Editing Oberpullendorf (section)

== History ==
The district of Oberpullendorf has been populated since the [[Neolithic age]]. During the early [[Iron Age]] the district was a flourishing [[iron]] industrial area.

Josef Polatschek, a gardener and regional researcher, mapped several ancient iron extraction sites in the district.

Oberpullendorf was firstly documented in 1225 as a Hungarian frontier guard settlement.

Traditionally Oberpullendorf was the seat of several noble families, among them the Counts [[Cseszneky de Milvány]] and the Barons Rohonczy de Felsőpulya.

In 1853 Oberpullendorf became the location of a Hungarian revenue authority.

After the demise of the [[Austria-Hungary|Austrian-Hungarian monarchy]] in 1918, the German-speaking inhabitants of Deutsch-Westungarn ("German Western Hungary", later Burgenland) - Oberpullendorf being part of it - intended to join the "new" state of Austria. Back then, Oberpullendorf was part of [[Sopron County]], [[Hungary]].
The decision about Deutsch-Westungarn was fixed in the peace treaties of [[Treaty of Saint Germain|Saint Germain]] and [[Treaty of Trianon|Trianon]]. Despite diplomatic efforts by Hungary, the victorious parties of World War I set the date of Burgenland's official unification with Austria as August 28, 1921.
(Also see: [[Burgenland]])

In 1958 the two communities of Ober- and Mitterpullendorf were consolidated and since 1975 Oberpullendorf is a municipality.