!!!Pinkafeld

Pinkafeld, Burgenland, town in the district of Oberwart, alt. 
399 m, pop. 5,010, area 27.43 km%%sup 2/%, in the upper 
Pinka Valley, near the Styrian border. - Turba barracks, outpatient 
clinic, convent of the Sisters of Mercy (with nursing home), 
Protestant old people's home, sports centre, SOS children's village, 
upper secondary school of engineering, vocational school of commerce 
and social work, vocational school, Fachhochschule, district heating 
plant, transformer station, power plant (in Gfangen); 2,462 employees 
(1991); metal-working industry with zinc coating shop, manufacture of 
synthetic and building materials, building contractors; trade, around 
150 businesses; fruit growing in the environs. - Documented mention of 
settlement in 860, given market town rights in 1397, chartered in 
1937. - Catholic parish church (1773/74); Protestant parish church 
(consecrated in 1785); Chapel of St. Joseph (around 1730); column 
dedicated to the Virgin Mary (before 1757); old town hall 
(17%%sup th/%  century, today museum) with pillory; former 
Batthyány Palace (17%%sup th/%  century, rebuilt in 1949-1952, 
today vocational school); southwest of Pinkafeld, Calvary Chapel 
(1748). Noric-Pannonian tumuli in the vicinity.

!Literature
J. K. Homma and H. Prickler, Pinkafeld, 1960; idem 
and J. Seedoch, Geschichte der Stadt Pinkafeld, 1987; 
Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch, vol. II, Burgenland, 1970; F. 
Kugler, Geschichte der Stadt Pinkafeld mit Beruecksichtigung der 
roemisch-katholischen Pfarre, 1974; G. Reingrabner, Evangelisch in 
Pinkafeld, 1983.


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