Theme Week Burgenland – Eisenstadt
28 August 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 13 minutes Eisenstadt is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland with a population of 14,900. In the Habsburg Empire‘s Kingdom of Hungary, Kismarton (Eisenstadt) was the seat of the Eszterházy Hungarian noble family. The composer Joseph Haydn lived there as Hofkapellmeister under Esterházy patronage. Eisenstadt lies on a plain leading down to the river Wulka, at the south foot of the Leitha Mountains, about 12 kilometres (7 miles) from the Hungarian border. read more…Theme Week Burgenland – Parndorf
27 August 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Shopping Reading Time: 11 minutes Parndorf is a bilingual municipality with 5100 inhabitants in the Neusiedl am See district in Burgenland. The western part of Parndorf extends into the Leitha Mountains and is located on the Parndorf Plain. The town is 7 km north of Lake Neusiedl. read more…Theme Week Burgenland – Neusiedl am See
26 August 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 9 minutes Neusiedl am See is a town with 8,600 inhabitants in Burgenland in the Neusiedl am See district in Austria. The shopping and school town of Neusiedl am See is also a district suburb (Burgenland name for district capital). The only town in the district is Neusiedl am See, which also includes the districts Refugium, Seemuseum and Segelhafen West. Neusiedl am See, located at 133 m above sea level, is located on the north shore of Lake Neusiedl between the foothills of the Leitha Mountains and the Parndorf Plain. The municipality is characterized by the surrounding vineyards as well as by the calvary and the clay massif Taborberg. read more…Theme Week Burgenland – Güssing
25 August 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 9 minutes Güssing is a city in Burgenland in Austria. It is the administrative center of the district of the same name. The city is located in southern Burgenland in the Strem valley at an altitude of 229 meters above sea level. A little less than half of the area is used for agriculture, almost forty percent is forested. read more…Theme Week Burgenland – Pinkafeld
24 August 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 8 minutes Pinkafeld is a municipality with 5900 inhabitants in Burgenland in the Oberwart district (Austria). It is named after the Pinka, a tributary of the Raab. With the establishment of the HTBLuVA Pinkafeld on the site of the former manorial Meierhof, Pinkafeld made an important step in the direction of a school and technical college town in 1967. As such, it has since achieved supra-regional importance and notoriety, in particular because of the training opportunities in the field of technology. Pinkafeld is one of the 25 climate protection communities in Burgenland since 2002. read more…Theme Week Burgenland
23 August 2021 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time: 9 minutes Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state of Austria. It consists of two statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of 171 municipalities. It is 166 km (103 mi) long from north to south but much narrower from west to east (5 km (3.1 mi) wide at Sieggraben). The region is part of the Centrope Project. Burgenland is the third-smallest of Austria’s nine states, or Bundesländer, at 3,962 km² (1,530 sq mi). The highest point in the province is exactly on the border with Hungary, on the Geschriebenstein, 884 metres (2,900 ft) above sea level. The highest point entirely within Burgenland is 879 metres above sea level; the lowest point (which is also the lowest point of Austria) at 114 metres (374 ft), is in the municipal area of Apetlon. read more…Overview Theme Weeks
27 December 2011 | Author/Destination: Around the World / Rund um die Welt | Rubric: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time: 20 minutes(Latest addition: November 2024) In irregular intervals we publish Theme Weeks about cities, regions, and countries. Here you can find the complete list. read more…