Klingenbach

• SPÖ: 12
• ÖVP: 7

Klingenbachstrasse (Croatian: Klimpuh, Hungarian: Kelénpatak ) is a mixed -language community with 1172 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Burgenland in the district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung in Austria. A border crossing to Hungary is named after Klingenbachstrasse.

• 4.1 Coat of Arms

• 7.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

The municipality is located in northern Burgenland, near the state capital of Eisenstadt. Klingenbachstrasse is the only place in the community.

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 today Klingenbachstrasse then lay in the province of Pannonia.

Due to a Steinbeilfundes is believed that the municipality has been inhabited since at the time 5500-4300 years BC. Furthermore, a woman's grave Early La Tène was located in the local area (around 350 BC), in which two bronze bracelets, a ring finger and adding vessels were.

In Roman times there was there the villa rustica, a Roman estate, and Roman tumuli, as the settlement was located directly on the Roman road from Scarbantia ( Sopron ) and Vindobona (Vienna). Part of this road is still considered Hotterweg between Klingenbachstrasse and Zagersdorf.

The first documentary mention of the place as " possessio wlgariter Chlingenpach " dates from the year 1276. The instrument is reported on the surrender of the goods Klingenbachstrasse and accessories to the Abbey Marienberg Abbey, whose gift is also 1277 recorded in writing.

In the 14th century the town had several owners. 1416/17 reached the village, " Chlingendorf " called, under the sovereignty of the nearby city of Sopron. 1510 adopted the King of Hungary Ladislaus II of the city of Sopron and the associated city villages, including Klingenbachstrasse, all taxes and contributions for a period of two years so that the fortifications of the city expanded and can be repaired.

After the place was raided and plundered already in 1523 by marauding knights of the castle inland lake, it was destroyed in 1529 during the first Turkish siege of Vienna, but populated by Burgenland Croats again and rebuilt.

From 1848 until the dissolution of the manorial system in 1886 Klingenbachstrasse belonged to the District Department (later chair a judge ) and control district of Eisenstadt within the county of Sopron. On October 1, 1895 Klingenbachstrasse was together with the villages Baumgarten, maid of the village, shadow village, Victory Village and several other communities to a state Matrikelbezirk (strain District ), located in the shadow village, chair Mattersburg summarized. From 1886 to 1921 it belonged then to the chair district of Sopron.

Klingenbachstrasse belonged, like the rest of Burgenland until 1920/21 Hungary ( German West Hungary). Since 1898, had to be used because of Magyarization the government in Budapest the Hungarian name Kelénpatak.

After the end of World War II German West Hungary was awarded in the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon in 1919 Austria after tough negotiations. The place belongs since 1921 to the newly founded State of Burgenland (see also history of Burgenland ). On July 1, 1923 Klingenbachstrasse was released from the shadow Matrikelbezirk village and formed with the neighboring community Zagersdorf own Matrikelbezirk which existed until 31 December 1970. From 1945 to 1955, the city was part of the Soviet zone of occupied Austria.

On 1 January 1971 Zagersdorf was separated from the management unit with Klingenbachstrasse and combined with victory village to a new political community, with the independence of the community Klingenbachstrasse persisted and was for years dominated by the role of through-traffic and border town to the border crossing Klingenbachstrasse / Sopron. 1995 was built to the border crossing to relieve the community residents a bypass road south-east of the extended motorway.

Population

Demographics

According to the 2001 census Klingenbachstrasse has 1,189 inhabitants, of which 73.1 % of the Burgenland- Croat minority profess (in addition give 9.3% of Croatian as a colloquial language ). The share of German-speaking ethnic group is 13.4 %.

The majority of the inhabitants of Klingenbachstrasse ( 89.2 % ) is committed to the Roman Catholic Church; to the Orthodox Church and Islam profess 2.5% each.

Policy

The mayor is John Frank of the SPÖ. Office manager is Edward Eisner.

The distribution of seats (19 seats) in the municipal council is SPÖ 12, ÖVP 7 mandates.

Coat of arms

Blazon: A golden sword in the red box.

Economy

In the village is the hot well Ges.mbH trading company, a subsidiary of Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, established.

Culture and sights

The first documentary in 1276 called parish church was rebuilt after its destruction by the Turks in the 17th century. From 1975 to 1976, a new building of the parish church of St. James, where the existing tower was left. A statue of Mary was created in 1730.

The stone cross with Pietà ( 1770 ) was set up in 1810 in the new cemetery. The cemetery cross comes from the cemetery of the abandoned Pauline monastery Wandorf, today Sopronbánfalva.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

( The following personalities were born in Klingenbachstrasse. The listing is in chronological order by year of birth. Whether they had their future spheres in Klingenbachstrasse or not is irrelevant )

• Simon Knéfacz (1752-1819), writer
• Hannah Storm (1891-1984), political activist, and resistance fighter