Balf

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Balf
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Balf (Hungary)
Balf
Balf
Basic data
State : Hungary
Region : Western Transdanubia
County : Győr-Moson-Sopron
Small area until December 31, 2012 : Sopron-Fertőd
District since 1.1.2013 : Sopron
Coordinates : 47 ° 39 '  N , 16 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 38 '57 "  N , 16 ° 39' 48"  E
Area : 17.26  km²
Residents : 998 (2001)
Population density : 58 inhabitants per km²
Telephone code : (+36) 99
Postal code : 9494
Structure and administration
Community type : district

Balf ( German Wolfs , outdated Sankt Wolfgang ) is a district of the Hungarian city ​​of Sopron , which is located in the district of Sopron in Győr-Moson-Sopron County . Until 1985, Balf was an independent municipality. In 2001 the place had 998 inhabitants.

Location and traffic

Balf is located seven kilometers southeast of the city center of Sopron on the southwestern shore of Lake Neusiedl . Neighboring communities are Kópháza , Fertőboz and Fertőrákos . The place is on the edge of the Fertő-Hanság National Park .

Roads no. 8518 and no. 8526 intersect in Balf. The Balf-Fürdő station on the south-western edge of the village on the railway line from Sopron to Győr has not been in operation since December 2012. There are bus connections to Sopron. The Neusiedler See cycle path leads through Balf.

history

The place was already known for its medicinal and mineral springs in Roman times. In a document from 1199, the place was first mentioned under the name Farkasd . In 1378 he was called Bolf in a script , from which the current name probably developed.

In 1910 there were 1,393 inhabitants in the Wolfs community, of which 1,161 were Germans (83%) and 208 Hungarians (15%). Like many villages in the area around Ödenburg , the population of Wolfs was predominantly Protestant .

In the referendum in Ödenburg in 1921, the majority of the Wolfs community voted for incorporation into Austria. Due to the Hungarian majority of votes in the entire voting area, the municipality was nevertheless added to Hungary.

During the Second World War , the community was the location of a camp that was used from November 1944 to March 31, 1945 to accommodate forced laborers and around 30,000 Hungarian Jews from Budapest . The inmates were used to build the south-east wall , which was supposed to prevent the Soviet Union troops already in Hungary from penetrating the Greater German Reich . Only a few of the inmates survived the camp, as people were murdered as soon as they were no longer able to work due to hunger, exhaustion or illness. The most famous victim of the Balf camp was the Jewish author Antal Szerb .

In March 1945 the remaining inmates of the Balf camp were forced to march towards the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz as the front approached .

After the Second World War , most of the German population was deported.

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Ödön Solymosy (1866–1915), politician and member of parliament

Attractions

  • Antal-Szerb monument ( Szerb Antal és társai emlékére ), created in 1968 by János Fodor
  • Albert Apponyi statue ( Gróf Apponyi Albert szobra )
  • Fountain ( Ivókút )
  • Evangelical church, built in 1795 (late baroque), the tower was only added in 1940. The organ of the church was built in 1822 by the organ builder Ferenc König from Sopron and restored in 1998.
  • Memorial plaque for Mária Wosinski-Siemens ( Wosinski-Siemens Mária grófné emléktáblája ) from 1916
  • Statue of the Virgin Mary ( Mária-szobor ), created in 1840
  • Pietà statue ( Piéta-szobor ), created in 1706
  • Roman Catholic Church of St. Wolfgang ( Szent Farkas ), originally built in the 15th century; it is also called the castle church ( vártemplom )
  • Baroque Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Josef ( Szent József ), built in 1773, called Badkapelle , renovated in 2009. The frescoes in the church are by Stephan Dorfmeister , 1779
  • World War Monuments ( I. és II. Világháborús emlékmű )

Infrastructure

In Balf there are mineral and sulphurous healing springs. A spa was created here , which is mainly used to treat orthopedic and neurological symptoms. Furthermore, the plays of fruit and viticulture an important role.

photos

  • Roman Catholic Szent József Chapel

  • View of Balf from the cemetery hill

  • Administration and cultural center

  • Roman Catholic Szent Farkas Church

  • Protestant church

  • Well in Balf

  • World War Memorial

  • Pieta statue

literature

  • Balf . In: Révai nagy lexikona , Volume 2, Budapest 1911, p. 496.
  • Eleonore Leppin-Sippel: Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers in Austria 1944. Labor deployment - death marches - consequences . LIT Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-50195-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magyar Statisztikai Közlemények, 1910. Évi népszámlálása. A népesség főbb adatai községek és népesebb puszták, telepek szerint (Budapest 1912), pp. 44–45