!!!Rechnitz

Rechnitz, Burgenland, market town in the district of Oberwart, alt. 
348 m, pop. 3,462, area 43.77 km%%sup 2/%, at the southern 
foot of Guens Mountains, near the Hungarian border. - Frontier 
crossing point and customs post, convent of the Order of the Divine 
Redeemer, Protestant youth home, museum of boot-making history and 
tradition; stone breaking plant, viniculture. - Catholic parish church 
(second half of the 17%%sup th/%  century, altered in the 
18%%sup th/%  century and in 1850), high altar (around 1690) with 
statues of the Hungarian kings Stephan and Ladislaus; Holy Trinity 
column (around 1700), Protestant parish church (1783, extended in 
1867); new buildings have been erected on the site of a castle which 
was destroyed in 1945 (granary has been preserved).


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