Heanzenland
The Heanzenland , also Hianzenland , Hoanzenland or - as a high-linguistic attempt - Heinzenland , was a name for German West Hungary , later Burgenland , which was part of the Kingdom of Hungary for a millennium .
term
As Heanzen (Hoanzen, Hienzen, Hinzen, Heinzen - Hungarian Hiencek ) one called the farmers of this part of the country who immigrated from Bavaria and other German areas in the 11th century , with their own dialect .
The origin of the name is controversial. On the one hand it is seen as a mock name for a group of German speakers due to their conspicuous pronunciation hianz instead of the usual Bavarian hiaz (= "now"). On the other hand also as a derivation from the common first name Heinz , or from "Heinrich's followers" (from Duke Heinrich II. ), From the Güssing Count Heinrich or Henz or from Emperor Heinrich IV. , During whose reign the first German settlers should have come to the country .
On June 17, 1906, an article appeared in the Alldeutsche Tagblatt in which the Viennese teacher Joseph Patry referred to the increasing pressure of Magyarization and the gradual elimination of the Germans from their economic and culturally leading role and the annexation of Western Hungary under the title “West Hungary to German Austria” up to the Raab to the Austrian half of the empire on the grounds that this would secure the food supply in Vienna. Joseph Patry also had his own name for German West Hungary, namely Heinzenland , a designation that was still often used in the following years and also applied for by Alfred Walheim before “Vierburgenland” and finally “Burgenland” prevailed.
On November 22, 1918, the short-lived Republic of Heinzenland was even proclaimed in Mattersburg . The name Heanzenland is still used today for central and southern Burgenland.
literature
- Joseph Roth : Journey through the Heanzenland . [Article series for the daily newspaper Der Neue Tag , from 7th – 9th August 1919.] In: Klaus Westermann (Hrsg.), Joseph Roth: Werke . 6 volumes, Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house, volume 1: The journalistic work. 1915-1923 . Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-462-01960-0 , pp. 100-115.
Movies
- Heanznland - About life in the country. Feature film with amateur actors by Wolfgang Lesowsky , 1975.
Web links
- Entry on The dialect in Burgenland: Where does the name "Hianzen" come from? in the Austria Forum (in the Heimatlexikon)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfram Dornik, “It was like in the Wild West”. Consequences of boundary changes as a result of World War I ... . In: Siegfried Mattl u. a. (Ed.): War, Memory, History , Publications of the Historical Science Cluster of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society Vol. 1, pp. 73–87, Böhlau, Vienna 2009, p. 74, ISBN 978-3-205-78193-6
- ↑ The Heinzenland . In: Oststeirerblatt. Weekly to protect the economic interests of Eastern Styria and German-West Hungary I, No. 8 (November 2, 1919), p. 1 according to Wolfram Dornik, “That was like in the Wild West” , p. 74
- ↑ Hiencek (kislexikon.hu)
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↑ a b The Heanzenland. 3sat, Stadtland series ( Memento from December 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
Hans Ferdinand Helmolt : Weltgeschichte. Band Southeast Europe and Eastern Europe. (= Volume 5 World History ), Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1905, p. 390. - ^ Entry on Heanzen in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon ); Hugo Kastner: From Aachen to Cyprus. Geographical names and their origins. Anecdotes, facts and comparisons. More than 3500 names from all over the world. Humboldt, Baden-Baden 2007, ISBN 978-3-89994-124-1 , p. 68.
- ↑ atlas-burgenland.at: Connection to Österrreich: "German countrymen from western Hungary" in Vienna
- ^ Background and wording of the appeal, atlas-burgenland.at
- ^ The founding of German Austria: Reactions in Washington ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
