Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, until 1928 Deutsch-Altenburg ( hu, Németóvár) is a market town and

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in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria in Austria.

Geography

The town lies in the Lower Austrian Industrieviertel region, on the right riverbank of the Danube River and the Danube-Auen National Park, south-west of Hainburg an der Donau and Devín Gate. On 8 August 2013 it recorded 40.5C which is the highest temperature ever recorded in Austria. The health resort is centered on

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and

sulfur Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...

springs, which are one of the most powerful in Central Europe.

Climate

Bad Deustch-Altenburg in the transitional zone between having an

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and a humid continental climate (''Cfb'' bordering on ''Dfb'' according to the Köppen climate classification). On 8 August 2013, a temperature of was recorded, which is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Austria.

History

The settlement in the

Duchy of Austria The Duchy of Austria (german: Herzogtum Österreich) was a medieval principality of the Holy Roman Empire, established in 1156 by the ''Privilegium Minus'', when the Margraviate of Austria (''Ostarrîchi'') was detached from Bavaria and elevated ...

, located around a medieval castle at the site of the former Roman camp of '' Carnuntum'', was first mentioned in 1297 and received market rights in 1579. The prefix ''Deutsch-'' was added to differ it from nearby

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(Óvár) in Hungary. From 1916/17 it was the site of a large longwave and

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radio transmitter station, which was dismantled in the 1980s. In March 1945 numerous Jewish forced labourers were deported on a death march from the

South-east wall The South-east wall (German: ''Südostwall'') (also known as Reichsschutzstellung) was a system of fortifications planned by Nazi Germany in the late stages of World War II to extend along the Little Carpathians and Lake Neusiedl southwards to the ...

to Bad Deutsch-Altenburg where they had to embark up the Danube to Mauthausen concentration camp. A memorial stone marks the site of a mass grave, where exhausted prisoners shot by the security forces were buried.Eleonore Lappin: Die Todesmärsche ungarischer Juden durch Österreich im Frühjahr 1945. Institut für Geschichte der Juden in Österreich, 2008.

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (''Gemeinderat'') as of 2010 elections: *

Social Democratic Party of Austria The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ...

(SPÖ): 7 *

Austrian People's Party The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria. Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is currentl ...

(ÖVP): 5 *Team Altenburg( Independent): 5 *Wir Altenburger (Independent): 1 * Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 1

Notable people

Carl Hollitzer Carl Leopold Hollitzer (born in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Lower Austria; died in Rekawinkel, Lower Austria, Austria) was an Austrian caricaturist, singer and cabaret artist. Biography Hollitzer was born and raised in Deutsch-Altenburg. His f ...

(1874—1942), caricaturist, singer and cabaret artist * Blessed Anton Durcovici (1888—1951), Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Iaşi * Hannes Swoboda (born 1946), politician

References

Cities and towns in Bruck an der Leitha District Spa towns in Austria Holocaust locations in Austria Populated places on the Danube {{LowerAustria-geo-stub