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Eisenstadt ( ) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
, the state capital of Burgenland
Burgenland

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstadt and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities....
. It has a population of about 12,000 (2006). In the Habsburg monarchy
Habsburg Monarchy

The Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austria branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918....
, Eisenstadt/Kismarton was the seat of the Eszterházy hungarian noble family. The composer Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
 lived there as Hofkapellmeister under Esterházy patronage
Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege and often financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors....
.

nstadt lies on a plain leading down to the river Wulka, at the south foot of the mountain range known as the Leithagebirge, about 12 km from the Hungarian
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
 border.

The city is divided into four districts:

present city name, meaning "Iron City", was first recorded in 1118 as "castrum ferrum" and refers to the history of iron mining and iron trade in the area.






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Eisenstadt ( ) is a city
City

A city is an urban area with a high population density and a particular administrative, legal, or historical status.Large industrialized cities generally have advanced systems for sanitation, utilities, land usage, house, and transportation and more....
 in Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
, the state capital of Burgenland
Burgenland

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstadt and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities....
. It has a population of about 12,000 (2006). In the Habsburg monarchy
Habsburg Monarchy

The Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austria branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918....
, Eisenstadt/Kismarton was the seat of the Eszterházy hungarian noble family. The composer Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
 lived there as Hofkapellmeister under Esterházy patronage
Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege and often financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another. In the history of art, arts patronage refers to the support that kings or popes have provided to musicians, painters, and sculptors....
.

Geography

Eisenstadt lies on a plain leading down to the river Wulka, at the south foot of the mountain range known as the Leithagebirge, about 12 km from the Hungarian
Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
 border.

The city is divided into four districts:
  • Oberberg
  • Unterberg
  • Kleinhöflein
  • St. Georgen


Origin of the name

The present city name, meaning "Iron City", was first recorded in 1118 as "castrum ferrum" and refers to the history of iron mining and iron trade in the area. The first written mention of the town took place in 1264 as "minor Mortin", matching the Hungarian
Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
 name, Kismarton, which is recalling Saint Martin
Martin of Tours

Saint Martin of Tours , was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Roman Catholic Church saints....
, the patron saint of the main church.

History

Archeological finds prove that the Eisenstadt area was already settled in the Hallstatt
Hallstatt culture

The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture from the 8th to 6th centuries BC , developing out of the Urnfield culture of the 12th century BC and followed in much of Central Europe by the La T?ne culture....
 period. Celts and Romans
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 settled somewhat later. During the Migration Period
Migration Period

The Migration Period, also called Barbarian Invasions or V?lkerwanderung , was a period of human migration which occurred within the period of roughly 300?700 Common Era in Europe, marking the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages....
, the area was settled by different Germanic tribes and the Huns
Huns

The Huns were a confederation of Central Asian Eurasian nomads or semi-nomads, who had established an empire in Eurasia. The Huns may have stimulated the Migration Period, a contributing factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire....
. Around 800, during the reign of Charlemagne
Charlemagne

Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
, settlement by the Bavarii
Bavarii

The Bavarii were a large and powerful tribe which emerged late in Germanic peoples tribal times, in what is now the Czech Republic . They replaced, or perhaps are simply another phase of, the previous inhabitants - the Rugians....
 began.

The fortress built on the original earth works was destroyed by the troops of Leopold III, Margrave of Austria
Leopold III, Margrave of Austria

Saint Leopold III was the Margrave of Margravate of Austria in 1095-1136. He is the patron saint of Austria, of the city of Vienna, of Lower Austria, and, jointly with Saint Florian, of Upper Austria....
. In 1241, it was destroyed by the Mongol invaders. In 1373, the town came into the possession of the Kanizsai family, who rebuilt the walls surrounding the town and built a fortress at the site of the present day castle between 1388 and 1392. In 1388, Eisenstadt was given the right to hold markets by Emperor Sigismund.

In 1445 Archduke Albert VI of Austria acquired the town. In 1451 it was ceded to Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick III of Habsburg was elected as King of the Romans as the successor of Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1440.Born in Innsbruck, he was the son of Duke Ernest of Austria from the Leopoldinian line of the Habsburg family ruling Inner Austria, i.e....
 by Matthias Corvinus in return for the Holy Crown of Hungary. Matthias Corvinus reconquered it by force in 1482, but Maximilian I
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian I of Habsburg was Holy Roman Empire from 1508 until his death, but had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his reign, from circa 1483....
 acquired it again in 1490. It remained under Habsburg
Habsburg

The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
 rule until 1622. In 1529 and 1532 the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
 conquered Eisenstadt with their advance on the city of Vienna
Vienna

Vienna is the Capital of Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million...
 (see Ottoman wars in Europe
Ottoman wars in Europe

The wars of the Ottoman Empire in Europe are also sometimes referred to as the Ottoman Wars or as Turkish Wars, particularly in older, European texts....
). It was captured by the army of Imre Thököly
Imre Thököly

Count Imrich T?k?ly de Kesmarkium was a Hungarian statesman, leader of an anti-Habsburg uprising, List of Transylvanian rulers of Transylvania....
 in 1683, and it saw the defeat of the kuruc
Kuruc

File:Kuruc labanc csatajelenet1.jpgThe kuruc was a term used to denote the armed anti-Habsburg Hungarian rebels in Royal Hungary between 1671 and 1711....
 army of Sándor Károlyi by the Habsburgs in 1704. A royal town since 1648, it was destroyed by fire in 1589 and 1776.

In 1648, it passed under the rule of the Esterházy family. These Hungarian
Hungarian people

Hungarians are an ethnic group primarily associated with Hungary. There are around 10 million Magyars in Hungary . Hungarians were the main inhabitants of the Kingdom of Hungary that existed through most of the second millennium....
 princes permanently changed the face of the city due to their extensive construction especially on their castle, Schloss Esterházy
Schloss Esterházy

The Schloss Esterh?zy is a palace in Eisenstadt, Austria, the capital of the Burgenland state. It was constructed in the late 13th century, and came under ownership of the Hungarian House of Esterh?zy in 1622....
. The appointment of Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
 as the prince's Hofkapellmeister (court orchestra director, composing and performing music) began the great artistic period in the city's history. In 1809, Eisenstadt was occupied by French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 troops during the Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars were a series of conflicts involving Napoleon I of France First French Empire and changing sets of European allies and opposing coalitions that ran from 1803 to 1815....
; in 1897, it was joined to the railway network.

Until the end of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, it was the seat of Kismarton county in the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary

The Kingdom of Hungary , which existed from 1000 to 1918, and then from 1920 to 1946, was a considerable state in Central Europe....
. In 1921, by the Treaties of Trianon
Treaty of Trianon

The Treaty of Trianon is the peace treaty concluded at the end of World War I by the Allies of World War I, on one side, and Hungary, seen as a successor of Austria-Hungary, on the other....
 and Saint-Germain
Treaty of Saint-Germain

File:AustriaHungaryWWI.gifFile:Austria-Hungary post-division, William Shepherd 1926 atlas.jpgThe Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the new First Austrian Republic on the other....
 it became part of Austria. Since 30 April 1925, Eisenstadt is seat of the Burgenland state government and thus the state capital. During World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Eisenstadt was heavily bombarded. In 1945, it was occupied by the Red Army
Red Army

The Red Army was the armed force first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and, in 1922, became the army of the Soviet Union....
, and the city remained until 1955 under Soviet occupation. In 1960, Eisenstadt became the see of its own Roman Catholic diocese
Diocese

In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglicanism, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a bishop. It is also referred to as a bishopric or Episcopal Area or episcopal see, though strictly the term episcopal see refers to the domain of ecclesiastical authority officially held by the bi...
.

Politics


The current mayor of Eisenstadt is Andrea Frauenschiel ÖVP.

The district council is composed as follows (as of 2007):

  • ÖVP: 17 seats
  • SPÖ: 8 seats
  • Austrian Green Party
    Austrian Green Party

    The Greens ? The Green Alternative is a political party in the Parliament of Austria.The party was formed in 1986 with the name Gr?ne Alternative, following the merger of the more conservative Green party Vereinte Gr?ne ?sterreichs and the more progressive party Alternative Liste ?sterreichs ....
    : 2 seats
  • FPÖ: 2 seats


Main sights


Religious edifices

  • Bergkirche, housing Haydn
    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
    's tomb.
  • Domkirche, late Gothic former military church, began in 1460.
  • Franziskanerkirche (Franciscan church), Built in 1629, it contains the crypt of the Esterházy family.
  • Jewish synagogue
    Synagogue

    A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
    .


Castles and palaces

  • Schloss Esterházy
    Schloss Esterházy

    The Schloss Esterh?zy is a palace in Eisenstadt, Austria, the capital of the Burgenland state. It was constructed in the late 13th century, and came under ownership of the Hungarian House of Esterh?zy in 1622....
     and Schlosspark, the Esterházy castle and park.
  • Gloriette
    Gloriette

    A gloriette is a building in a garden erected on a site that is elevated with respect to the surroundings. The structural execution and shape can vary greatly, often in the form of a pavilion or tempietto, more or less open on the sides....
    , the former Esterházy hunting lodge.


Buildings


  • Haydn mausoleum
  • Rathaus (City Hall)
  • Pulverturm (lit. "Powder tower")


Museums

  • Haydnmuseum , a museum dedicated to Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
    , who lived in the building between 1766 and 1778.
  • Landesmuseum (regional museum).
  • Österreichisches Jüdisches Museum (Austrian Jewish Museum).
  • Diözesanmuseum (museum of the local Roman Catholic diocese).
  • Feuerwehrmuseum (fire department museum).


Gallery


Culture

Eisenstadt hosts a Haydn festival, the Haydnfestspiele, and an annual otter-baiting event, Vadnnisier Di.

Sister cities

  • Bad Kissingen
    Bad Kissingen

    Bad Kissingen is a spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and is the capital of the Bad Kissingen . Situated to the south of the Rh?n Mountains on the Franconian Saale river, it is a world-famous health resort....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Colmar
    Colmar

    Colmar is a town and communes of France in the Haut-Rhin departments of France of Alsace, France, of which it is the Prefectures in France ....
    , France
    France

    France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  • Lignano Sabbiadoro
    Lignano Sabbiadoro

    Lignano Sabbiadoro is a town and commune in the province of Udine, in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of north-eastern Italy.It is one of the main summer resorts in northern Italy....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
  • Sanuki, Kagawa
    Sanuki, Kagawa

    is a cities of Japan located in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 57,382 and the population density of 361.32 persons per km?....
    , Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
  • Sopron
    Sopron

    Sopron ; , , Latin language: Scarbantia) is a city in Hungary near the Austrian border.HistoryAncient times-13th century...
    , Hungary
    Hungary

    Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....


People


Natives

  • Gyula Farkas (linguistic scientist)
    Gyula Farkas (linguistic scientist)

    Farkas Gyula, or Julius von Farkas was a Hungarian people literary historian and Finno-Ugric languages linguistics.In the 1920s he was a coworker of Robert Gragger at the Hungarian Institute of the Humboldt University of Berlin in Berlin....
  • Andreas Ivanschitz
    Andreas Ivanschitz

    Andreas Ivanschitz is an Austrian association football who plays for Panathinaikos FC in Greece and the Austria national football team. He plays as an attacking midfielder....
     (was born in Eisenstadt but lived in Baumgarten which is about 20 min away from Eisenstadt)
  • Josef Hyrtl
    Josef Hyrtl

    Josef Hyrtl was an Austrian anatomist.Hyrtl was born at Eisenstadt in Hungary. He began his medical studies in Vienna in 1831, having received his preliminary education in his native town....
  • Maria Perschy
    Maria Perschy

    Maria Perschy was an Austrian actress.Perschy was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting....
  • Martin Vukovich
    Martin Vukovich

    Martin Vukovich is Austria's current ambassador to Russia.After obtaining a Baccalaur?at from Lyc?e Francais de Vienne in 1962 and a PhD in law from University of Vienna in 1967 Vukovich entered into the Austrian Foreign Service in 1969....
  • Joseph Weigl
    Joseph Weigl

    Joseph Weigl , was an Austria composer and conducting.The son of Joseph Franz Weigl , the principal cellist in the orchestra of the Esterh?zy family, he was born in Eisenstadt and studied music under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Antonio Salieri....
     I & II, musician


Other residents


  • Samuel Löw Brill
    Samuel Löw Brill

    Samuel L?w Brill was a Jews of Hungary rabbi and Talmudical scholar born in Budapest. He was educated by his father, Azriel Brill , who was teacher and associate rabbi at Pest, Hungary, and the author of several works in the Hebrew language....
    , rabbi and Talmudical scholar; born in Budapest
    Budapest

    Budapest is the Capitals of Hungary of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it serves as the country's principal political, cultural, commerce, Industry, and transportation center and is considered an important hub in Central Europe....
    ; attended yeshivah
  • Akiva Eiger the Younger (Akiba ben Moses Guens) German rabbi
    Rabbi

    Rabbi , in Judaism, means a religious ?teacher?, or more literally, ?my great one?, when addressing any master. The word rabbi derives from the Hebrew root word , rav, which in biblical Hebrew means ?great?, used in many senses, including the sense of a ?master? and apprentice, whence someone who is a distinguished ?teacher?....
     and champion of Orthodoxy
    Orthodox Judaism

    Orthodox Judaism is a Jewish denominations of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict constructionist and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim....
    ; born here
  • Joseph Haydn
    Joseph Haydn

    Joseph Haydn was an Austrians composer. He was one of the most prominent composers of the classical music era, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"....
    , musician, born on Rohrau
    Rohrau

    Rohrau may refer to:*Rohrau, Austria, a town in Lower Austria*Schloss Rohrau, a castle in Rohrau, Austria*Rohrau , a village in the municipality of G?rtringen, Baden-W?rttemberg...
  • Azriel Hildesheimer
    Azriel Hildesheimer

    Dr. Esriel Hildesheimer was a German rabbi and leader of Orthodox Judaism. He is regarded as a pioneering modernizer of Orthodox Judaism in Germany and as a founder of Modern Orthodox Judaism....
    , German rabbi, founder of Torah im Derech Eretz
    Torah im Derech Eretz

    Torah im Derech Eretz is a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism articulated by Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch , which formalizes a relationship between traditionally observant Judaism and the modern world....
    ; in 1851, he was called to the rabbinate of Eisenstadt
  • Markus Horovitz
    Markus Horovitz

    Markus Horovitz was a Hungarian-Jewish rabbi and historian.He was born at Lad?ny, near Tokaj, Hungary. The descendant of an ancient family of scholars, he pursued his rabbinical studies at the yeshivot of Ujhely, Verb?, and Eisenstadt ....
    , German rabbi and historian; born March 14, 1844, in Ladány, pursued his rabbinical studies at the yeshibot
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Pressburg , but a part of Kingdom of Hungary when he was born....
    , musician
  • Adam Liszt
    Adam Liszt

    ?d?m Liszt was the father of composer and pianist Franz Liszt.He was born in Nemesv?lgy, Kingdom of Hungary as the second child of Gy?rgy Liszt and Barbara Slez?k....
    , musician, father of Franz Liszt
    Franz Liszt

    Franz Liszt was a Kingdom of Hungary composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher.Liszt became renowned throughout Europe for his great skill as a performer during the 19th century....
  • Leopold Löw
    Leopold Löw

    Leopold L?w Magyars rabbi. He received his preliminary education at the yeshibot of Treb?c, Kol?n, Leipnik, and Eisenstadt , and then studied philology, pedagogics, and Christian theology at the Lyceum of Bratislava and at the universities of Pest and Vienna ....
    , born at Czernahora
    Cerná Hora (Blansko District)

    Cern? Hora is a market town in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 1,900 inhabitants.Name of the place come from a hill whose vegetation is darker than the neighbourhood....
    , Moravia
    Moravia

    Moravia is a Historical regions of Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, one of the former Czech lands. It takes its name from the Morava River, Central Europe which rises in the northwest of the region....
    , studied at the yeshibot of Eisenstadt
  • Mordecai Mokiach
    Mordecai Mokiach

    Mordecai Mokiach was a Jewish Sabbatai Zevi "prophet" and false Messiah; born in Alsace about 1650; died at Pressburg May 18, 1729.The death of Sabbatai Zevi seems to have encouraged his followers, who claimed that he had returned to his heavenly abode and would come back in three years to finish his "Messianic" task....
    , "pseudo"-Messiah
    Messiah

    Messiah literally means "anointed ".In Jewish messiah tradition and Jewish eschatology, messiah refers to a future monarch of United Monarchy from the Davidic line, who will rule the people of Israelite#The Twelve Tribes, and herald the Messianic Age of global peace....
    , born in Alsace
    Alsace

    Alsace is the fourth-smallest of the 26 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the sixth-most densely populated region in France , with 222 inhabitants per km? ....
  • Robert Musil
    Robert Musil

    Robert Musil was an Austrian writer. His unfinished long novel The Man Without Qualities is generally considered to be one of the most important modernist literature novels....
    , author
  • Ignaz Pleyel
    Ignaz Pleyel

    Ignace Joseph Pleyel was an Austria France composer of the Classical period ....
  • Emanuel Schreiber
    Emanuel Schreiber

    Emanuel Schreiber was an American rabbi originally from Leipnik, Moravia.Schreiber received his education at the Talmudical college of his native town, the rabbinical seminary at Eisenstadt, Hungary, and the Hochschule in Berlin ....
    , rabbi
  • Fritz Spiegl
    Fritz Spiegl

    Fritz Spiegl was born at Zurndorf, Austria, the son of an agricultural merchant and his Jewish wife. He became a musician, journalist, Presenter, humorist and Collecting who lived and worked in England from 1939....
  • Isaac Hirsch Weiss
    Isaac Hirsch Weiss

    Isaac Hirsch Weiss was an Jews of Austria Talmudist and historian of literature born at Velk? Mezir?c?, Moravia. After having received elementary instruction in Hebrew and Talmud in various cheder of his native town, he entered, at the age of eight, the yeshiva of Moses Aaron Tichler , where he studied Talmud for five years....
    , talmudist and historian of literature; born at Gross Meseritsch, Moravia; studied at yeshivah
  • Samson Wertheimer
    Samson Wertheimer

    Samson Wertheimer was chief rabbi of Hungary and Moravia, and rabbi of Eisenstadt. He was also an Austrian financier, court Jew and Shtadlan to Austrian Emperor Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor....
    , rabbi
  • Aaron Wise
    Aaron Wise

    Aaron Wise was an United States Rabbi.Wise was educated in the Talmudic schools of Hungary, including the seminary at Eisenstadt, where he studied under Dr....
    , rabbi, born at Erlau
    Erlau

    Erlau is a municipality in the district of Mittelsachsen in Saxony in Germany....
    , studied at yeshivah; the father of Stephen Samuel Wise


As a surname


Eisenstadt, a Jewish surname, derives from this city. Some people with this surname or its variants include:
  • Shmuel Eisenstadt
    Shmuel Eisenstadt

    Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt is an Israeli sociology. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem....
     Israeli sociologist
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt
    Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Alfred Eisenstaedt was a German American photography and photojournalist. He is renowned for his candid photography, frequently made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera....
  • Meir Eisenstadt
    Meir Eisenstadt

    Meir ben Izsak Eisenstadt was the author of responsa and other works of rabbinic literature. An authority on Halakha, he was consulted by rabbis from Turkey, Germany and Italy....
  • Stuart E. Eizenstat
    Stuart E. Eizenstat

    Stuart Eizenstat is a partner at Washington, D.C. law firm, Covington & Burling and senior strategist at APCO Worldwide. He is married to Frances Eizenstat, and has two sons and six grandchildren....
Tori Eisenstadt

External links

  • University of applied sciences.
  • , Eisenstadt page for young adult activities.


See also

  • Eisenstadt v. Baird
    Eisenstadt v. Baird

    Eisenstadt v. Baird, , was an important Supreme Court of the United States case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples and, by implication, the right of unmarried couples to engage in potentially procreative sexual intercourse ....