Pöttsching#

Poettsching, Burgenland, market town in the district of Mattersburg, alt. 218 m, pop. 2,316, area 24.64 km2, east of Wiener Neustadt, near the border between Burgenland and Lower Austria. - Children´s village, Lake Roemersee holiday resort; Markusquelle mineral spring with table water bottling plant, wood-processing industry, engine production, fruit growing and wine growing. - Goes back to an old Pecheneg settlement (nomadic tribe from Eastern Europe). Catholic parish church (renovated between 1722 and 1728, later alterations); wayside shrines. In the vicinity of Lake Poettschinger See, sub-bituminous mining in earlier times.