Großhöflein

market community Großhöflein
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Eisenstadt area
License plate :	EU
Surface:	14.25 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 50 '  N , 16 ° 29'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '3 "  N , 16 ° 28' 53"  E
Height :	194  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,104 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	148 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	7051
Area code :	02682
Community code :	1 03 03
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 37 7051 Großhöflein
Website:	www.grosshoeflein.at
politics
Mayor :	Heinz Heidenreich ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2017) (21 members)	10 7th 4th 10 7th 4th  A total of 21 seats SPÖ : 10 ÖVP : 7 FLG : 4
Location of Großhöflein in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Großhöflein is a market town with 2104 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district in Austria . The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Nagyhöflány .

geography

The community is located in northern Burgenland near the state capital Eisenstadt in the south of the Leithagebirge . Großhöflein is the only place in the municipality.

history

Before the birth of Christ, the area was part of the Celtic Kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the surroundings of the Celtic hill settlement Burg on the Schwarzenbacher Burgberg . Under the Romans, today's Großhöflein was then in the province of Pannonia .

Groß Höflein (center left) around 1873 (recording sheet of the state survey )

On the Föllig (286 meters) finds from the Neolithic , Bronze Age and the time of the Roman Empire were made. Großhöflein has been a market town since 1701. Like all of Burgenland, it belonged to Hungary ( Sopron county ) until 1920/21 . Since 1898 had due to the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Nagyhöflány 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 ).

Population development

Culture and sights

Church square with parish church St. John the Baptist

Antoni Chapel

See also:  List of listed objects in Großhöflein

• Parish Church Großhöflein : The late Gothic church was rebuilt in the 17th century, got a side aisle in 1992 and was renovated in 2006.
• Antonikapelle (built 1730)
• Radegundis Chapel
• The town hall, called the Simon Despot House , was built in 1675.
• Palais Strauss, which is also known colloquially as the Pleininger House .
• A pillory is dated to the year 1714.
• A hunting lodge built in the 18th century (Steinbrunner Jagdhaus) and the rococo pleasure house / hunting lodge “Rendezvouz” of the Esterházy family on the summit of the Föllik have been left to decay .

Economy and Infrastructure

Großhöflein is a wine-growing community in the Leithaberg wine-growing region . Due to the location on the southern slope of the Leithagebirge and the soils dominated by limestone, wines ripen here that are regularly among the best in Austria. Großhöflein became internationally known through the success of Anton Kollwentz (* 1940). The sulfur source near the location is not used.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

45.86
(+12.45)

35.84
(+4.98)

18.29
( n. K. )

n. k.
(-35.73)

SPÖ

ÖVP

FLG ^A1

LBL

2012



2017



Großhöflein town hall

The council comprises a total of 21 members on the basis of population.

Results of the municipal council elections since 1997

Political party	2017			2012			2007			2002			1997
	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
SPÖ	554	45.86	10	460	33.41	7th	550	43.75	9	580	48.90	10	514	45.33	9
ÖVP	433	35.84	7th	425	30.86	6th	480	38.19	8th	502	42.33	8th	382	33.69	7th
FLG A1	221	18.29	4th	not running			not running			not running			not running
LBL	not running			492	35.73	8th	227	18.06	4th	not running			not running
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running			104	8.77	1	197	17.37	3
GFG	not running			not running			not running			not running			41	3.62	0
Eligible voters	1722			1729			1575			1457			1367
voter turnout	80.60%			86.70%			88.19%			88.88%			90.71%

^A1 Free list Großhöflein

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Heinz Heidenreich (SPÖ) and Deputy Mayor Maria Zoffmann (ÖVP), Norbert Fenk (SPÖ), Werner Huf (FLG), Barbara Neuhser (SPÖ), Horst Ondrag (ÖVP) and Wolfgang Steiner (SPÖ) also belong to the community board.

mayor

Mayor is Heinz Heidenreich (SPÖ). He prevailed in the mayoral election on February 8, 2015 with 50.2% of the votes against Sylvia Unger (LBL, 49.8%). The election became necessary after Mayor Wolfgang Rauter (LBL) resigned from his position in September 2014 after only two years in office. The runoff election became necessary because in the first ballot on January 11, 2015, with Johann Zonschits (ÖVP) as the third applicant, no candidate achieved a qualified majority.

In the mayoral election on October 1, 2017, Heidenreich once again had two competitors, Maria Zoffmann (ÖVP) and Andreas Kuchelbacher (FLG). Kuchelbacher even entered the election with the promise to make his mayor's salary (around 47,000 euros annually) available for social, sporting and cultural activities in the clubs and community citizens in need. Nevertheless, Kuchelbacher left after the first ballot with 18.02%. Heidenreich missed his election target with 49.85%, so a runoff had to take place, in which Heidenreich prevailed with 54.63% over Zoffmann (45.37%). At the constituent meeting of the municipal council, Maria Zoffmann was elected Vice Mayor.

The head of the office is Hildegard Kaiser-Landl.

Chronicle of the mayor

Source: Atlas Burgenland

• 1916–1918 Paul Lichtscheidl
• 1918–1927 Johann Thomschitz
• 1927–1928 Johann Steiner
• 1928–1931 Matthias Erdt
• 1931–1934 Josef Zechmeister
• 1934–1942 Philipp Thomschitz
• 1942–1945 Andreas Mayer
• 1945–1950 Jakob Kolp
• 1950–1951 Josef Kornholz
• 1951–1972 Paul Sailer
• 1972–1987 Rudolf Leberl
• 1987 00000Emmerich Krauscher (ÖVP)
• 1987–2002 Johann Grillenberger (SPÖ)
• 2002–2012 Oswald Kucher (SPÖ)
• 2012–2014 Wolfgang Rauter (LBL)
• since 2014 Heinz Heidenreich (SPÖ)

coat of arms

Blazon : “ In a red field a rising golden griffin holding a natural vine (grapes gold, leaves green). "

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Anton Kollwentz (* 1940), Austrian wine pioneer

Honorary citizen

• Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977), Federal Chancellor from July 29, 1934 to March 11, 1938, honorary citizen of Großhöflein since 1936
• Johann Haider, prelate, pastor in the parish association Großhöflein and Müllendorf from 1970 to 1975, from 1994 director of the pastoral office of the diocese of Eisenstadt and pastor in Großhöflein until 2011

Honorary ring bearer

• Gerald Schlag (* 1941), historian and director of the Burgenland state museums from 1990 to 2002

Honorary Mayor

• Hans Sylvester (1897–1939), Austrian agricultural expert and politician, was named honorary mayor in Großhöflein in 1936

literature

• Leopold Schmidt: St. Radegundis in Groß-Höflein. For the early medieval veneration of the holy Franconian queen in Burgenland and in eastern Lower Austria. State Archives and State Museum, Eisenstadt 1956.

Web links

Commons : Großhöflein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 10303 - Großhöflein. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 2017 municipal council elections in Großhöflein. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 29, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Results of the 2012 municipal council elections in Großhöflein. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, November 4, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Result of the 2007 municipal council election in Großhöflein. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 21, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 2002 municipal council elections in Großhöflein. Office of the Provincial Government of Burgenland, October 21, 2002, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Marktgemeinde Großhöflein: Municipal Council of the Marktgemeinde Großhöflein (accessed December 12, 2017)
6. ↑ mein district.at of February 8, 2015: Großhöflein has a new mayor (accessed December 12, 2017)
7. ↑ Der Standard from February 8, 2015: SPÖ narrowly wins in the mayor's runoff election in Großhöflein (accessed December 12, 2017)
8. ↑ mein district.at August 24, 2017: Großhöflein: Ing.A. Kuchelbacher waives a salary of € 235,000 if he is elected to the BgM (accessed on December 12, 2017)
9. ↑ ORF Burgenland of October 1, 2017: Großhöflein election results (accessed on December 12, 2017)
10. ↑ Marktgemeinde Großhöflein: Office management (accessed December 12, 2017)
11. ↑ Atlas Burgenland: Großhöflein (accessed on December 13, 2017)
12. ^ Johann Werfring: Vinaria Trophy 2007. Lifetime achievement honor for wine-growing pioneer Anton Kollwentz from Großhöflein. In: “Wiener Zeitung” of February 2, 2007, supplement “Wiener Journal”, p. 44.
13. ↑ Uwe Schögl: Kollwentz winery . In: Vinaria Weinguide 2020/21, Edition LW Media, Krems an der Donau 2020, p. 404.
14. ↑ Kollwentz winery on falstaff.at
15. ↑ Grohöflein on atlas-burgenland.at
16. ↑ Pfeffersteak article from May 28, 2009 on bglv1.orf.at
17. ↑ Personnel orders 2011 in the diocese article on encounter and dialogue
18. ↑ "I could triple myself sometimes" Article by Hannes Gsellmann from March 4, 2014 on meinviertel.at
19. ↑ Gerald Schlag on bibliothekderprovinz.at
20. ↑ Grohöflein on atlas-burgenland.at