Neuhaus in the Wart is a Katastralgemeinde

Katastralgemeinde

A Katastralgemeinde , a German word , is a cadastral subdivision of municipalities in the nations of Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Italian provinces of South Tyrol, Trentino, Gorizia, Trieste, and in Slovenia.A cadastral community records property ownership in a cadastre,...

 of the municipality Mischendorf

Mischendorf

Mischendorf is a town in the district of Oberwart in Burgenland in Austria....

 in southern Burgenland

Burgenland

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, Austria

Austria

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. It is part of the district Oberwart

Oberwart (district)

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• Population: 243 (2001)
• Altitude: 265 m above sea level
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• Postal Code: 7503
• Vehicle Registration: OW

Neuhaus is a Croatian village founded in the sixteenth century, the time the first settlers arrived. According to tradition, the settlers came from a farmstead between Kirchfidisch

Kohfidisch

Kohfidisch is a town in the district of Oberwart in Burgenland in Austria....

 and Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg

Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg

Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg is a municipality in Burgenland in the district of Oberwart in Austria.It was the site of the 1945 Deutsch Schützen massacre.- Geography :...

. The original name was Dobrava from which the Hungarian names Dobra and Őridobra are derived. The German name Neuhaus came from the subsequent German settlers. According to a 1852 document the school was made of wood then, it was rebuilt in 1870.

After the canonical visitation

Canonical Visitation

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 in 1760, a chapel and a nearby bell tower

Bell tower

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were built in 1836, dedicated to St. Anthony. Mayor Ferdinand Obojkovics ordered a new church built in the mid 1900s. In the course of a local government reform, the former municipalities communities Mischendorf, Kotezicken, Kleinbachselten, Großbachselten, Rohrbach an der Teich and Neuhaus were merged to the present municipality Mischendorf.