Königsdorf, Austria
- ÖVP: 6
- SPÖ: 5
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King Village (Hungarian: Királyfalva ) is a municipality with 724 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in the south Burgenland in the district Jenner village in Austria.
- 6.1 Economics
- 6.2 School
Geography
King Village is the only place in the community and is divided into Koenigsdorf place and queens village mountain.
History
Barrow- in Kögelwald and excavations in the years 1922/25 discovered found objects ( urns, pots, rings and a 12 cm high statuette of Jupiter ) suggesting an early settlement of this area.
The foundation document for the Güssinger Benedictine from the 1157 refers to the inhabitants of the Lafnitz valley as " Theotonici " ( German ), and a document of King Andrew III. from 1291, called the border area in Styria "terra hospitum ", which means " the land of the guests". These "guests " were German. King village was under the power of the counts of Güssing and 1327 was a royal estate. Was passed in the award document of King Sigismund for Peter Cheh de Leva, with the same Güssinger the province in 1428, the place name of King Village ( Kyralfalwa ) was first mentioned in 1428. Whether it is a royal possession or a royal foundation, is not explored. In the Catholic Pfarrmatrik is recorded that the name comes from a chapel which was built in honor of King Stephen.
Baron Franz von Batthyány (1590-1625) was in Boczkaykrieg on the side of the Austrians. Therefore, consisting of Hajdú troops Boczkays devastated in 1605 his domains, including royal village. At the time of King Kuruzzenkriege village was destroyed in August 1704 because of the fierce Hungarian incursions Styrian people, like many other towns of the Batthyány.
The place was like the rest of Burgenland to 1920/21 Hungary ( German West Hungary). Since 1898, had to be used because of Magyarization the government in Budapest the Hungarian name Királyfalva. From 31 August to November 1, 1921 King the village was occupied by Hungarian irregulars, who were embroiled in disputes with the quartered in Gillersdorf Austrian gendarmes. From 13 to 30 November 1921 these took possession of the area and Koenigsdorf finally belonged to Austria.
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 ).
Population
Demographics
Policy
Mayor is Dieter Wirth of the ÖVP. Head Office is Silvia Thor contactor. The distribution of seats (13 seats) in the municipal council is 5 SPÖ, ÖVP 6, other lists 2 mandates. Country's political attention reached the town in 2005 with a against the will of the majority faction brought into existence citizen survey on S 7 In this case, approximately 80 % were against the construction of the expressway.
Culture and sights
The parish church of St. Stephen was built in 1757-59 in place of a wooden church. Count Ludwig Batthyány donated the building site and the cemetery space. In 1757, the cemetery at the church was built.
In the village there is also the king Lafnitzauen pastures with rare fauna and flora.
Economy and infrastructure
Economy
The community had about the year 1900 from the sale of timber and the proceeds of the meadows as many receipts that no municipality levy had to be lifted.
In King, the first village south Burgenland brewpub in 1995 with the mountain Bräu Löffler founded. Brewed be the hefetrüben varieties "Bright Marches " and " Dark Special". Following economic turmoil the mountain Bräu had meanwhile close its doors, but was re-opened in August 2007 with the help of former owner as Bierheuriger. Other important economic factors are, inter alia, the filling station fuel king on the European road 66 with an adjacent guest house and dining establishments around the Jaindl family (Traverse, GH Roman settlement ). As a flagship project for the future economic orientation of the congregation shall be the natural lake, in whose environment is slowly developing a semi-natural eco-tourism. The merger with the neighboring communities rowing village, Elten village and Heiligenkreuz in the water world Koenigsdorf Ges.mbH including the gravel mining company is further expanding force.
As a basically rural community Koenigsdorf is still too heavily dominated by agriculture, the development since Austria's accession to the EU of the small-scale structures in the direction of a few large farmers goes.
School
In 1860, under the teacher Franz Scherzer, who worked 60 years in King village, built Catholic schoolhouse. 1870 a second class was built. The Catholic children from Elten village attended the elementary school in King village. The Protestant children of King village went into Elten village in the elementary school. 1867 the first Protestant teachers ( Josef Mattes, a native Königendorfer ) was chosen. He taught the children in the house No. 72 in the years 1869/70, the evangelical school house was built. In 1943, the house No. 142 was purchased in the mountains of the municipality from the evangelical pastor Augustin. The house was demolished. In its place, a school house should be built for the children Bergler. The plans for this were already present. However, since the required number of children for five consecutive years was not available, the school building was not realized.
Personalities
- Matthias Duld (1864-1940), farmer and politician, 1918-1921 Mayor of Koenigsdorf
- Josef Trinkl (1895-1970), politician, 1945-1951 Mayor of Koenigsdorf