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Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Oberwart
License plate :	OW
Surface:	44.36 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 21 '  N , 16 ° 12'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 20 '59 "  N , 16 ° 12' 30"  E
Height :	355  m above sea level A.
Residents :	2,444 (Jan 1, 2020)
Postcodes :	2852, 7400, 7431, 7432
Area code :	03353
Community code :	1 09 16
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptplatz 1 7432 Oberschützen
Website:	www.oberschuetzen.at
politics
Mayor :	Hans Unger ( ÖVP )
Municipal Council : (Election year: 2017 ) (23 members)	15th 5 2 1 15th 5 2 1  A total of 23 seats ÖVP : 15 SPÖ : 5 FPÖ : 2 GREEN : 1
Location of Oberschützen in the Oberwart district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Oberschützen is a municipality with 2,444 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the Oberwart district in Austria . The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Felsőlövő .

geography

The community is located in southern Burgenland. The village of Oberschützen is nestled between two hills.

Community structure

Burgenland side of the boundary stone that marks the triangle of three countries.

The municipal area comprises five cadastral communities and towns of the same name (area 2016, population as of January 1, 2020):

• Aschau in Burgenland (773.94 ha, 386 Ew.)
• Oberschützen (1,237.59 ha, 1123 Ew.)
• Schmiedrait (379.38 ha, 120 Ew.)
• Unterützen (1,346.84 ha, 462 Ew.)
• Willersdorf (701.01 ha, 353 Ew.)

Oberschützen, together with its Schmiedrait district, the Styrian municipality of Schäffern and the Lower Austrian municipality of Hochneukirchen-Gschaidt, form the tri-border region between Burgenland, Styria and Lower Austria.

German place name	Hungarian place name	Croatian place name	Place name in Romani
Aschau in Burgenland	Hamvasd	-	Hamvasd
Top riflemen	Felsőlövő	Gornje Šice	Uprutni Schica
Blacksmith	Határfő	-	-
Protect	Alsólövő	Dolnje Šice	Telutni Schica
Willersdorf	Villámos	-	-

Incorporations

On January 1, 1971, the communities of Aschau in Burgenland, Schmiedrait, Unterschützen and Willersdorf were merged with Oberschützen.

history

Like all of Burgenland, the place belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary until 1920/21 , the western, German-speaking part of which was assigned to the Republic of Austria according to the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon .

At the time of the Hungarian border protection system Gyepű Oberschützen was a settlement of free Hungarian archers. After taking part in the uprising in 1271, these were expelled near Güssing and German colonists settled there. From the 1392 purchase and connection to the Bernstein rule by the Kanizsay until the ransom in 1840, Oberschützen was part of this. In the period from the Excorporation from Hungary in 1447 to the Reincorporation in 1647, it was part of Lower Austria with the rest of the rule .

In the years 1822 to 1827 the band of robbers Stradafüßler terrorized the border area to Styria and Lower Austria. Today's Burgenland was used by the gang as a retreat and especially the former forest inn in the Sistine and the now defunct forest inn in Wartenau near Unterschützen were often meeting points for Stradafüßler . Their leader, the infamous Holzknechtseppl , had a love affair with Anna Weber, the owner of the Waldwirthaus in Wartenau. According to legend, the gang was arrested there by alerted soldiers on March 12, 1827 and taken to Pinkafeld , although historians doubt this specific date.

Since 1898 - due to the standardization of geographical names - only the Hungarian place name Felsőlövő could officially be used.

Population development

Culture and sights

Evangelical Parish Church Oberschützen

Connection monument Oberschützen

See also:  List of listed objects in Oberschützen

• Evangelical Parish Church Oberschützen
• Protestant Parish Church in Unterschützen
• Catholic branch church Oberschützen hl. Bartholomew
• Connection monument Oberschützen : The monument was erected in 1939 in memory of the connection of Austria (1938) to the Greater German Reich . It was the largest monument of its kind in what was then Ostmark . The temple-like complex is one of the few surviving monuments from the time of National Socialism in Austria and is still a source of discussion and controversy today. In 1997 a memorial and warning plaque was attached to it.
• Willersdorfer Gorge
• House of Folk Culture: The House of Folk Culture was built in 2003 and now houses three associations. The house is owned by the Burgenland-Hianzische Gesellschaft (Hianzenverein, founded in 1996), and the Burgenland Folk Song Works and the Oberschützen Museum Association are also rented. The house sees itself as a competence center for Burgenland folk culture.

Regular events

• In October 2010 the first Jenő Takács piano competition took place in Oberschützen, in which young pianists from Austria, Hungary, Germany, Israel, Serbia and Latvia participated.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The railway line between Oberwart and Oberschützen, a branch of the Pinkatalbahn , had been open to trains again since summer 2005 , after the Austrian Federal Railways had shut it down. A non-profit organization (FROWOS Friends of the railway line Oberwart Oberschützen) had revitalized the route and business trips with motor Handcars . After a bridge was damaged as a result of a traffic accident, the line was again shut down and dismantled.

education

Oberschützen, Protestant boarding school (around 1900)

Oberschützen currently houses an unusual number of educational institutions for its size. There is a kindergarten, a primary school, a sports secondary school, two grammar schools and an institute of the Graz University of Art .

In 1814 the construction of a Protestant elementary school began. Soon afterwards, the Oberschützen experienced a significant upswing through the work of Pastor Gottlieb August Wimmer , to whom the community owes the establishment of its secondary schools.

When, after the end of the First World War, the former German West Hungary came to Austria as the new federal state of Burgenland, the Evangelical Teacher Training Institute (LBA) (today Evang. RG and ORG) and the Evang. RG today BG / BRG / BORG Oberschützen are the only higher schools in the youngest federal state. In 1938, both schools were nationalized in the course of the Anschluss and continued as state schools until 1945. In 1946 the earlier Evang. RG reopened as a federal high school and the boarding school as a federal convict. The former teacher training institute initially remained closed and did not resume operations until 1958 as the Protestant teacher training institute in Oberschützen.

The school town of Oberschützen experienced a further enrichment of the educational offer in 1965 with the establishment of a branch of the Graz Music Academy (today the Oberschützen Institute of the Art University Graz). The branch office was temporarily housed in various buildings until the cultural and university center was finally completed in 1982 and a home was found there in part of the cultural center. In 1966 Oberschützen got a secondary school; the new main school building with a gym was completed in 1972.

politics

Municipal council

Municipal council elections

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ÖVP

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2017



Municipal office Oberschützen

The council comprises a total of 23 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.
ÖVP	1026	61.77	15th	837	51.96	13	824	49.91	12	726	43.14	10	596	40.13	9
SPÖ A1	372	22.40	5	417	25.88	6th	456	27.62	7th	455	27.04	6th	438	29.49	6th
FPÖ	144	8.67	2	not running			306	18.53	4th	399	23.71	6th	358	24.11	5
Green	119	7.16	1	109	6.77	1	65	3.94	0	103	6.12	1	not running
FPO A1	not running			248	15.39	3	not running			not running			not running
WP list Toth	not running			not running			not running			not running			93	6.26	1
Eligible voters	2184			2100			2059			2045			1963
voter turnout	81.59%			82.62%			83.78%			86.85%			84.82%

^A1 Started in 2017 as "SPÖ LU"

^A2 Freedom and party-free Oberschützen

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Hans Unger (ÖVP) and the two Vice Mayors Reinhard Jany (ÖVP) and Ingrid Ulreich (SPÖ), the executive councilors Claudia Arthofer (ÖVP), Wilfried Böhm (ÖVP), Gerlinde Kainz (ÖVP) and Ernst Karner (ÖVP) to the community council.

Wolfgang Spitzmüller (Greens) was elected to the environmental council.

The following were appointed as mayors: Reinhard Jany (ÖVP, for Unterschützen), Ernst Karner (ÖVP, for Willersdorf), Jürgen Kappel (ÖVP, for Schmiedrait) and Ingrid Ulreich (SPÖ, for Aschau).

mayor

Mayor is Hans Unger (ÖVP). After Günter Toth (ÖVP), who has headed the municipality since the direct election of the mayor on October 6, 2002, announced in September 2016 that he would step down as mayor, Hans Unger (ÖVP) was elected as his successor by the local council on October 20, 2016 . In the election on October 1, 2017, Unger was confirmed in office with 81.13% of the voters in the first ballot. He received 19.36 percentage points more votes than his ÖVP. Ingrid Ulreich (SPÖ) came to 15.18% and Wolfgang Spitzmüller (Greens) to 3.69%.

In the constituent meeting of the municipal council, Reinhard Jany (ÖVP) was elected first vice mayor and Ingrid Ulreich (SPÖ) was elected second vice mayor.

The head of the municipal office is Monika Schmidt.

coat of arms

After Oberschützen was one of the few municipalities that did not yet have its own municipal coat of arms, the municipal council took the unanimous decision in spring 2017 to create its own municipal coat of arms. The coat of arms should be a symbol that represents the place. The population was involved in the design and made numerous suggestions. All designs were given to a heraldist, who used them to create the coat of arms. The coat of arms stands for the inner solidarity and unity of the community. The colors blue and gold represent the important areas of education, culture and agriculture for Oberschützen. The coat of arms approved by the Burgenland provincial government was presented on June 11, 2017 during a ceremony by Provincial Councilor Astrid Eisenkopf and the two Landtag members Christian Drobits and Christian Sagartz .

Personalities

• Johann Neubauer (1880–1970), dialect poet
• Wilhelm Knabel (1884–1972), Hungarian-German writer, teacher and publicist
• Tobias Portschy (1905–1996), lawyer and National Socialist politician
• Reinhold Polster (1922–2009), politician (ÖVP) and President of the Chamber of Agriculture
• Ernst Kurz (* 1935), politician (ÖVP)
• Herwig Brunner (* 1942), former university professor for biochemistry in Stuttgart
• Reinhard Jany (* 1956), farmer and politician, member of the Federal Council
• Tony Wegas (* 1965), singer and musician
• Markus Kern (* 1974), music lecturer, composer and musician

literature

• Austrian art topography. Vol. XL. The art monuments of the political district of Oberwart. Vienna 1974. pp. 286-305.
• Wolfgang Krug: The burden of memory. NS monument cult using the example of Oberschützen. Edition Lex Liszt 12. ISBN 3-901757-07-4
• Harald Prickler : History of the Bernstein rule. Burgenland research 41. 1960.
• Ludwig Volker Toth: Evangelical churches in Burgenland. Visible - tangible. Salzburg (Edition Tandem) 2011, pp. 110–113.

Web links

Commons : Oberschützen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• 10916 - Oberschützen. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Oberschützen community: oberschützen.at , website of the community
• Museum Association Oberschützen
• "FROWOS" Friends of the Oberwart-Oberschützen railway line

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying, Regional Information, reference date December 31, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2017
2. ↑ Statistics Austria: Population on January 1st, 2020 by locality (area status on January 1st, 2020) , ( CSV )
3. ↑ [Statistics Austria: dissolutions or associations of municipalities from 1945 http://www.statistik.at/web_de/static/gemeindeaenderungen_ab_1945_vereinigungen_teilungen_namens-_u._statusaende_054994.pdf ]
4. ^ Johann Anton Laschober: From the life of a robber captain from Edlitz - our home community , Edlitz 1992, publisher Marktgemeinde Edlitz
5. ↑ Christoph Tepperberg: Der Holzknechtseppl from Festschrift 680 Years Market Community Riedlingsdorf , Riedlingsdorf 2011, publisher market community Riedlingsdorf
6. ^ First Jenő Takács piano competition . ORF Burgenland, accessed on November 7, 2010.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Province of Burgenland: Oberschützen 2017 election results (accessed on January 12, 2018)
8. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Oberschützen 2012 election results (accessed on January 12, 2018)
9. ↑ Province of Burgenland: Oberschützen 2007 election results (accessed on January 12, 2018)
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Province of Burgenland: Oberschützen election results 2002 (accessed on January 12, 2018)
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Municipality of Oberschützen: Municipal Council (accessed on January 12, 2018)
12. ↑ Municipality of Oberschützen: Municipal council meeting of November 24, 2017 (PDF document; accessed on January 12, 2018)
13. ↑ mein district.at from September 19, 2016: change of mayor in Oberschützen (accessed on January 12, 2018)
14. ↑ mein district.at of October 21, 2016: Oberschützen: Hans Unger elected as new mayor (accessed on January 12, 2018)
15. ↑ Municipality of Oberschützen: Our employees and their areas of responsibility (accessed on January 12, 2018)
16. ↑ mein district.at from June 15, 2017: Oberschützen municipality received its own coat of arms (accessed on January 12, 2018)
17. ↑ Dr. Kerekes: Hungarian-German poet portraits: Wilhelm Knabel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Werischwarer Zeitung Online , December 7, 2009, accessed July 26, 2010