Ritzing (Burgenland)

Ritzing
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Oberpullendorf
License plate :	OP
Surface:	17.69 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 37 ′  N , 16 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 36 ′ 41 ″  N , 16 ° 29 ′ 47 ″  E
Residents :	907 (January 1, 2020)
Postal code :	7323
Area code :	02619
Community code :	1 08 20
Address of the municipal administration:	Long line 21 7323 Ritzing
Website:	www.ritzing.at
politics
Mayor :	Ernst Horvath ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (2017) (15 members)	6th 5 4th 6th 5 4th  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 6 ÖVP : 5 LFR : 4
Location of Ritzing in the Oberpullendorf district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Ritzing ( Hungarian : Récény , Croatian : Ricinja ) is a municipality in Burgenland in the Oberpullendorf district in Austria with 907 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

geography

Ritzing is located in Central Burgenland on the southern edge of the Ödenburger Mountains and is, identical to the cadastral municipality of Ritzing, the only village in the municipality. Districts are Helenenschacht, Neustift and two individual layers. The Helenenschacht with the Sonnensee Ritzing is three kilometers away .

Neighboring communities

	Sopron (Ödenburg, Hungary)
Lackendorf ( District Oberpullendorf , Bgld.)		Neckenmarkt ( District Oberpullendorf , Bgld.)
	Lackendorf ( District Oberpullendorf , Bgld.)

Incorporations

• Helenenschacht

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 Ritzing was then in the province of Pannonia .

Like all of Burgenland, the place belonged to Hungary (German-West Hungary) until 1920/21 . From 1898 had to because of the Magyarization of the government in Budapest of Hungarian name Récény 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 ). During this time, the Helenenschacht district of Brennberg was also incorporated into Ritzing.

Population development

Culture and sights

See also:  List of listed objects in Ritzing

• Catholic parish church Ritzing hl. James the Elder
• Rosalienkapelle

Sports

The soccer club SC Ritzing was founded in 1963, its home stadium is the Sonnenseestadion.

politics

Municipal council

Municipal council elections

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

42.00%
(+ 3.40  % p )

32.88%
(-3.91  % p )

25.12%
(+0.51  % p )

SPÖ

ÖVP

LFR ^A1

2012



2017



Ritzing municipal office

The council comprises a total of 15 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	341	42.00	6th	320	38.60	6th	222	31.90	5	449	71.38	12	337	58.51	8th
ÖVP	267	32.88	5	305	36.79	5	451	64.80	10	147	23.37	3	185	32.12	4th
LFR A1	204	25.12	4th	204	24.61	4th	not running			not running			not running
Green	not running			not running			23	3.30	0	not running			not running
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running			33	5.25	0	54	9.38	1
Eligible voters	983			982			821			754			737
voter turnout	91.66%			91.55%			90.38%			90.19%			90.91%

^A1 List for Ritzing

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Ernst Horvath (ÖVP) and Deputy Mayor Robert Trimmel (SPÖ), the executive councilors Andreas Guzmits (LFR), Johann Reissner (SPÖ) and Franz Sonnleithner (ÖVP) were elected to the community board.

Anton Hofer (ÖVP) was elected treasurer and Franz Sonnleithner (ÖVP) was elected environmental councilor.

mayor

Mayor is Ernst Horvath (ÖVP), who was sworn in on November 9, 2017 by the district captain of Oberpullendorf, Klaus Trummer.

After the numerous quarrels between Mayor Walter Roisz (ÖVP) and the Head of Department and Deputy Mayor Johann Reissner (SPÖ) - Mayor Roisz accused Reissner of refusing to work and suspended him from his work, on the other hand, Reissner showed Mayor Roisz more than 70 times at the supervisory authority both parties entered the 2017 local council election with new top candidates. Robert Trimmel (SPÖ) achieved 40.70%, Ernst Horvath (ÖVP) 35.17%, while Andreas Guzmits (LFR) left with 24.13%. In the runoff election on October 29, Horvath won with 53.90%. Trimmel, who came to 46.10%, was elected deputy mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council on November 17, 2017.

Office manager is Johann Reissner.

Personalities

• Johann Bauer (1888–1971), farmer and politician
• Mario Lösch (* 1989), soccer player
• Josef Wieser (* 1946), bricklayer and politician

Web links

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

• 10820 - Ritzing. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Homepage of the community
• Pyramids in Ritzing
• Municipal boundaries with neighboring municipalities

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Ritzing 2017 election results (accessed on January 2, 2018)
2. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Ritzing 2012 election results (accessed on January 2, 2018)
3. ^ Province of Burgenland: Ritzing 2007 election results (accessed on January 2, 2018)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Ritzing 2002 election results (accessed on January 2, 2018)
5. ↑ ^{a b} BVZ of November 26, 2017: Robert Trimmel is the new vice in Ritzing (accessed on January 2, 2018)
6. ^ ÖVP Ritzing: Post from the mayor, issue 1/2017 (accessed on January 2, 2018)
7. ↑ Courier of October 1, 2016: Thrill in Ritzing and Marz, complaint on suspicion of election fraud in Deutschkreutz (accessed on January 2, 2018)
8. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Ritzing 2017 election results (accessed on January 2, 2018)
9. ^ Community of Ritzing: Reissner Johann, Oberamtsrat (Head of Office) (accessed on January 2, 2018)