Eisenzicken (Hungarian: ''Németciklény'', ''Vasverőszék'' or ''Vasszék'', Croatian: ''Nimski Cikljin'') is a small community in

Burgenland Burgenland (; hu, Őrvidék; hr, Gradišće; Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland;'' Slovene: ''Gradiščanska'') is the easternmost and least populous state of Austria. It consists of two statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of ...

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that belongs to the neighbouring village of

Unterwart Unterwart or Alsóőr (german: Unterwart; hu, Alsóőr; Croatian: ''Dolnja Borta'') is a village in Burgenland, Austria, in the district of Oberwart (Hun: ''Felsőőr''). The village lies on the banks of the Pinka river, and it had a population ...

(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 ( hu, Felső-Őrség, ; german: Wart) is a traditional ethnographic region and a small Hungarian language island in southern Burgenland, Austria. It consists of the town of Oberwart (Hun: ''Felsőőr'') and the two villages of Unter ...

microregion and the villagers were Hungarian frontier guards (''őr'') of the border-zone (''gyepű'') similarly than the people of Felsőőr (today

Oberwart Oberwart (; hu, Felsőőr; hr, Gornja Borta) is a town in Burgenland in southeast Austria on the banks of the Pinka River, and the capital of the district of the same name. Oberwart is the cultural capital of the small ethnic Hungarian minority ...

) and Alsóőr (today

). 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 purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

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 the Middle Ages into the 20th century. The Principality of Hungary emerged as a Christian kingdom upon the coronation of the first king Stephen ...

. 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 (french: Traité de Trianon, hu, Trianoni békeszerződés, it, Trattato del Trianon) was prepared at the Paris Peace Conference and was signed in the Grand Trianon château in Versailles on 4 June 1920. It forma ...

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