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| Coordinates:47°44′17″N16°23′49″E / 47.73806°N 16.39694°E /47.73806; 16.39694 | |
| Country | Austria |
| State | Burgenland |
| District | Mattersburg |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ingrid Salamon (SPÖ) |
| Area | |
• Total | 28.2 km2 (10.9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 258 m (846 ft) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[2] | |
• Total | 7,349 |
| • Density | 260/km2 (670/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 7210 |
| Area code | 0 26 26 |
| Vehicle registration | MA |
| Website | www.mattersburg.gv.at |
Mattersburg (German pronunciation:[ˈmatɐsˌbʊʁk]ⓘ; formerlyMattersdorf,Hungarian:Nagymarton,Croatian:Matrštof) is a town inBurgenland,Austria. It is the administrative center of the District ofMattersburg and was home to formerBundesliga football team,SV Mattersburg.
Mattersburg lies in the northern part of Burgenland, east ofWiener Neustadt in theWulka River Valley, in a rural region of the country.
Mattersburg is reachable by road using theBurgenland Highway S31 fromEisenstadt andOberpullendorf or theMattersburg Highway S4 from Wiener Neustadt.
Mattersburg is connected by rail with Wiener Neustadt andSopron by theMattersburg Railway.
Mattersburg's two boroughs are Mattersburg and Walbersdorf.
The site of Mattersburg was already populated in antiquity based on excavations ofRoman andLongobard graveyards.The town was first mentioned in writing asVilla Martini in 1202, when it was a property of theNagymartoni family ofAragonese origin. Its Hungarian name (Nagymarton) also refers to the church consecrated toMartin of Tours. Originally the German name wasMattersdorf and it was renamed toMattersburg in 1924.Matter originated fromMartin and also refers to St. Martin of Tours, whileDorf means "village" andBurg means "castle".
The area's original fortress had already been torn down by 1294. Mattersburg was elevated to the status of amarket town in 1354. The town was destroyed by fire in the year 1774 and again in 1856. The area's wealth increased when the railway began running from Wiener Neustadt to Mattersburg in 1847. During the 19th century, the town was the site of a ceramics factory founded by János Ziegler in 1815 or 1818, producing yellow coloured wares following the style ofViennaporcelain.
The town was one of the BurgenlandSiebengemeinden. The first Jews to settle in the town arrived in the 16th century, having been expelled fromSopron, and their presence in the town increased greatly over the following years. In 1671, the Jews were forced to abandon the town by the order ofLeopold I. They were allowed to return to Mattersdorf, as it was then called, in 1678, although they were forced to buy back their own possessions. The self-governing Jewish community was merged with the rest of the town in 1902/03.
As with the rest of Burgenland, Mattersburg belonged to theKingdom of Hungary until 1920 and it was the seat of the Nagymarton district inSopron county. In late 1918, Mattersburg locals rebelled against Hungarian rule to create the short-livedRepublic of Heinzenland aimed at unifying with Austria. After the end of the First World War, German West-Hungary was given to Austria in the Treaties ofSt. Germain andTrianon; there it formed the new province of Burgenland. Mattersburg kept the official name of Mattersdorf until June 14, 1924; on July 2, 1926, it received town privileges. In 1978, Mattersburg incorporated the village of Walbersdorf.
After theAnschluss in February 1938, the Jewish population of Mattersburg was expelled and dispossessed, so that already in the autumn of 1938, there were no more Jews in Mattersburg. In the course of the war, more than two hundred of the town's residents were missing or killed. Approximately one hundred of its Jewish residents were murdered in theHolocaust.
The Mayor of Mattersburg is Ingrid Salamon of theSocial Democratic Party (SPÖ); there are two Vice-Mayors: the first is Klaus Leitgeb of theAustrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the second Josef Reisner of the SPÖ. The District Mayor of the Borough of Walbersdorf is Hubert Lang of the SPÖ and Johann Wallner is the Chief Officer.
Mattersburg's municipal council has 25 seats with party mandates as follows: 9 ÖVP, 14 SPÖ, 1Freedom Party (FPÖ), 1Grüne, other lists 0.
Mattersburg was home to the formerAustrian Bundesliga team,SV Mattersburg until its dissolution in 2020, and is the home of theSports table footballSubbuteo team, TFC Mattersburg.
One of the largest businesses in the area is the food company Felix Austria, who have their main headquarters in Mattersburg.
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