Leithaprodersdorf#
Leithaprodersdorf, Burgenland, market town in the district of Eisenstadt Umgebung, alt. 196 m, pop. 1,043, area 18.94 km2, on the River Leitha in northern Burgenland, on the border with Lower Austria. - First documentary mention in 1232; archaeological finds of the Bronze Age, remains of a Roman fortification and a medieval mountain settlement ("G´schloessl"); Avarian burial grounds (archaeological finds in the provincial museum in Eisenstadt). Baroque parish church (built around 1680, renovated in 1696); ruins of the medieval former parish church "Pfefferbuechsl"; Baroque wayside shrines. Sulphur spring southwest of the market town.
Literature#
H. Mitscha-Maerheim, Der Awarenfriedhof von Leithaprodersdorf, 1957.