Stegersbach

• SPÖ: 14
• ÖVP: 9

Steger Bach is a market town in the district of Güssing in Burgenland in Austria. The Hungarian name of the village is Szentelek, the Croatian Santalek.

• 4.1 Town twinning

Geography

The municipality is located in southern Burgenland in Stremtal. Steger Bach is the only place in the community.

History

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 Szentelek. 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 ). Market town is Stegersbach since 1583 ( by Rudolf II in 1391, again in 1583 awarded ).

As in many other places in Burgenland Croatian colonists were also in Steger Bach in the 16th century settled ( Croatian Steger Bach), where the proportions of the German and Croats - as in the places Antau ( Otava ), Kittsee ( Gijeca ) and Sigleß ( Cikleš ) - always in the past held in the balance. Since the end of the 19th century, the proportion of Croats takes but steadily, so that today only - if at all - very few residents can be counted to the ethnic group of the Burgenland Croats (percentage of Croats in the total population - 1880: 37%, 1910: 30, 2%, 1934 11%, 1971: 1.7%, 2001: 0.8%).

Population

Demographics

Policy

Acting Mayor Heinz Peter Krammer of the SPÖ.

Current distribution of seats ( 23 seats ) of the municipal council: SPÖ 14, ÖVP 9

Twinning

Northampton (Pennsylvania)

Culture and sights

• Spiral Church Steger Bach: the staircase-shaped building was built in the early 1970s
• Fort Steger Bach: built by the Count Batthyány in 1636 in the Renaissance style

Sport and Leisure

• Sports Stadium: Built in 2006, home of the football club SV Stegersbach and inline skaters hockey association " Tigers" Stegersbach
• Stegersbach: 1998 designed by Gottfried Kumpf ( Kumpf Therme ), rebuilt in 2004, sold in 2008 to the Tyrolean hotelier Karl Reiter, new name " Reiter Family Spa "
• Golf swing Steger Bach: largest 45 -hole golf course in Austria
• During the 2008 European Football Championship in Stegersbach the national team of Austria was housed.
• Venue of the inline skaters Hockey Championship in October 2008 and in September 2011

Economy and infrastructure

Since 2004, the new Stegersbach has opened with health and beauty treatments and a sauna. After an extension of the spa it was acquired in 2008 by Karl J. Reiter and now operates as a rider family Stegersbach.

Many shops in the town center revive the tourism community. In the village there is a commercial academy with additional training golf.

In Steger Bach is a Catholic parish, which belonged to the deanery of the Diocese of Eisenstadt Güssing. The relatively few Lutheran Christians of the village are served by the parish Kukmirn the Evangelical Church A. B. in Burgenland; there is a Protestant church in Steger Bach monthly.

Personalities

• Franz Krammer (1890-1975), chief official and politician ( SPÖ)
• Johann Wagner (1897-1979), politician ( ÖVP), Governor of Burgenland
• Eduard Gager, politician ( NSDAP)
• Karl Popofsich, politician ( NSDAP)
• Holper Wilhelm (1929-1983), chamber office director and politician ( SPÖ); He attended elementary school in Stegersbach
• Eduard Sauerzopf (1930-2011), draftsman
• Johann Wolf (1931-2006; † in Steger Bach), politician ( ÖVP)
• Walter fabics (* 1931), politician, lived from 1932 in Steger Bach
• Rudolf Jusits ​​(1948-2005), actor and director
• Edit Floppy (* 1950), a social scientist
• Kurt René Plisnier, musician (keyboards), member of the rock band "Opus " ( worldwide hit, " Live is life" )