Raiding is a small 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...

n market town

Market town

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 in the District of Oberpullendorf

Oberpullendorf (district)

Bezirk Oberpullendorf 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 Hungarian or Croatian names are...

, Burgenland

Burgenland

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. It is the birthplace of Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

.

Geography

The municipality lies on Raiding Creek in Middle Burgenland; Raiding is the only borough in the municipality.

History

Raiding was first documented in 1425 as Dobornya.

Like the rest of Burgenland, Raiding belonged to Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

 from c. 1000 to 1920/21. After the end of the First World War, Western Hungary was given to Austria with the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement signed in 1920, at the end of World War I, between the Allies of World War I and Hungary . The treaty greatly redefined and reduced Hungary's borders. From its borders before World War I, it lost 72% of its territory, which was reduced from to...

; there it formed the new province of Burgenland.

In 1971, Raiding was merged with Unterfrauenhaid

Unterfrauenhaid

Unterfrauenhaid is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in Burgenland in Austria....

 and Lackendorf

Lackendorf

Lackendorf is a town in the district of Oberpullendorf in Burgenland in Austria....

 into a larger municipality, which was later dissolved. Raiding has been a market town since 1990.

Politics

The municipal council has 15 seats with party mandates as follows: SPÖ 9, ÖVP 6, FPÖ

FPO

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Business and infrastructure

Viticulture

Viticulture

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 is the main business in Raiding. Other industries there include metal construction and soda water production.

People

• Paul Iby, Bishop of Eisenstadt
• Adam Liszt
  Adam Liszt
  Ádám Liszt - was a Hungarian musician and father of composer and pianist Franz Liszt.He was born in Nemesvölgy, Kingdom of Hungary as the second child of György Liszt and Barbara Slezák...
  
   ∞ Anna Liszt
  Anna Liszt
  Anna Liszt was the mother of Franz Liszt....
  
  
  • Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
    
    , composer and musician