Bürmoos is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of

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History

Bürmoos was founded in 1967, making it the most recently created

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the state, by combining the outskirts of the neighbouring villages

Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg St. Georgen bei Salzburg ( Central Bavarian: ''Sonkt Georng bei Soizburg'') is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria. Personalities On July 19, 1997 the artist Gunter Demnig installed two Stolpers ...

and

Lamprechtshausen Lamprechtshausen (Central Bavarian: ‘’Låmbéhausen’’) is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg (state), Salzburg in Austria. Geography Lamprechtshausen lies in the north of the district of Salzburg-U ...

. At that time, the place had been inhabited for only one hundred years. Until the early 19th century the area had been a

bog A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and musk ...

without any settlements. During the industrialization in the second half of that century, notably by Ignaz Glaser, glass and brick industries were established using the vast reserves of

peat Peat is an accumulation of partially Decomposition, decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, Moorland, moors, or muskegs. ''Sphagnum'' moss, also called peat moss, is one of the most ...

as their fuel. The collapse of these industries after the

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made the area one of the poorest in the province and, in the wake of the

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, a place for the displaced from German speaking areas in Eastern Europe. Making it an independent municipality of its own in 1967, was accompanied by massive protests by its inhabitants. The impression was given of putting aside a social and political ghetto, in order to save the social and political equilibrium of the conservative villages of origin, Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg and Lamprechtshausen. In consequence the first local elections in Bürmoos brought a landslide victory for the

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of more than 85% of the vote. By the beginning of the 21st century, Bürmoos had become a popular dormitory town for the city of

with its own basic infra-structure and good public transport.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Burmoos Cities and towns in Salzburg-Umgebung District

History

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