!!!Lockenhaus

Lockenhaus, Burgenland, market town in the district of Oberpullendorf, 
alt. 336 m, pop. 2,047, area 58.86 km%%sup 2/%, on the river 
Guens, north of Geschriebenstein mountain (alt. 884 m), near the 
Hungarian border. - School museum with educational centre (seminars), 
chamber music festival (July). Furniture factory, production of 
electronic components. - Early Baroque parish church (formerly 
Franciscans, later Augustinian Hermits) with crypt, consecrated in 
1669; former monastery (1655-1668), from 1868 summer residence of the 
Esterházy family; Calvary Church (1864) and Stations of the 
Cross; castle, donjon, residential building with remarkable hall 
(around 1230), chapel with remains of frescos (around 1230, oldest in 
Burgenland), components 16%%sup th/% /17%%sup th/%  centuries, 
underground room with 2 apses, believed to have been a place of 
worship (assembly room of the Knights Templars) or a cistern.

!Literature
A. Schermann, Geschichte von Lockenhaus, 1936.


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