!!!Güssing

Guessing, Burgenland, town in the district of Guessing, alt. 
229 m, pop. 3,945, 49.31 km%%sup 2/%, situated on the 
Strembach river in southern Burgenland, near the border to Hungary. - 
District Commission, district court, external offices of the tax 
office and the employment services, office of the provincial 
government (office for hydraulic engineering), district department of 
agriculture, Montecuccoli barracks, customs post, hospital, tax 
office, surveying office, psycho-social welfare centre, district 
headquarters of the rural police, provincial health and social 
insurance office, Chamber of Labour, Economic Chamber, cultural 
centre, schools: Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium secondary school, 
federal trade school, school of business, school of agriculture, 
Vocational Training Institute. Large fishponds, wildlife sanctuary 
near Urbersdorf. Economic structure dominated by small enterprises and 
advanced service sector (employed approx. 74 % of the working 
population in 1991, particularly personal, social and public 
services). Production sector: pasta and biscuit factories, dairy, 
construction of gates and doorways, production of leather articles and 
toilet cases, sawmill, power plant; mineral-water spring and bottling 
plant (sparkling water) near Sulz (municipality of Gerersdorf-Sulz). - 
Town status since 1973; castle (first documented in 1157) on a steep 
porphyritic cone (alt. 318 m) in the Stremtal valley, enlarged at 
the end of the 15%%sup th/%  century. 1524 property of the 
Batthyány family, partly razed in the mid-18%%sup th/%  
century; partly restored after 1957; keep with Romanesque parts, 
castle chapel (15%%sup th/%  century), citadel with castle museum 
(ancestral hall, armouries and collections of cabinet pieces); 
Romanesque parish church (around 1200) in the old cemetery; Franciscan 
monastery (constructed 1648/49), monastery church with tombstones 
(16%%sup th/%  century); in the crypt, vault of the Batthyány 
family (lead sarcophagus of K. J. Batthyány by K. Moll 
1772); Draskovich Castle (1804); Gothic winged altar (1469) in the 
chapel.

!Literature
F. Glavanits (ed.), Stadterhebung Guessing 1973, 
Festschrift, 1973.


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