ÖSTERREICH	AUSTRIA
Bundesland: Steiermark	Styria
Bezirk: Hartberg-Fürstenfeld

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Sinnersdorf is situated at an elevation of 508 m on the river Pinka, about 6 km southeast of Pinggau in eastern Styria directly at the border to the Austrian province of Burgenland. Sinnersdorf has a population of 257 (2011).

The earliest document mentioning the place dates from 1338. The name already in the 14th century changed from Syndramsdroh, Syndarmansdorf to Sündersdorf and to the modern form. Sinnersdorf was already part of the municipality of Pinggau, Styria, at the time of the municipality's creation in 1849. Although being part of the municipality of Pinggau, Sinnersdorf almost entirely is surrounded by the municipality of Pinkafeld (Burgenland) to the west, south and east (at that time still part of the kingdom of Hungary within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy). The railway line from Alt Pinkafeld to Friedberg, via Sinnersdorf and Pinggau was opened in 1925 (closed in 2011). At the end of World War II, Sinnersdorf was occupied like the rest of Styria by Russian forces. Whereas the remaining part of Styria was then put in the British occupation zone, Sinnersdorf remained in the Russian zone until the end of the occupation period in 1955.

The church of St. Patrizius, St. Donatus and St. Florian [centre, barely visible] was built in 1756. The church was enlarged in 1955 and was renovated in 1977/78 and in 1997. It is an independent local pastoral care unit of the Roman-Catholic parish of Pinkafeld.
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinnersdorf_(Gemeinde_Pinggau); http://www.fallingrain.com/world/AU/06/Sinnersdorf.html; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkatalbahn; http://www.dade.at/pinkafeld-kirche/hist-rk.html, http://www.martinus.at/adressbuch/pfarre/38121042008143504.html]