Neuhaus am Klausenbach

market community Neuhaus am Klausenbach
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Jennersdorf
License plate :	JE
Surface:	19.98 km²
Coordinates :	46 ° 52 '  N , 16 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '5 "  N , 16 ° 1' 50"  E
Height :	292  m above sea level A.
Residents :	898 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	8384, 8385
Area code :	03329
Community code :	1 05 07
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 25 8385 Neuhaus am Klausenbach
Website:	www.neuhaus-klausenbach.at
politics
Mayor :	Reinhardt Mund ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (15 members)	8th 7th 8th 7th  A total of 15 seats ÖVP : 8 SPÖ : 7
Location of Neuhaus am Klausenbach in the Jennersdorf district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Neuhaus am Klausenbach

Neuhaus am Klausenbach is a market town with 898 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Jennersdorf district in Burgenland in Austria .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality is located at 359 m above sea level not far from the border triangle Austria-Hungary-Slovenia in the Raab-Őrség-Goričko nature park and is the southernmost municipality in Burgenland (most southwestern point at Maria-Theresien-Stein ). At Bonisdorf lies on the border with Slovenia at 417  m above sea level. A. high Stadelberg the highest point in the Jennersdorf district.

Community structure

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

• Bonisdorf (95) including Eck and Stadelberg
• Kalch (196) including Kalchbergen, Liembleck and Romischeck
• Krottendorf near Neuhaus am Klausenbach (128) including Edelsbach and Kalchbergen
• Neuhaus am Klausenbach (479) including Altenhof, Pfaffengraben, Romischeck, Sandriegel, Steinleiten and Tabor

The community consists of the four cadastral communities Bonisdorf, Kalch, Krottendorf bei Neuhaus and Neuhaus am Klausenbach.

Neuhaus am Klausenbach in the 17th century

German place name	Hungarian place name
Bonisdorf	Bónisfalva
Kalch	Mészvölgy
Krottendorf near Neuhaus	Békató
Neuhaus am Klausenbach	Vasdobra

history

Neuhaus was first known in a document in 1213. From 1213 to 1332 Neuhaus was owned by the St. Gotthard Abbey. In 1478 the place was raised to the market for the first time. From 1607 the place belonged to the rule of the Batthyány family .

Like all of Burgenland, the place belonged to Hungary (German-West Hungary) until 1920/21 . Since 1898 had due to the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Vasdobra 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 ). Neuhaus am Klausenbach has been a market town since 1992 (through VO 74).

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Neuhaus am Klausenbach

• Catholic parish church Neuhaus am Klausenbach hl. Stephan, King of the Hungarians
• Evangelical parish church Neuhaus am Klausenbach AB
• Neuhaus am Klausenbach castle ruins
• Tabor Castle
• Triangle near Kalch, with Maria-Theresien-Stein (historical border mark); Old border themed trail to other Theresian stones.

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council has 15 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Burgenland in 1997, the municipal council had the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 3 LEX, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal elections in Burgenland in 2002, the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP and 6 SPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Burgenland 2007 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 7 ÖVP, 4 SPÖ, and 4 BLN.
• With the municipal elections in Burgenland in 2012 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 9 ÖVP, 3 SPÖ, 2 BLN, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Burgenland 2017 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 8 ÖVP, and 7 SPÖ.

mayor

• ? –2017 Helmut Sampt (ÖVP)
• since 2017 Reinhardt Mund (SPÖ)

View of Neuhaus am Klausenbach from the southeast

View of the town of Kalch from the west

Krottendorf near Neuhaus am Klausenbach from the Stadelberg

Bonisdorf from the southwest

coat of arms

Blazon : "A golden new house in a green field."

The coat of arms was awarded on March 23, 1977. It is a talking coat of arms and describes the name Neuhaus , it is based on the emblem of the community, which has been used as a seal image for centuries.

Community partnerships

• Neuhaus am Inn in Bavaria (D)

Personalities

• Eric W. Gritsch (1931–2012), church historian and Luther researcher
• Rosa Schreiber (1913–1996), pharmacist, Righteous Among the Nations

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria: Burgenland. Neuhaus am Klausenbach. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7031-0401-5 , page 206f.

Web links

Commons : Neuhaus am Klausenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 10507 - Neuhaus am Klausenbach. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Community website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Dehio: see literature: page 206