!!!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.


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