Pama

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Pama Bijelo Selo
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Neusiedl am See
License plate :	ND
Surface:	26.39 km²
Coordinates :	48 ° 3 '  N , 17 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '42 "  N , 17 ° 2' 13"  E
Height :	137  m above sea level A.
Residents :	1,208 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	46 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	2422
Community code :	1 07 15
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 1 2422 Pama
Website:	www.gemeinde-pama.at
politics
Mayor :	Manfred Bugnyar ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : (2017) (19 members)	10 9 10 9  A total of 19 seats SPÖ : 10 ÖVP : 9
Location of Pama Bijelo Selo in the Neusiedl am See district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Pama is a municipality with 1208 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in the Neusiedl am See district in Burgenland in Austria . The Croatian place name is Bijelo Selo (dt. White Village) and appears on the town signs together with the German name. In Hungarian the municipality is called Lajtakörtvélyes .

geography

Pama borders on Kittsee in the north, Gattendorf and Zurndorf in the south, Deutsch Jahrndorf in the south-east and Lower Austria in the west and Slovakia in the east.

The unpopulated area is used for agriculture, there are hardly any forests. Part of the municipality was declared a bustard reserve.

history

After the Turkish wars , the severely decimated population (Pama had become “semi-desert”) was supplemented by the influx of Croatian-speaking people. Most of the services are held in Croatian .

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 Mosonkörtvélyes be used. After the end of the First World War , Austria was awarded to German West Hungary in the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon in 1919. The place has belonged to the newly founded state of Burgenland since 1921.

Before the Second World War, Jewish families lived in Pama, as in the neighboring village of Kittsee, which is one of the seven Jewish communities in Burgenland . After Austria's "annexation" to the National Socialist German Reich , the Jews living in Kittsee and Pama were expelled from their homes on April 16, 1938 and abandoned on a lonely island on the Danube .

In recent times, due to the exposed location on the Schengen eastern border, Pama has had an army platoon command post for assistance in border area surveillance to monitor the borders.

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish Church of Pama

See also:  List of listed objects in Pama

• Parish Church of Pama

freetime and sports

• Riding: The vastness of the landscape invites you to ride .
• Cycle path network: In the course of expanding the railway line, an extensive cycle path network was also built.
• Soccer field: The community has two soccer fields.
• Tennis facility
• Beach volleyball court
• Ice rink: A former fire extinguishing pond is used as an ice rink by the local children in the winter months.
• Gym: A gym has been available to all sports enthusiasts since December 2006.

societies

There are several associations in the village, including the volunteer fire brigade , the rural youth, a tamburica group, the Stucknfreunde (fast sport) and the VfB (association for movement).

As one of the very few places in Burgenland there are two football clubs: SK Pama and UFC Pama.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Pama station

Pama / Baumern (middle right) around 1873 in the recording sheet of the state survey (on the left the area of ​​the military camp in Bruck an der Leitha, only shown schematically)

• Train: There is a train station in the municipality, from which trains to Vienna and Bratislava run every hour. The station is on the Parndorf – Kittsee – Petržalka railway line .
• Bicycle: There is an extensive network of cycle paths in the municipality.

Established businesses

In the community itself there are few jobs (e.g. in a farm for agricultural products, a transport and gravel shop, a carpentry, a plumbing company and a carpentry company), so that the majority of the working population is forced to commute , either to neighboring communities or to Vienna . Many residents also work as farmers as a sideline.

In 2004, as in many neighboring communities, wind turbines were built in Pama.

There is a kindergarten and a primary school (both bilingual), a music school , a grocery store, an inn, a wine tavern and a bank. The post office closed in the course of cost-saving measures, and a post partner took over its tasks.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

54.99
(-1.20)

45.01
(+1.20)

SPÖ

ÖVP

2012



2017



The council comprises a total of 19 members on the basis of population.

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.
ÖVP	456	45.01	9	435	43.81	8th	420	41.96	8th	432	47.84	7th	389	50.39	8th
SPÖ	557	54.99	10	558	56.19	11	581	58.04	11	471	52.16	8th	383	49.61	7th
Eligible voters	1163			1150			1116			993			891
voter turnout	89.42%			91.22%			92.92%			94.96%			93.60%

Community board and councils

In addition to Mayor Manfred Bugnyar (SPÖ) and Deputy Mayor Hans-Jürgen Werdenich (ÖVP), Leonhard Dau (SPÖ), Viktoria Potz-Bartolich (ÖVP) and Dennis Steinwandtner (SPÖ) also belong to the community board. Environmental councilor is Johann Toth (SPÖ) and youth councilor is Dennis Steinwandtner (SPÖ).

mayor

Mayor is Manfred Bugnyar (SPÖ), who succeeded Josef Wetzelhofer (SPÖ), who led the community for 15 years, in March 2017. Bugnyar was able to prevail in the direct mayor election with 55.74% against Hans-Jürgen Werdenich (ÖVP), who achieved 44.26% and is now deputy mayor.

Head of office is Josef Werdenich.

Chronicle of the mayor

from	to	mayor	Political party
1911	1923	Jakob Werdenich	CS
1923	1927	Johann Krupicz	CS
1927	1931	Georg Waldsich	CS
1931	1934	Josef Krist	CS / VF
1934	1935	Michael Werdenich	VF
1935	1938	Johann Wetzelhofer	VF
1938		Matthias Kniefacz	VF
1938		Ludwig Michtner	NSDAP
1939	1945	Johann Kochwalter	NSDAP
1945	1948	Johann Wetzelhofer	ÖVP
1948	1954	Johann Pum	ÖVP
1954	1958	Johann Krupicz	ÖVP
1958		Matthias Neumann	SPÖ
1958	1962	Johann Pum	Unit list
1962	1972	Matthias Neumann	SPÖ
1972	1979	Jakob Szegner	ÖVP
1979	1996	Johann Tomaschitz	ÖVP
1996	2002	Johann Waldsich	ÖVP
2002	15th March 2017	Josef Wetzelhofer	SPÖ
since March 16, 2017		Manfred Bugnyar	SPÖ

coat of arms

Blazon : shield quartered , 1. In red a golden upright ploughshare , 2. In gold, a red six-pointed sun , 3. In gold, a red sickle directed to the left , 4. In red, a golden bunch of grapes .

The municipal coat of arms is based on an old seal that has been used since the 18th century. Ploughshare and sickle stand for agriculture, which plays an important role in Pama in the past as now. The grapes are intended to remind of the winegrowers who used to grow wine in the Edelstal vineyards. The sun depicted in the coat of arms symbolizes energy.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Rudolf Buczolich (1934–2015), actor and director, also an honorary citizen of the community
• Markus Stephan Bugnyár (1975), Roman Catholic priest, rector of the Austrian Hospice for the Holy Family in Jerusalem

literature

• Section “The partner communities” in “TÜPL Bruckneudorf - 150 Years of Brucker Lager” by Petra Weiß, publisher. Stadtgemeinde Bruck an der Leitha, April 2017, p. 448/449.

Web links

Commons : Pama  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Parish of Pama
• 10715 - Pama. Community data, Statistics Austria .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The drama on the Danube. Part 1: The expulsion of the Jews from Kittsee, Burgenland. Retrieved November 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ The drama on the Danube. Part 2: The expulsion of the Jews from Kittsee (Burgenland). Retrieved November 8, 2019 . 
3. ^ Parish of Pama: Associations. In: gemeinde-pama.at. Accessed November 8, 2019 (German). 
4. ^ Parish of Pama: factories. In: gemeinde-pama.at. Accessed November 8, 2019 (German). 
5. ^ Parish of Pama: wind farms. In: gemeinde-pama.at. Accessed November 8, 2019 (German). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 2017 municipal council elections in Pama. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 29, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Results of the 2012 municipal council elections in Pama. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, November 4, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Result of the local council election 2007 in Pama. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 21, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the local council election 2002 in Pama. Office of the Provincial Government of Burgenland, October 21, 2002, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Parish Pama: Parish Council. In: gemeinde-pama.at. Retrieved November 30, 2017 . 
11. ^ Parish of Pama: parish administration. In: gemeinde-pama.at. Retrieved November 30, 2017 . 
12. ^ Parish of Pama: coat of arms. In: gemeinde-pama.at. Retrieved August 10, 2019 . 
13. ^ Parish of Pama: History. In: gemeinde-pama.at. Accessed November 8, 2019 (German).