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Monument "Iron Curtain" and "Coal Mining"
DiscoverPlaces to seeAustriaBurgenlandBezirk OberpullendorfRitzing
Monument "Iron Curtain" and "Coal Mining"
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Monument "Iron Curtain" and "Coal Mining"
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JeanPierre 🐾
June 26, 2023
Hiking
This memorial commemorates the victims of the Iron Curtain on the one hand and the coal mining in the border area on the other.
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🐺 Alex 🌲🚴🥾📸
August 27, 2024
Cycling
The Helenenschacht colony is located in the Ödenburger Mountains, which separates northern Burgenland from central Burgenland.
The place is an old coal mining settlement and is located on the northern edge of the municipality of Ritzing, high up on the mountain directly on the Austrian-Hungarian border. Sealed off by the Iron Curtain until the end of the 1980s, Helenenschacht is now just a stone's throw from the Hungarian sister mine, Brennbergbánya, and down to Sopron / Ödenburg.
The place is an old coal mining settlement and is located on the northern edge of the municipality of Ritzing, high up on the mountain directly on the Austrian-Hungarian border. Sealed off by the Iron Curtain until the end of the 1980s, Helenenschacht is now just a stone's throw from the Hungarian sister mine, Brennbergbánya, and down to Sopron / Ödenburg.
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StoneMaster
September 4, 2026
Mountain biking
This memorial site in Ritzing commemorates the moving history of the border region and at the same time honours the historical traces of local coal mining. Right next to it, a separate memorial stone commemorates the people who tragically became victims of the Iron Curtain. The monument thus builds a bridge between the former division of Europe and the industrial past of the region.
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