Burg Güssing - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

A privately founded open-air museum in 1976 in the municipality of Gerersdorf-Sulz in Burgenland. The visitors are introduced to the way of life of the farmers and craftsmen in this region back then, be it on an independent tour of the authentically furnished buildings or on a guided tour. In addition, the extensive information material provided explains the individual buildings.

The cellar district of Heiligenbrunn in Heiligenbrunn in Burgenland extends across the vineyards of Stifterberg, Zeinerberg and Zeinergraben on a ridge west of the southern Burgenland village of Heiligenbrunn and is part of the "Nature Park in the Wine Idyll". In total, the cellar district consists of around 150 press houses and wine cellars, which, however, are not cellars per se, but mostly wooden block buildings on a rammed earth floor.

The Grenzerfahrungsweg is a hiking trail for young and old. The experience-oriented stations take up historical, cultural and landscape conditions. You wander through a varied landscape, with plenty of rest areas, as well as smaller individual stations with picture and text boards.

The Rotenturm Castle in the Austrian Burgenland in Rotenturm an der Pinka is one of the most important historic country castles. Already in the Middle Ages there was a moated castle in the northwest corner of the extensive area , which was protected by the pinka and moats​​​​​​​. The historicist jewel and its park were extensively renovated by the owner Prof. Heinz Schinner in close cooperation with the Federal Monuments Office.

The Tabor Castle in Neuhaus am Klausenbach is located in the three-country Raab nature park in the border region of Austria , Hungary and Slovenia .The castle with a hook-shaped floor plan had the Styrian mercenary leader Ulrich Pessnitzer built in 1469. The courtyard of the castle with two-storey arcades is used in summer for the performance of an opera and for numerous other events. The round tower with the heraldic cartouche is also worth seeing.

Burg Schlaining is a castle in Stadtschlaining in the Austrian state of Burgenland. It is the location of the "Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution" founded in 1982 and has established itself over the past decades as an international competence center for peace research, education and practice. It is a historical and authentic arena of peace, where strategies for non-violent conflict resolution are developed and conveyed.