Winches on the lake

Winden am See is a municipality in the district of Neusiedl am See in Burgenland in Austria with 1,326 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020). The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Sásony .

geography

The entire community area belongs to the Neusiedlersee - Leithagebirge nature park .

Community structure:

Winden am See is the only place in the municipality.

Neighboring municipalities:

history

Winden (bottom left) and the surrounding area around 1873 (recording sheet of the state survey )

First documentary mention on a document from 1217, issued by the then Hungarian King Andreas II . The king confirmed the donation of the place Leginthov ("Burschenteich"), the later Mönchhof , to the Abbey Heiligenkreuz and at the same time granted the other possessions of the Abbey, namely Königshof , Winden and Podersdorf , the exemption from all duties, taxes and payments the royal chamber. While Mönchhof was only in the founding phase, Winden must have already existed as an independent place.

The most important master of the Leithagebirge, Hofsteinmetz Elias Hügel , organized and directed the new construction of Catholic church buildings, which had become necessary due to the Turkish wars .

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 Sásony 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 ).

Parish Church of Winden am See

Wander Bertoni open-air museum

"Der Sonnenanbeter" (1963), am Kirchberg, work by Wander Bertoni

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church Winden am See : Baroque church, built in 1725 by the imperial stonemason and church builder Elias Hügel, after the old parish church was burned down by the Turkish invasion in 1683 . Two west towers . 1997/98 contemporary redesign of the people's altar and ambo by Wander Bertoni .
Wander Bertoni open-air museum: The open-air museum by the sculptor Wander Bertoni was integrated into the old Gritsch mill; approx. 480 objects are shown; Construction of a new exhibition pavilion by the architect Johannes Spalt .

Zeilerberg: The Zeilerberg with its dry grass provides the habitat for many butterfly species and other rare insects of the Pannonian climatic zone. The Zeilerberg is located approx. 3 km north of Winden am See.
Windener Kirchberg: the Kirchberg to the east of the village is home to a dry grassland with an occurrence of the very rare sand lotus .
Bärenhöhle : At the foot of the Zeilerberg are the entrances to the bear cave, in which the Great Mouse Ears , Austria's largest bat species, has its shelter. Skeletons of cave bears and other extinct mammal species have been discovered in the cave . The cave has been a listed building since February 4, 1929 .
The sun worshiper, made by Wander Bertoni, on Kirchberg is the largest sculpture in the community and was erected in 1963.

traffic

Street:

Burgenland Straße (B 50): Winden am See is on the B 50.

Train:

The place is connected to the Eastern Railway with the Pannoniabahn .

politics

Municipal Council:

The municipal council has a total of 19 seats.

With the municipal council elections in Burgenland 2007 , the municipal council had the following distribution: 14 SPÖ and 5 ÖVP.
With the municipal elections in Burgenland in 2012 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 15 SPÖ and 4 ÖVP.
With the municipal council elections in Burgenland 2017 , the municipal council has the following distribution: 10 SPÖ, 7 ÖVP, 1 Greens and 1 FPÖ.

Mayor:

since 1997 Erwin Preiner (SPÖ)

Personalities

Sons and daughters:

Gregor Nagl (1740–1793), master weaver, became the first “non-stonemason” local judge in Kaisersteinbruch in 1778
August Ernst (1924–2013), Head of Department XII / 2 at the Burgenland Provincial Government Office, thus director of the Provincial Archives and the Provincial Library
Erwin Preiner (* 1962), secondary school teacher, Austrian politician (SPÖ), employee of the President of the Austrian Federal Council, since July 2009 its President regularly until December 2009

People related to the community:

Wander Bertoni (1925–2019), sculptor, lived in Winden am See since 1965

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. 464/465.
800 years of winds on the lake. 1217-2017. Editor and publisher of the municipality of Winden am See, 425 pages.

Individual evidence

^ Archive of Heiligenkreuz Abbey: The Windener Parish Memorial Book, 1726 ... "the honorable and artistic Mr. Elias Hügel" . In: Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch , No. 16, March 1992, pp. 10-12, ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .
^ Election result of the 2007 municipal council election in Winden am See. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 21, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2020 .
↑ Results of the 2012 municipal council elections in Winden am See. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, November 4, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2020 .
↑ Election result of the 2017 municipal council election in Winden am See. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 29, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020 .
↑ URL: https://regiowiki.at/index.php?title=Gregor_Nagl&oldid=157981
↑ Roland Widder: In memory of WHR Dr. August Ernst (February 20, 1924 - September 3, 2013). In: Burgenland homeland sheets . Volume 75, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 205–207, PDF on ZOBODAT

Web links

Commons : Winden am See - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Freilichtmuseum Winden - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Page Wander Bertoni
Side of the community
10723 - winches on the lake. Community data, Statistics Austria .
Federal Geological Institute: Kaisersteinbruch (Winden)

[1] Archive of Heiligenkreuz Abbey: The Windener Parish Memorial Book, 1726 ... "the honorable and artistic Mr. Elias Hügel" . In: Mitteilungen des Museums- und Kulturverein Kaisersteinbruch , No. 16, March 1992, pp. 10-12, ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 .

[BgldGrw2007_10723-2] Election result of the 2007 municipal council election in Winden am See. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 21, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2020 .

[BgldGrw2012_10723-3] Results of the 2012 municipal council elections in Winden am See. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, November 4, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2020 .

[BgldGrw2017_10723-4] Election result of the 2017 municipal council election in Winden am See. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 29, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020 .

[5] URL: https://regiowiki.at/index.php?title=Gregor_Nagl&oldid=157981

[6] Roland Widder: In memory of WHR Dr. August Ernst (February 20, 1924 - September 3, 2013). In: Burgenland homeland sheets . Volume 75, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 205–207, PDF on ZOBODAT