Stinatz ( Croatian : Stinjaki , Hungarian : Pásztorháza ) is a town in the district of Güssing in Burgenland in Austria . According to the last census 62% of the population are members of the Burgenland Croat minority .
7-458: The town lies in the district of Guessing in the south of Burgenland and is composed of two urban districts, Stinatz and Stinatz-Nord. The neighboring towns are Ollerdorf, Hackerberg, Litzelsdorf and Wörterberg. Due to the Ottoman Wars in the 15th century, many Croatian families emigrated to this area and founded their own town. Stinatz was first mentioned in a document in the year 1577. Like
14-784: A part of older population retains Chakavian in their speech. Much speech in this dialect mixes Chakavian and Shtokavian features. It is assumed that in the past this dialect covered larger territory in the hinterland, being gradually suppressed by constant migrations who carried Shtokavian speech at its cost. Common Slavic yat phoneme had a reflex of /i/ in this dialect. Thus we have lip , divojka , mriža , as opposed to Standard Croatian (Neo-Shtokavian) lijȇp ', djèvōjka , mrȅža , all descending from earlier Proto-West-South-Slavic forms * lěpъ , * děvojka , * mrěža . Slavomolisano dialect , as well Southwestern Istrian , which are mostly or partly Western Shtokavian ( šća and šta ) with Ikavian accent, have
21-476: The amount of births declined during the last years, the school has enough children, because there are many immigrants in the town. There are many clubs in the town like the, football club, musical society, tennis club, Stinjacko Kolo and the Naturfreunde. All these clubs have their own events. The town is characterized by its Croatian origin, in particular the colorful local costume (Stinatzer Tracht) and
28-561: The huge weddings, where there is a lot of singing and dancing. This Burgenland location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Southern Chakavian Southern Chakavian ( Croatian : južnočakavski dijalekt ) or Ikavian Chakavian is a dialect of the Chakavian variety of Croatian. It is spoken in the area south of the Central Chakavian area, in a narrow strip of Dalmatian littoral and
35-569: The meantime Andreas Grandits (ÖVP) acts in place of Alfred Grandits. After the last elections the SPÖ has 10 mandate and the ÖVP has 9 mandate. Although the town has about 1400 citizen, there are many teenagers interested in politics and therefore there are many events arranged by the Social Youth and the JVP. Due to the quantity of children, the town has its own preschool and elementary school. Although
42-489: The neighbouring islands: outskirts of Split and Zadar ; Korčula , Pelješac , Brač , Hvar , Vis and Šolta . It is also present in the Northwestern part of Istria . The speech of Split originally belonged to this dialect, but under the influence of Shtokavian immigrants and standard Croatian promoted by the state media, a local variant that has lost many of characteristic Chakavian traits developed, even though
49-670: The whole Burgenland area, Stinatz belonged to Hungary until 1921. Due to a change in the Hungarian law and policy in 1889, the town, originally named Stinjaki, was given the Hungarian name Stinacs. The town belongs since 1921 to the new founded Burgenland. The Croat inhabitants of Stinatz speak the Southern Chakavian dialect. In the year 2009, the long-time mayor Alfred Grandits (SPÖ) had to retire because of serious health problems. The next election will be in January 2010. In
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