Rust (Burgenland)
- SPÖ: 10
- ÖVP: 6
- FPO: 3
The town of Rust (Hungarian Ruszt, Croatian rusta ) is a statutory town in Burgenland in Austria.
Rust is with only 1918 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013 ) is the smallest administrative district and the smallest chartered town in Austria. Rust is mainly known as a city of the storks and the wine community. Rust belongs since 1921 to the Austrian Burgenland and its town rights since 1681, when it was elevated to the Royal Hungarian Freistadt.
- 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
Geography
Location
Community structure
Rust ( 20.01 km ²)
Rust ( St)
The most important of the abbreviations used are:
- M = center of the municipality
- Stt = district
- R = Rotte
- W = hamlet
- D = village
- ZH = Scattered houses
- Sdlg = settlement
- E = bowery (only if they have their own town code)
The complete list that uses the Statistics Austria, can be found at Topographic settlement Labelling according to STAT
Please note that some places may have different spellings. So Katastralgemeinden write differently than the same localities.
Source: Statistics Austria -
Neighboring communities
History
In pre-Christian times, the area was part of the Celtic kingdom of Noricum and belonged to the surroundings of the Celtic hillfort castle on the Schwarzenbacher Castle Hill.
Later, under the Romans, today's Rust then lay in the province of Pannonia.
Rust is first mentioned in 1317 as Ceel ( ungar Szil " elm, elm " ) in a deed of the Hungarian king Charles Robert of Anjou - Naples for his henchman Desiderius Hedevary as possessio Ceel vocatum about Stagnum Ferthew. Thus, either the German place name Rust is a translation from the former Hungarian place names Szil or this original Hungarian form conversely a translation from German dar. Today's Hungarian name Ruszt was later taken phonetically from German Rust.
Around 1470 Rust was granted market rights and since 1524 the Rust have the granted by Queen Mary of Hungary right, a crowned "R" to brand as a trademark in their barrels. This "R" is still used as a quality mark in cork brand of bottled wines. In 1649 Rust is ransomed from the Herrschaftsuntertänigkeit, the city paid for 60,000 gold florins and 500 buckets best wine to the Habsburgs: almost 30,000 liters Rust outbreak of the Furmint. On December 3, 1681 Rust received by Emperor Leopold I. the title of a free royal city ( Reichstag in Sopron ).
Rust, the Kingdom of Hungary until 1921 and since then belonging to the Republic of Austria, exercises its self-government by its own municipal law. Since Rust was already before connecting the Burgenland to Austria Freistadt, it was after 1921 Statutory and since then has been represents the smallest administrative district in Austria
Attractions
- Old Town: The entire area of picturesque old town of Rust is a listed building today. The numerous houses from the 16th and 19th centuries have maintained Renaissance, Baroque or historicist facades with beautiful windows and Portalrahmungen, bay windows, coat of arms and stucco decorations.
- Fishermen's Church: the oldest and art-historically important building in the city. Remarkable are the frescoes of the 12th century, which were rediscovered in the 19th century, but exposed only in the 20th century in several sections and renovated. The small church is now a museum and is used for cultural purposes. Find your special because acoustic annually during the summer months concerts in this particular church instead.
- Wine Academy: Since 1989, the first German Wine Academy in the world established in the dating from the 17th century Seehof.
Regular events
Rust is since 1999 the venue of the International Guitar Festival Rust, which became one of the most important guitar festivals in Europe, and is dedicated to the British composer John W. Duarte ( 1919-2004 ). It was founded by Venezuelan guitarist Gabriel Guillén, which together with Jovan Pesec is responsible for the artistic direction. Numerous renowned guitarist from Austria and abroad give master classes and concerts. Furthermore, there is an international guitar competition and instruments and Note exhibitions.
Twinning
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
- Erich Karassowitsch (* 1944), wine and politicians
- Ludwig Schandl (1908-1969), wine makers and politicians
- Harald Weiss, politician and mayor of the city
- János Wohlmuth (1642-1724), Austrian organist and composer
Others
1918 consisted of ( unrealized heart) plan, from the station of Raab Oedenburg - Ebenfurter Railway in Sopron ( Sopron ) to build a lake on Mörbisch leading to Rust standard gauge railway.
The town of Rust is the venue and the original location of the television series " The Winzerkönig ".