Siegendorf#
Siegendorf, Burgenland, municipality in the district of Eisenstadt-Umgebung, alt. 176 m, pop. 2,446, area 23.06 km2, in the Wulka Plain, near the border with Hungary; approximately 56 % of the population (1,370 persons) belong to the ethnic minority of Croats. - Since the closure of the sugar factory in 1989, economic restructuring has led to the emergence of a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises; industrial zone with trade and manufacturing companies in the eastern part of the municipality; manufacture of electric household appliances, pre-fabricated building systems. - Baroque parish church (1659), statue of the Virgin Mary; column of the Holy Trinity (early 18th century); castrum ("monastic cellar") dating from the 16th century. Four tumuli dating from the urn field culture of the late Bronze Age in the Schuschenwald forest (one of which has been reconstructed).
Literature#
Gemeinde Siegendorf im Burgenland (ed.), Siegendorf im Burgenland. Festschrift on the occasion of the inauguration of the Hauptschule secondary school on September 27, 1975, 1975.