Fertőrákos

Fertőrákos [ fɛrtø ː ra ː koʃ ] ( German: Kroisbach, Croatian: Krojspuh ) is a Hungarian town in Győr- Moson -Sopron with 2,182 inhabitants ( 2001). It is located on Lake Neusiedl ( ungar Fertő -tó ) about 10 km northeast of Sopron ( German Sopron ), directly on the border with Austria. The church is now part of the Austro-Hungarian UNESCO World Heritage " Fertő / Neusiedler Lake " or the National Park Fertő Hansag.

A licensed only for cyclists infrastructure (part of the Neusiedler See Cycle Route ) connects Fertőrákos with the adjacent north Austrian town of Mörbisch; from there you can be driven to the border by car, border control do not take place since 2008. Right on the Hungarian side of the border is on track this so-called Mithrasgrotte in which a pre-1900 again aufgefundenes Mithrasrelief from the Roman period Pannonia is seen. Fertőrákos further has a port facility as well as a seaside resort, which was therefore not generally available previously reserved for the communist cadres and until 1989.

The village was first mentioned in 1199 with the name Racus. In 1457 it was first referred to in German as Krewspach, later as Kroisbach and belonged since the High Middle Ages to the closed German-language area of western Hungary ( Hungarian 1880 census: 90.9 % German, VN 1920: 96.6 %, FT 1930: 96%).

Fertőrákos ( Kroisbach ) was one of the eight surrounding communities of Sopron, the largely decided by the popular vote in 1921 in Burgenland for connection to Austria, Kroisbach remained over 60%, due to the overall outcome of the vote yet in Hungary. 1945/46, the majority of the German population was expelled to Austria and Germany. An Austrian estimate from 1970 was based on 10% of German citizens.

In the Cave Theatre of Fertőrákos and in Sopron takes place every year the Wagner- Liszt Festival.

Kroisbach and environment at that time dry Lake Neusiedl (center left ) (Recording Journal of the land survey )