Harka

Harka ( German: Harkau, Croatian: Horka ) is a town in Győr- Moson -Sopron county in north-west Hungary. The town is near the Austrian border, 4 km from Sopron.

Location

Harka is about 4 km south of Sopron directly at the Austrian- Hungarian border. After Haschendorf in the south and Unterpetersdorf in the southeast is approximately 3 km. 5 km away to the northeast to find the southern shore of Lake Neusiedl.

History

The first documentary mention is harka on 17 June 1245 a donation of the Hungarian king Bela IV, in which he gave the Good Bujuslow ( German Kreutz ) to Marcellus de Pagha and Sebretus de Szamtou while as Gemarkungsgrenze among other things, a "villa harka " called.

In the 1921 referendum in Burgenland voted good 90 % of the population for a membership to Austria, but the place remained as part of the Sopron area in Hungary.