Oberschützen
- ÖVP: 13
- SPÖ: 6
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- GREEN: 1
Oberschützen is a municipality with 2403 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) in Burgenland in the district Oberwart in Austria.
The Hungarian name of the village is Felsőlövő.
- 3.1 Demographics
Geography
The municipality is located in southern Burgenland.
Community structure
The municipality comprises the following five villages (in brackets population as of 31 October 2011):
- Aschau im Burgenland (385)
- Oberschützen ( 1045)
- Schmiedrait (134 )
- Unterschützen (472 )
- Willersdorf ( 357)
The municipality comprises the cadastral Aschau, Oberschützen, Schmiedrait, Unterschützen and Willersdorf.
The place Oberschützen is nestled between two hills.
History
The place was like the rest of Burgenland to 1920/21 the Kingdom of Hungary, the western, German-speaking part was awarded by the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon of the Republic of Austria.
At the time of the Hungarian border management system Gyepű Oberschützen was a settlement -free, Hungarian archers. These were driven by participation in the uprising in 1271 in the near Güssing and there settled German colonists. From 1392 successful purchase and connection to the house of Bernstein by the Kanizsay to the ransoming of the rule in 1840 was Protect upper part of this. In the span of the Excorporation from Hungary in 1447 to reincorporation in 1647 it was with the entire rest of the rule part of Lower Austria.
In the years 1822-1827 the band of robbers Stradafüßler terrorized the border region for Styria and Lower Austria. The present Burgenland was used by the gang to be a retreat, and especially the former forest inn in the Sistine Chapel as well as the now defunct forest inn in the Wartenau at Unterschützen were often haunt of Stradafüßler. Their leader, the infamous lumberjack Seppl, maintained a love affair with Anna Weber, the owner of the forest inn in the Wartenau. According to legend, the gang on March 12, 1827 arrested from alarmed soldiers there and brought to Pinkafeld, which historians doubt this specific date.
Since 1898, was officially permitted - because of Standardization of geographical names - only the Hungarian name Felsőlövő be used.
In 1971 the municipalities Aschau im Burgenland, Schmiedrait, Unterschützen and Willersdorf were merged with Oberschützen.
Population
Demographics
Policy
Mayor is Günter Toth of the ÖVP.
The distribution of seats (23 seats) in the municipal council is ÖVP 13, 6 SPÖ, FPÖ 0, Green 1 and FPO three mandates.
Culture and sights
Since the summer of 2005, the railway line between the upper Wart and Oberschützen, a side branch of the Pinkatalbahn, again passable for trains. A non-profit association ( FROWOS Friends of the railway line Oberwart - Oberschützen ) has revitalized the track and operates stroll motor sailing Handcars. Also worth seeing is the Au in the villages Willers gorge. There is also an interesting museum ( house of folk culture ) in the village, and there is also a relatively new campsite on the outskirts, surrounded by a small forest.
2003, the House of Folk Culture was built, which now houses three clubs. Owner of the house is the Burgenland Hianzische Society ( Hianzenverein, founded in 1996 ), rented are further from Burgenland Volksliedwerk and the Museum Association Oberschützen. The house is a competence center for the Burgenland folk culture and currently still looking for a fourth partner.
A memorial of historical importance is the connection memorial, which was erected in 1939 to mark the connection of Austria to the German Reich in 1938. It is a memorial to the great approval in the vote on the annexation of Austria to the German Reich. It was the largest monument of its kind in Austria. The temple-like establishment is one of the few surviving monuments of the period of National Socialism in Austria and still creates debate and controversy. 1997 because a Bedenk and memorial plaque was affixed.
In October 2010, the first Jenő Takács - Piano Competition in Oberschützen was held, attended by young pianists from Austria, Hungary, Germany, Israel, Serbia and Latvia.
Education
Oberschützen currently houses an exceptional for its size, number of educational institutions. Available are a kindergarten, an elementary school, a sports school, two high schools and an institute of the University of Arts in Graz.
1814 started the construction of a Protestant elementary school. Soon after, the Oberschützen experienced through the work of the pastor Gottlieb August Wimmer, which the community owes the foundation of its high schools, a significant upswing.
When, after the end of the First World War came the former German West Hungary as a new province of Burgenland to Austria, the Evangelical College of Education were ( LBA) (now Evang. RG, and ORG ), and the Evang. RG today BG / BRG / BORG Oberschützen the only high schools of the recent federal state. 1938 both schools were nationalized during the connection and continue to operate as public schools until 1945. In 1946, the former Evang. RG reopened as Bundesrealgymnasium and the boarding school as Bundeskonvikt. The former teacher training college initially remained closed and only began in 1958 as a Protestant Teachers College Oberschützen again to operate on.
A further enrich the educational offer learned the school location Oberschützen 1965 by the establishment of a Expositur the Graz Academy of Music ( now Institute Oberschützen Graz University of Arts ). The Expositur was first provisionally housed in various buildings until finally in 1982, the cultural and university center was completed and there was found a home in a part of the cultural center. In 1966 Oberschützen got a secondary school; the new main school building with gymnasium was completed in 1972.
Personalities
- Knabel Wilhelm (1884-1972), Hungary German writer, teacher and publicist
- Tobias Portschy (1905-1996), lawyer and Nazi politician
- Reinhold cushion (1922-2009), politician and president of the Chamber of Agriculture
- Ernst Short ( born 1935 ), politician
- Herwig Brunner ( b. 1942 ), former Professor of Biochemistry in Stuttgart
- Tony Wegas (born 1965 ), singer and musician
- Markus Kern ( born 1974 ), music teacher, composer and musician