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Eisenzicken (Hungarian: ''Németciklény'', ''Vasverőszék'' or ''Vasszék'', Croatian: ''Nimski Cikljin'') is a small community in
Burgenland Burgenland (; ; ; Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland''; Slovene language, Slovene: ''Gradiščanska''; ) is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland (Austria), state of Austria. It consists of two statutory city (Austria), statut ...
,
Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...
that belongs to the neighbouring village of Unterwart (Hun.: ''Alsóőr''). It had a population of 240 in 2001.


History

Eisenzicken was first mentioned in 1352 under the name "Wosuereuzek" and 1496 "Vasek". The old Hungarian name of the settlement proves that Vasverőszék was originally established as a community of iron ore workers. The village already had a church in 1368. Vasverőszék in the Middle Ages was part of the
Upper Őrség Upper Őrség (, ; ) is a traditional ethnographic region and a small Hungarian language, Hungarian language island in southern Burgenland, Austria. It consists of the town of Oberwart (Hun: ''Felsőőr'') and the two villages of Unterwart (Hun: ' ...
microregion and the villagers were Hungarian frontier guards (''őr'') of the border-zone (''gyepű'') similarly than the people of Felsőőr (today
Oberwart Oberwart (; ; ) is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the Oberwart (district), same name. With almost 8,000 inhabitants it’s the third largest town in Burgenland, after E ...
) and Alsóőr (today Unterwart). In the 15th century the village was depopulated because of the constant skirmishes with Austria. The Baumkircher family settled German peasants in the village. The name of the settlement changed to Eisenzicken or Német-Cziklin (the later first mentioned in 1640 as "Nemet Chiklin") Németciklény (Eisenzicken) belonged to the old
county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...
of Vas until 1921 and it was part of the
Kingdom of Hungary The Kingdom of Hungary was a monarchy in Central Europe that existed for nearly a millennium, from 1000 to 1946 and was a key part of the Habsburg monarchy from 1526-1918. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the Coro ...
. The village had 53 houses in 1857/58. Surnames indicate that the total population was German that time. According to the last Hungarian census in 1910 the population numbered 358 people (almost exclusively German). After the
Treaty of Trianon The Treaty of Trianon (; ; ; ), often referred to in Hungary as the Peace Dictate of Trianon or Dictate of Trianon, was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920), Paris Peace Conference. It was signed on the one side by Hungary ...
it became part of the Republic of Austria. Eisenzicken was merged with the neighbouring Hungarian village of Unterwart/Alsóőr in 1971. The small community retained its agricultural way of life until the present.


Sight

The small baroque Roman Catholic Church of St. Fabian and Sebastian is a filial of the church of Rotenturm an der Pinka. There are several old peasant houses in the village giving it a distinct rural feel. Cities and towns in Oberwart District {{Burgenland-geo-stub