Half turn

Half turn
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Neusiedl am See
License plate :	ND
Surface:	55.15 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 52 '  N , 16 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '16 "  N , 16 ° 58' 28"  E
Residents :	1,930 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	35 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	7131
Community code :	1 07 08
Address of the municipal administration:	Wiener Strasse 3 7131 Halbturn
Website:	www.halbturn.at
politics
Mayor :	Markus Ulram ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2017) (21 members)	14th 5 2 14th 5 2  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 14 SPÖ : 5 FPÖ : 2
Location of Halbturn in the Neusiedl am See district
Halbturn Castle
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Halbturn is a municipality with 1930 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Neusiedl am See district in Austria . The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Féltorony .

geography

Halbturn ("Hoibtuan" in Burgenland) is located near the Hungarian border. Another district is Wittmannshof.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring towns in Austria are Frauenkirchen , Mönchhof , Nickelsdorf , St. Andrä am Zicksee and Andau , in Hungary Albertkázmérpuszta , Hegyeshalom and Mosonszolnok .

history

The area around Halbturn was already settled in Roman times. During archaeological excavations, a burial ground from the imperial era and a Roman villa were found. In 2008 , a team of archaeologists discovered an amulet from the 3rd century AD in the form of a gold scroll with the words of the Jewish prayer Shema 'Yisrael (Hear Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is one). It is considered to be the earliest surviving evidence of a Jewish presence in present-day Austria. The first documentary mention of Halbturn was in 1466, a document reports on a long-term border dispute between the convent of the Heiligenkreuz monastery , landlord in Mönchhof , and the Counts of Bazin, the owners of Halbturn, who wanted to expand their property. King Matthias Corvinus was asked to act as chief judge. The contending parties met at the feast of St. George. A commissioner of the king awarded the land and vineyards to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey on the spot.

Halbturn is mentioned by name for the first time in the document from 1466, but the place was probably founded earlier. Nothing is known about the appearance, size, residents, etc. of the "old, first half-turn".

Further documentary mentions are 1487/88 "villa Felthorom, Felthoron" and 1493 "poss. Holbenthurm ".

The “half tower” on a plan from 1650. Mönchhof is shown in the north (E) and Frauenkirchen is shown in the southeast (O).

The name Halbturn is probably derived from a half-ruined tower of an old fort. This half tower is shown in the “Mönchhofer Hotterbüchl”. Whether the draftsman only drew this tower to better explain the area or whether it actually existed has not yet been clarified. However, the tower could have served to defend the important crossroads from Neusiedl to Altenburg (Magyaróvár) and from Ödenburg (Sopron) to Preßburg (Bratislava). The location of this tower could have been in the area of ​​the castle and the floor plan of the third castle courtyard would also correspond to that of a tower. However, there is no pictorial or written evidence of this.

Dominion and owner

Halbturn belonged to the Hungarian Altenburg (Magyaróvár) rule, which was then owned by the Counts of Bösing (Bazin) and St. Georgen (near Pressburg) and belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1516, after the family died out, the rule came back to the Hungarian crown as a direct Hungarian crown property. The Hungarian King Ludwig II gave the rule to his wife Maria (1505–1558), the sister of the Habsburg Ferdinand I, as a widow's estate. In 1526, after the death of Ludwig II, Maria took over her widow's residence and stayed in the county until 1528. After the conquest of Budapest by the Turks in 1540, the stud of the Hungarian queen widow Maria found a new home on the site of the destroyed Halbturn. King Ferdinand I allowed his courtier Eizinger to set up a stud on the Halbturner site. After the death of Mary, the property came back into the direct administration of the Habsburgs, since the Habsburgs took over their position when the Hungarian kings died out.

The place belonged, like the whole of Burgenland, to Hungary (German-West Hungary) until 1920/21 . Since 1898 had due to the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Féltorony be used.

The west portal and the main building of Halbturn Palace

Tschardaken ("little wooden houses") are still numerous in Halbturn

Historical maps

• Halbthurn / Fel-Torony and its surroundings around 1873 (recording sheets of the regional survey )
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  Castle (center below) and surroundings in the north

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  Town center (top middle) and southern surroundings (Seewinkel)

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church hl. Joseph of Nazareth

High altar and interior of the parish church

Vicarage in Halbturn

See also:  List of listed objects in Halbturn

• Halbturn : Baroque palace complex, from 1701 to 1711 by Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt built later by the court architect Franz Anton Hillebrandt reconstructed, and Franz Anton Maulbertsch with frescoes provided. Originally as a hunting lodge for Emperor Charles VI. built. Events such as exhibitions and the Halbturn Castle Concerts take place regularly in the castle .
• Catholic parish church in Halbturn

Regular events

• The Halbturner Palace Concerts have been held annually on Saturdays in July and August since 1973.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Andau / Halbturn wind farm is currently being built in Halbturn and the neighboring municipality of Andau . After the building permit was granted in 2010, the wind farm with a total of 79 wind turbines has been under construction since May 2012.

By half-turn of the leads of Frauenkirchen coming and to involvement in the Way of St. James Austria in Haslau-Maria Ellend predominantly in Burgenland running St. James Burgenland . The Way of St. James in Hungary is linked to the Burgenland Way of St. James in Halbturn.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

63.72
(+11.59)

24.96
(-11.56)

11.32
(-0.03)

ÖVP

SPÖ

FPÖ

2012



2017



Mayor Markus Ulram

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.
ÖVP	850	63.72	14th	698	52.13	11	637	46.60	10	566	40.72	9	460	34.80	7th
SPÖ	333	24.96	5	489	36.52	8th	427	31.24	7th	373	26.83	5	287	21.71	4th
FPÖ	151	11.32	2	152	11.35	2	not running			451	32.45	7th	575	43.49	10
BLH	not running			not running			303	22.17	4th	not running			not running
Eligible voters	1709			1751			1747			1681			1615
voter turnout	86.37%			85.89%			85.35%			89.17%			90.15%

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Markus Ulram (ÖVP) and Deputy Mayor Paul Brunner (ÖVP), the municipal board also includes the executive councilors Friedrich Heider (SPÖ), Anita Rongitsch (ÖVP), Gerald Knöbl (ÖVP), Josef Thury (ÖVP) and Roland Ziniel (SPÖ) ) to the community council.

mayor

Mayor is Markus Ulram (ÖVP), who succeeded Peter Nachtnebel (ÖVP) in 2011.

Deputy Mayor is Paul Brunner (ÖVP).

Head of office is Johanna Knöbl.

Personalities

• Karl Ratzenböck (1878–1946), farmer and politician
• Franz Thury (1909–1988), state official and politician
• József Grősz (1887–1961), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kalocsa in Hungary

literature

• Herbert Brettl: Halbturn through the ages . Halbturn municipality, Halbturn 1999
• Marietheres Waldbott: Half-turn . Roetzer, Eisenstadt 1975
• Section “The partner communities” in “TÜPL Bruckneudorf - 150 years of Brucker Lager” by Petra Weiß, publisher. Stadtgemeinde Bruck an der Leitha, April 2017, p. 432/433

Web links

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

• To the extensive, interdisciplinary research excavation Halbturn

• 10708 - half turn. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Falko Daim , Nives Doneus (ed.): Halbturn: The imperial burial ground and the villa of Halbturn, Burgenland: Natural space requirements, prospection and preliminary report (= monographs on early history and medieval archeology. Volume 10). Innsbruck 2004, ISBN 3-7030-0391-X .
2. ↑ Nives Doneus (ed.): The imperial burial ground of Halbturn, Burgenland (= monographs of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum. Volume 122). 4 volumes, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-88467-233-4 ( online version ).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Herbert Brettl: Halbturn through the ages. Halbturn municipality, Halbturn 1999
4. ↑ Harald Prickler: The imperial stud in Mönchhof. In: Burgenland Life, 1977, 1/2
5. ↑ Halbturn & Andau: 79 new wind turbines . In: ORF , May 4, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
6. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Election results Halbturn 2017 (accessed on November 28, 2017)
7. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Election results Halbturn 2012 (accessed on November 28, 2017)
8. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Halbturn 2007 election results (accessed on November 28, 2017)
9. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Halbturn 2002 election results (accessed on November 28, 2017)
10. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Halbturn: Municipality Board and Councilors (accessed on November 28, 2017)
11. ^ Municipality of Halbturn: Municipal office (accessed on November 28, 2017)

^ Archaeological sensation in Austria. Scientists from the University of Vienna unearth the earliest evidence of Jewish inhabitants in Austria, March 13, 2008, “Archived copy”. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2011.