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Tor zur FreiheitPhoto: Tourismusbüro St. Margarethen | Herbert Schlosser, Tourismusbüro St. Margarethen | Herbert Schlosser
This memorial site made history in 1989. The Pan-European Picnic was a peace demonstration at the Austrian-Hungarian border near the city of Sopron (Ödenburg). With the consent of both countries, a border gate on the old Pressburg road between St. Margarethen in Burgenland and Sopronköhida (Steinambrückl) in Hungary was symbolically opened for three hours.
On August 19, 1989, refugees from the GDR appeared at the event site before the official program, scheduled to start at 3 PM, and broke through the border in several waves. The Hungarian border police did not prevent this escape, which became the first truly spectacular action of German reunification.
The memorial site is a worthwhile destination with a beautiful park area, a walking path featuring informative displays, the peace bell, and remnants of the Iron Curtain.
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The monument to European freedom
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Through Puszta and Heath near SiegendorfOn this varied route, we not only visit Bronze Age burial mounds, a very rare tree species in Austria, wide ...
An ideal winter hike on the border in Hungary to avoid the inhospitable snow conditions in the mountains. It is only shortly before Mörbisch that ...
The Festival route on the western shore of Lake Neusiedl connects some of the most beautiful places in Burgenland and combines cultural highlights ...
Connection to R1: 14 km Connection to B10: 12 km
This cycle route on the western shore of Lake Neusiedl connects Esterházy Castle, the quarry in St. Margarethen, the lake festivals, and many ...
Starting from Fertőrákos, we visit the forest-surrounded Sopron-Tómalom area, which entices visitors with its fairy-tale, natural "tunnel" made of ...
There are several blue hikes that have been awarded a badge, but the Sopron KÉK-frankos is hardly the best known. The tour, which can be ...
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