
Olbendorf (Hungarian: Óbér, Croatian: Lovrenac) is a town in the district of Güssing in the Austrian state of Burgenland.
Until 1921 it was part of Vas county (Kingdom of Hungary).
Area: 17.37 km² (6.7 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2013): 1,429
Research resources:
- Catholic church records of the parish of Bocksdorf (Baksafalva) 1738-1787 - located at the Catholic Archives in Eisenstadt; can be viewed there upon appointment. Available online at matriken.at.
- Catholic church records of the parish of Olbendorf (Ober) 1788-recent - located at the parish office of Olbendorf; written permission of the diocese and appointment required for viewing.
- Duplicates of Church records 1828-1895 - available on microfilm through the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Microfilm-Numbers:
700703 Catholic Births, Marriages & Deaths 1828-1881
700678 Lutheran Births 1828-1881
700679 Lutheran Births 1881-1895
700680 Lutheran Marriages 1828-1895
700681 Lutheran Deaths 1828-1895
- Catholic Baptism Index 1828-1895
- Civil records 1895-1920
- Houselist 1857
- Known emigrants
- Official Website
- Burgenland Bunch community
For further help, please feel free to contact a project collaborator.
Politics:
Mayors of Olbendorf
- Simon Pomper (*1865 +1931), CsP (1921-1922)
- Matthias Loos (*1878 +1950), CsP (1923-1926)
- Kosmas Pomper (*1881 +?), SdP (1927)
- Ambros Zieser (*1893 +1980), CsP (1928-1930)
- Lukas Tury (*1884 +1970), SdP (1930)
- Ambros Zieser (*1893 +1980), CsP (1931-1938)
- Andreas Gartner (*1879 +1952), NSDAP (1938-1941)
- Hermann Paul (*1906 +1962), NSDAP (1941-1942)
- Johann Stumpfl (*1897 +1957), NSDAP (1942)
- Heinrich Schalk (*1896 +1959), NSDAP (1943-1945)
- Hermann Graf (*1901 +1979), SPÖ (1945-1962)
- Emmerich Lebensorger (*1923 +2013), SPÖ (1962-1984)
- Karl Konrath (*1941), SPÖ (1984-1996)
- Anton Fetz (*1951), SPÖ (1996-2002)
- Otto Holper (*1947), SPÖ (2002-2012)
- Wolfgang Sodl (*1963), SPÖ (2012- )
Deputy Mayors of Olbendorf
- Franz Holpfer (*1931 +2017), SPÖ
- Otto Holper (*1947), SPÖ
- Wolfgang Sodl (*1963), SPÖ
- Florian Ohrenhofer (*1980), SPÖ