Winden am See#

Winden am See, Burgenland, municipality in the district of Neusiedl am See, alt. 124 m, pop. 1,041, area 13.51 km2, north of Lake Neusiedl. - Open-air museum dedicated to the sculptor W. Bertoni; aerials and cable manufacturing plant, wine growing, warehouse cooperative. - Archaeological finds and traces of settlements from the New Stone Age to the Roman period. Located on a Roman Imperial Road, excavations of a Roman estate with the oldest known winepress in Austria; Baroque parish church (1725), interior decoration from the first half of the 18th century; mortuary chapel with late-Gothic Mount of Olives relief, tabernacle pillar with Gothic lantern from the 15th century, 2 Plague crosses (17th century); Baerenhoehle Cave north of Winden am See (only cave in Burgenland with cave animal finds from the Ice Age, excavations 1929-1931).

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