"Mein Heimatvolk, mein Heimatlandâ is the regional anthem of the Austrian state of Burgenland. It was adopted during the Austrofascist era, but relinquished 2 years later, and then readopted in 1949 during the Soviet Occupation.
A tender for the text of a state anthem for the Burgenland, the youngest of the Austrian states, was advertised by the Fatherland Front of the Federal State of Austria in October 1935 in the party newspaper Burgenländisches Volksblatt. According to the announcement, the anthem should express "joy and pride in the Burgenland homeland and belonging to the Burgenland people" and "the bond with the great Austrian fatherland".
The tender was decided in two phases, for text and music, by two jurys of 13 men. From 105 submissions, the text "Mein Heimatvolk, mein Heimatlandâ by the unknown (1905âÂÂ1973), a teacher at the Catholic teacher training college in Steinberg-Dörfl, Burgenland.
Tenders for the melody were advertised on 8 February 1936, asking that it should be "artistically valuable, easy to sing, and folksy", and on April 30, 1936, the submission by the well-regarded violinist and composer Peter Zauner was selected from 283 applications. The winning project was adopted by the Burgenland state parliament on 22 May 1936 as the state anthem.
However, the anthem was only used for two years, since after the Anschluss of Austria into Nazi Germany with effect from October 1, 1938, Burgenland was divided into Reichsgau Niederdonau (Lower Danube) and Reichsgau Steiermark (Styria). In 1949, after World War II, the national anthem was reinstated by law with the approval of the Soviet military administration.
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