Fertőszentmiklós
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| Basic data | |||||
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| State : | Hungary | ||||
| Region : | Western Transdanubia | ||||
| County : | Győr-Moson-Sopron | ||||
| Small area until December 31, 2012 : | Sopron-Fertőd | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 35 ' N , 16 ° 53' E | ||||
| Area : | 39.39 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 3,850 (Jan 1, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 98 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 99 | ||||
| Postal code : | 9444 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 15343 | ||||
| Structure and administration (status: 2014) | |||||
| Community type : | city | ||||
| Mayor : | Tibor Horváth ( Fidesz - KDNP ) | ||||
| Postal address : | Szent István utca 19 9444 Fertőszentmiklós |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Fertőszentmiklós ( German : Sankt Niklaus am Neusiedlersee , Croatian : Nikola ) is a small Hungarian town in Győr-Moson-Sopron County near the Austrian border and Lake Neusiedl ( Fertő ).
The name means in the German language about St. Niklas am Sumpf ( fertő literally means swamp , the Fertő-to is the Hungarian name of the Neusiedler See).
geography
Fertőszentmiklós is located in the Little Hungarian Plain on the Ikva River at about 140 m above sea level. The city is located about 25 km east of Sopron (Ödenburg) and 10 km west of Kapuvár . The Neusiedler See in turn is located approx. 8 km northwest of the city. Esterházy Palace , whose park borders the city, is also in the immediate vicinity .
The city belonged to the small area Sopron-Fertőd . Until World War Fertőszentmiklós was the Sopron County ( Sopron megye ) belonging.
traffic
The town is connected to the cities of Sopron, Kapuvár and Csorna by the trunk road 85. The Sopron - Győr railway line of the Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurter Eisenbahn AG (Raaberbahn / GySEV) has a northward branch to the Neusiedler Seebahn to Neusiedl am See (in Burgenland ) and an abandoned southern branch to Celldömölk in Fertőszentmiklós .
The place has the airfield Meidl Airport .
Town twinning
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Pleidelsheim , Germany, since 1994 -
Leopoldov , Slovakia, since 2003
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