Mexico (Neusiedler See)

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Mexico on the eastern shore of Lake Neusiedl

Mexico (also New Mexico) is a region silted up by fluctuations in the water level at Lake Neusiedl , on which Archduke Albrecht then had a manor and settlement built. The area is now near Fertőújlak him Hungary , which until 1976 was called Mekszikópuszta .

A professor at the Catholic grammar school in Neusiedl is quoted as follows in the Wiener Zeitung of September 21, 1869: “In the spring I read that the bed of Lake Neusiedl had filled up with water again. So I used my vacation to hunt on the shores of the lake for a few days. How big was my surprise when, instead of water, I saw an incalculable amount of kukuruz fields and pussies on the bottom of the lake. So I renounced my hunting plans and instead of venturing into a boat set out to explore the settlements. On the way I came across government engineers who were busy with preliminary work about a canal to be dug. When I had reached the very shores of the lake where the new 'Mexico' settlement was being built, I saw a number of wagons coming towards me, which were returning across the lake from the Ödenburg market. The people told me that they used to take the shortest route with loads of 25 to 30 metzen wheat. I stopped by the tenants of the settlements and inspected the farm buildings built three years ago. This year, a ten-foot-deep cellar was dug on a farmyard without encountering water at this depth. On 14 d. M. took place in the Colonie Mexico, which already has 100 inhabitants and already has a school, a church festivity, namely the inauguration of the cross, which an Oster Gust owner had erected there at his expense, to which one from Pomogy / Pamhagen (Wieselburger Comitat) and from several localities of the Ödenburg Comitat a large crowd had come together and a hospitable meal followed. Upon request, I gave an inauguration speech - the first sermon on those lakeside grounds and at a point that was passed years ago with a sailing boat from Ödenburg to Wieselburg Comitat. "

The estate mentioned here and the village west of Apetlon were located in the border area between Austria and Hungary on Hungarian soil (today near the district Lászlómajor, north of Sarród (Schrollen)). The situation was flooded again in 1870 and the settlements were abandoned. The Hungarian village of Fertőújlak east of it was called Mekszikópuszta (Mexikopuszta) until 1976 , as was the station on the Neusiedler Seebahn .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Note: At that time there was no Catholic grammar school in Neusiedl, what is probably meant is the grammar school in Sopron . The rest of the description fits this much better, because a Neusiedl would hardly spend a few days at the lake because Neusiedl is already directly on the lake.
  2. ^ Mexico on Lake Neusiedl. In:  Wiener Zeitung , September 21, 1869, p. 14 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz
  3. ↑ Notes - Lake Neusiedl. In:  Wiener Feuerwehr-Zeitung , May 1, 1871, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wfz

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