!!!Klingenbach
Klingenbach, Burgenland, municipality in the district of
Eisenstadt-Umgebung, alt. 233 m, pop. 1,130, area 4.82 km%%sup 2/%,
situated near the Hungarian border on the road to Sopron (Hungary). -
Customs office, branch of customs police; assembly of electronic
measuring instrument, forwarding agency. After destruction by the
Turks (1529) Klingenbach was settled by Croats; parish church (first
documented mention 1276), reconstructed at the end of the 17%%sup th/%
century; new part built in 1975, houses old statue of the Virgin Mary
(from 1730).
!Literature
Gemeinde Klingenbach (ed.), 700 Jahre Klingenbach
1276-1976, 1976.
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