Zillingtal

Zillingtal Celindof
coat of arms	Austria map
Basic data
Country:	Austria
State :	Burgenland
Political District :	Eisenstadt area
License plate :	EU
Surface:	13.09 km²
Coordinates :	47 ° 49 '  N , 16 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '53 "  N , 16 ° 24' 32"  E
Height :	231  m above sea level A.
Residents :	961 (January 1, 2020)
Population density :	73 inhabitants per km²
Postcodes :	7033, 7034, 7035
Area code :	02688
Community code :	1 03 22
Address of the municipal administration:	Landstrasse 3 7034 Zillingtal
Website:	www.zillingtal.eu
politics
Mayor :	Johann Fellinger ( SPÖ )
Municipal Council : ( 2017 ) (15 members)	8th 7th 8th 7th  A total of 15 seats SPÖ : 8 ÖVP : 7
Location of Zillingtal Celindof in the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district
Source: Municipal data from Statistics Austria

Zillingtal ( Croatian : Celindof ) is a municipality with 961 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) in Burgenland in the west of the Eisenstadt-Umgebung district in Austria . The Hungarian place name of the municipality is Völgyfalu . There are numerous members of the Burgenland-Croat minority in the village .

geography

The municipality is located in northern Burgenland on the Lower Austrian border. Zillingtal is the only place in the municipality. The Pöttschinger See-Area weekend house settlement is located in the municipality .

history

Zillingtal (center left) around 1873 (recording sheet of the state survey )

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 Zillingtal was in the province of Pannonia .

In Zillingtal there is an Avar burial ground from the 7th and 8th centuries, which was discovered in 1927.

The first written mention of the place dates back to the year 1271. In 1529 and 1683 Zillingtal was destroyed by the Turks. After that, Croatians settled.

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 Völgyfalu 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 ).

Population development

Culture and sights

Parish church Zillingtal

See also:  List of listed objects in Zillingtal

• Catholic parish church Zillingtal Hll. Peter and Paul: The 1659 built parish church is a building of Baroque with amenities from the rococo .
• A straw pyramid construction in 1999 (15,600 straw bales were manually piled up to form a pyramid with a 23 m by 23 m base and 14.6 m height) led to an entry in the Guinness Book of Records .

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2017

 %

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

53.15
(+2.60)

46.85
(+5.62)

n. k.
(-8.21)

SPÖ

ÖVP

LBL

2012



2017



Zillingtal 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	312	53.15	8th	320	50.55	8th	281	48.95	6th	303	57.82	8th	228	49.89	7th
ÖVP	275	46.85	7th	261	41.23	6th	250	43.55	6th	221	42.18	5	165	36.11	5
LBL	not running			52	8.21	1	not running			not running			not running
FBL	not running			not running			43	7.49	1	not running			not running
FPÖ	not running			not running			not running			not running			64	14.00	1
Eligible voters	800			796			721			694			561
voter turnout	78.00%			82.91%			83.22%			80.55%			88.77%

Parish council

In addition to Mayor Johann Fellinger (SPÖ) and Vice Mayor Karl Aibler (ÖVP), the executive councils Christoph Fellinger (SPÖ), Walter Horvath (SPÖ) and Karl-Heinz Zeinlinger (ÖVP) are also members of the community board.

mayor

Johann Fellinger (SPÖ) has been mayor since 1992. In the direct mayor election on October 1, 2017, he was confirmed in office with 54.01%. His competitor was Vice Mayor Karl Aibler (ÖVP) for the third time in a row, who achieved 45.99%. Aibler was re-elected Vice Mayor at the constituent meeting of the municipal council.

The chief officer is Eva Karacson.

coat of arms

The awarding of the municipal coat of arms took place on June 27, 1992. Blazon : “ In red a golden bird griffin, on whose flight a golden heart flower grows. "

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Kruesz (1879–1960), farmer and politician
• Johann Wildt I. (1913–1983), farmer and politician
• Johann Wildt II. (1937–1987), farmer and politician

Web links

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

• 10322 - Zillingtal. Community data, Statistics Austria .
• Private homepage about Zillingtal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 2017 municipal council elections in Zillingtal. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 29, 2017, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Results of the 2012 municipal council elections in Zillingtal. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, November 4, 2012, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Result of the 2007 municipal council election in Zillingtal. Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, October 21, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the 2002 municipal council elections in Zillingtal. Office of the Provincial Government of Burgenland, October 21, 2002, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} community Zillingtal: local councils (accessed on 21 December 2017)
6. ↑ Municipality of Zillingtal: Municipal Office (accessed on December 21, 2017)