Kemeten

Kemeten
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Oberwart
License plate :	OW
Surface:	20.66 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 15 '  N , 16 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 14 '59 "  N , 16 ° 9' 10"  E
Height :	305  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,516 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	7531
Area code :	03352
Community code :	1 09 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Bachgasse 2 7531 Kemeten
Website:	www.kemeten.at
politics
Mayor :	Wolfgang Koller ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (19 members)	13 4th 2 13 4th 2  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 13 ÖVP : 4 FPÖ : 2
Location of Kemeten in the Oberwart district
Kemeten Catholic Parish Church
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Kemeten [ ˈkɛmɛtn̩ ] is a municipality in the Oberwart district in Burgenland in Austria . The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Vaskomját , in Burgenland- Romani the place is called Kemeta .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in southern Burgenland at the beginning of the Strem valley. Kemeten is the only place in the municipality. The Strembach , the Burggrabenbach, the Hartelsbach and the Langerwieserbach flow through Kemeten.

The community lies at an altitude of approx. 305  m above sea level. A.

German place name	Hungarian place name	Romani place name
Kemeten	Vaskomját	Kemeta

Incorporations

The former community association with Litzelsdorf (Lódós) was dissolved in the 1970s.

history

Kemeten was first mentioned in a document in 1475. Smaller skirmishes with the Oberwarter (Felsőőr) and Unterwarter petty aristocrats are reported around the year 1482. It was about the exact relocation of the hotter boundary in the dispute with Georg Baumkirchner. This let the Kemeter population, after being displaced by the Oberwart and Unterwarter, again clear around ten yokes (three hectares) in the direction of Oberwart and cultivate them. (Should the name "Kraufanger", which refers to clearing work, which is said to have only served as a pretext to catch a crow, go back to the year 1482?) In 1496, the process was made in this regard in Eisenburg and the Oberwartern was from Judge Peter Vingarti confirmed the legality of their limit. In the process, however, the Oberwartern were said to have very good contacts with the state judges, which would have brought about a unilateral decision, which in turn led to some minor damage to the Kemeter in Oberwart and vice versa: 32 Kemeter vineyards were cut and cattle driven from the pastures, in return in Oberwart and Unterwart cattle and grain plundered. The Turkish invasions of this time are again blurring the traces.

The area changed hands several times in the 16th and 17th centuries. In the 18th century, Kemeten was one of the so-called contract villages, which means that these villages had to provide their services on the basis of contracts concluded with the rulers. Since Kemeten was an agricultural place, the taxes had to be paid in the form of agricultural products.

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 Vaskomját 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 ).

Until their deportation in 1938, around 200 Roma lived in Kemeten. When the National Socialists came to power , their deportation began, which was completed in 1941. They were interned in the Lackenbach gypsy detention camp or taken directly to the Łódź ghetto . Little is known about their further fate, but it is certain that 47 Roma from Kemeten were murdered in Auschwitz alone. Only 5 of the 200 Roma returned to Kemeten after the war.

In October 2003 there was an application in the local council to put up a plaque to commemorate the murdered Roma, but this was rejected by 14 to 5 votes. The result of the vote suggests that at least seven SPÖ mandataries also voted against the memorial plaque, which provoked sharp protests in some media.

Population development

Culture and sights

Listed farmhouse

Kemeten Evangelical Prayer House

See also:  List of listed objects in Kemeten

• Catholic parish church Kemeten hl. Nicholas
• Peace Cross, highest point in the region
• Hiking hut for nature lovers
• Hubertus chapel of the hunters
• Saubergkapelle at the top of the hill of the same name
• "Weidl" with a view over Kemeten and the Burggrabental
• Mariazellerkreuz on the route of the pilgrims on foot
• Stork's nest at the “farmer teacher” vulgo Juri

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

65.24
(+5.24)

19.22
(-9.79)

10.87
(-0.12)

4.66
( n. K. )

SPÖ

ÖVP

FPÖ

KA ^A1

2012



2017



Kemeten municipal office

The council comprises a total of 19 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.
SPÖ	672	65.24	13	606	60.00	12	661	62.77	12	776	71.26	14th	685	67.09	13
ÖVP	198	19.22	4th	293	29.01	5	338	32.10	6th	313	28.74	5	336	32.91	6th
FPÖ	112	10.87	2	111	10.99	2	54	5.13	1	not running			not running
KA A1	48	4.66	0	not running			not running			not running			not running
Eligible voters	1396			1447			1461			1395			1337
voter turnout	76.93%			75.12%			78.85%			86.09%			85.86%

^A1 List Kemeten Active

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Wolfgang Koller (SPÖ) and Deputy Mayor Franz Schiller (SPÖ), the executive councils Gerhard Kahl (ÖVP), Josef Mühl (SPÖ) and Hans-Peter Paul (SPÖ) also belong to the community board.

Peter Koller (SPÖ) was elected the community treasurer.

mayor

Mayor is Wolfgang Koller (SPÖ). After Johann Nussgraber (SPÖ) announced his resignation as mayor on December 31, 2016 after 24 years, at the meeting of the municipal council on January 12, 2017, Koller, who had been the municipal chairman since 2007 and has been the vice-mayor since 2012, was elected as the new mayor. In the direct mayor election on October 1, 2017, Koller won with 81.02% and exceeded the result of his predecessor from 2012 by 15.11 percentage points. Other applicants were Roland Goger (ÖVP) and Erich Engl (FPÖ), who achieved 13.29% and 5.68% respectively.

In the constituent meeting of the municipal council, Franz Schiller (SPÖ) was elected deputy mayor.

Siegfried Pieler is the head of the municipal office.

coat of arms

The Burgenland provincial government awarded the municipality of Kemeten the coat of arms on March 7, 1984. The award certificate was presented on June 8, 1985 on the occasion of the opening of the newly built community center in the presence of Federal President Rudolf Kirchschläger . Blazon : “ Shield split by gold and red. A green house growing out of a green shield base in gold, overlaid by a red sun; in red a golden ploughshare, raised by a golden ladle. "

Personalities

• Alfred Bauer (1930–2004), clarinetist, music arranger, folk musician
• Martin Bauer (* 1954), clarinetist, music arranger, folk musician, founder of "Martins Dorfmusik"
• Otto Hörist (* 1934), dean, honorary councilor, monsignor
• Emmerich Koller (1920–2007), Austrian politician
• Fidelis Krautsack (1915–1997), Capuchin, missionary, professor of biblical theology
• Christoph Krutzler , actor Volkstheater Vienna
• Dieter Mühl , author of Die Roma von Kemeten
• Johann Paul (1883–1961), farmer, innkeeper and politician (Landbund)
• Herbert Schügerl (* 1948), artist, a. a. Draft altarpiece and municipal coat of arms

literature

Non-fiction

• Dieter Mühl: The Roma from Kemeten. The kidnapped and murdered Roma von Kemeten. Edition LexLiszt 12, Oberwart 1999, ISBN 3-901757-11-2 .
• Otto Hörist: 500 years of the Kemeten community. A contribution to the history of the place and the parish. (Submitted as a diploma thesis for the award of a Masters in Theology)
• Emmerich Koller: 120 years of the Kemeten volunteer fire service 1880–2000.

Fiction

• Johann Heschl: Namaste, a sick soul of Austria. Novel . Novum-Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-900693-60-9 .
• Manuel Paul: Deadly South . Novum-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85022-302-7 .

Web links

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

• 10907 - Kemeten. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Kemeten election results 2017 (accessed on 9 January 2018)
2. ^ Province of Burgenland: Kemeten election results 2012 (accessed on January 9, 2018)
3. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Kemeten election results 2007 (accessed on January 9, 2018)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Kemeten election results 2002 (accessed on January 9, 2018)
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Municipal Council (from 2017). Kemeten municipality, accessed December 9, 2019 . 
6. ↑ mein district.at of January 14, 2017: Wolfgang Koller is the new mayor of Kemeten (accessed on January 9, 2018)
7. ↑ community Kemeten: municipal employees (accessed on January 9, 2018)