!!!Frauenkirchen Frauenkirchen, Burgenland, town in the district of Neusiedl am See, alt. 126 m, pop. 2,634, area 31.95 km%%sup 2/%, situated in the fertile plain east of Lake Neusiedl in the Seewinkel area near the Hungarian border. Hospital of the Brothers Hospitaler, commercial school; cement plant, clothing industry, poultry farm, construction firms, wine cultivation, tourism. - Baroque parish and pilgrimage church (1695-1702 by F. Martinelli) with two towers, stucco and interior paintings, magnificent high altar (around 1700); Franciscan monastery (renovated in 1686/1687, expanded in 1720-1733) with a silver statue of the Virgin (1695); Calvary (after 1683) with spiral ramp; former Baroque palace "Esterházy-Schloessel" (today a school); storage construction, 1766. !Literature M. I. Bauer, Siedlungs- und Ortsgeschichte von Frauenkirchen, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1981; B. Bruck, Die Gross- und Marktgemeinde Frauenkirchen, master's thesis, Vienna 1977. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Frauenkirchen|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]