Steinbrunn

market community

Steinbrunn
Štikapron

coat of arms

Austria map

Basic data

Country:

Austria

State :

Burgenland

Political District :

Eisenstadt area

License plate :

EU

Surface:

15.39 km²

Coordinates :

47 ° 50 ' N , 16 ° 25' E Coordinates: 47 ° 50 '12 " N , 16 ° 24' 48" E

Height :

241 m above sea level A.

Residents :

2,776 (January 1, 2020)

Population density :

180 inhabitants per km²

Postcodes :

2491, 7035

Community code :

1 03 16

NUTS region

AT112

UN / LOCODE

AT SUP

Address of the
municipal administration:

Obere Hauptstrasse 1
7035 Steinbrunn

Website:

www.steinbrunn.at

politics

Mayor :

Thomas Kittelmann ( ÖVP )

Municipal Council : ( 2017 )
(23 members)

11

9

2

1

11 9 2 1

A total of 23 seats

SPÖ : 11
ÖVP : 9
LSP : 2
FPÖ : 1

Location of Steinbrunn
Štikapron in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district

Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Steinbrunn is a municipality with 2776 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district in Austria . In the place (Croatian name Štikapron ) there are numerous members of the Burgenland-Croatian ethnic group.

geography

Geographical location

The market community is located in northern Burgenland near the state capital Eisenstadt and is congruent with the cadastral community of the same name . In addition to the market town, the following localities exist: New settlement (village) and weekend settlement (village).

Neighboring communities

The following communities border on Steinbrunn:

Neufeld on the Leitha	Chert
Zillingdorf		Müllendorf
	Zillingtal

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 Steinbrunn was then in the province of Pannonia .

The place was destroyed several times by wars, in 1555 it was rebuilt by the settling Croats.

Steinbrunn still as "Stinkenbrunn" (center left) around 1873 (recording sheet of the regional survey )

In 1810, lignite mining began in open-cast mining. The district of Neue Siedlung was created for this purpose . The annual output was 600 tons. At that time, 128 women and children were employed in the mine. However, there is no more precise information about the number of workers. At the end of the 19th century the population rose to over 2000 people. Electrification of the mine began in 1905. 20 years later there was electricity in the whole town.

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 Büdöskút 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 ). The community was marked by the two world wars, the economic crisis, Austrofascism and nationalism (thematized in the novel The Demons by Heimito von Doderer ). After the Second World War, the reconstruction of the place began. At that time it was very agricultural.

The major redesign was initiated by the mayor Friedrich Robak . The lignite mining, which had ceased before the Second World War, was resumed in the area of the New Settlement , but was abandoned after a few years. A sand works (1965), a linen factory, a cardboard box factory and a concrete factory were built. A highlight was the construction of what was the first community house in Austria, in which a laundry, showers and hot baths, cooling systems, a TV room, a library and a hall with a kitchen were set up.

Around 1960 the Steinbrunn-Zillingdorf mine, which had not been in operation since the interwar period and was already filled with groundwater, was converted into a lido with a recreation center. On the Steinbrunner side of the lake, through which the border between Lower Austria and Burgenland runs, the new district "Steinbrunner See" was created.

In 1971, Steinbrunn was merged with the neighboring municipality of Zillingtal due to the Municipal Structure Improvement Act . This merger was canceled 20 years later. In 1976 the elementary school was rebuilt. In 1977 the town hall was rebuilt.

The market survey took place on June 16, 2006.

History of the place name

The place name is mentioned for the first time in 1271 , in the Hungarian form Byzuskut , which subsequently developed into today's Büdöskút (literally "stinking spring"). The German form of the name from which the later Stinkenbrunn became (with mhd. Prunn , "source") is attested for the first time in 1344 . Both forms of the name come from a foul-smelling mineral spring located in the municipality. The vernacular, which no longer knew the circumstances of the strange naming, later interpreted the place name to mean that once a fire dragon fell into the local well during a thunderstorm and spoiled the water.

The German name was adopted as Štikapron by the Croatians who immigrated in the 16th century .

At the request of the population, the official place name was changed to the more harmless form Steinbrunn on January 1, 1959 .

Population development

Culture and sights

Steinbrunn parish church

Former hunting lodge Stinkenbrunn

Catholic parish church Steinbrunn To find the cross: The Gothic church was redesigned in the years 1668 to 1690 in the Baroque style.
Medieval atonement cross in the new settlement
Hunting lodge and pheasantry from the end of the 18th century.
Marian column (erected 1680)
Antonis Column (erected around 1730)
four pillars of plague

Economy and Infrastructure

The Burgenland state sports center VIVA is located in the district of Neue Siedlung .

Since August 2018, the Steinbrunner See has been the venue for a triathlon and aquathlon, which is organized in cooperation by the Trim Team Austria (Steinbrunn) and Top Team Tri Niederösterreich (Biedermannsdorf) clubs. The competition, with its highlight “the Steinbrunn Wall”, enjoys great popularity in the sports scene.

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

%

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

47.15
(-7.44)

39.61
(+2.19)

7.93
( n. K. )

5.31
(-2.68)

LSP

Steinbrunn municipal office

The council comprises a total of 23 members on the basis of population.

Results of the municipal council elections since 1997
Political party	2017			2012			2007			2002			1997
Political party	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.	Sti.	%	M.
ÖVP	694	39.61	9	571	37.42	9	416	28.17	6th	355	26.79	6th	231	19.69	4th
SPÖ	826	47.15	11	833	54.59	13	900	60.93	15th	924	69.74	15th	729	62.15	13
FPÖ	93	5.31	1	122	7.99	1	70	4.74	1	46	3.47	0	213	18.16	4th
LSP	139	7.93	2	not running			not running			not running			not running
Green	not running			not running			65	4.40	1	not running			not running
LBL	not running			not running			26th	1.76	1	not running			not running
Eligible voters	2522			2319			2049			1818			1520
voter turnout	75.10%			72.57%			75.99%			78.11%			82.76%

mayor

The mayor has been Thomas Kittelmann (ÖVP) since the 2017 municipal council election, who already ran as mayor candidate in 2012 and this time prevailed in the runoff election with 52.44% against Gerhard Frasz (SPÖ), who achieved 47.56%. Frasz wanted to succeed Klaus Mezgolits (SPÖ), who headed the community since 1997, but now has to be satisfied with the title of Vice Mayor.

Nurten Altunbas is the head of the municipal office.

1946–1980: Friedrich Robak (SPÖ)
1997-2017: Klaus Mezgolits (SPÖ)
since 2017: Thomas Kittelmann (ÖVP)

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Thomas Kittelmann (ÖVP) and Deputy Mayor Gerhard Frasz (SPÖ), Maria Achleitner (ÖVP), Eva Grill (SPÖ), Evelyne Heise (SPÖ), Bernhard Ozlsberger (SPÖ) and Franz Niklesz (ÖVP) are also members of the community board.

coat of arms

The Steinbrunn coat of arms is divided in two diagonally. The upper left half shows white waves and the yellow sun on a red background. The waves represent the Steinbrunner See , the sun is supposed to indicate the warm climate of the community. The lower right half shows a red bunch of grapes on a yellow background and reminds us that many residents used to have a vineyard.

literature

Franz Probst , Fred Sinowatz : Stinkenbrunn village community center. Stinkenbrunn community, Stinkenbrunn 1958, OBV .
Festschrift 700 years Steinbrunn-Zillingtal. Steinbrunn-Zillingtal municipality (publisher), Steinbrunn-Zillingtal 1971, OBV .
Angelika Kern: 2.2 Steinbrunn, 2.2.1 History. In: Longobard-era settlement structures in Burgenland based on two case studies. Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2013. - Full text online (PDF; 23 MB) .

Web links

Commons : Steinbrunn, Burgenland - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 4th part: Municipalities - Burgenland - 142. Steinbrunn . In: Austrian official calendar online . Jusline Österreich GmbH (Verlag Österreich), Vienna 2002–, ZDB -ID 2126440-5 .

^ Friedrich August Steirer: 1.2 Historical development . In: -: Geological-geophysical investigations of the Steinbrunn sand pit and its surroundings (Northern Burgenland) . Master thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2014. - Full text online (PDF; 33 MB) .

↑ 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 February 15, 2019)

↑ Changes to the community from 1945 (associations, partitions, name and status changes). Statistics Austria, p. 167 , accessed on February 15, 2019 .

↑ Stinkenbrunn became Steinbrunn . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 6, 1959, p. 7 , bottom right ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). ;
Our greeting goes to Steinbrunn! . In: Burgenländische Freiheit , No. 2/1959, 10./11. January 1959, p. 3.

↑ Steinbrunn. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .

↑ 2nd Steinbrunn Triathlon. Retrieved on August 22, 2019 (German).

↑ Province of Burgenland: Steinbrunn 2017 election results (accessed on November 28, 2017)

↑ Province of Burgenland: Steinbrunn 2012 election results (accessed on November 28, 2017)

^ Province of Burgenland: Steinbrunn 2007 election results (accessed November 28, 2017)

↑ ^a ^b Province of Burgenland: Steinbrunn 2002 election results (accessed on November 28, 2017)

^ Province of Burgenland: Steinbrunn 2017 election results (accessed on November 27, 2017)

↑ ^a ^b SPÖ Steinbrunn: Constituent meeting of the municipal council (accessed on November 27, 2017)

↑ Steinbrunn parish: parish office (accessed on November 27, 2017)

^ Steinbrunn primary school: The Steinbrunn coat of arms (accessed on November 28, 2017)

[1] 4th part: Municipalities - Burgenland - 142. Steinbrunn . In: Austrian official calendar online . Jusline Österreich GmbH (Verlag Österreich), Vienna 2002–, ZDB -ID 2126440-5 .

[2] Friedrich August Steirer: 1.2 Historical development . In: -: Geological-geophysical investigations of the Steinbrunn sand pit and its surroundings (Northern Burgenland) . Master thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2014. - Full text online (PDF; 33 MB) .