Burmoos

Burmoos is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung within the kingdom of Salzburg in Austria. Burmoos became founded in 1967, making it the maximum currently created municipality in the nation, by using combining the outskirts of the neighbouring villages Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg and Lamprechtshausen. At that time, the location had been inhabited for only a hundred years. Until the early 19th century the location were a bog with none settlements. During the industrialization inside the 2nd third of that century, substantially via Ignaz Glaser, glass and brick industries have been hooked up the use of the widespread reserves of peat as their gas.

The fall apart of those industries after the First World War made the vicinity one of the poorest inside the province and, in the wake of the Second World War, an area for the displaced from German talking areas in Eastern Europe. Making it an unbiased municipality of its very own in 1967, changed into accompanied by way of massive protests by means of its population.