!!!Großhöflein

Grosshoeflein, Burgenland, market town in the district of 
Eisenstadt-Umgebung, alt. 194 m, pop. 1,678, area 
14.26 km%%sup 2/%, near Eisenstadt, in southern foothills of the 
Leithagebirge Mountains. - Wine-growing area. On Foellig Hill 
(286 m) near Grosshoeflein, archaeological finds from the 
Neolithic Period, Bronze Age and Roman times, as well as hunting lodge 
(18%%sup th/%  century) and pleasure palace of the Esterházy 
family (in disrepair); originally Late Gothic parish church, modified 
in the 17%%sup th/%  century, side aisle 1992; St. Anthony Chapel 
(1730); town hall (1675, "Simon-Despot-Haus"); "Pleiniger-Haus" 
(17%%sup th/%  century) and St. Radegund Chapel; pillory (1714). Near 
Grosshoeflein unexploited sulphur mineral springs.


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