Moson County
County Wiesel castle ( German also Wieselburger County; Moson Vármegye Hungarian, Slovak Mošonská župa / stolica or Mošonský county, Latin comitatus Mosoniensis ) was a historic administrative unit ( county / county) in the Kingdom of Hungary.
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Location
It was down to tiny exceptions south of the Danube around and west of the present city of Mosonmagyaróvár ( German Wiesel castle - Hungarian Altenburg ). It was in the west to about 1/3 in today's Burgenland in Austria, while the eastern 2/3 of the county spread over today's western Hungary and the northern part of the Slovakia.
The county bordered on the north by the county Pressburg ( Pozsony ), to the east by the county Raab (Győr ) in the south and southwest of the county of Sopron ( Sopron ) and to the west by the Austrian crown land of Lower Austria.
1910 had 94 479 inhabitants who lived on an area of 1,937 km ².
Administrative headquarters
Originally it was the seat of administration in Moson ( German Wiesel castle ), in the Middle Ages it was then shifted to the immediately adjacent Magyaróvár ( German -Hungarian Altenburg ). 1939 both towns were finally united to Mosonmagyaróvár.
History
County Wiesel castle was built as such the end of the 10th century as one of the first of the Kingdom of Hungary.
Small parts of the county north of the Danube ( small areas in the Danube wetlands, for example, northeast of Lipót ) were 1918/1919 part of Czechoslovakia in August 1919 also Petržalka Czechoslovakia was knocked down ( by the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 under international law, confirmed ). The western part came ( about half the area of the county ) to the Burgenland until 1921 officially created in Austria while the remaining eastern part remained in Hungary. In 1947 it came as a result of the Paris Peace Conference to renewed border adjustments in favor of the resurrected Czechoslovakia who got the places Jarovce, Čunovo and Rusovce awarded.
The Hungarian part of the county was formed after the First World War in 1923, together with the county Raab and a small part of the former county Pressburg the Győr- Moson- Pozsony. After the Second World War, the Győr- Moson- Pozsony was united in the wake of the great Komitatsreform 1950 with the Sopron County for Győr -Sopron. Finally, the Hungarian county was renamed in 1990 in Győr- Moson -Sopron.
The Czechoslovak and Slovak part in 1918 slammed the Komorner County (Slovak Komárňanská župa ), Petržalka However, in 1919 the Bratislava County (Slovak Bratislavská župa ). 1923 all the territories of the former Moson county were added to the Bratislava county then, which was dissolved in 1928. Today, the land in and around Petržalka belongs to the incorporations of Petržalka (1946 ) and the places Jarovce, Čunovo and Rusovce (1972 ) for the city of Bratislava and thus to the Bratislava Regional Association ( Bratislavský kraj ). The small parts in the Danube wetlands are part of the Trnava Region ( Trnavský kraj ).
County subdivision
In the early 20th century following chair districts passed ( usually after the name of the administrative headquarters named):
The place Neusiedl am See is located in Austria today.