Deutsch Jahrndorf

Deutsch Jahrndorf
Deutsch Jahrndorf
Country	Austria
State	Burgenland
District	Neusiedl am See
Mayor	Reinhold Reif (ÖVP)
Area	27.4 km2 (11 sq mi)
Population	608 (1 January 2011)
- Density	22 /km2 (57 /sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal code	2423

Deutsch Jahrndorf (Hungarian: Németjárfalu, Német-Járfalu) is a municipality in the district of Neusiedl am See, in the Austrian state of Burgenland. It is within a few kilometres of the borders with both Hungary and Slovakia. Deutsch Jahrndorf is the easternmost municipality of Austria, at 17 degrees eastern longitude, and the easternmost commune of the German Sprachraum.

History

With Burgenland, the former Hungarian village passed to the Republic of Austria after World War I. During the Cold War, or from shortly after World War II until the Revolutions of 1989, Deutsch Jahrndorf was the easternmost community in Central Europe with a Western market economy. It lies farther to the east than all of the former East Germany and is farther east than parts of Poland and parts of what were then Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, all of which were communist countries behind the "Iron Curtain".[1]

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2007 elections:

• Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 6
• Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 5
• Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 2

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Austria

Twin towns — Sister cities

Deutsch Jahrndorf is twinned with:

• Hamuliakovo, Slovakia
• Rajka, Hungary

See also

• Jarovce