!!!Großpetersdorf

Grosspetersdorf, Burgenland, municipality in the district of Oberwart, 
alt. 311 m, pop. 3,614, area 31.36km%%sup 2/%, industrial town on 
the Tauchenbach stream, close to the border to Hungary. - Residential 
home for the disabled, Vocational Training Institute, training 
establishment for metalworkers of the non-profit society "Jugend am 
Werk" ("Youth at Work"), Protestant youth welfare centre, refugee 
information centre. Production sector predominant (approx. 77 % 
of people employed, 1991): electrical engineering industry (cables for 
motor vehicles, searchlights), dental products, concrete works. Parish 
church (rebuilt 1849-1850 after large-scale fire), interior modelled 
in Baroque style; frescoes (1949); Protestant Church (1820-1823).

!Literature
G. Reingrabner, 1273 - 1823 - 1973 Grosspetersdorf, 1973.


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