Neusiedl am See is a town in Burgenland

Burgenland

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, and administrative center of the district of Neusiedl am See

Neusiedl am See (district)

Bezirk Neusiedl am See is a district of the state ofBurgenland in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.Where appropriate, the Croatian names are given in...

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Neusiedl am See is located on the northern shore of the Neusiedler See

Neusiedler See

Lake Neusiedl is the second largest steppe lake in Central Europe, straddling the Austrian–Hungarian border. The lake covers 315 km², of which 240 km² is on the Austrian side and 75 km² on the Hungarian side. The lake's drainage basin has an area of about 1,120 km²...

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History

The first mention of "Sumbotheil" (English: "Saturday market") dates back to 1209. In the mid-13th century, the town was destroyed by the Mongols

Mongols

Mongols ) are a Central-East Asian ethnic group that lives mainly in the countries of Mongolia, China, and Russia. In China, ethnic Mongols can be found mainly in the central north region of China such as Inner Mongolia...

, and by 1282 under the name "Niusidel" resettled. In 1517 Neusiedl received market rights. Neusiedl in 1683 was in the wake of the second Turkish siege, and in 1708 the town was devastated by the Kuruc

Kuruc

The kuruc was a term used to denote the armed anti-Habsburg rebels in Royal Hungary between 1671 and 1711....

. Neusiedl am See received a city charter in 1926, which had already been investigated in 1824.

The place was, like the rest of Burgenland

Burgenland

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...

, with Hungary until 1920/21 (German West Hungary). After the end of World War II, it was awarded after tough negotiations, German West Hungary in the Treaty of St. Germain and Trianon, Austria 1919. The place has belonged since 1921 to the newly founded State of Burgenland (see also history of Burgenland).

See also

• Ostautobahn
  Ostautobahn
  The Ost Autobahn A4 or "Eastern Motorway" is part of the Europastraße E60 and goes from Vienna to the town of Nickelsdorf, on the Hungarian border....
  
  
• Moson County
• List of concentration and internment camps
• Flying Dutchman (dinghy)
  Flying Dutchman (dinghy)
  thumbthumbThe Flying Dutchman is a 20-foot one-design high-performance two-person monohull racing dinghy. Developed in the early 1950s, its large sail area per unit weight allow it to plane easily when sailing upwind. The boat utilizes a trapeze harness for the crew and hiking straps for the...
  
  

External links

• Official website (German) with 3 lifecams, one of them an inhabited stork's nest (checked 2008-06-01)
• Aerial photograph, view towards N
• similar, higher resolution (app. 2.5 MB)

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