Neutral

Neutral
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Oberpullendorf
License plate :	OP
Surface:	11.55 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 33 '  N , 16 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '45 "  N , 16 ° 26' 45"  E
Height :	274  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,095 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	95 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	7343
Area code :	02618
Community code :	1 08 14
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 47 7343 Neutal
Website:	www.neutal.at/gemeinde
politics
Mayor :	Erich Trummer ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (19 members)	16 3 16 3  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 16 ÖVP : 3
Location of Neutal in the Oberpullendorf district
Center of Neutal
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Neutal ( Hungarian : Sopronújlak (old: Nyujtál ), Croatian : Najtolj ) is a municipality in the Oberpullendorf district in Burgenland in Austria .

geography

Geographical location

Neuthal (center left below) around 1880 (recording sheet of the state survey )

The community is located in the Stooberbachtal in Central Burgenland. Neutal is the only place in the municipality.

Incorporations

In 1931, despite the rejection of the Neutral Municipal Council, the town of Schwabenhof was incorporated.

history

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 .

Later under the Romans, today's Neutal was then in the province of Pannonia .

Neutals was first mentioned in a document in 1270 as "Villa Geotan".

Towards the end of the 19th and 20th centuries, Neutal was a center for chimney and boiler masons . The special masons from Neutal and the surrounding area built chimneys and boilers throughout Austria, especially at the time of industrialization . Even after the Second World War , the bricklayers from the “furnace mason village” moved across Europe to line the steel furnaces and ring furnaces with refractory bricks .

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 Sopronújlak 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: History of Burgenland ).

Population development

Culture and sights

Panorama of Neutal from the southwest

Parish church Neutal

See also:  List of listed objects in Neutal

• Catholic parish church Neutal Mariä Namen
• muba - Museum für Baukultur : Special focus is placed on the specific traditional stove and fireplace masonry in the Neutal region, which was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage in Austria in 2010 .
• Marterlwanderweg

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  Former stop of the Burgenland Railway

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  Museum of Building Culture overview board

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  Inner courtyard of the Museum of Building Culture

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  Construction machinery in the Museum of Building Culture

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  Florian Chapel

nature

• Family hiking trails
• Tree trail

Sports

• Jubilee cycle path
• Draisine tour
• Forest pool with water slide and diving tower
• climbing hall
• Beach volleyball court
• Street soccer place
• 3 tennis courts (sand)
• Football field
• JUFA Landerlebnis Resort
• Adventure playground

Economy and Infrastructure

Central Burgenland technology center

Neutal advertises as a "healthy village"

The history of the Neutal industrial area began in 1975 with the establishment of the Pfnier & Co GmbH company .

In 1976 the Burgenland Training Center (BUZ), a center for the training and further education of skilled workers for the economy, settled in Neutal. In 1977 a branch of the Austrian Brown company, Boveri Werke (BBC), opened. In 1988, as part of the global merger of BBC and ASEA, the company was renamed Asea Brown Boveri  AG (ABB) and sold in 1998. Today the plant manufactures metal and switchgear under the new name SAM .

In 1979 the metal construction company MAT went into operation . At the beginning of 1999 the company was taken over and transformed into MA-TEC . The company is active worldwide in metal, steel and facade construction.

The direct connection to the Burgenland expressway (S31) and the infrastructure of the new technology area created the prerequisites for new business establishments from 1999. This included the roof and facade construction company Rathmanner, which started production in Neutal in mid-1999.

Another step in developing into an industrial location was the creation of the technology and development center for visual information systems - swarco Futurit . The world market leader in the production of signaling devices started operations in Neutal in January 2001.

After the company Divitec Elektro- und Altgeräteverwertung settled in 2001, the list of local metalworking companies was expanded to include the company MCI , which manufactures designer metal ceilings. The Kitzwögerer company has also been active in Neutal since 2001 . The marble and granite processing company took over the production halls of the company Acrylan , which manufactured windows and doors.

The construction of the Mittelburgenland technology center was economically important for the municipality of Neutal . The technology center, which opened in April 2002, houses numerous commercial and industrial companies as well as a high-performance computer center from Siemens Austria .

With the company LogicLine, another metal processing company started production of load securing systems in 2006 in Neutal.

In the tourism sector, Neutal, as a “healthy village”, specializes in soft tourism .

politics

Municipal Office

The municipal council has 19 members.

• With the municipal council elections in Burgenland in 1997, the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ, 4 ÖVP, and 1 FPÖ.
• With the municipal council elections in Burgenland in 2002, the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Burgenland 2007 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 15 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
• With the municipal elections in Burgenland in 2012 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 16 SPÖ and 3 ÖVP.
• With the municipal council elections in Burgenland 2017 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 16 SPÖ and 3 ÖVP.

mayor

The community chronicle of Neutal shows the following people as mayors:

from	to	mayor
September 26, 1926	April 14, 1927	Anton owner
April 15, 1927	January 22, 1929	Karl Dominkovits
January 23, 1929	June 5, 1931	Anton owner
June 6, 1931	July 12, 1935	Josef Rahtmanner
July 13, 1935	April 12, 1938	Franz Godovitsch
April 13, 1938	1945	Johann Binder
1945	January 4, 1946	Franz Godovitsch
January 5, 1946	October 17, 1947	Josef Rathmanner
October 18, 1947	December 6, 1958	Karl Dominkovits
7th December 1958	March 30, 1984	Franz Resch
March 31, 1984	January 4, 2002	Josef Thiess (SPÖ)
since January 5th, 2002		Erich Trummer (SPÖ)

coat of arms

At its meeting on June 26, 1985, the Burgenland provincial government granted the municipality of Neutal the right to use a municipal coat of arms. Blazon : “ A red chimney growing in a silver shield on a red wall, accompanied by a black wheel (front) and a green four-leaf clover (back). “ Description: The location of the village in the fertile and easily accessible Stooberbachtal has always determined life in Neutal. The symbolism of the coat of arms refers to it. The wheel indicates agriculture and the traffic situation, while the clover leaf indicates the natural landscape. Dominating are the wall and the chimney in the middle of the coat of arms, which indicate that the reputation of the Neutaler as chimney builder and bricklayer went far beyond the national borders.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Franz Resch (* 1931), politician and state road master
• Johann Payer (* 1947), politician and principal school director
• Erich Trummer (* 1967), politician and mayor

People related to the community

• Patrik Fazekas (* 1990), politician, grew up in Neutal and lives there

Web links

Commons : Neutal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 10814 - Neutal. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Website of the municipality of Neutal
• muba - Museum for Building Culture Neutal

Individual evidence

1. ^ Museum for Building Culture Neutal
2. ↑ Stove and chimney masonry ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. , National Agency for Intangible Cultural Heritage, Austrian Commission for UNESCO
3. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Neutal 2002 election results (accessed on December 29, 2017)
4. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Neutal 2007 election results (accessed on December 29, 2017)
5. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Neutal 2012 election results (accessed on December 29, 2017)
6. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Neutal 2017 election results (accessed on December 29, 2017)
7. ^ Municipality of Neutal: Mayor of Neutal (accessed on January 27, 2017)
8. ↑ Neutal municipality: coat of arms (accessed on January 27, 2017)