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# Burgenland (Austria)

## Gradišće (Croatian), Őrvidék (Hungarian)

Last modified: 2026-05-23 by martin karner
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image by Jan Oskar Engene | image by Peter Diem
(civil flag) adopted 25 June 1971 | (state service flag)

- Presentation of Burgenland
- Description of the Flag
- Coat of Arms

- Districts and Municipalities in Burgenland
- State Fire-Brigade Federation Burgenland

See also:

- Austrian States (Länder)
- Austro-Hungarian State Colours (Landesfarben)
- Minorities in Austria
- Austria
- Alps-Adriatic Alliance
- Euregio West/Nyugat Pannonia
- Die Entstehung des burgenländischen Landeswappens (by Leonhard Prickler, 2001, German)
- Wie das Burgenland zu seinem Adler kam (by Elias Hoffmann/sau-tanz.at, 2022, German)
- Die Entstehung des Landeswappens (burgenland.at, German)

## Presentation of Burgenland

Burgenland is a very young Austrian province. It was founded in 1921 after the Treaty of Trianon, which annexed this territory to Austria from Hungary. The new province lived to 1938 (Anschluss), and after World War II it was reborn.
István Molnár, 13 June 2000

Burgenland is home to more than 8000 ethnic Hungarians. More than 30% of the inhabitants live in four settlements: Unterwart/Alsóor, Oberwart/Felsoor, Oberpullendorf/Felsopulya and Siget in der Wart/Orisziget. They use the Hungarian flag on the Hungarian national holidays.
István Molnár, 5 June 2001

This is interesting, since Burgenland was transferred from Hungary to Austria following the First World War, because of its predominantly German speaking population. It was the only territorial gain for Austria following that war (at the same time she lost a lot more territory to Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia [a country which hadn't got that name yet], Italy, Romania ...).
Elias Granqvist, 5 June 2001

## Description of the Flag

In Die Symbole Österreichs by Peter Diem [die95] the field of the arms is shown as gold, while the bottom field of the flag is yellow.
Jan Oskar Engene, 11 April 1996

## Coat of Arms

image by Peter Diem

Or, standing upon a rock sable an eagle regardant wings displayed gules, langued of the same, crowned and armed of the first, on his breast an escutcheon paly of four, of the third and white fur, fimbriated of the field, and in dexter and sinister cantons two crosslets paty sable – which means:
In yellow a red eagle, looking to its left, with a golden crown standing on a black rock, escutcheon with vertical bars red and white fur, over each wing a black Greek cross.
Joe McMillan, 18 March 2002

The "white fur" on the stripes of the shield is in German Kürsch.
Peter Diem, 26 August 2002

Official description (transl. by Google): "The coat of arms of Burgenland is a red, gold-crowned and clawed, red-tongued, looking-back eagle with outstretched wings, standing on a black rock, accompanied in the upper corners by two black, broad-pointed crosses, and whose breast is charged with a small shield divided three times by red and Kürsch and bordered in gold. It can be displayed in color or in black and white." (Law from 15 November 1990 about the state symbols of Burgenland, Landesgesetzblatt 16/1991, §2; source)
Martin Karner

Burgenland arms on stamps:
♦ 1961
♦ 1971
♦ 1976
♦ 2011
♦ 2021
(source: austria-forum.org)