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Gemeinde Heiligenbrunn

Heiligenbrunn (Hungarian Szentkút, Croatian Šenkut) is a municipality in the district of Güssing in Burgenland in Austria. It is best known as one of the centers of Uhudler viticulture and for its historic cellar district. For several centuries, Heiligenbrunn was also a religious center for the surrounding area due to its Ulrichsquelle spring and an important pilgrimage site for the region

Culture and sights

Heiligenbrunn cellar quarter: extensive ensemble of about 150 wooden block buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries
Pilgrimage chapel to St. Ulrich with Ulrich's Spring: spring sanctuary with chapel, namesake of the community
Catholic parish church Heiligenbrunn St. Clement: late baroque building from 1764 with baroque high altar from 1655
Catholic parish church Hagensdorf hll. Kosmas and Damian: classicistic sacral building from 1788
Cemetery mound Hagensdorf-Luising: probably pre-Christian mound grave, former site of a fortified Luising Castle: neo-historic castle building, country residence of Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly
Rübezahl sculpture: bronze sculpture by Johann Trinkl in Heiligenbrunn