Heiligenbrunn

This article deals with a municipality in Austria. For other meanings of Heiligenbrunn see Heiligenbrunn (disambiguation)

Heiligenbrunn
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Gussing
License plate :	GS
Surface:	33.49 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 2 '  N , 16 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 1 '34 "  N , 16 ° 24' 56"  E
Height :	223  m above sea level A.
Residents :	753 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	22 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	7522
Area code :	03324
Community code :	1 04 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Heiligenbrunn 33 7522 Heiligenbrunn
Website:	www.heiligenbrunn.at
politics
Mayor :	Johann Trinkl ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (13 members)	8th 5 8th 5  A total of 13 seats ÖVP : 8 SPÖ : 5
Location of Heiligenbrunn in the Güssing district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Heiligenbrunn is a municipality with 753 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Güssing district in Austria .

The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Szentkút , the Croatian Šenkut .

geography

The community is located in southern Burgenland.

Community structure

The places (and cadastral communities) of the municipality are (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020)

• Deutsch Bieling (ung .: Németbükkös) (80, area 546 ha ),
• Hagensdorf im Burgenland (ung .: Karácsfa) (193, area 987 ha),
• Heiligenbrunn (Hungarian: Szentkút, Croatian: Šenkut) (246, area 804 ha),
• Luising (ung .: Lovászad) (68, area 270 ha) and
• Reinersdorf (Hungarian: Zsámánd, Croat .: Žamar) (166, area 741 ha).

Reinersdorf is part of the settlement area of ​​the Burgenland Croats ethnic group .

history

The first documentary mention of a village at the "Holy Fountain" comes from the year 1198. In the 12th century a priest from Güssing gave the Szentgotthárd monastery a vineyard in Heiligenbrunn. Like all of Burgenland, the place belonged to Hungary (German-West Hungary) until 1920/21 . Since 1898 had due to the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Szentkút 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 ). The cadastral community of Luising was only assigned to the Republic of Austria on January 10, 1923 by an Allied Border Commission and was occupied by Austrian troops.

Today's large community came into being on January 1st, 1971, when the previously independent communities Deutsch Bieling, Hagensdorf im Burgenland, Heiligenbrunn, Luising and Reinersdorf were merged to form the new community Heiligenbrunn due to the municipal structure improvement law of the Burgenland state government.

Population development

Culture and sights

The official show cellar next to the L401 in the Heiligenbrunn cellar district

Heiligenbrunn parish church

Hagensdorf parish church

See also:  List of listed objects in Heiligenbrunn

• Catholic parish church Heiligenbrunn hl. Clement
• Catholic parish church Hagensdorf Hll. Kosmas and Damian
• Pilgrimage chapel St. Ulrich
• Heiligenbrunn cellar quarter The cellar quarter of Heiligenbrunn is famous and contains 120 wine cellars from the 17th and 18th centuries. Around 50 of them are still thatched today.
• Ulrichsquelle: Also known is the Ulrichsbrunnen , which was mentioned in a document as early as 1198 in a deed of donation from the Cistercians . The water is said to have various healing effects, so the well-known ophthalmologist Ladislaus Batthyány-Strattmann used the water to alleviate eye disorders.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

57.40
(-3.86)

42.60
(+3.86)

ÖVP

SPÖ

2012



2017



Citizen Service Center Heiligenbrunn

The council comprises a total of 13 members based on the number of eligible voters.

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	384	57.40	8th	400	61.26	8th	509	73.98	11	498	68.98	11	441	62.73	10
SPÖ UH A1	285	42.60	5	253	38.74	5	not running			not running			not running
SPÖ	not running			not running			179	26.02	4th	224	31.02	4th	224	31.86	5
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running			not running			38	5.41	0
Eligible voters	738			758			796			820			812
voter turnout	93.90%			90.90%			88.82%			91.10%			92.73%

^A1 SPÖ and independents

mayor

Mayor is Johann Trinkl (ÖVP).

On January 19, 2017, Gerhard Schrantz (ÖVP), who had headed the municipality since 1992, submitted his resignation as mayor. Just one day later, Trinkl was elected as the new mayor by the local council with 7: 5 votes - Vice Mayor Dietmar Babos stood for the SPÖ and Independents.

In the direct mayor election on October 1, 2017, Trinkl lagged 4.27% behind the ÖVP's result, but was confirmed as head of the community with 53.13% of the vote. His competitor was again Babos, who achieved 46.87%. In the constituent meeting of the municipal council, Babos was again elected deputy mayor. Together with Thomas Stukitz, the two also form the community council.

Michael Partl is the head of the municipal office.

List of mayors since the formation of the large parish

• 1971–1982 Johann Deutsch (ÖVP)
• 1992–2017 Gerhard Schrantz (ÖVP)
• since 2017 Johann Trinkl (ÖVP)

coat of arms

The right to use the municipal coat of arms was granted on June 19, 1998 by the Burgenland state government. Blazon : “ Split of gold and green with an adjoining paw cross in alternating colors; upper left a golden sunflower in green, lower right a green grape with ten berries. "

Personalities

• Johann Deutsch (1932–1990), politician and farmer
• Martin Weinek (* 1964), theater and film actor and director, lives in Hagensdorf
• Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly (* 1953), businessman, lobbyist and farmer, owns a neo-historical castle in Luising

literature

• Karin Willmitzer: Phonology of the dialect of Heiligenbrunn in southern Burgenland . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna 2005.
• Stefan Geosits (Ed.): The Burgenland Croats through the ages . Edition Tusch, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85063-160-5 .
• Nikolaus Wilhelm-Stempin: The settlement area of ​​the Burgenland Croats in Austria, Hungary, Moravia and Slovakia . BoD. 2008. ISBN 978-3-8370-4278-8 .

Web links

Commons : Heiligenbrunn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 10407 - Heiligenbrunn. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Official website of the community of Heiligenbrunn
• Weinbau- und Kellerverein Heiligenbrunn (accessed September 1, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Margit Pflagner : in Burgenland 80 color pictures. P. 91.
3. ↑ Land Burgenland: Provincial Law Gazette for Burgenland, 17th issue from 1970, Law No. 44 (PDF, accessed on January 23, 2018).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Election results Heiligenbrunn 2017 (accessed on 23 January 2018)
5. ^ Province of Burgenland: Election results Heiligenbrunn 2012 (accessed on January 23, 2018)
6. ↑ Province of Burgenland: election results Heiligenbrunn 2007 (accessed on 23 January 2018)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Election results Heiligenbrunn 2002 (accessed on 23 January 2018)
8. ↑ mein district.at of January 17, 2017: New mayor in Heiligenbrunn after almost 25 years (accessed on January 23, 2018)
9. ↑ mein district.at from January 23, 2017: Johann Trinkl is the new mayor of Heiligenbrunn (accessed on January 23, 2018)
10. ↑ Municipality of Heiligenbrunn: Municipal Council (accessed on January 23, 2018)
11. ↑ Municipality of Heiligenbrunn: Municipal Office (accessed on January 23, 2018)
12. ^ Carina Ganster: Change of mayor: Trinkl follows Schrantz. In: bvz.at. January 19, 2017. Retrieved June 9, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Municipality of Heiligenbrunn: coat of arms (accessed on January 23, 2018)