Deutsch Jahrndorf (; , ) is a municipality in the district of Neusiedl am See, in the Austrian state of Burgenland. It is within a few kilometres of the borders of both Hungary and Slovakia. Deutsch Jahrndorf is the easternmost municipality of Austria, at 17th meridian east, and the easternmost commune of the German Sprachraum since 1945 and the expulsions of the Germans.
History With Burgenland, the former Hungarian village passed to the Republic of Austria after World War I. During the Cold War, or from shortly after World War II until the Revolutions of 1989, Deutsch Jahrndorf was the easternmost community in Central Europe with a Western market economy. It lies further to the east than all of the former East Germany and is further east than parts of Poland, Hungary and the then-Czechoslovakia (being the vast majority of the modern day Czech Republic and a small part of Slovakia), each of which were communist countries behind the "Iron Curtain".
Population
Politics Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeinderat) as of 2007 elections: Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ): 6 Austrian People's Party (ÖVP): 5 Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ): 2
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities Deutsch Jahrndorf is twinned with: Hamuliakovo, Slovakia Rajka, Hungary
See also Jarovce
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