Outside St. Michael's Church in Grosspetersdorf

A very talkative older man took our picture and then gave us a tour of the church and a talk about the ethnic history of the region.

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Das Sudburgenland Day 3

June 21st 2007
We decide this morning that we will skip Middle Burgenland - it is a region so hilly that it has no train service. We cycle in a pleasant warm morning through the valley to Oberwart, stopping in Grosspetersdorf. This is an ethnic Hungarian area of Burgenland. Oberwart is the last stop on the train line into Southern Burgenland which reaches the read from the neighboring province to the west. Thus ... read more

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