Mogersdorf

Mogersdorf ( Hungarian Nagyfalva ) is an Austrian market town in the Jennersdorf district in the south of Burgenland with 1047 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

The place is also known far beyond the country's borders thanks to the Mogersdorf International Cultural History Symposium, which was first held in 1969 .

geography

Geographical location

Main square and municipal office in Mogersdorf

Mogersdorf lies on the Raab and at the foot of the Schlösslberg. The area of the municipality is 12.77 km².

Community structure

The municipality includes the following three localities (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

German Minihof (148) including Untergreut and brick oven
Mogersdorf (631) including Goldberg, Kesselgraben, Langberg, Pfeiferberg, Schlößlberg, Specklberg and Waldhäuser
Wallendorf (370) including Haberdistelberg and Langberg

The community consists of the cadastral communities Deutsch Minihof, Mogersdorf and Wallendorf.

Neighboring communities

Mogersdorf borders the communities of Heiligenkreuz in Lafnitztal , Eltendorf , Königsdorf and Weichselbaum as well as Szentgotthárd in Hungary .

history

In a document from Pope Urban III. Mogersdorf is mentioned for the first time in 1187 as the grangie of the Cistercian monastery of St. Gotthard , namely as "Nagyfalu".

On August 1, 1664, Count Raimund von Montecuccoli defeated a Turkish army under Achmed Köprülü in the battle of Mogersdorf , thus ending the Turkish war of 1663/1664 . With around 50,000 men, the Turkish army was twice as large as the army of defenders, and victory could only be achieved through the superior tactics of Montecuccoli. The battle caused heavy losses on both sides, but it succeeded in preventing the Turks from marching on to Vienna until the second Turkish siege .

On May 1, 1873, the Hungarian Western Railway , today the Styrian Eastern Railway , was opened from Győr ( Raab ) to Graz .

The place belonged, like the whole of Burgenland, to Hungary (German-West Hungary) until 1920/21 . Since 1898 had due to the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Nagyfalva 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 ).

In 1964 Mogersdorf was raised to a market town.

Population development

Culture and sights

Church and main square in Mogersdorf

The interior of the church

Catholic parish church Mogersdorf hl. Josef: The church is at the eastern end of the Angers. It was built in 1775.

Memorial Mogersdorf : A memorial chapel commemorates the battle of 1664, which was built in 1964 according to plans by Ottokar Uhl and from parts of a neo-Gothic chapel destroyed in 1945 .

In one room of the Kreuzstadel snack bar there is an exhibition about the Turkish wars.

politics

Municipal council

Wallendorf and Deutsch Minihof

Wallendorf town start

Municipal council elections in Mogersdorf since 1997
Result from	October 7, 2012			October 7, 2007			2002			1997

	be right	%	Mandates	be right	%	Mandates	be right	%	Mandates	be right	%	Mandates
Eligible to vote	1145	-	-	1054	-	-	1068	-	-	1002	-	-
Submitted	995	86.90	-	856	81.21	-	861	80.62	-	827	82.53	-
Invalid	61	6.13	-	63	7.36	-	101	11.73	-	155	18.74	-
Valid	934	93.87	19th	793	92.64	19th	760	88.27	19th	672	81.26	19th
Of these accounted for
SPÖ	390	41.76	8th	432	54.48	11	491	64.61	13	446	66.37	13
ÖVP	501	53.64	11	303	38.21	8th	234	30.79	6th	172	25.60	5
FPÖ	nk	-	-	nk	-	-	35	4.61	0	54	8.04	1
LBL	43	4.60	0	nk	-	-	nk	-	-	nk	-	-
REH ¹⁾	nk	-	-	11	1.39	0	nk	-	-	nk	-	-
FBL ²⁾	nk	-	-	31	3.91	0	nk	-	-	nk	-	-
SBD ³⁾	nk	-	-	16	2.02	0	nk	-	-	nk	-	-

¹⁾ List Günther Reh

²⁾ Free list of citizens

³⁾ Citizen Social Service

mayor

until 1910 Josef Kloiber
1910–1919 Johann Kloiber
1919 Alois Werner
1919–1921 Alois Kraner
1922–1927 Karl Forjan
1927–1935 Franz Sommer
1935–1938 Otto Schwab
1938–1945 Franz Sommer
1946–1950 Otto Schwab (ÖVP)
1950–1958 Julius Schwarz (ÖVP)
1958–1967 Eduard Paukovitsch (ÖVP)
1967–1992 Johann Lex (SPÖ)
1992-2007 Walter Dolmanits (SPÖ)
since 2007 Josef Korpitsch (ÖVP)

coat of arms

Blazon : “In a shield split by gold and red, a red paw cross ( Cistercian cross ) in the golden field; a golden building with an apse and two lancet window openings over a green mountain in the red field. "

The coat of arms was awarded on July 15, 1964.

Personalities

Christiane Brunner (* 1976), politician (Greens)
Alois Lang (1925–2002), politician (SPÖ)

Web links

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

10506 - Mogersdorf. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Web presence of the market town of Mogersdorf

Individual evidence

↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
↑ Dehio-Handbuch Burgenland . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7031-0401-5 , p. 196 .
↑ Elections in Burgenland: GR and BM elections 2012 (accessed on December 11, 2014)
↑ Elections in Burgenland: GR and BM elections 2007 (accessed on December 11, 2014)
↑ Elections in Burgenland: GR and BM elections 2002 (accessed on December 11, 2014)
↑ Mayor Mogersdorf in 800 years of Mogersdorf, published by the market community Mogersdorf, 1987, pp. 264–267

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_AT_Ortschaft_QUELLE-1] Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )

[2] Dehio-Handbuch Burgenland . Anton Schroll, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7031-0401-5 , p. 196 .

[W2012-3] Elections in Burgenland: GR and BM elections 2012 (accessed on December 11, 2014)

[W2007-4] Elections in Burgenland: GR and BM elections 2007 (accessed on December 11, 2014)

[W2002-5] Elections in Burgenland: GR and BM elections 2002 (accessed on December 11, 2014)

[6] Mayor Mogersdorf in 800 years of Mogersdorf, published by the market community Mogersdorf, 1987, pp. 264–267