Jennersdorf is a district capital in southern Burgenland. The town of Jennersdorf also includes the towns of Henndorf, Grieselstein and Rax; as well as parts of the scattered settlements Laritzgraben and Rax-Bergen.
Jennersdorf Parish Church. Built 1780-1800 in the Baroque style with
a neo-Gothic carved altar from 1904
Marienkapelle Grieselstein
Stoagupf (Steinberg von Grieselstein). A volcanic cone with
archaeological finds: ceramic fragments from the Neolithic and remains
of a fortification from the 13th-14th centuries. century
Roman burial
mounds (Rax). The burial complex from the 1st and 2nd centuries is one
of the largest in Burgenland. The burial mounds can be reached via a
circular hiking trail.
Francis Wayside Shrine (Rax)
oleander
village. In 2014, 500 oleander plants were planted in 167 troughs along
Raxer Hauptstrasse.
In the city there is an outdoor swimming pool, a skate park, a soccer
field. Judo courses are held in the gym of the elementary school. The
neighboring municipality of Loipersdorf is home to one of the largest
thermal baths in Austria. The thermal bath has already grown over the
state border to Henndorf with numerous wellness hotels and swimming
pools.
Hiking club Rax-Bergen: Regular hiking days and guided
hikes on request. Two permanent circular hiking trails are maintained by
this association:
Around Rax-Bergen (10 km)
City tour
Jennersdorf (10 km)
Both circular hiking trails can be combined to
form a 20 km loop.
Ex works sale of Vossen terry goods
Several local suppliers in the
city, including Eurospar, Billa and Penny.
By plane
Nearest airports with scheduled services in Graz
(approx. 80 km), Maribor (approx. 80 km) and Zagreb (approx. 150
km).
By train
Jennersdorf is located on the Styrian
Eastern Railway and is a stop for regional and long-distance trains
that run between Graz and Hungary. There are direct connections
among others with Graz, Gleisdorf, Feldbach, Szentgotthárd, Körmend
and Szombathely. The train station is located 200 m south of the
city center.
By road
Former Federal road B57
Oberwart-Güssing-Heiligenkreuz-Eltendorf-Jennersdorf-Fehring-Feldbach
Former Federal road B58 Jennersdorf-Bonisdorf-Slovenia
From Graz
or Vienna: Autobahn A2, exit 138 Ilz-Fürstenfeld, continue on the
319 to Fürstenfeld, then on the state roads via Loipersdorf and
Grieselstein.
From Hungary: trunk road F8 to the border, in
Heiligenkreuz turn left onto the L116.
By boat
The Raab is
accessible by canoe and paddle boat.
By bicycle
Jennersdorf is connected to the Raabtal cycle path.
Driving school and Taxi Gölles
Circular walks: S. Activities
Hotel Restaurant Raffel
Burgenlandhof
Cafe Joy
Pizzeria
Palermo
Zur Alten Press, Henndorf.
Gasthaus Zotter, Grieselstein.
Gasthof Brückner, Henndorf Therme.
Carnival parade. With differently designed tractor trailers (takes
place annually).
Cultural Center Jennersdorf
Hotel Restaurant Raffel
Campsite, by the outdoor pool.
Henndorf thermal baths
Functionally attributable to the Loipersdorf
thermal baths, but in the municipality of Jennersdorf:
Life Resort
Loipersdorf
The Roman stone
Maier's Active and Relax Hotel
Family Hotel Krainz
Villa Colorful
Henndorfer Hof
Pension
Hiczy. Feature: pension.
Maier's cozy hotel
Pension Buczek.
Feature: pension.
Maria-Theresienhof
Thermenhof
The first documentary mention as Janafalu took place in 1187 in a
bull by Pope Urban III. The name is derived from the Slovenian
"Ženavci", which can best be translated as "Frauendorf". Since there
was no “zs” (which corresponds to the Slovenian ž today) in
Hungarian, the sound was replaced by “gy” and the ending “-vci”
(“-dorf”) was replaced by the Hungarian “-falu” ("-Village").
The place was owned by the Szentgotthárd Monastery until 1848.
The place belonged, like the whole of Burgenland, to Hungary
(German-West Hungary) until 1920/21. From 1898 the Hungarian toponym
Gyanafalva had to be used due to the Hungarian government's policy
of Hungarianization.
After the end of the First World War,
after tough negotiations, German-West Hungary was awarded to Austria
in the Treaties of St. Germain and Trianon in 1919. The place has
belonged to the newly founded federal state of Burgenland since 1921
(see also the history of Burgenland).
In the last months of
the Second World War, Jennersdorf formed the V / 7-Jennersdorf
subsection of the southeast wall due to its geographical location.
In addition to the local population, Hungarian Jews who were housed
in various objects in the village itself and in the district of
Grieselstein were also used for its construction. Following the
outbreak of disease, there were several massacres that killed an
unknown number of slave laborers. After the war, the victims were
rescued by a Red Army commission and, in the 1960s, by Simon
Wiesenthal. After the failure of the Balaton offensive of the German
Wehrmacht, the Red Army occupied Jennersdorf, with violent fighting
in the area around the place.
Jennersdorf has been a district
suburb since 1921 and was elevated to a town in 1977. The city motto
is: "Jennersdorf, the city by the thermal baths."
The decrease in the number of inhabitants in the last two decades is due to a strongly negative birth rate. If this balance was already negative from 1991 to 2001 (−137), it was offset by the migration balance of +320. In the following decade from 2001 to 2011, there were 222 more deaths than births. This could no longer be offset by a migration balance of +183.
Jennersdorf, which is the seat of the dean, is a Catholic community. Over time, however, more and more believers from the surrounding evangelical communities (Neuhaus, Eltendorf, Deutsch-Kaltenbrunn) moved in, so that their share has meanwhile increased. Muslims and orthodox Christians have also immigrated, and numerous believers have since left.
Outdoor pool
skate park
Football field
Raabtal cycle paths
Canoeing: on the Raab
Judo: In the gym of VS Jennersdorf
Regular
events
A carnival parade with differently designed tractor trailers
takes place in Jennersdorf every year.
Jennersdorf station is on the Styrian Eastern Railway (Graz Hbf - Sankt Gotthard/Szentgotthárd), which as the Hungarian Western Railway continues via Steinamanger/Szombathely to Győr/Raab. With the trains of the Raaberbahn RÖEE/GySEV, connections are available from Sankt Gotthard/Szentgotthárd via Steinamanger/Szombathely and Ödenburg/Sopron to and from Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof and Wien Meidling.
There are companies in the textile industry (Vossen Frottierwaren),
food wholesalers, leather processing (Boxmark), optoelectronics
(Tridonic, Lumitech and Lexedis), the building materials trade (hagebau
Niederer), the production of precast concrete parts (prestressed
concrete plant Jennersdorf) and the technology center Jennersdorf. Horn
manufactory, which specializes in the development and construction of
high-quality speaker systems, is also based in Jennersdorf.
Lumitech was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from Graz University of
Technology in St. Martin an der Raab in the Jennersdorf district and
moved to the then new Jennersdorf Technology Center in 2001. Lumitech
has been researching the development of LED light sources, since 2006
imitating the daylight spectrum with LEDs. Other companies in the
LED/optoelectronics sector have settled around Lumitech with 45
employees. A total of around 200 employees work here in this sector. (As
of March 2018.) In March 2018, Lumitech managed to sell a license
agreement for the application of PI-LED technology with the major
manufacturer Phillips.
Tridonic, a subsidiary of Zumtobel, was closed
in 2019. Lumitech took over two production lines and some employees.
District Authority
district police command
Chamber of Labour
Chamber of Commerce
customs office
Disabled Day Home
youth
Center
kindergarten
Special School – Special Education Center (SPZ)
Elementary schools in Grieselstein, Henndorf and Jennersdorf
Secondary school with attached polytechnic school
Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium and Bundeshandelsschule Jennersdorf
The municipal council has 25 members according to the number of
inhabitants and will be composed as follows after the municipal council
elections in 2022:
YES 14 mandates
ÖVP 5 mandates,
SPÖ 4
mandates,
FPÖ 2 mandate3
In the 2017 local council elections,
the ÖVP lost five seats and held ten seats. The SPÖ fell from five to
two mandates. The Greens also had to give up three mandates and held one
instead of four mandates. The big winner of the election was the new
Jennersdorf Citizens' List (JES), which immediately secured seven
mandates. The FPÖ, which now holds five mandates instead of one, was
also able to grow enormously.
In the 2022 election, JES won a
further seven mandates, the SPÖ also won and now has four instead of two
mandates. The losers were the ÖVP (minus five mandates), FPÖ (two
instead of five mandates) and the Greens, who lost their mandate. MFG
did not manage to get into the municipal council.
The mayor of the municipality since November 10, 2017 has been
Reinhard Deutsch (JES), who prevailed in the run-off election on
November 29 with 53.23% against Bernhard Hirczy (ÖVP), who achieved
46.77%. Hirczy only succeeded Wilhelm Thomas, who had been mayor for 24
years, on January 13, 2017.
In addition to Mayor Reinhard Deutsch
(JES) and Deputy Mayors Gabriele Lechner (ÖVP) and Josef Feitl (JES),
City Councilors Oliver Deutsch (ÖVP), Michael Janosch (ÖVP), Franz
Müller (ÖVP) and Franz Schenk (FPÖ) are also on the City Executive.
The city office is managed by Roswitha Feitl.
1932-1937 Georg Fiedler
1945-1954 Georg Fiedler (ÖVP)
1967-1992
Anton Brueckler
1992-2016 Wilhelm Thomas (ÖVP)
January 13, 2017 –
November 10, 2017: Bernhard Hirczy (ÖVP)
since November 10, 2017
Reinhard Deutsch (JES)
Blazon:
In a shield divided by a slanting left golden wavy bar of
red and green, a golden cross in red and a three-sided golden pyramid in
green.
The cross comes from the coat of arms of the monastery of
St. Gotthard in Hungary, to whose rule Jennersdorf belonged for more
than seven centuries. The three-sided pyramid symbolizes the border
triangle Austria - Hungary - Slovenia. The wavy bar is a symbol of the
Raab River, which flows through the city.
Sons and daughters of the community
Karl Posch (1897–1970),
administrative lawyer and state office director
Georg Fiedler
(1898–1983), Austrian politician (ÖVP) and farmer
Karl Lukits
(1921–1994), German politician (CDU)
Richard Rezar (1922–2000),
Austrian politician (FPÖ) and businessman
Erich Wonder (born 1944),
Austrian stage designer
Wilhelm Thomas (born 1948), Member of
Parliament, Mayor
Gerfried Proell (born 1966), Austrian television
presenter
Petra Wagner (born 1968), Austrian politician (FPÖ)
Reinhard Poglitsch (* 1968), Austrian politician (FPÖ) and authorized
signatory
Herwig Karl (born 1972), Austrian soccer player
Bernhard
Hirczy (* 1982), Member of the Federal Council (ÖVP)
Felix Luckmann
(?), Austrian politician (NSDAP)
Honorary citizen
1977: Rudolf
Grohotolsky, Governor a. D
1993: Anton Brückler, Mayor (1967 to 1992)
2000: Alois Luisser, parish priest
2007: Josef Csencsits