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Bergkirche

Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
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About Bergkirche

The Bergkirche is a church in Eisenstadt, the capital of the nation of Burgenland in Austria. The church turned into built inside the early 18th century with the aid of Prince Paul Esterhazy. Eisenstadt was the seat of the Esterhazy family, and the church lies only a short walk to the west of the circle of relatives's fundamental palace. The Bergkirche is architecturally uncommon and is built in two parts. The foremost segment, the church proper, is approximately a rectangular. The interior is in Baroque style; Humphreys and Bousfield call it "a trompe-l'œil delusion in pinks and greys".

The ceiling takes the form of a dome, which turned into painted in fresco inside the late 18th century by using J. W. Baumgartner. A side chapel is ruled through a large marble sarcophagus, the tomb of the composer Joseph Haydn, who spent an awful lot of his profession in Eisenstadt operating for the Esterhazys. The stays of maximum of Haydn's body have rested here given that 1932; the skull changed into brought best in 1954; for the motive for the disparity see Haydn's head.

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