Peresznye Explained

Subdivision Type:Country
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Official Name:Peresznye
Other Name:Prisika
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1:Vas
Area Total Km2:10.73
Population Total:699
Population As Of:2004
Population Density Km2:65.14
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:9734
Area Code:94
Pushpin Map:Hungary
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Peresznye
Coordinates:47.4238°N 16.6509°W
Website:http://www.peresznye.hu/

Peresznye (Croatian: Prisika; German: Prössing) is a village in Vas County, Hungary, close to the border towards Austria which was drawn in 1921 according to the Treaty of Trianon. It is situated between Lutzmannsburg, Burgenland, Austria, and Csepreg, Hungary, appr. 10 km eastwards of the border town Kőszeg, and inhabited partly by Burgenland Croats.

Here the priest and writer József Ficzkó, publishing in the version of Croatian today called Burgenland Croatian, lived and worked in the 19th century. Ficzkó was praised for having contributed extraordinarily to the development of self-esteem and identity of the Burgenland Croats by using their language (which was not his mothertongue, as he was of Slovene origin) in writing.

The palace of Peresznye after World War I was the last residence of the former Austro-Hungarian foreign minister (until 1915) and supreme court master (Obersthofmeister) of the last emperor, Charles I., Count Leopold Berchtold, who owned the place and died here in 1942.

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