!!!Oberwart

Oberwart, Burgenland, town in the district of Oberwart, alt. 
315 m, pop. 6,319, area 36.47 km%%sup 2/%, regional centre 
of commerce, education and trade in Pinkatal valley, in the southern 
part of Burgenland; in 1991 a 37 % minority (2,335 inhabitants) 
of the population were of Protestant origin; in 1991 about 25 %, 
1,598 inhabitants of Hungarian origin; Romany settlement on the 
outskirts of the town. District Commission, district court, office of 
the provincial department of water management, district office of 
planning and building inspection, district office of the Chamber of 
Agriculture, employment services, revenue office, Office of Weights, 
Measures and Surveying; Sporckkaserne barracks of the Federal Armed 
Forces, hospital, Chamber of Commerce, southern Austrian branch of the 
Institute for Economic Development of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, 
Chamber of Labour, Vocational Training Institute (BFI), Vocational 
Guidance Centre, regional health insurance office, adult education 
centre, community centre "Offenes Haus Oberwart", probation service, 
counselling centres, sports facility, waterworks, various school types 
such as selective secondary schools (Bundesgymnasium and 
Bundesrealgymnasium, bilingual education), commercial academy, 
advanced-level commercial school and school of fashion and 
dress-making, federal training institute for nursery-school teachers, 
School of Nursing, agricultural college, ballet school, Burgenland 
Messe (annually 4 public fairs and 2 technical trade fairs); service 
industry (71 % of 5,452 in the workforce in 1991, especially 
personal, social and public services, e.g. hospital, Burgenlaendische 
Elektrizitaetswerke AG provincial electrical power company (BEWAG), 
trade); textile and steel construction industries, building trade. 
Agriculture (in the area surrounding Oberwart), livestock auction 
facility (second-largest auction of Simmenthal cattle in Austria). - 
Founded as a settlement of Hungarian border guards, first documented 
mention in 1327, town status since 1939. Catholic parish church with 
parish centre (1967-1969); former Catholic parish church with 
Romanesque core; Protestant parish churches: Lutheran (1812-1815), 
Calvinist (1771-1773); local types of farmhouses such as Streckhof and 
Hakenhof with arcades.

!Literature
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch vol. II, Burgenland, 
1970; A. Schmeller-Kitt, Die Kunstdenkmaeler des Bez. Oberwart, 1974; 
Stadtgemeinde Oberwart (ed.), Die Obere Wart, 1977; Kirsner and 
Peternell, Der Bezirk Oberwart im Wandel der Zeit, 1996.


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