!!!Donnerskirchen

Donnerskirchen, Burgenland, market town in the district of 
Eisenstadt-Umgebung, alt. 193 m, pop. 1,556, area 
33.87 km%%sup 2/%, some summer tourism (16,568 overnight stays), 
located between the Leithagebirge mountains and Lake Neusiedl. - Golf 
course; fruit and wine growing. - First documented mention 1285, 
Baroque parish church (1676-1680) overlooking the town, several 
chapels and pillory (1666). Former palace, then tithe farm (built 
1611), now restaurants. Close to Donnerskirchen archaeological finds 
of 5 burial mounds from the Hallstatt culture. The marble table top 
found in a Roman villa dates from late Antiquity.

!Literature
G. Auer and G. Maar (eds.), Heimatbuch der Marktgemeinde 
Donnerskirchen, 1985.


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