Nikitsch

Nikitsch Filež
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Oberpullendorf
License plate :	OP
Surface:	50.72 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 32 '  N , 16 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 32 '9 "  N , 16 ° 39' 33"  E
Height :	228  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,380 (January 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	7302, 7361
Area code :	02614
Community code :	1 08 15
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 87 7302 Nikitsch
Website:	www.gemeinde-nikitsch.at
politics
Mayor :	Johann Balogh ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (21 members)	12 8th 1 12 8th 1  A total of 21 seats SPÖ : 12 ÖVP : 8 TONE : 1
Location of Nikitsch Filež in the Oberpullendorf district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Nikitsch ( Croatian : Filež , Hungarian : Füles ) is a municipality in Burgenland in the Oberpullendorf district in Austria with 1,380 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020), of which approx. 87% belong to the Burgenland Croats. This makes Nikitsch the municipality with the largest proportion of Croats in Burgenland.

geography

The municipality is located in Central Burgenland on the Nikitschbach only four kilometers from the Hungarian border.

Community structure

The municipal area includes the following three localities or cadastral communities of the same name (population in brackets as of January 1, 2020):

• Croatian Geresdorf (361)
• Croatian mini farm (322)
• Nikitsch (697)

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 Nikitsch was then in the province of Pannonia .

When it was first mentioned in 1150 as Uhec , Croatians and Slovenes were mentioned in Nikitsch. The last big wave of colonization by Croats took place between 1565 and 1579.

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 Füles 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. Serious clashes between troops of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and Croatian farmers in Nikitsch / Filež resulted in two deaths. The place has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Burgenland since 1921 (see also the history of Burgenland ).

In 1971, due to the Municipal Structure Improvement Act, Nikitsch, Croatian Minihof and Croatian Geresdorf were merged to form the larger municipality of Nikitsch.

Population development

Culture and sights

Buildings

Parish Church of Nikitsch

East or garden facade of Nikitsch Palace

See also:  List of listed objects in Nikitsch

• Nikitsch Castle (Gálosháza)
• Catholic parish church Nikitsch hl. Laurentius
• Plague chapel

societies

• Graničari Folklore Society
• Sports club SC Nikitsch
• Youth club Nikitsch - Mladina Filez
• Tennis club
• Nikitsch theater group - Kazališna grupa Filež

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

54.61
(+3.57)

40.25
(-2.88)

5.14
(-0.69)

SPÖ

ÖVP

TONE ^A1

2012



2017



Municipal office Nikitsch

The council comprises a total of 21 members based on the number of eligible voters.

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	776	54.61	12	762	51.04	11	785	52.97	12	790	51.23	11	667	47.47	10
ÖVP	572	40.25	8th	644	43.13	9	625	42.17	9	719	46.63	10	694	49.40	11
TONE A1	73	5.14	1	87	5.83	1	not running			not running			not running
Green	not running			not running			62	4.18	0	not running			44	3.13	0
FBL	not running			not running			10	0.67	0	not running			not running
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running			33	2.14	0	not running
Eligible voters	1817			1879			1888			1850			1787
voter turnout	83.49%			87.07%			84.22%			87.89%			86.40%

^A1 Toni Kuzmić citizens' list

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Johann Balogh (SPÖ) and Deputy Mayor Herbert Hedl (ÖVP), the executive councils Christian Balogh (SPÖ), Franz Fazekas (ÖVP), Franz Klemen (SPÖ), Roland Ribarich (SPÖ) and Stefan Zvonarits (ÖVP) also belong to the community council on.

Roland Ribarich (SPÖ, for Minihof) and Franz Klemen (SPÖ, for Geresdorf) were appointed mayors.

mayor

Mayor is Johann Balogh (SPÖ), who has headed the community since 1992. In the direct mayor election on October 1, 2017, he won with 59.86% against Herbert Hedl (ÖVP, 35.86%) and Toni Kuzmić (TONI, 4.28%).

Herbert Hedl (ÖVP) was elected Vice Mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council on November 3, 2017.

Rudolf Satovich has been the head of the office since August 1, 2017, succeeding Rudolf Marko after his retirement.

Chronicle of the mayors since 1945

Source: Atlas Burgenland

• 1945–1950 Fabian Roszenich
• 1950–1954 Sanor Kuzmich
• 1954–1962 Vince Prikoszovich
• 1962–1971 Karl Beidinger
• 1971–1977 Franz Rattasich
• 1977-1992 Alois Farkas
• since 1992 Johann Balogh

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows on the seal field:

"A floating ploughshare with the cutting edge pointing downwards, behind it three leafy ears of wheat."

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Agnes Prandler (* 1927; † 2013), employee and politician
• Gyula Somogyváry (* 1895 in Nikitsch; † 1953), Hungarian writer

Personalities related to the community

• Norbert Darabos (* 1964), politician, 1987–2003 member of the municipal council in Nikitsch, 1992–1999 mayor in Croatian Minihof
• Adam Meskó (* around 1665, † 1734) Hungarian lawyer and baron, landlord of Nikitsch between 1708 and 1734.
• Eva Maria Meskó (around 1690–1772), daughter of Adam Meskó, married Baroness Vragović von Maruševec (around 1710), married Countess Bartholotti von Partenfeld (1734), married Countess von Herbeville (1746), married Countess von Starhemberg (1765), Landlady of Nikitsch between 1740 and 1772.

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  Gálosháza Castle

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  Primary school Croatian Minihof

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  Nikitsch (bottom left) around 1873 (recording sheet of the regional survey )

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  Croatisch Gerisdorf / Gyirot (top left) and its surroundings around 1880

Web links

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

• 10815 - Nikitsch. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Homepage of the municipality of Nikitsch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
2. ↑ Provincial Law Gazette for Burgenland 44/1970: Law of September 1, 1970 on territorial changes of municipalities (Municipal Structure Improvement Act) (PDF document; accessed on January 1, 2018)
3. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Nikitsch 2017 election results (accessed on December 29, 2017)
4. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Nikitsch 2012 election results (accessed on December 29, 2017)
5. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Nikitsch 2007 election results (accessed December 29, 2017)
6. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Nikitsch 2002 election results (accessed on December 29, 2017)
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Citizen List TONIO: Meetings (accessed December 30, 2017)
8. ↑ ORF Burgenland of September 9, 2017: Nikitsch: Declining population figures (accessed on December 30, 2017)
9. ↑ BVZ of August 3, 2017: Satovich is the new head of office (accessed December 30, 2017)
10. ↑ Atlas-Burgenland: Nikitsch (accessed December 30, 2017)
11. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: The 18th and 19th centuries (with some views to the 20th century) . In: Municipality of Nikitsch, district Croatian Minihof (ed.): Mjenovo. Croatian mini farm . Croatian Minihof 2013, p. 90 .
12. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: Small contributions to the history of Croatian Minihof in the 18th and 19th centuries. With a contribution by Dr. Felix Tobler . Vienna 2019, p. 2-8 .