Community structure

The municipality includes the following three localities or cadastral municipalities of the same name (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

Bad Tatzmannsdorf (787)
Jormannsdorf (674)
Sulzriegel (159)

German place name	Hungarian place name	Croatian place name
Bad Tatzmannsdorf	Tarcsa	Tarča
Jormannsdorf	Gyimótfalva	-
Sulzriegel	Sóshegy	-

Incorporations

In 1971 the communities of Jormannsdorf and Sulzriegel were merged with Bad Tatzmannsdorf.

history

Like all of Burgenland, the place belonged to Hungary (German-West Hungary) until 1920/21 . Until 1750 the place was owned by various small aristocratic families and in that year it was acquired by the Batthyány Counts , who added it to their Bernstein rule.

Under the Batthyánys, the bathing establishment, first mentioned in 1620, was generously expanded. From 1889 also were Moor occur for mud baths used so that Tatzmannsdorf as "Hungarian Franzensbad was."

Since 1898 had due to the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Tarcsafürdő be used. 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. The place has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Burgenland since 1921 (see also the history of Burgenland ). In 1926 the health resort was given the title "Bad".

Population development

Culture and sights

Roman Catholic Church - interior

Spa and thermal hotel

The open-air museum Bad Tatzmannsdorf with southern Burgenland buildings from the 18th and 19th centuries was opened in 1972.
The spa museum provides an overview of the development of the spa in Bad Tatzmannsdorf, the largest spa town in Burgenland, from 1620 to the present day. It opened in 1990.
A bread museum is located in the Gradwohl Kurkonditorei.
The Oberwart - Bad Tatzmannsdorf - Oberschützen railway line has been revitalized since summer 2005 by the non-profit association FROWOS - Friends of the Oberwart-Oberschützen railway line . In 2012, the association's operating license was withdrawn

The Roman Catholic parish church of Bad Tatzmannsdorf dedicated to St. John the Baptist was built in 1967/68 on the site of an older church from 1896.

Friedenskirche Bad Tatzmannsdorf : The Friedenskirche of the evangelical parish AB was built in 1968 according to the plans of the architects Charlotte and Karl Pfeiler .

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

%

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

37.75
(+4.32)

33.70
(-7.05)

17.39
(+5.82)

11.17
(-3.07)

LIST1

The council comprises a total of 19 members based on the number of eligible voters.

Results of the municipal council elections since 1997
Political party	2017			2012			2007			2002			1997
Political party	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
SPÖ	382	37.75	7th	338	33.43	7th	318	34.57	6th	340	37.95	7th	344	41.10	8th
ÖVP	341	33.70	7th	412	40.75	8th	459	49.89	10	365	40.74	8th	312	37.28	7th
FPÖ	176	17.39	3	117	11.57	2	143	15.54	3	191	21.32	4th	181	21.62	4th
NOW	113	11.17	2	144	14.24	2	not running			not running			not running
Eligible voters	1330			1239			1159			1106			1029
voter turnout	82.63%			87.09%			84.99%			87.61%			88.14%

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Gert Polster (SPÖ) and Vice Mayor Barbara Baldasti (ÖVP), the executive councils Heinz Gyaky (ÖVP), Jakob Riser (SPÖ) and Dietrich Wertz (FPÖ) are also members of the community board.

The municipal treasurer is Silke Kurz, head of the district. Dietrich Wertz (FPÖ) was elected to the environmental council.

mayor

Gert Polster (SPÖ) has been mayor since the 2017 election. After Ernst Karner (ÖVP), who had headed the municipality since 2002, announced that he would no longer run the election, all four parties represented in the municipal council put forward a candidate for the mayor's direct election on October 1, 2017, none of whom were in the first ballot could achieve a qualified majority. Gert Polster (SPÖ) received 41.30%, Barbara Baldasti (ÖVP) 29.26%, while Dietrich Wertz (FPÖ) with 16.76% and Petra Simon (List NOW) with 12.69% were eliminated. In the runoff election on October 29, 2017, Polster prevailed with 54.41% against Baldasti with 45.59%. In the constituent meeting of the municipal council, Baldasti was finally elected vice mayor.

Silke Kurz is in charge of the municipal office.

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms was awarded on October 6, 1992 by the Burgenland state government.

Blazon : “ In a silver blue shield under a profiled fountain arch abutting on all sides, a winged double-tailed Triton boy blowing a water-spouting horn. “
The symbolism of the coat of arms refers to all three districts of Bad Tatzmannsdorf.

Personalities

Arnold Röhrling (1893–1974), composer
Thomas von Trattner (1719–1798), printer, bookseller and publisher
Ludwig Papai (1920–1945), born in Sulzriegel, died in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Erwin Schranz (* 1950), politician
Kurt Maczek (* 1955), politician

Honorary citizen

Source: Bad Tatzmannsdorf municipality

Ignaz Neiser (1892–1972), awarded in 1972
Rudolf Grohotolsky (1922–2013), Deputy Governor, Awarded 1979
Theodor Kery (1918–2010), Governor, bestowed 1979
Wilhelm Simon (1932–1991), Mayor, Awarded: 1991
Walter Rehling (1932–2014), awarded 2001
Emmerich draftsman (* 1934), Pastor Monsignore , awarded 2001
Rudolf Luipersbeck (* 1949), awarded in 2015

Honorary ring bearer

Source: Bad Tatzmannsdorf municipality

Emmerich draftsman (* 1934), awarded in 1986
Richard Jobst (1934–2000), awarded in 1996
Josef Klein (1912–2008), awarded in 1996
Rudolf Luipersbeck (* 1949), awarded in 1996
Helmut Sillner (* 1931), awarded in 1996
Hans Rehling (* 1945), local councilor, awarded in 2010

literature

Michael Ferd. Bothar: A short contribution to the history of the origins of Bad-Tatzmannsdorf. In: Burgenland homeland sheets . No. 11, Eisenstadt 1949, pp. 170–174, PDF on ZOBODAT
Silvia Jungel: Bad Tatzmannsdorf. The development from a traditional health resort to wellness tourism. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2002.
Christine Käfer: Bad Tatzmannsdorf. A health resort yesterday and today. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 1998.