Oberwart

Oberwart is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the equal call. Oberwart is the cultural capital of the small ethnic Hungarian minority in Burgenland, dwelling inside the Upper Orség or Wart microregion. The agreement changed into set up inside the eleventh century by using the guards of the Hungarian frontier collectively with Unterwart and Siget in der Wart. It was first stated in ancient documents in 1327 underneath the name Superior Eor.

It turned into part of the vintage county of Vas until 1921. Old surnames and the special local dialect shows that the population became associated with the Szekelys of Transylvania. The community of the ors acquired the privileges of the nobles by way of King Charles I of Hungary in the 14th century. The privileges were recounted by means of Rudolph I in 1582. The village changed into in part destroyed by means of the Ottoman military in 1532.