!!!Landsee

Landsee, Burgenland, market town in the district of Oberpullendorf, 
alt. 627 m, popular place for day trips at the foot of Pauliberg 
hill (761 m) near the border with Lower Austria, cadastral 
district of the municipality of Markt Sankt Martin. - Classicist 
parish church (1800, renovated in 1909), Landsee castle ruins (first 
documented mention in 1158) on a rock, one of the largest castle ruins 
in Austria; 4 fortifications and 2 moats (year 1668 mentioned on 
the 1%%sup st/%  gate), surround the Romanesque keep, which has 10 m 
thick walls, and the Gothic extensions; buildings (17%%sup th/%  and 
18%%sup th/%  centuries) with stucco decoration; dilapidated since the 
fire in 1772.


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