Eisenstadt

Capital of the Austrian province of Burgenland and centre of the wine-growing region of the same name. The city is divided into the cadastral municipalities of Eisenstadt, Kleinhöflein im Burgenland, Oberberg-Eisenstadt, St. Georgen and Unterberg-Eisenstadt. The town lies on the southern slope of the Leitha Mountains. Eisenstadt is home to one of the central testing centres for the issuing of the state test number for quality wines.

Eisenstadt - Schloss Esterházy Haydn und Joseph Haydn

History

Eisenstadt was first mentioned in a document in 1264. It was elevated to a free city in 1648 and paid for this with 16,000 guilders and 3,000 buckets of wine worth 9,000 guilders. In 1622, Emperor Ferdinand II (1578-1637) pledged the dominions of Eisenstadt and Forchtenstein to the Esterházy princely family. The composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) entered the service of the Esterházys in 1761. The family was already growing wine on a large scale back then and the "Fürstlich Esterházy'sche Schlossweingut" is still the largest winery in Burgenland today.

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