Rohrbrunn is a village in Burgenland

Burgenland

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. It belongs to Deutsch Kaltenbrunn

Deutsch Kaltenbrunn

Deutsch Kaltenbrunn is a town in the district of Jennersdorf in Burgenland in Austria....

 in the district of Jennersdorf

Jennersdorf

Jennersdorf is a town in Burgenland, Austria, and capital of the district of Jennersdorf.- External links :*...

. Rohrbrunn is located near the border of Styria by the river Lafnitz

Lafnitz

----Lafnitz is a municipality in the district of Hartberg in Styria, Austria....

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History

Rohrbrunn was part of the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary comprised present-day Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia , Transylvania , Carpatho Ruthenia , Vojvodina , Burgenland , and other smaller territories surrounding present-day Hungary's borders...

 until the Treaty of Trianon

Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement signed in 1920, at the end of World War I, between the Allies of World War I and Hungary . The treaty greatly redefined and reduced Hungary's borders. From its borders before World War I, it lost 72% of its territory, which was reduced from to...

 in 1920. It belonged to Vas county

Vas (former county)

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. The small village has been inhabited by ethnic Germans since its establishment in the Middle Ages. According to the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic administration Rohrbrunn always belonged to the nearby parish

Parish

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 of Deutsch Kaltenbrunn

Deutsch Kaltenbrunn

Deutsch Kaltenbrunn is a town in the district of Jennersdorf in Burgenland in Austria....

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"Nádkuth" was given to Ferenc Batthyány in 1524. The ownership of the noble Batthyány

Batthyány

Batthyány is the name of an old distinguished Hungarian Magnate family. The members of this family bear the title count or countess respectively prince or princess Batthyány von Német-Ujvár...

 family lasted about 350 years. In 1605 the army of Stephen Bocskai destroyed almost the whole village.

In 1851 Elek Fényes recorded that Rohrbrunn was populated by 428 people (almost exclusively Roman Catholic Germans). There was a toll-house in the village due to its proximity to the border of Styria. The Batthyánys remained the main landowners. The peasants earned their livelihood from growing wheat, tobacco, hemp and fruits or making a small amount of wine.http://www.arcanum.hu/fszek/lpext.dll/rmf/Infobase/1b73/1b8f?fn=document-frame.htm&f=templates&2.0

Alois Brunner

Alois Brunner

Alois Brunner is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to...

, one of the most infamous Austrian Nazi war criminals, was born in Nádkút in 1912. In World War I a total of 31 men perished.

Name

In 18th and 19th century sources both the traditional German and Hungarian names of the village are mentioned. Rohrbrunn and Nádkút have the same meaning: "reed-well" which refers to the marshes of the Lafnitz valley. The German name was recorded in 1427 as Rohrprunn. http://www.vasidigitkonyvtar.hu/vdkweb/vm_tortenetfoldrajz/helysegek.html The Hungarian name was recorded as Nádkuth in 1524. The German version became the sole official name of the village after 1920.

Population

Year	Population
1802	357
1812	371
1856	452
1910	685
1930	750
2001	581

Born in Rohrbrunn

• Alois Brunner
  Alois Brunner
  Alois Brunner is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to...
  
  , Austria
  Austria
  Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
  
  n Nazi war criminal (1912)