!!!Forchtenstein

Forchtenstein, Burgenland, municipality in the district of 
Mattersburg, alt. 343 m, pop. 2,698, area 16.59 km%%sup 2/%. Local 
small and medium-sized businesses, structural steel construction, 
quarry, sand and gravel extraction, production of cement products. 
Forchtenau reservoir with camp site, fortress administration, fortress 
festivals, Servite monastery. The fortress standing on dolomite rock 
was built towards the end of the 13%%sup th/%  century by the counts 
Mattersdorfer, in 1445 it was sold to the Habsburgs and given to 
Nikolaus Esterházy in 1626, who had the fortress expanded in 
1635 by S. Radaeck and D. Carlone. A four-winged structure with 
casemates, armoury and chapel on the old foundation around the keep 
(beginning of the 14%%sup th/%  century) and around a trapezoidal 
courtyard. In 1681/1682 the fortress centre was expanded, in 1761/1762 
the upper floors were raised. Forchtenstein was used as a treasure 
chamber and depot for weapons and armoury of the Esterházy 
troops and still houses a weapons collection from the 16%%sup th/%  to 
the 19%%sup th/%  century, suits of armour, booty taken from the Turks 
in 1686, portraits of the Esterházy family and several 
emperors.

!Literature
Bollwerk Forchtentein, exhibition catalogue, Forchtenstein 
1993.


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