Karoly Kocsis and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi : Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin

AUSTRIA

30. Tour in Burgenland (120 km)

RAIDING / DOBORJÁN (854; 0.9 % Hung.): - birthplace and memorial museum of world-famous Hungarian composer Ferenc/Franz Liszt (1811-1876) - Esterházy manor-house and its park - statue of F. Liszt - Roman Catholic parish-church - column of Johannes St.Nepomuk

LACKENBACH / LAKOMPAK (1,101; 1 % Hung.): - Renaissance Esterházy manor-house - tomb of Mátyás Tarródy (lieutenant of the Transylvanian prince Gábor Bethlen killed in a 1620 battle) - St. Rochus parish church

STOOB / CSÁVA (1,335; 1.8 % Hung.): - famous pottery-making - ceramics-college - Ceramics Museum - Lutheran church and rectory

OBERPULLENDORF / FELSÕPULYA (2,640; 23.9 % Hung.): district seat - medieval Hungarian border guarding village - Rohonczy manor-house /currently: training college/ - Roman Catholic parish church - Rohonczy mansion - some traditional Hungarian peasant houses with veranda

BERNSTEIN / BOROSTYÁNKÕ (1,102; 1.4 % Hung.): - famous serpentine quarry - birthplace of count László Almássy (1895-1951), Africa-explorer - Almássy castle - St. Michael Baroque parish church - Lutheran church - Rock museum (serpentine)

MARIASDORF / MÁRIAFALVA (481; 0.6 % Hung.): - Assumption Late-Gothic parish church, one of the most beautiful churches in Burgenland

BAD TATZMANNSDORF / TARCSAFÜRDÕ (554; 3.6 % Hung.): - Burgenland's most important spa - Maximilian, Franz, Karl springs - open-air ethnographical museum - Holy Trinity parish church - Lutheran church - Witch house - grave of French general of Hungarian origin, Ferenc Tóth (1733-1793)

OBERWART / FELSÕÕR (6,093; 26.1 % Hung.): district seat - cultural center of the Hungarians of Burgenland - "Fölszeg" /upper quarter/ of Hungarian character even nowadays - Reformed Baroque church - Reformed vicarage - Reformed school - Lutheran Classicist church - "Alszeg" /lower quarter/ enclosed type of settlement - parish church / currently: funeral parlor - Modern Center of the Catholic Church - Hungarian unique folk architecture

UNTERWART / ALSÓÕR (769; 87 % Hung.): commune seat, Hungarian enclave - Szent Katalin /St.Catherine/ parish-church and cemetery - Local History Museum - Hungarian junior school - Maria column - Hungarian Communal Library

SIGET IN DER WART / ÕRISZIGET (272; 82 % Hung.): - the smallest Hungarian village in the region - Lutheran church - old Lutheran vicarage - Szent László /St. Ladislas/ Roman Catholic church - Hungarian folk architecture

Karoly Kocsis and Eszter Kocsis-Hodosi : Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin