Horitschon
- SPÖ: 11
- ÖVP: 9
- LBL: 1
Horitschon (Hungarian: Haracsony, Croatian: Haračun ) is a market town in Burgenland in the district Oberpullendorf in Austria.
- 3.1 Demographics
Geography
The municipality is located in Central Burgenland. Horitschon is, like its neighboring municipalities German Kreutz and Teasing market, in Blaufränkischland.
Community structure
The municipality comprises the two villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Horitschon ( 1417 )
- Unterpetersdorf ( 466 )
The municipality comprises the cadastral Horitschon and Unterpetersdorf.
History
Before Christ's birth, the area was part of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the area of the Celtic hillfort castle on the Schwarzenbacher Castle Hill.
Later, under the Romans was today Horitschon in the province of Pannonia.
The place was like the rest of Burgenland to 1920/21 to Hungary. The place belongs since 1921 to the newly founded State of Burgenland (see also history of Burgenland ). Market town is Horitschon since 1983 ( by VO 8). From 1993 to 2010, one of five Hungarian consulates of Austria was in Horitschon ( Honorary Consul KommRat Michael lyre ).
Population
Demographics
Policy
Mayor Peter Heger of the SPÖ. Vice - Mayor is still Emmerich Kohlmann of the ÖVP. Head of Office is Ilse Hutter.
The distribution of seats (21 seats) in the municipal council is SPÖ 11, ÖVP 9, LBL 1