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Inside St. Michael's

The town used to be called St. Michael's (after the church) but the town council thought there were too many towns by that name so instead renamed it Big Peters Village.
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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Austrian Flag Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more
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