Hegyeshalom
| Hegyeshalom | |||||
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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 : | Mosonmagyaróvár | ||||
| Coordinates : | 47 ° 55 ' N , 17 ° 9' E | ||||
| Area : | 52.66 km² | ||||
| Residents : | 3,489 (Jan 1, 2011) | ||||
| Population density : | 66 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Telephone code : | (+36) 96 | ||||
| Postal code : | 9222 | ||||
| KSH kódja: | 17905 | ||||
| Structure and administration (status: 2014) | |||||
| Community type : | Large community | ||||
| Mayor : | László Szőke (independent) | ||||
| Postal address : | Fő utca 134 9222 Hegyeshalom |
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| (Source: A Magyar Köztársaság helységnévkönyve 2011. január 1st at Központi statisztikai hivatal ) | |||||
Hegyeshalom [ ˈhɛɟɛʃhɒlom ] (German: Straß-Sommerein ) is a large Hungarian municipality in Győr-Moson-Sopron County with an area of 52.66 km² and 3526 inhabitants (2001 census). The place is on the border between Hungary and Austria .
geography
Hegyeshalom is located in the Little Hungarian Plain in northwest Hungary . It has a border crossing to Nickelsdorf in Austria.
history
The Hungarian parish was first mentioned in 1217. The document referred to the Szűz Mária Templom (Church of St. Mary ), which was located on a hill. After the war against the Turks the community was settled by Germans . At the 1941 census, about 1,800 of the 3,550 inhabitants were still Germans, most of whom were expelled in 1945 and 1946. The connection to the Vienna – Budapest railway line in 1863 meant an upswing. In addition to the predominantly rural and German population, a Magyar part of the population moved in, who mainly found employment in the railway sector.
In April 1989 the Soviet Union , then ruled by Mikhail Gorbachev , began withdrawing its troops from western Hungary; they want to create “a zone of trust along the border”. In the village of Hegyeshalom, Hungarian soldiers and locals began to dismantle the Iron Curtain on May 2, 1989 .
About two months later, the foreign ministers of Austria and Hungary, Gyula Horn and Alois Mock , symbolically severed the rest of the border fence near the town of Sopron in northwestern Hungary.
Until December 21, 2007, the Nickelsdorf / Hegyeshalom border crossing was an important border crossing between Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Border controls became obsolete with the accession of Hungary and Slovakia to the Schengen area .
From September 5, 2015, thousands of refugees came across the border in Hegyeshalom every day.
Attractions
- Evangelical Church, built in 1850
- Roman Catholic Church of St. Bartholomäus ( Szent Bertalan apostol ), originally from the 13th century, rebuilt several times
- Stettni Lake and Amusement Park ( Stettni-tó és Szabadídő park )
traffic
The border community is on the M1 motorway and the Vienna-Raaber Bahn railway line between the metropolises of Vienna and Budapest . At the Hegyeshalom railway junction, branch lines branch off to Bratislava-Petržalka station and to Szombathely via Csorna .
Personalities
- Mathes Nitsch (1884–1972), journalist, writer
- Johann Zimmermann (folklorist) (1872–1950), Protestant pastor, regional historian, folklore researcher
literature
- Straß-Sommereiner Heimatbuch. Edited by Johann Nitsch and Hanns Schrödl, Amberg 1968
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Spiegel 19/1989 of May 8, 1989, page 173 f. ( online )
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Hungarian village made history 25 years ago. First cut through the iron curtain. ( Memento of March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 2, 2014.
- ^ Deutschlandradio.de: Celebrations for the expansion of the Schengen area completed ; accessed on May 2, 2014.
- ↑ zeit.de August 19, 2016: "It was like a bad movie"
