Mörbisch am See

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Mörbisch am See
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Coat of arms of Mörbisch am See
Mörbisch am See (Austria)
Mörbisch am See
Basic data
Country: Austria
State : Burgenland
Political District : Eisenstadt area
License plate : EU
Surface: 28.01 km²
Coordinates : 47 ° 45 '  N , 16 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 45 '12 "  N , 16 ° 40' 3"  E
Height : 122  m above sea level A.
Residents : 2,203 (January 1, 2020)
Population density : 79 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 7072
Area code : 0 26 85
Community code : 1 03 07
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 22
7072 Mörbisch am See
Website: www.moerbisch.com
politics
Mayor : Markus Binder ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 )
(21 members)
10
9
2
10 
A total of 21 seats
Location of Mörbisch am See in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district
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Mörbisch received numerous awards for his floral decorations
Mörbisch received numerous awards for his floral decorations
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Mörbisch am See ( Hungarian : Fertőmeggyes , Croatian : Merbiš ) is an Austrian municipality with 2203 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) on Lake Neusiedl in northern Burgenland .

geography

Geographical location

Mörbisch am See is located in northern Burgenland on the southwestern shore of Lake Neusiedl , which is part of the state border with Hungary . Vienna is located approx. 70 km northwest.

The place has a very wide belt of reeds , so that the lake can only be reached via a dam that was built up in 1950 . At the end of the dam there is the floating stage , the modern seaside resort Mörbisch am See, the marina, two shipping companies that operate the ferry to Illmitz , tennis and beach volleyball courts, a sailing and surfing school and boat rental.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities of Mörbisch am See are:

climate

Due to the location on Lake Neusiedl, there is a mild, Pannonian climate.

history

The place name is mentioned for the first time in 1254 as possessio Megyes (literally: "the place rich in cherries" , in Hungarian meggy "cherry"). The first, Hungarian-speaking residents named the settlement either after a striking cherry tree located there or after the numerous cherry trees growing there.

This Hungarian form of Meggyes was later adopted, slightly modified, into German as Mörbisch ; the Croatian form Merbiš is borrowed from the German.

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 .

In the west of the village, on the "Salzäcker" corridor, is the site of a burial ground from the Latène period . The first finds were made during agricultural work in 1935 and brought to the Burgenland State Museum in Eisenstadt . Subsequent excavations brought five graves to light, in 1936 another four were discovered. In some graves there were stone packings, in grave 4 a stone stele. Bronze brooches of various shapes were found among grave goods , including bird's head brooches , chokers with hook and loop fasteners, iron swords and knives, all from the early La Tène period . A hollow hump ring indicates a further occupancy up to the Middle Latène.

Later under the Romans, today's Mörbisch am See was then in the province of Pannonia .

Mörbisch am See was already 5000 BC. Settled. The Romans also had settlements here. Immediately south of the state and municipal border near Mörbisch am See, a Mithras relief from the Roman times of Pannonia can be seen.

In 1918 there was the (unrealized) plan to build a standard-gauge railway from the station of the Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurter Railway in Sopron (Ödenburg) via Mörbisch to Rust .

Like the whole of Burgenland, the place belonged to Hungary until 1921 , specifically to the Sopron county (Ödenburg). After the end of the First World War, after tough negotiations, German-West Hungary was awarded to Austria in the treaties of St. Germain in 1919 and Trianon in 1920 . Since 1921 the place belonged to the newly founded federal state of Burgenland (see also history of Burgenland ), in the Nazi era to Lower Austria . Nevertheless, until 1945 economy and culture were oriented towards Ödenburg .

From 1945–1989 the Iron Curtain lay between Mörbisch am See and Ödenburg, and the border has been open again since then. At the end of 2007 the border controls were discontinued ( Schengen Agreement ).

In this context, Mörbisch am See is mentioned in the rock ballad Sommer '89 (He cut holes in the fence) , published in 2017 .

Population development

View of the main street

In the years 1680 and 1713, the plague raged in Mörbisch and killed two thirds of the population. In 1849 half of the population died due to a cholera epidemic. Mörbisch had just under 200 inhabitants until the beginning of the 19th century. The sharp increase in the population in the second half of the 19th century is an indication of the beneficial effects of the economic independence of the Hungarian peasants.
The following graphic shows the population development from 1869 to 2011:


Culture and sights

Buildings

Parish churches in Mörbisch
Evangelical parish church
Catholic parish church
"Cultural property" Hofgassen
Typical Hofgasse with barn (s) at the end
Heimathaus in a Hofgasse building

Sports

Next to the lake stage is the Mörbischer Seebad, which was expanded and expanded in 1996, with sunbathing lawns and its own bathing and relaxation island, as well as an adventure pool infrastructure.

Regular events

  • The Mörbisch Seefestspiele are well known . Every year in July and August, operettas by Austrian composers are played on a stage set up in Lake Neusiedl .
  • The event series Music in the Park , in which concert recordings are shown on a large screen, takes place annually in the summer, as do regular guest concerts and performances by the folk dance group.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

  • Road: The road network ends at the border with Fertőrákos (Kroisbach); the road to get there, in Austria generously developed so that one could visit the Iron Curtain by bus , is only open to cyclists and pedestrians on the Hungarian side.
  • Ferry: There are regular boat trips (bicycle ferry) to Mörbisch from other communities bordering the lake, especially from Illmitz im Seewinkel.
Panorama of Mörbisch am See with the Neusiedlersee
  • Cycle paths: Like all of Burgenland, Mörbisch am See is equipped with a network of 'cycle paths'. The B31 cycle path connects the municipality with the “Burgenland Jubilee cycle path ” and the Neusiedler See cycle path also leads through Mörbisch am See. For Nordic walking athletes, 15 tours have been developed in cooperation with the neighboring communities of Rust and Oggau .

Established businesses

Mörbisch am See, with its location in the Leithaberg growing area, is a traditional wine-growing place. 500 hectares of vineyards are cultivated by 100 winemakers; It is served in the 15 wine taverns in the area.

With 98,475 overnight stays per year (2015), Mörbisch am See is one of the largest tourist communities in Burgenland. With the boom in tourism in Burgenland, Mörbisch am See has also benefited; this effect was reinforced by the Mörbisch Seefestspiele.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
47.24
(-3.43)
43.08
(+9.30)
9.68
(-0.59)
n. k.
(-5.28)
 
Mörbisch municipal office

The council comprises a total of 21 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 659 47.24 10 720 50.67 11 856 56.06 14th 756 48.77 11 790 54.60 12
ÖVP 601 43.08 9 480 33.78 7th 366 23.97 6th 534 34.45 7th not running
FPÖ 135 9.68 2 146 10.27 2 84 5.50 1 260 16.77 3 298 20.59 4th
LBL not running 75 5.28 1 180 11.79 2 not running not running
Green not running not running 41 2.69 0 not running not running
PRO Mörbisch not running not running not running not running 359 24.81 5
Eligible voters 1935 1975 2009 1980 1943
voter turnout 81.60% 80.76% 82.83% 85.86% 86.26%

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Markus Binder (ÖVP) and Vice Mayor Jürgen Marx (SPÖ), the executive councils Werner Strommer (ÖVP), Christian Rechnitzer (SPÖ), Michael Sommer (FPÖ) and Bettina Zentgraf (SPÖ) are also members of the community board.

Johannes Bauer (ÖVP) was elected as the community treasurer and Werner Strommer (ÖVP) was elected as the environmental councilor.

mayor

Markus Binder (ÖVP) has been mayor since October 29, 2017. He prevailed in the mayoral election with 51.24% over his predecessor Jürgen Marx (SPÖ), who achieved 48.76%. In the first ballot, Binder was ahead with 49.19% compared to Marx with 46.85%, while the third applicant Andreas Fiala (FPÖ) was eliminated with 3.96%. Jürgen Marx was elected Vice Mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council. In May 2020, at the municipal council meeting, it was decided that Vice-Mayor Jürgen Marx would hand over the office to the municipal executive Bettina Zentgraf (both SPÖ).

Office manager is Franz Schindler.

Chronicle of the mayors since 1945

Source: Atlas Burgenland

  • 1945–1950 Matthias Jäger
  • 1950–1952 Martin Schindler
  • 1952–1954 Johann Wenzl
  • 1954–1966 Franz Schindler
  • 1967–2002 Andreas Sommer (SPÖ)
  • 2002–2012 Peter Vargyas (SPÖ)
  • 2012-2017 Jürgen Marx (SPÖ)
  • since 2017 Markus Binder (ÖVP)

Web links

Commons : Mörbisch am See  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Sievers , Otto Helmut Urban , Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. A – K, LZ . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , p. 1299; with photo (1936) of the stone stele of grave 4.
  2. ^ Railway construction news. (...) Railway construction in Sopron (Oedenburg). In:  Der Bauinteressent , year 1918, No. 28/1918 (XXXV. Year), p. 221. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wbz.
  3. Mörbisch am See community ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moerbischamsee.at
  4. Burgenlandinfo ( Memento from March 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Flash required)
  5. Wine panorama: Mörbisch am See ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weinpanorama.at
  6. Statistics Burgenland: Tourism 2015, p. 63
  7. a b Province of Burgenland: election results Mörbisch am See2017 (accessed on December 14, 2017)
  8. Province of Burgenland: election results Mörbisch am See2012 (accessed December 14, 2017)
  9. Province of Burgenland: election results Mörbisch am See2007 (accessed on December 14, 2017)
  10. a b Province of Burgenland: election results Mörbisch am See2002 (accessed on December 14, 2017)
  11. a b c Mörbisch am See: Politics (accessed December 14, 2017)
  12. ORF Burgenland of October 1, 2017: election results Mörbisch am See (accessed on December 14, 2017)
  13. ^ Neo-Vice Mayoress: Zentgraf follows Marx: Handover in Mörbisch. In: Burgenland People's Newspaper . May 20, 2020, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  14. Mörbisch am See: Municipal Office (accessed December 14, 2017)
  15. Atlas Burgenland: Mörbisch am See (accessed December 14, 2017)