Category: Western Hungary

     The source of the information contained in this article comes from Chronik der Marktgemdinde Zurndorf by Paul Ebner.  Following the First World War the village of Zurndorf along with Nickelsdorf and Deutsch-Jahrndorf became part of the State of Burgenland within Austria and were cut off from the other Heidebauern communities that remained part…

     The source for this information is from 200 Jahre Evangelische Kirche AB Nickelsdorf published by the congregation.    According to the Chronicles of Eindringen the “new faith” as Lutheranism was first called was already abroad in Austria as early as 1521.  There were two primary reasons for this, Luther’s connections with the Humanist…

  (Translated from the German, by Henry A. Fischer from “Rebellion or Religion”)    The question behind the bloodbath unleashed by the Habsburgs (especially Leopold I) against the Lutherans and Reformed, was whether it was in response to a political rebellion rather than the religious issue in terms of the ongoing Counter Reformation in Hungary.…

   The origins of the later known Heidebauern as a distinctive “people” began after 796 following the defeat of the Avars and the destruction of their Empire in what is now known as Slovakia by Charlemagne.  In order to defend the eastern approaches to his empire he built fortresses in the area, which future generations…