Coordinates: 47°39′N, 16°23′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
Antau | Bad Sauerbrunn | Baumgarten | Draßburg | Forchtenstein | Hirm | Krensdorf | Loipersbach im Burgenland | Marz | Mattersburg | Neudörfl | Pöttelsdorf | Pöttsching | Rohrbach bei Mattersburg | Schattendorf | Sieggraben | Sigleß | Walbersdorf | Wiesen | Zemendorf-Stöttera The Bezirk Mattersburg is an administrative district (Bezirk) in the federal state of Burgenland, Austria. ... Mattersburg (former Mattersdorf, Hungarian: Nagymarton) is a town in Burgenland, Austria in the rural vineyard region of the country. ...
At the time of the Reformation Sieggraben was strongly Protestant, but in 1625 the town came under the control of the Catholic Princes of Esterhazy and the population was forcibly reconverted.
Sieggraben escaped the Turkish invasions of the 17th century relatively unscathed, but suffered greatly during the Napoleonic Wars of 1806-12.
Sieggraben today has a population of about 1400 people and is a friendly, well cared-for small town surrounded by fields, meadows and endless forests.
Four towns act as the wine-growing area´s main producers: Deutschkreutz, Horitschon, Lutzmannsburg and Neckenmarkt; these, as well as two modern cooperatives, prove that size and high quality can indeed go hand in hand.
When you cross the Sieggraben, south of the Neusiedlersee lake, and head toward the Hungarian border, the centre of Austrian red wine culture suddenly appears.
Given the area´s densely wooded slopes, it may come as a surprise that here, too, are climatic conditions similar to those found around the
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