German Ehrensdorf

German Ehrensdorf ( village ) ; Ortschaft ; Katastralgemeinde Deutsch Ehrensdorf
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Güssing (GS), Burgenland
Judicial district	Gussing
Pole. local community	Strem
Coordinates	47 ° 5 '53 " N , 16 ° 24' 49" E Coordinates: 47 ° 5 '53 " N , 16 ° 24' 49" E
height	235 m above sea level A.
Residents of the village	124 (January 1, 2020)
Building status	62 (2001)
Area d. KG	3.9 km²
	Statistical identification
Locality code	00075
Cadastral parish number	31004
Counting district / district	German Ehrensdorf (10416 002)
	Source: STAT : index of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Bgld

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German Ehrensdorf ( ung. Némethásos , Croat . Nimški Hašaš ) is a wine-growing place in the market town of Strem ( Burgenland ).

geography

Deutsch Ehrensdorf is located in the southern Burgenland district of Güssing at an altitude of 235 m, west of the Kulmer Forest . The village is located 6 km north of Strem and has 170 inhabitants.

history

According to local history, the always German-speaking place was first mentioned in 1297: The Hungarian king, Andreas III. , exchanged the rule of Eberau (All Saints, Prostrum, Bildein, Höll, Winten, Koh- and Kirchfidisch) for other goods for Jakob von Héderváry (from the noble family Heder and Hedervary), who came from a sideline of the Güssing Counts . Already in 1255 the area of Strem, Heiligenbrunn , Sumetendorf and the today no longer localizable places Merhart, Ujefalu and Pinka were in the hands of this landlord family.

The first written evidence of the village, which was officially run as ( Nemet ) Hasas (mag. "Hasos" = linden area) until 1921 , dates back to 1369: King Ludwig the Great gave Körmend and the Eberau property to Berthold von Ellerbach (Elderbach).

From 1489 the place belonged to the Pauline monastery Kulm, then to the Erdödy family .

Croatian Ehrensdorf was first mentioned in writing as Horvath Hassos in 1659 . The Croatian new settlers who had moved there 100 years earlier initially formed a village unit with the “old” Ehrensdorfer. A field cross in the vineyards, where a common church stood until the beginning of the 19th century, is still a reminder today. Today's village church owes its creation to pastor Georg Legath, who was born in Deutsch-Ehrensdorf. He is also the mentor of a village school (around 1810).

Viticulture is an important economic pillar for the villagers . In the middle of the 18th century the area for viticulture in the mountains reached 240 tusks (one tusk = 2-3 ares).

The history of the village at the beginning of the 20th century was characterized by a general increase in population, which, however, was accompanied by poverty and an increased demand for land by the predominantly rural population. Dividing the inheritance and "paying out" siblings increased the need, especially in large families. Many villagers therefore emigrated to America. While the emigration movement was within tolerable limits in the two decades before 1914, it exploded in the interwar period. In the years 1922/23 alone, for example, thirteen residents left their home village, which means a share of 5% of a total population of 273.

After the Second World War , the emigration movement continued, albeit in a much weaker form, and only came to a standstill in the 1960s. A disadvantage for the development of Deutsch-Ehrensdorf turned out to be its geographical peripheral location, away from any road connections in the region. Electricity was therefore only introduced in 1950. Since 1958, a gravel road has connected the place with its neighboring communities Steinfurt and Strem.

Church of German Ehrensdorf

Culture and sights

Filial church hl. John the Evangelist, standing in the middle of the field.

literature

Ludwig Graupner: The America migration in the Güssing district , in: Burgenländische Forschungen, Heft 3, 1949
Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Burgenland. German Ehrensdorf. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7031-0401-5 , p. 50.