The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1922-01-11
BGrseIliand: The Graustark OF
1921.

HdSiiiuSIoIl, IL u, JAN. 4.-6ur-
genland, scene of Europe's most
recent side show war" might just
as we'll be Graustark SO far as its
existence upon the usual map or
in the general reference work is
concerned, according to bulletin
from the Washington. d. c., head
quarters Of the National Geographic
society.
Explaining what and where is
this scene Of .hostilitieS between
AL trians and Hungarians the bull
letin says:
BY Burgenland is meant the
West Hungary of l.6S4 square miles
and somes $4,000 people which
Was carved from Hungary and giv-
en- to Austria by the Treaty of St.
German.
The strip resembles nothing SO
much. perhaps, as an old shoe,
with its flattened heel touching the
Danube opposite Pressburg Cor
Pozscny), its instep arched along
the Austria Hungary border. its toe
nearly tipping Jugo-Slavia-
In Burgeniand the parenthesis
comes into it's own. The map or
time table which neg1ects to, give
one alternative for a city or town.
and sometimes a. third choice, will
its user. Tact also would
require that if one speak Of the
principal city of the region to an
Austrian he call it Odenburg falso
spelled Oedenburgl; but that if he
mention the same city to Magyar
he speaks OF it as .Sopron.
"Odenburg has claim to fame on
its own account, notably its Church
of ST. Michael, completed eight
years before Columbus discovered
America, and its cattle markets Of
the days of before the war. But
its principal association is with the
names OF Esterhazy and Szechenyi.
Both north and east of 0den-
burg are castles Of the Esterhazy
Along the Neusiedler See
IS the Hungarian Versailles
where Haydn was conductor Of the
private orchestra Of enc Esterhazy,
Nicholas Joseph. At Mattersdorf
(Nagynaarton), where Austrians
have established a provisional gov
ernment. is the chateau Of the fam
ily. among whose scions were pal
atine Of Hungary. one who refused
the kinsship of Hungary. another
who was the emissary Of Louis XVI
to Marie Antoinette, and one who.
in 1917. formed the Hungarian cab
met representing the parties oppes-
ed to Count TisZa.
The castle Of the Szechenyl
family is nine miles southeast of
Odenberg. Kossuth. his political
called Istvan SzechepN
the greatest of the Magyars, and
time seems to confirm this unbiased
judgment. Figuring first as sort
of Paul Revere. in his ride through
enemy lines to convey a message
of two emperors to Blucher and
then as a Magyar l. En-
fant in his effort to make Buda a
capital beautiful. this noblenan
has to his credit such other di-
verse achievements as placing the
first steamboats, on the Thesis and
Danubes suggesting canals between
the two rivers. writing book on
horse racing. and giving a years ~
come to furthering the wider use
of the Magyar tongue.
The principal concern Of both
Austria and Hungary with Burgen-
land probably is the coal region at
Erenberg. near Odenburg. In the
vicinity. too. are the towns OF
Ruszt and Balf. centers OF wine
production.
"Neusiedler See. not far from
Oden1urg. is shallow body OF
water more than 20 miles long and
averaging seven miles wide. At
times it shrinks to half its size
About the time OF our own CIVIL
War it dried up altogether.
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