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Country
  
Austria

District
  
Bruck an der Leitha

Area code
  
02165

Population
  
1,629 (1 Jan 2016)

Postal code
  
2405

State
  
Lower Austria

Time zone
  
CET (UTC+1)

Elevation
  
148 m

Local time
  
Tuesday 12:11 AM

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Website
  
www.baddeutsch-altenburg.at

Weather
  
7°C, Wind SE at 18 km/h, 63% Humidity

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Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (Hungarian: Németóvár) is a market town and spa in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria in Austria.

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Map of 2405 Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, 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 iodine and sulfur springs, which are one of the most powerful in Central Europe.

History

The settlement in the Duchy of Austria, 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 Altenburg (Óvár) in Hungary. From 1916/17 it was the site of a large longwave and high frequency 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 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.

Politics

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

  • Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 7
  • Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 5
  • Team Altenburg(Independent): 5
  • Wir Altenburger (Independent): 1
  • Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 1
  • Notable people

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

    Bad Deutsch-Altenburg Wikipedia