Klingenbach

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Klingenbach (disambiguation) .

Klingenbach in Croatian Klimpuh
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Eisenstadt area
License plate :	EU
Surface:	4.82 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 45 '  N , 16 ° 32'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '12 "  N , 16 ° 32' 19"  E
Height :	231  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,147 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	7013
Area code :	02687
Community code :	1 03 05
Address of the municipal administration:	Grünberggasse 1 7013 Klingenbach
Website:	www.klingenbach.info
politics
Mayor :	Richard Frank ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (19 members)	12 7th 12 7th  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 12 ÖVP : 7
Location of Klingenbach kroatisch Klimpuh in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district
View of Klingenbach from the east
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Klingenbach ( Croatian : Klimpuh , Hungarian : Kelénpatak ) is a mixed-language municipality with 1147 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district in Austria . The border crossing Klingenbach / Sopron to Hungary is named after the place.

geography

The community is located in northern Burgenland near the state capital Eisenstadt . Klingenbach is the only place in the municipality.

It is named after the Klingenbach , which rises in the local area and flows along the Ödenburger Bundesstrasse (B16) to the Siegendorf municipal area, where it flows into the Nodbach from the right .

history

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 Klingenbach was then in the province of Pannonia .

Based on a stone ax find , it is assumed that the parish area was settled as early as 5,500–4,300 years before Christ. There was also a woman's grave from the early La Tène period (around 350 BC) in the local area , which contained two bronze bracelets , a finger ring and accessories .

In Roman times there was the Villa Rustica , a Roman estate, and Roman barrows, as the settlement was located directly on the Roman road from Scarbantia ( Sopron ) to Vindobona ( Vienna ). Part of this country road is now the Hotterweg between Klingenbach and Zagersdorf .

The first documentary mention of the place as "possessio wlgariter Chlingenpach" comes from the year 1276. The document reports on the handover of the Klingenbach estate including accessories to the Marienberg Abbey , whose donation is also recorded in writing in 1277.

In the 14th century the village had several owners. In 1416/17 the village, called "Chlingendorf", came under the sovereignty of the nearby town of Ödenburg . In 1510 the King of Hungary Ladislaus II issued all taxes and contributions to the city ​​of Ödenburg and the associated city villages, including Klingenbach, for a period of two years so that the city's fortifications could be expanded and repaired.

After the place had been attacked and looted by robber barons from Landsee Castle in 1523 , it was destroyed in the course of the first Turkish siege of Vienna in 1529 , but was settled again and rebuilt by Burgenland Croats .

From 1848 until the dissolution of the manor in 1886, Klingenbach belonged to the district commissioner (later chair judge ) and the Eisenstadt tax district within the Ödenburg county . On October 1, 1895, Klingenbach was combined with the villages of Baumgarten , Trausdorf , Schattendorf , Siegendorf and some other communities to form a state matriculation district (parent district) with its seat in Schattendorf, Mattersburg chair district . From 1886 to 1921 it belonged again to the chair district of Ödenburg .

Like all of Burgenland, Klingenbach belonged to Hungary ( German West Hungary ) until 1920/21 . Since 1898 had due to the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Kelénpatak 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 state of Burgenland since 1921.

See also : History of Burgenland

On July 1, 1923, Klingenbach was separated from the Schattendorf matriculation district and formed its own matriculation district with the neighboring community of Zagersdorf, which existed until December 31, 1970. From 1945 to 1955 the place was part of the Soviet zone of occupation in occupied Austria . On January 1, 1971, Zagersdorf was detached from the previous administrative unit with Klingenbach and united with Siegendorf to form a new political municipality.

Population development

According to the 2001 census, Klingenbach had 1,189 inhabitants, 73.1% of whom were members of the Burgenland-Croatian ethnic group (9.3% also indicated Croatian as a colloquial language). The proportion of the German-speaking ethnic group was 13.4%.

The majority of the residents of Klingenbach (89.2%) professed the Roman Catholic Church ; 2.5% each committed themselves to the Orthodox Church and Islam .

Culture and sights

Parish church of Klingenbach

See also:  List of listed objects in Klingenbach

• Catholic parish church in Klingenbach
• The stone cross with Pietà (around 1770) was re-erected in the new cemetery in 1810. The cemetery cross comes from the cemetery of the abandoned Pauline monastery in Wandorf, today's Sopronbánfalva .

Economy and Infrastructure

For years, Klingenbach was shaped by its role as a transit point and border point to the Klingenbach / Sopron border crossing . In 1995, a bypass road was built for the extended south-east motorway to the border crossing to relieve the community residents .

In the community was the hot well Handelsgesellschaft mbH , a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation , established in 2015 which declared bankruptcy due to financial problems. The western headquarters of pnnPlus Well Logging Equipment , founded there in 2017, is now housed in the former building .

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

62.83
(-0.75)

37.17
(+0.75)

SPÖ

ÖVP

2012



2017



Klingenbach municipal office

The council comprises a total of 19 members on the basis of population.

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	480	62.83	12	529	63.58	12	562	68.04	10	552	67.65	11	447	58.36	9
ÖVP	284	37.17	7th	303	36.42	7th	264	31.96	5	234	28.68	4th	236	30.81	5
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running			30th	3.68	0	83	10.84	1
Eligible voters	1014			1007			987			976			960
voter turnout	83.93%			90.27%			88.75%			88.32%			87.19%

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Richard Frank (SPÖ) and Deputy Mayor Peter Vlasits (ÖVP), Eveline Schuller-Frank (SPÖ), Roman Vlasits (SPÖ) and Klaus Vlaschitz (ÖVP) are also members of the municipal board.

mayor

Mayor of Klingenbach is Richard Frank (SPÖ). On December 20, 2016, he took over the office from his predecessor Johann Frank (SPÖ), who had headed the community since 2001. In the 2017 mayor election, Richard Frank was confirmed with 64.27%. His competitor Peter Vlasits (ÖVP) achieved 35.73%. Vlasits was elected deputy mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council.

The head of office is Jennifer Frank, she succeeded the long-time head of office Eduard Eisner.

coat of arms

Blazon : "A golden blade in the red field."

The blade, which actually represents a vine knife, was originally entwined with two laurel branches crossing each other at the bottom.

Personalities

• Simon Knéfacz (1752-1819), writer
• Hanna Sturm (1891–1984), political activist and resistance fighter
• Stefan Geosits (1927–), translator, writer

literature

• 700 years of Klingenbach. 1276-1976. Festschrift, Klingenbach community, Klingenbach 1976.

Historical maps

• Klingenbach and its surroundings around 1870-80 (record sheets from the regional survey )
• 

  The center of Klingenbach (bottom right)

• 

  eastern environment

• 

  southeast environment

• 

  southwestern environment

Web links

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

• 10305 - Klingenbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ORF Burgenland: Hotwell in bankruptcy (accessed on May 9, 2020)
2. ↑ pnnPlus: Homepage (accessed on May 9, 2020)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: election results Klingenbach 2017 (accessed on December 12, 2017)
4. ^ Province of Burgenland: election results Klingenbach 2012 (accessed on December 12, 2017)
5. ^ Province of Burgenland: election results Klingenbach 2007 (accessed on December 12, 2017)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: election results Klingenbach 2002 (accessed on December 12, 2017)
7. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Klingenbach: Municipal Council (accessed December 12, 2017)
8. ↑ mein district.at of December 21, 2016: Mayor handover in Klingenbach: Frank hands over to Frank (accessed on December 12, 2017)
9. ↑ Municipality of Klingenbach: Administration (accessed on May 9, 2020)
10. ↑ Municipality of Klingenbach: coat of arms (accessed on May 9, 2020)