Neusiedl am See

Neusiedl am See is a city in Burgenland, Austria, and place of job of the district of Neusiedl am See. Neusiedl am See is located on the northern shore of the Neusiedler See. The first point out of "Sumbotheil" dates lower back to 1209. In the mid-thirteenth century, the metropolis changed into destroyed by the Mongols, and by way of 1282 underneath the call "Niusidel" resettled. In 1517 Neusiedl received market rights. Neusiedl in 1683 changed into inside the wake of the second Turkish siege, and in 1708 the metropolis became devastated by means of the Kuruc. Neusiedl am See obtained a town charter in 1926, which had already been investigated in 1824.

The place was, just like the rest of Burgenland, with Hungary till 1920/21. After the cease of World War I, it turned into awarded after hard negotiations, German West Hungary in the Treaty of St. Germain and Trianon, Austria 1919. The place has belonged because 1921 to the newly founded State of Burgenland. The metropolis has produced few first-rate figures, one exception is the experimental guitarist and composer, Christian Fennesz, acknowledged for his swirling, spatial works and collaboration with Japenese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto.