Zagersdorf

Wine-growing municipality near Eisenstadt in the Leithaberg wine-growing region of Burgenland in Austria. Like the whole of Burgenland, it belonged to Hungary until 1920/21 (Hungarian name Zárány, Croatian name Cogrstof). Here, after the Second World War, grape seeds of the species Vitis vinifera were discovered in a Celtic burial mound from the Hallstatt period around 700 BC. At that time, the Celts practised viticulture in this area. This makes the village, along with the municipality of Stillfried in the Weinviertel, one of the oldest wine-growing communities in Central Europe. The ancient tradition of viticulture is also reflected in the municipal coat of arms with stylised grapes. There is a bilingual wine hiking trail (German and Croatian) laid out as a circular route over a length of 3.5 kilometres with 35 stops along the vineyards. The vineyards cover around 100 hectares of vines on sandy clay soils with gravel and loess loam. More than 90% of them are planted with red wine varieties such as Zweigelt, Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent. Well-known wineries are Pretterebner Rolf and Schuster Rosi.

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