Horitschon

market community Horitschon
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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Oberpullendorf
License plate :	OP
Surface:	18.71 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 35 '  N , 16 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 35 '22 "  N , 16 ° 32' 48"  E
Height :	239  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,797 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	7312
Area code :	02610
Community code :	1 08 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 43 7312 Horitschon
Website:	www.horitschon.at
politics
Mayor :	Georg Dillhof ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (21 members)	10 9 2 10 9 2  A total of 21 seats ÖVP : 10 SPÖ : 9 FPÖ : 2
Location of Horitschon in the Oberpullendorf district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Horitschon ( Hungarian : Haracsony , Croatian : Haračun ) is a market town in Burgenland in the Oberpullendorf district in Austria .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in Central Burgenland. Together with its neighboring communities Deutschkreutz , Neckenmarkt and Lutzmannsburg, Horitschon is one of the main towns in the Blaufränkischland . However, "Blaufränkischland" is not a geographical name, but a purely regional marketing name.

Community structure

The municipal area comprises the following two localities or cadastral communities of the same name (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Horitschon (1333)
• Unterpetersdorf (464)

history

Horitschon (top right) around 1880 (recording sheet of the regional survey )

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 .

Later under the Romans, today's Horitschon was in the province of Pannonia .

Like the whole of Burgenland, the place belonged to Hungary until 1920/21 . The place has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Burgenland since 1921 (see also the history of Burgenland ). Horitschon has been a market town since 1983.

From 1993 to 2010 one of Austria's five Hungarian consulates was in Horitschon (Head of Office: Komm.-Rat Michael Leier, owner of the local concrete and building materials plant).

Population development

Wine landscape near Horitschon

Viticulture

Horitschon is part of the Mittelburgenland wine-growing region. The wine towns of Mittelburgenland market themselves as "Blaufränkischland" due to the dominance of Blaufränkisch cultivation. Together with Neckenmarkt, Deutschkreutz and Lutzmannsburg, Horitschon is one of the main towns in Blaufränkischand. The best vineyard locations in the area are among the most prestigious locations in Central Burgenland.

In the past centuries Horitschon had always been a wine-growing place, but in the past there were comparatively few vines in its own municipality. The Horitschoners had most of the vineyards in Raiding and Neckenmarkt, and to a lesser extent in Unterpetersdorf and Deutschkreutz. The oldest Horitschon vineyards were the "Gfangeräcker", probably also the vineyard "Weingartengfanger". After the end of the feudal system, i.e. from 1848, more vines were planted in Horitschon. Today Horitschon is an outspoken red wine town with the main variety Blaufränkisch. The largest winegrowers' cooperative in the Oberpullendorf district is located in the village. A number of Horitschon wine-growing businesses have achieved national recognition.

Culture and sights

Parish church of St. Margaretha in Horitschon

Church chronicle, copper plate from 1979 in the mortuary at the cemetery

See also:  List of listed objects in Horitschon

• Parish Church of Horitschon
• 1. Burgenland red wine nature trail

Associations, customs

The Horitschon Youth is a non-profit association, which aims to promote village coexistence and to maintain customs and homeland. The association was founded in April 2018 and is a local, non-partisan association that accepts every girl and boy from Horitschon from the age of 16.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

49.59
(+9.70)

40.82
(-11.34)

9.59
( n. K. )

ÖVP

SPÖ

FPÖ

2012



2017



The council comprises a total of 21 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	662	49.59	10	562	39.89	9	667	44.86	10	696	48.77	11	586	45.75	10
SPÖ	545	40.82	9	735	52.16	11	792	53.26	11	676	47.37	10	572	44.65	9
FPÖ	128	9.59	2	not running			not running			55	3.85	0	123	9.60	2
LBL	not running			112	7.95	1	not running			not running			not running
FBL	not running			not running			28	1.88	0	not running			not running
Eligible voters	1786			1794			1794			1750			1625
voter turnout	82.98%			87.12%			89.69%			89.89%			88.80%

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Georg Dillhof (ÖVP) and Vice Mayor Franz Minasch (SPÖ), Johannes Forauer, Susanne Zach, Emmerich Kohlmann, Anton Leser and Gerhard Petschowitsch are also members of the community board.

Reinhard Artner was elected community treasurer and Ernst Trettler was elected environmental councilor.

Mayor of Unterpetersdorf is Josef Spanitz.

mayor

Mayor is Georg Dillhof (ÖVP). In the direct election of the mayor on October 1, 2017, he won 54.88% of the votes, while the municipal chief Peter Heger (SPÖ) , who has been in office since October 15, 2007, received 45.12%. Dillhof was sworn in as the new mayor on October 10, 2017. Heger renounced his council mandate and from then on only exercised his mandate as a member of the Burgenland state parliament . With this, Franz Minasch (SPÖ) was elected vice mayor at the constituent meeting of the local council.

Chronicle of the mayor

Mayor 2007–2017: Peter Heger

Source: Atlas Burgenland

• 1931 Paul Petschowitsch (CS)
• 1938 Hermann Wessely (NSDAP)
• ...
• 1950–1955 Franz Iby (ÖVP)
• 1955–1967 Lorenz Fally (SPÖ)
• 1967 Franz Haller (SPÖ)
• 1971–1982 Franz Pusch (ÖVP)
• 1982–1987 Rupert Petsovits (SPÖ)
• 1987–15.10.2007 Anton Iby (ÖVP)
• October 15, 2007-10 October 2017 Peter Heger (SPÖ)
• since 10.10. 2017 Georg Dillhof (ÖVP)

literature

• Anton Iby, Ilse Hutter, Rudolf Spadt et al .: Chronicle on the occasion of 800 years of Horitschon . (Accompanying materials: 1 insert under the title: Anniversary Program ). Europrint, Oberwart 1996, OBV .
• Judith Schöbel, Petra Schröck, Ulrike Steiner: The art monuments of the political district of Oberpullendorf . Austrian Art Topography, Volume 56. Berger, Horn 2005, ISBN 3-85028-402-6 , pp. 110–115.

Web links

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

• 10805 - Horitschon. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Blaufränkischland on blaufraenkischland.at
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ Mittelburgenland DAC on oesterreichwein.at
4. ^ Johann Werfring: Mittelburgenland red wine festival . In: “Wiener Zeitung” of July 5, 2019, supplement “Wiener Journal”, p. 22.
5. ↑ Vinaria Wine Guide 2018/19 . Edition LW Media, Krems 2018, ISBN 978-39504163-8-1 , p. 402.
6. ^ J. Fally and A. Gebert: Blaufränkischland . Deutschkreutz 1997, ISBN 3-901573-04-6 , pp. 61-63.
7. ↑ Vinaria Wine Guide 2018/19 . Edition LW Media, Krems 2018, ISBN 978-39504163-8-1 , pp. 402-428.
8. ↑ 1. Burgenland red wine trail on www.bmlfuw.gv.at. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
9. ^ Youth Horitschon. Retrieved on May 14, 2019 (German). 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: election results Horitschon 2017 (accessed on December 22, 2017)
11. ↑ Province of Burgenland: election results Horitschon 2012 (accessed on December 22, 2017)
12. ↑ Province of Burgenland: election results Horitschon 2007 (accessed on December 22, 2017)
13. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Horitschon 2002 election results (accessed on December 22, 2017)
14. ↑ ^{a b c d} Marktgemeinde Horitschon: community representatives (accessed on December 22, 2017)
15. ↑ BVZ of October 18, 2017: Heger waives municipal council (accessed on December 22, 2017)
16. ↑ Atlas Burgenland: Horitschon (accessed December 22, 2017)