Oberpullendorf

Oberpullendorf is a town in Burgenland, Austria. It is the administrative center of the district of Oberpullendorf.GeographyOberpullendorf is a municipality in the middle of the Burgenland. It consists of two united communities: Mitterpullendorf and Oberpullendorf, and is also the capital of the same called administrative district of Oberpullendorf.It is surrounded by the communities of Stoob to the north, Großwarasdorf to the east, Frankenau-Unterpullendorf to the south, and Steinberg-Dörfl to the west.The Stooberbach crosses the municipality from north-west to the south-east.HistoryThe district of Oberpullendorf has been populated since the Neolithic age. During the early Iron age the district was a flourishing iron industrial area.Josef Polatschek, a gardener and regional researcher, mapped several ancient iron extraction sites in the district.Oberpullendorf was firstly documented in 1225 as a Hungarian frontier guard settlement.Traditionally Oberpullendorf was the seat of several noble families, among them the Counts Cseszneky de Milvány and the Barons Rohonczy de Felsőpulya.In 1853 Oberpullendorf became the location of a Hungarian revenue authority.After the demise of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, the German-speaking inhabitants of Deutsch-Westungarn ("German Western Hungary", later Burgenland) - Oberpullendorf being part of it - intended to join the "new" state of Austria. Back then, Oberpullendorf was part of Sopron County, Hungary. The decision about Deutsch-Westungarn was fixed in the peace treaties of Saint Germain and Trianon. Despite diplomatic efforts by Hungary, the victorious parties of World War I set the date of Burgenland's official unification with Austria as August 28, 1921. (Also see: Burgenland)