!!!Halbturn

Halbturn, Burgenland, market town in the district of Neusiedl am See, 
alt. 130 m, pop. 1,856, area 55.23 km%%sup 2/%, in the Seewinkel 
area at the south foot of the Parndorfer Platte plateau, close to the 
Hungarian border. - Northern regional office of adult education (in 
Halbturn Castle); viniculture. - First documented mention 1466; 1529 
and 1683 destroyed by Turkish invaders; typical settlement from the 
times after the Turkish invasions, with straight layout of roads; 
Baroque parish church (1730, probably based on plans by J. E. Fischer 
v. Erlach); cemetery with tombstones from the 18%%sup th/%  century; 
St. Sebastian column (1678); Trinity column (1713); north of the 
village of Schloss, former hunting seat of Karl VI, older part of 
the building from the 17%%sup th/%  century destroyed in 1683, 
re-constructed 1701-1711 by J. L. von Hildebrandt, ceiling fresco 
(1765) by F. A. Maulbertsch, since 1975 used for exhibitions, 
branch office of the Oesterreichische Galerie; large park (1724-1727).

!Literature
M. Waldbott, Halbturn, 1975.


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