Strem

  • ÖVP: 11
  • SPÖ: 4

Strem is a market town in the district of Güssing in Burgenland in Austria. The Hungarian name of the village is Strem.

  • 3.1 Demographics

Geography

The municipality is located in southern Burgenland. The place Strem lies in a wide valley of Strembaches.

Community structure

The municipality comprises the following four localities ( in parentheses population as of 31 October 2011):

  • German Ehrensdorf (150 )
  • Steinfurt (128 )
  • Strem ( 598)
  • Sumetendorf (55)

The municipality comprises the cadastral German Ehrensdorf, Steinfurt, Strem and Sumetendorf.

History

On the Ried lock bolt are still remains of a medieval moated castle present, which probably went down in 1300. The town was elevated in 1647 to the market.

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 Strem. 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 Strem since 1997.

Population

Demographics

Policy

Mayor Bernhard is German by the ÖVP.

The distribution of seats (15 seats) in the municipal council is 4 SPÖ, ÖVP 11, FPÖ 0, Green 0 0 lists and other mandates.

Culture and sights

  • Catholic Parish Church of St.. Anthony of Padua, in the center
  • Antoni Chapel, on the road to Urbersdorf
  • Joseph Chapel
  • Sacred Heart Chapel
  • Wayside chapel

Economy and infrastructure

In 2003, the "eco- energy Strem " was founded, which currently supplies around 100 buildings in the town Strem with district heating. As an expansion in 2005, the Biogas Strem was operating and construction Gmbh. & Co. KG was founded. In this exclusively renewable raw materials for the production of electricity and heat are used for the first time in Austria. From the nursery of approximately 300 ha of agricultural land 500 kW of electrical power and 600 kW are recovered thermal energy from grass, clover, corn and sunflower. This corresponds approximately to the supply of 1,200 households with electricity and 90 households with heat.

2009 Strem was awarded the climate community in the category " community of less than 1,500 inhabitants ."

Personalities

  • Joseph Schatz (1920-1999), politician ( ÖVP) and farmer
  • Gottfried Schatz (* 1936), biochemist
  • Dorothea Schittenhelm (* 1954), politician
  • Kurt Garger ( b. 1960 ), football player and coach
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