About Hegykő

The origin of the name: First wroten relic from 1262 IGKU (  Saint Stone ) the name in German is the same Heiligenstein. this name come fom  ancient hungarian language that means saint or God. So the story runs, they found a paganish sancrificial stone and built it in
to the altar of the christian church, its magical force to vindicate God’s house.
Hegykő  located in the middle of the hungarian lakeside of the Neusiedler Lake (  Fertő –tó ).
Hegykő is the stamping ground the visitors who wants to know this area. The  varied accomodation offers from villager guesthouses to wellness Pensions reach out. Each guest can
find something to one’s taste. Our thermal Bath ( Spa ) is also a great fascination for the visitors who looking for healing and recreation, open in whole year. We get the thermal water
from deepness of 1434 m, with 55 °C to the spa.
 For your pleasure are the festivals  in may  Gastronomical and  Wine Festival and from the second Friday of July the Ten fountain festival with art exhibitions, concerts and many other events , in August The Rollick of Hegykő,

Thermal Spa

Thermalbath

[Hegykő Termálfürdő] In the summer time cool, wave-free pools filled with mineral water await the guests, while in the winter time a covered wellness pool and a hot open air thermal pool offer a special adventure, especially at snow time. At the thermal bath there is a play-ground, and there are deck chairs, saunas, and different catering shops available to the visitors.

The spa of Hegykő brought up from the depth of 1434 meters of a temperature of 55°C is a slightly hard, fluoridated, sulphuric, sodium-chloride alkali hydrogen carbonate type of thermal water. Thanks to its outstandingly high mineral content and medically proven therapeutic effect it is an acknowledged spa since 2004.

Therapeutic effect of the spa of Hegykő

The spa of Hegykő is suitable for curing chronic locomotive diseases, based on the recommendation of specialist doctors. It may be applied with good result as a rehabilitation cure for the treatment of the following cases

healed bone fractures,
sprains,
joint strains,
muscle kinks.

Using the thermal bath regularly mitigates the strains caused by sport activities and by intensive muscle work. The water vapours ascending from surface water and breathed in have a beneficial impact as regards respiratory passage complaints.

Therapeutic treatments in the thermal bath

The therapeutic treatments of the thermal bath of Hegykő have significant traditions. The offer includes the following treatments. These treatments may be used either through subsidies or direct payment:

spa pool bath,
medical therapeutic massage,
underwater water jet massage,
mud packing,
group aqua fitness,
back, leg and full body massage,
sole reflex massage,
lymphatic drainage,
bioptron light therapy,
jadeite massage bed,
individual therapeutic physical exercise.

Nagycenk Széchenyi mansion and linden alley

Nagycenk, Széchenyi Mansion, built in Baroque and Neo-Classical style by the Széchenyi family through consecutive generations. Today it serves as a memorial museum of Count István Széchenyi ("The Greatest Hungarian"), its most famous resident.

Also to visit opposite to the main entrace of the mansion the linden alley and the railway museun.

Memorial place of the iron Curtain in Hegykő

About the Iron curtain

THE IRON CURTAIN

The Iron Curtain was the most striking symbol of the division of Europe into two parts after World War II. That phrase that has since become widespread was first used by Winston Churchill on March 5, 1946 in his speech in Fulton, Missouri. At the end of the 1940s the frontiers were closed all along the Western border of the area under Soviet control to prevent the population from escaping.

The order to build the Iron Curtain along Hungary’s western borders was emitted in May 1948. A year later the construction of the 1000 kilometer long wire fence began, with mined stretches behind it in several sections. The landmines were removed between 1955 and October 1956. This is how it became possible for about two hundred thousand 1956 freedom heroes to leave Hungary for Austria and Yugoslavia.

Those who lived within the 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) border-zone needed special permission to enter the area within 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) of the border. The area was very difficult to approach and heavily fortified. In the 1950s and 1960s, a double barbed-wire fence was installed 50 metres (160 ft) from the border. The space between the two fences were laden with land mines. The minefield was later replaced with an electric signal fence (about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the border) and a barbed wire fence, along with guard towers and a sand strip to track border violations.

Regular patrols sought to prevent escape attempts. They included cars and mounted units. Guards and dog patrol units watched the border 24/7 and were authorised to use their weapons to stop escapees. The wire fence nearest the actual border was irregularly displaced from the actual border, which was marked only by stones. Anyone attempting to escape would have to cross up to 400 metres (1,300 ft) before they could cross the actual border. Several escape attempts failed when the escapees were stopped after crossing the outer fence.

The Hungarian outer fence became the first part of the Iron Curtain to be dismantled. After the border fortifications were dismantled, a section was rebuilt for a formal ceremony. On 27 June 1989, the foreign ministers of Austria and Hungary, Alois Mock and Gyula Horn, ceremonially cut through the border defences separating their countries.

The creation of these highly militarised no-man's lands led to de facto nature reserves and created a wildlife corridor across Europe; this helped the spread of several species to new territories. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, several initiatives are pursuing the creation of a European Green Belt nature preserve area along the Iron Curtain's former route. In fact, a long-distance cycling route along the length of the former border called the Iron Curtain Trail (ICT) exists as a project of the European Union and other associated nations. The trail is 6,800 km (4,200 mi) long and spans from Finland to Greece

Birdwatching

Birdwatching in the morning
 

Guided tours – Birdwatching in the morning

We offer the program on the following days:

16th June, Wednesday

29th June, Tuesday

6th July, Tuesday

20th July, Tuesday

27th July, Tuesday

3rd August, Tuesday

10th August, Tuesday

24th August, Tuesday

Starting time:      6:00

Meeting point:       Hansági - channel, sluice at Mekszikópuszta, car park

                                (GPS: 47°40’43.20 N  ;  16°50’52.89 E)

We can observe the resting (awakening) waterbirds on the saline lakes bordering the Lake Fertő in the early morning. The program starts with a specific number of participants! The program lasts for one and a half hours.

Participation fee: 1200 Ft/person, but at least 8000 Ft/tour. For the children of families under 10 years we provide 50% preference.

Neusiedler See landscape

The area of the Fertő and Hanság is a particularly beautiful island of nature in the western gate of Hungary. The entire Lake Fertő/Neusiedlersee, both the Hungarian and the Austrian parts, was pronounced as joint World Heritage int he year of 2001.
In the Hungarian part including The Fertő-Hanság National Park and the ten sorrounding villages Sarród, Fertőd, ( With the Esterhazy Castle ) Fertőszéplak, Hegykő, Fertőhomok,
Hidegség, Fertőboz, Nagycenk ( with the part of Kiscenk/ Castle of the Szechenyi’s ) Balf ( Sopron) and Fertőrákos.

Three zones were established in the national park according to the specifications of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources).
The remaining areas of these once huge swamp and moorlands are sanctuaries of unique botanical, zoological, landscape, folklore, and ethnographical values.

The Fertő-Hanság National Park (in Hungarian: Fertő-Hanság Nemzeti Park) in a national Park in North-West Hungary in Győr-Moson-Sopron county. It was created in 1991, and officially opened together with the connecting Austrian Neusiedler See National Park the same year. The park covers 235.88 km².

Fertőboz Gloriett Mirador

Visit the cozy little village on Lake Fertő in May for the elderflower festival, stop by when on a visit to Fertőd or Hegykő, or take the little train to Nagycenk! You can enjoy a glass of wine on the terrace or in the wine cellar of the Vincellér House on the outskirts of the village.
The Gloriette vantage point offers a splendid view of the surrounding countryside.

Wine taste in Fertőboz /Széchenyi Vinotheka/

Wine from the vineyards of Sopron can look back on a more than 2000 year old history. In the early 14th century the town already stood at the heart of Hungary’s most important wine growing region in Hungary, and its trade relations extended far beyond Hungary’s then borders. At that time the wines of Sopron were savoured in royal courts from France to Russia. From the 19th century on German vintners, known as “Poncichter” (the name comes from the word meaning bean grower), ensured that Sopron wines were famed far and wide.

In and around Sopron, wine cellars were not to be found in the vineyards, but under the vintners’ city dwellings. This was not only one of their privileges; it also meant greater security and protection.

You can taste wines in Szechenyi Vinoteka /Cellar/ in Fertőboz.

Fertőd Eszterházy palace

Esterháza was not the primary or ancestral home of the Esterházy family; that was Schloss Esterházy, a palace nearby (40 kilometers (25 mi)), in Eisenstadt.

Miklós Esterházy began his plans for a new palace not long after he became reigning prince in 1762 on the death of his brother Paul Anton.[1] Before this time, Nikolaus was accustomed to spending much of his time at a hunting lodge called Süttör, built in the same location around 1720 with a design by Anton Erhard Martinelli. The hunting lodge was the nucleus around which Esterháza was built.[1]

The first architect to work on the project was Johann Ferdinand Mödlhammer, succeeded in 1765 by Melchior Hefele.[1] While the palace is often compared to Versailles, which the Prince had visited in 1764 when he visited Paris,[2] H. C. Robbins Landon claims that a more direct influence can be found in "Austrian prototypes, particularly Schönbrunn palace in Vienna."

The palace cost the Prince the sum of 13 million Austro-Hungarian gulden, a figure that Robbins Landon terms "astronomical".

Eszterháza was first inhabited in 1766, but construction continued for many years. The opera house was completed in 1768 (the first performance was of Joseph Haydn's opera Lo speziale), the marionette theater in 1773. The fountain in front of the palace was not completed until 1784, at which point the Prince considered his project complete.[3]

Nikolaus Esterházy died in 1790. Neither his son Anton, who inherited the Esterházy lands, nor any of his later successors had any interest in living in the isolated palace.

From 1766 to 1790, the estate was the home of the celebrated composer Joseph Haydn,[4] where he lived in a four-room flat in a large two-storey building housing servants' quarters, separate from the palace.[5] Haydn wrote the majority of his symphonies for the Prince's orchestra. Eszterháza also had two opera houses, the main theatre seating 400 (destroyed by fire in 1779) and a marionette theatre;[6] Haydn conducted his own and others' operas, often with more than a hundred performances per year.[7]

Röjtökmuzsaj water mill

In the second half of the 17th century György Széchenyi established a water mill in the district of Muzsaj to supply water to the town and to his estate. The mill museum shows the main branches of milling in Hungary.

Fertő-Hanság National Park World Heritage Site

The area of the Fertő and Hanság is a particularly beautiful island of nature in the western gate of Hungary. The entire Lake Fertő/Neusiedlersee, both the Hungarian and the Austrian parts, was pronounced as joint World Heritage int he year of 2001.
In the Hungarian part including The Fertő-Hanság National Park and the ten sorrounding villages Sarród, Fertőd, ( With the Esterhazy Castle ) Fertőszéplak, Hegykő, Fertőhomok,
Hidegség, Fertőboz, Nagycenk ( with the part of Kiscenk/ Castle of the Szechenyi’s ) Balf ( Sopron) and Fertőrákos.

Fertőrákos

Fertőrákos (German: Kroisbach) is a village in the county of Győr-Moson-Sopron in Hungary. In 2001 it had a population of 2,182.

It is located at 47°43′15″N 16°39′0″E, about 10 km (6 mi) from Sopron, near Lake Fertő (German: Neusiedler See) and the Austrian border. In summer, a border checkpoint for pedestrians and cyclists connects it to the Austrian municipality of Mörbisch am See (Hungarian: Meggyes). The Fertorakos mithraeum is visible near the border. Fertőrákos also features a small port with a border checkpoint, and a sand beach swimming area, access to which prior to 1989 was restricted to the communist elite.

The village was first mentioned in 1199 under the name Racus. In 1457 it was first mentioned in German language as Krewspach, later Kroisbach. Today, it forms part of the Austrian-Hungarian national park and joint World Heritage Site of Lake Fertő.

The Wagner - Liszt Fesztivál is an annual event held at the Fertőrákos cave theater and in Sopron.

Following the annexation of Hungary in 1944, German occupying forces established a 'transit/labour camp' in a quarry in Fertőrákos, to which Hungarian Jewish and political prisoners were sent, and many thousands died here, with others transported onward to Nazi concentration camps in German occupied Poland and Germany. The site of the transit camp can be visited, and has a memorial plaque.

Neusiedler Lake

Lake Neusiedl (German: Neusiedler See) or Fertő (Hungarian: Fertő tó; Croatian: Nežidersko jezero, Niuzaljsko jezero; Slovene: Nežidersko jezero) is the largest endorheic lake in Central Europe, straddling the Austrian–Hungarian border. The lake covers 315 km², of which 240 km² is on the Austrian side and 75 km² on the Hungarian side. The lake's drainage basin has an area of about 1,120 km². From north to south, the lake is about 36 km long, and it is between 6 km and 12 km wide from east to west. On average, the lake's surface is 115.45 m above the Adriatic Sea and the lake is no more than 1.8 m deep.

Spa /Sá-Ra Termál/

The thermal bath of Hegykő awaits its guests – wishing to recuperate, to participate in sport activities or just wishing to rest, recreate – in the protected natural environment of the Fertő landscape, with covered and open pools, with its excellent quality spa throughout the year.

In the summer time cool, wave-free pools filled with mineral water await the guests, while in the winter time a covered wellness pool and a hot open air thermal pool offer a special adventure, especially at snow time. At the thermal bath there is a play-ground, and there are deck chairs, saunas, and different catering shops available to the visitors.

The spa of Hegykő brought up from the depth of 1434 meters of a temperature of 55°C is a slightly hard, fluoridated, sulphuric, sodium-chloride alkali hydrogen carbonate type of thermal water. Thanks to its outstandingly high mineral content and medically proven therapeutic effect it is an acknowledged spa since 2004.

Therapeutic effect of the spa of Hegykő

The spa of Hegykő is suitable for curing chronic locomotive diseases, based on the recommendation of specialist doctors. It may be applied with good result as a rehabilitation cure for the treatment of the following cases

healed bone fractures,
sprains,
joint strains,
muscle kinks.

Using the thermal bath regularly mitigates the strains caused by sport activities and by intensive muscle work. The water vapours ascending from surface water and breathed in have a beneficial impact as regards respiratory passage complaints.

A short guide abot the Neusideler See landscape

Welcome in the Fertő / Neusiedler  Lake  World Heritage

The area of the Fertő and Hanság is a particularly beautiful island of nature in the western gate of Hungary. The entire Lake Fertő/Neusiedlersee, both the Hungarian and the Austrian parts, was pronounced as joint World Heritage int he year of 2001.
In the Hungarian part including The Fertő-Hanság National Park and the ten sorrounding villages Sarród, Fertőd, ( With the Esterhazy Castle ) Fertőszéplak, Hegykő, Fertőhomok,
Hidegség, Fertőboz, Nagycenk ( with the part of Kiscenk/ Castle of the Szechenyi’s ) Balf ( Sopron) and Fertőrákos.

Three zones were established in the national park according to the specifications of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources).
The remaining areas of these once huge swamp and moorlands are sanctuaries of unique botanical, zoological, landscape, folklore, and ethnographical values.

The Fertő-Hanság National Park (in Hungarian: Fertő-Hanság Nemzeti Park) in a national Park in North-West Hungary in Győr-Moson-Sopron county. It was created in 1991, and officially opened together with the connecting Austrian Neusiedler See National Park the same year. The park covers 235.88 km².

Lake Fertő is the third largest lake in Central-Europe, and the westernmost of the great continental salt lakes of Eurasia.Lenght 35 Km  spread 7- 15 Km deepness 50 – 180 cm,
surface 309 Km2. Inlet burns are Wulka and Rákos. Water, rippling reed beds, sweeping meadows with flat saltwater pools - this ist the National Park known as the Neusiedler See Lakes Area. The Pannonian climate with its long growing period and its position between the Alps and the Puszta determine the type of plant life: mosaics of dry meadow surrounded by wetlands and salt marshes. The National Park is full of wildlife, mainly birds: meadow sandpipers, geese, herons, storks, curlews and birds of prey. The mammal most popular amongst visitors is the funny little suslik, or ground squirrel, that lives in the short grass of the pastures.

Birdwatching at dawn

Birdwatching at dawn

Aquatic bladderwort tour

Canoe tour in the reed of Lake Fertő
 

Guided Tours – Canoe tour in the reed of Lake Fertő

On an adventurous 6 km long canoe tour along the western shore of Lake Fertő we introduce flora and fauna of the reed, channels and the inner lakes enclosed in the reed. The route leads along the channels cut into the dense reed of the Lake Fertő into an almost untouched world, to the place between the Csárdakapui Channel and the Lake Kláder, where numerous wonders await the visitor. Among them maybe the most interesting are the invertebrate-eating golden-flowered bladderwort, the reed songbirds (Great Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Bearded Tit), the Great Egret, the Purple Heron, the Coot and various duck species.

The nature trail starts at the entrance of the Csárdakapui-channel situated halfway between the settlements Balf and Fertőrákos. (GPS: 47°40’41.95 N  ;  16°40’38.48 E ) Parking is possible at the channel.

The program starts with a definite number of participants, between the middle of May and the middle of September. Visitors under 14 years old may only participate under adult supervision. We suggest the use of appropriate clothing, hat and insect repellent. The duration of the tour is 3 hours. In the case of doubtful we cannot undertake the organization of the program.

Bath in Neusiedler Lake and boattrip

The Shipping Company Drescher recommend decades reliable and popular services and programs.

Determining the Lake Neusiedl shipping company organizes and provides the harbor Hungary Fertőrákosi since 1989, and the crossing of the cruise ship port in all avenues of Lake Neusiedl and the Hungarian section of the Austrian side.

Qualified and experienced staff, equipped with all the comforts of European standard boat fleet is the guarantee that pleasant experiences richer. Fertőrákos the port Drescher, convenient and secure unobstructed Steg, our buffet refreshments, coffee welcome.

There are many ways to learn about Lake Neusiedl: the vast variety of boat trips on Lake Neusiedl, which are connected by the beauty of nature with pleasure. Several times a day at regular sailings from közlekedtetünk Mörbisch - Rust - Illmitz ports. Our boats are suitable for transport by bicycle, which is possible in the region of Lake Neusiedl bike tours combine pleasure boating as well.

The captains Drescher Line will take you safely to port all of Lake Neusiedl. International shipping of authority, and many years of experience in the pledge of accident-free navigation. In Our Cruise personally presented the Lake Neusiedl, Hungarian, German and English Literature captain framework.

Organized sailing programs: the amusements, the Gourmet Tours, the mere Tour, Rust experience excellent fun for our trip, making it the unforgettable boat trips.

The most important tools DRESCHER LINE vessels to transport between the east and west of Lake Neusiedl harbor, but the scheduled review kompközlekedésen offers much more cruises are, cruise programs, excursions. Our boats can be rented for private events. Captain, primarily Hermann Drescher personal honor for you to feel as a passenger on the ship and I am pleased to welcome you to describe the beauty of Lake Neusiedl.

Chokolatemanufaktur in Sopron Harrer

The characteristic flavour of the coca bean depends largely on its country of origin. Just like the wine grape, the soil, the way of cultivation and the type of the plant all define the special taste. Cocoa cultivation isn't an easy task. The plant grows only in a warm but wet climate and exclusively near the 20 degrees North or South latitude. Although heat is essential for the plant, it needs to be protected from direct sunlight. The best location is a shady place under high trees.

Harrer Chokolatemanufaktur in Sopron

Harrer Chocolat Kft. / 9400 Sopron / Faller Jenő u. 4. / Tel./Fax +36 99 505 904

Harrer Chocolat taste date:
M-S: 10.00 and 14.00 Hours
Please write us:
office@harrerchocolat.com
Tel. +36 99 505 904

Pamhagen - Zoo

Zoo in Pamhagen.

Adress / Kontakt

Steppentierpark Pamhagen
Am Tierpark 1
7152 Pamhagen
(Burgenland- Österreich)

Telefon: (+43) 0 2174 / 24 89

Internet:

E-Mail: steppentierpark@aon.at

Homepage: www.steppentierpark.at

Navigationskoordinaten:

47°43’31.21“ N 16°54’53.96“ O

Family park

Familypark Neusiedlersee
M. Müller Ges.m.b.H
Märchenparkweg 1
A-7062 St. Margarethen im Bgld.

The Family Park (M. Müller GmbH) enterprise has become a leading company in Burgenland and, in terms of area and number of attractions, the largest amusement park in Austria. welcoming 460 000 visitors in the 2014 season. Awards such as the 2013 Burgenland Innovation prize and the "2014 Manager of the Year" title to  Ulrike Müller, the Family Park director, confirm our actions in aligning the park in consistentcy with the needs and wishes of our guests. The coming years will also see further expansion of the Family Park in order that we may be able to offer our guests many more exciting and varied attractions.