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Zillingtal
Zillingtal is a community with 925 inhabitants (status 1st of January 2016) in the Burgenland in the West of the district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung in Austria. The hungarian name of the community is Völgyfalu. In the place (the croatian name is Celindof) live a lot of members of the burgenland-croatian minority.

Geography
The community is to be located in the north of the Burgenland at the lower austrian border.

History
Before Christ the region was part of the Noreian kingdom and belonged to a Celtic hill-top settlement at the Schwarzenbacher castle hill.



In the Roman period today's Zillingtal lay in the province Pannonia. In Zillingtal exists an Awarian buring place from the 7th and 8th Century which had been detected in 1927. The first documented mention of the place is dated on 1271. 1521 and 1683 it had been destroyed by the turks. Then Croates began to settle there.

The place belonged as well as the whole Burgenland until 1920/21 to Ungary. Since 1898 Zillingtal had to be called Völgyfalu due to the politicians in Budapest. After the end of the first World War the German-Westhungary region was ascribed to Austria in the contracts of Saint Germain and Trianon 1919 after tough negotiations.The place belongs since 1921 to the new founded federal state Burgenland.

Population
Evolution of the population

Politics
Mayor is Johann Fellinger of SPÖ, deputy mayor Karl Aibliger of ÖVP. Chief officer is Eva Karacson.

Coat of Arms
Blazon: in red a golden griffon and out of his wings grows a golden flower in the form of a heart.

The bestowal of the emblem took place on the 27th of July 1992.

Culture

 * Parish church of Zillingtal: built 1659, a building in baroque style but with a rococo interieur.
 * Awarian bury place: It had been detected1927 at the construction of a local railway. It is the biggest cemetery ever from the Awarian period (558 – 882 AD). 797 graves had been retrieved. Underneath this cemetery the archaelogists discovered a Awarian settling, too. 14200 glass beads, jewelry made from noble metal and amber and relics of the dreaded Awarian bows.

Celebrated public characters

 * Johann Kruesz (1879–1960), Landwirt und Politiker
 * Johann Wildt I. (1913–1983), Landwirt und Politiker
 * Johann Wildt II. (1937–1987), Landwirt und Politiker

Miscellaneous
A pyramid of straw had been built in 1999 (15600 bales of straw had been piled up manually on an area of 23 m x 23 m and a height of 14.6 m) which led to an entry in the Guiness Book of Records.

Weblinks
The EU Website of Zillingtal

The private website of Zillingtal