Bürmoos is a municipality in the district of
Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of
Salzburg in
Austria.
History
Bürmoos was founded in 1967, making it the most recently created
municipality in the state, by combining the
outskirts
Outskirts or The Outskirts may refer to:
* Rural–urban fringe
The rural–urban fringe, also known as the outskirts, rurban, peri-urban or the urban hinterland, can be described as the "landscape interface between town and country", or als ...
of the neighbouring villages
Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg
Sankt Georgen (Central Bavarian: ''Sonkt Georng bei Soizburg'') is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria.
Personalities
On July 19, 1997 the artist Gunter Demnig installed two Stolpersteine for Joh ...
and
Lamprechtshausen.
At that time, the place had been inhabited for only one hundred years. Until the early 19th century the area had been a
bog
A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, and muskeg; a ...
without any settlements. During the industrialization in the second half of that century, notably by
Ignaz Glaser
Ignaz Glaser (5 May 1853 – 11 August 1916) was an Austrian businessman from Prague and the founder of one of the biggest sheet glass factories in the k.u.k. monarchy.
Biography
In 1881 in Bürmoos near Salzburg he used the legal estate of a for ...
, glass and brick industries were established using the vast reserves of
peat as their fuel.
The collapse of these industries after the
First World War made the area one of the poorest in the province and, in the wake of the
Second World War, a place for the displaced from German speaking areas in Eastern Europe.
Making it an independent municipality of its own in 1967, was accompanied by massive protests by its inhabitants. The impression was given of putting aside a social and political ghetto, in order to save the social and political equilibrium of the conservative villages of origin, Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg and Lamprechtshausen. In consequence the first local elections in Bürmoos brought a landslide victory for the
Socialists of more than 85% of the vote.
By the beginning of the 21st century, Bürmoos had become a popular
dormitory town for the city of
Salzburg with its own basic infra-structure and good public transport.
See also
*
Salzburg
*
Salzburgerland
Salzburg (, ; bar, Soizbuag, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian) (also known as ''Salzburgerland'') is a States of Austria, state (''Land'') of the modern Republic of Austria. It is officially named ''Land Salzburg'' to distinguish it from i ...
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W&H Dentalwerk
The W&H Group, a family company whose registered office is in Bürmoos, Austria, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of dental handpieces and turbines. Its products are used in dental practices, dental clinics, dental laboratories, dent ...
References
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Cities and towns in Salzburg-Umgebung District