Pinkafeld is a town

Town

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 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...

 in Austria

Austria

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 and the second largest city (after Oberwart

Oberwart

Oberwart or Felsőőr is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the same name...

) in the district Oberwart

Oberwart (district)

Bezirk Oberwart is a district of the state ofBurgenland in Austria.-Municipalities:Towns are indicated in boldface; market towns in italics; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters.Where appropriate, the Burgenland Croatian and Hungarian names...

. The Hungarian

Hungarian language

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 name of the town is Pinkafő.

Geography

Parts of the commune are Hochart, Gfangen

Gfangen

Gfangen is a part of the Austrian town Pinkafeld in Burgenland, which has the postal code 7423....

, Alt-Pinkafeld, Nord-Pinkafeld and Pinkafeld Stadt.

Brief history

• 860 - The first mention of Pinkafeld ("Peincahu")
• 1289 - The destruction of Pinkafeld ("Pinkafelde")
• 1397 - Pinkafeld is no longer part of Bernstein
  Bernstein im Burgenland
  Bernstein is a municipality in Burgenland in the district Oberwart in Austria.-People:*László Almásy : a Hungarian aristocrat, motorist, desert researcher, aviator, Scout-leader and soldier who served as the basis for the protagonist in Michael Ondaatje's 1992 novel The English Patient and the...
  
  
• 1532 - The Ottomans destroy Pinkafeld
• 1658 - Ádám Batthyány constructs a castle in Pinkafeld
• 1919 - Pinkafeld becomes part of Austria, no longer under control by Hungary
  Hungary
  Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
  
  

Politics

Mayor is Kurt Maczek of the SPÖ

SPO

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, the 1.Vize-Mayor is Thomas Pickl of the ÖVP

OVP

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. In the representation (25 mandates), the SPÖ has 16 mandates and the ÖVP 9.