Mönchhof

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

Mönchhof
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Neusiedl am See
License plate :	ND
Surface:	33.54 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 53 '  N , 16 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '53 "  N , 16 ° 56' 31"  E
Height :	131  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,238 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	7123
Community code :	1 07 12
Address of the municipal administration:	Kirchenplatz 11a 7123 Mönchhof
Website:	www.moenchhof.at
politics
Mayor :	Josef Kolby ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (23 members)	15th 6th 2 15th 6th 2  A total of 23 seats ÖVP : 15 SPÖ : 6 FPÖ : 2
Location of Mönchhof in the Neusiedl am See district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mönchhof ( Hungarian : Barátudvar , Barátfalu, Barátfalva ) is a municipality with 2238 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Neusiedl am See district in Austria .

With the Kneipp Kurhaus , Mönchhof is also a health resort .

geography

Community structure

Mönchhof is the only place in the municipality. Districts are the Marienkron Abbey and the Edmundshof.

history

Mönchhof (bottom center) around 1873 (recording sheet of the state survey )

The place name is derived from belonging to the monks of Heiligenkreuz . The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Barátfalu . About 800 years ago, Cistercian monks from Heiligenkreuz Abbey settled in the area around today's Mönchhof. They made the land that was previously mostly swampy arable. In 1217 King Andrew II of Hungary gave them the former Petschenegen estate Leginthov as a permanent possession. The deed of donation from 1217 mentions the Mönchhof community for the first time under the name Leginthov .

As a result of the Turkish victory at Mohacs in 1526, the settlement was completely devastated; In 1533 the monastery pledged the settlement of the city of Bruck / Leitha and sold it to the Stamp brothers in 1534. Through royal intervention, ownership of the monastery was restituted in 1545.

Mönchhof was the seat of the imperial stud from 1553 to 1652. The stud people were predominantly Protestant and were in a sometimes violent conflict with the Catholic residents and their pastor. The area was under Hungarian administration from 1648 to 1920/21 as part of Moson County

Viticulture is traditionally the economic base of the community. Starting with the initiatives of the Cistercian monks, who brought their knowledge from Burgundy via Heiligenkreuz to Mönchhof, the place is considered the oldest wine-growing community in Austria. With the Marienkron Cistercian convent , which was established in 1955 by sisters from the Seligenthal monastery on land donated by the Heiligenkreuz Abbey, the larger community has found a spiritual and health center that extends far beyond the local borders.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Mönchhof

• Parish church Mönchhof
• Marienkron Monastery
• Mönchhof Village Museum
• Defense tower
• Sandhöhe basement district
• The Jakobsweg Burgenland, which comes from Frauenkirchen and is integrated into the Jakobsweg Austria in Haslau-Maria Ellend , runs through Mönchhof, mainly in Burgenland .

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

63.70
(+3.82)

25.09
(-9.29)

11.21
(+5.47)

ÖVP

SPÖ

FPÖ

2012



2017



The council comprises a total of 23 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.
ÖVP	881	63.70	15th	897	59.88	14th	765	47.96	11	669	45.05	10	675	46.42	10
SPÖ	347	25.09	6th	515	34.38	8th	665	41.69	10	700	47.14	10	562	38.65	8th
FPÖ	155	11.21	2	86	5.74	1	75	4.70	1	116	7.81	1	217	14.92	3
LM	not running			not running			90	5.64	1	not running			not running
Eligible voters	2031			2012			2005			1927			1831
voter turnout	75.82%			83.45%			85.99%			87.70%			87.71%

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Josef Kolby (ÖVP) and Deputy Mayor Raimund Burjan (ÖVP), Johann Berger (ÖVP), Herbert Karner (SPÖ), Markus Karner (SPÖ), Martin Kummer (ÖVP) and Roland Lamster (ÖVP) also belong to the municipal board.

mayor

Josef Kolby (ÖVP) has been mayor since 2007. In the 2017 direct mayor election, he prevailed with 67.57% over his competitors Markus Karner (SPÖ, 22.99%) and Stefan Hoffmann (FPÖ, 9.44%). Due to the 2017 election results, the ÖVP is also providing the deputy mayor, Raimund Burjan.

Head of office is Ida Rongits.

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  Parish church Mönchhof, plan by Elias Hügel , court stone mason and church builder from Kaisersteinbruch

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  The former Mönchhof monastery was built from 1729

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  The historical granarium dates from the 18th century

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  The fortified tower of 1669 is likely to be part of the former parish church

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  In Mönchhof there is a village museum that is well worth seeing

Personalities

• Elias Hügel (1681–1755), baroque sculptor and church builder; he also created the high altar of the local parish church
• Adalbert Winkler (1857–1938), Austro-Hungarian Cistercian
• Jakob Mädl (1896–1978), principal school director and politician
• Rosaria Golsch (1926–2003), founder abbess of Marienkron Abbey
• Josef Huber (* 1956), soccer player
• Thomas Polz, fellow campaigner for a German Burgenland (memorial plaque in Mönchhof)

literature

• Sepp Gmasz , ed., 800 years Mönchhof: 1217-2017 (Mönchhof 2017).
• Adalbert Winkler , Die Zisterzienser am Neusiedlersee and the history of this lake (Winden am See 1993).

Web links

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

• 10712 - Mönchhof. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Site of the Mönchhof community
• Mönchhof Village Museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mönchhof on oesterreich-info.at accessed on May 31, 2010
2. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: election results Mönchhof 2017 (accessed on December 1, 2017)
3. ↑ Province of Burgenland: election results Mönchhof 2012 (accessed on December 1, 2017)
4. ↑ Province of Burgenland: election results Mönchhof 2007 (accessed on December 1, 2017)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Mönchhof election results 2002 (accessed on December 1, 2017)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Mönchhof: Municipal Council (accessed on December 1, 2017)
7. ↑ Mönchhof municipality: municipal office (accessed December 1, 2017)
8. ↑ "Germanness in Hungary", accessed on March 5, 2017