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Krobotek
Village of 340 residents in the Jennersdorf district.

Krobotek (Kroboteck), was known as Horvatfalu, district of Szentgotthard, Hungary, prior to 1921. It is now part of the southern Burgenland community of Weichselbaum along with Rosendorf (total population of all three villages is 884). There is an RC chapel but the parish church is in Weichselbaum (Church of Maria-Bild - 1793) and the civil records are in Mogersdorf.

There are Roman ruins in the area, which was later settled by Cistercian monks from the monastery of Heiligenkreuz, Lower Austria, about 1184. They built the cathedral at St. Gotthard about 1187. The villages were probably part of those cathedral holdings. It is not known when Krobotek was first founded. The entire area was subjected to pillage and plunder during the Turkish Wars and Hungarian rebellions.

Krobotek is a German-speaking linear village with inhabitants mainly engaged in grape and wine production. Located in the Raab Valley, near the Grieselstein woods, the area contributed immigrants to the Auswanderung. The first from Krobotek was Karl Schmidt (b1883) who settled in Allentown, PA, in 1898.

There were many early Ehritz families in Krobotek (see Krobotek records webpage). Gasthaus Deutsch in Weichselbaum was sold to the Deutsch family by Maria Ehritz in 1959. Only one Ehritz family is now listed in the 1993 phone book (under Weichselbaum).

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