Archaeological site
Sopron-Várhely Grave Field
You’re at the Gräberfeld Sopron-Várhely—an enclosed hilltop settlement and burial ground that spans roughly from the Hallstatt period (about 800–475 BCE) into the Late La Tène era (190 BCE to around the birth of Christ). The Burgstallberg here reaches 483 meters above sea level, and it sits on an eastern spur of the Alps, with the Rosalien and Leitha Mountains acting as a natural barrier from the Vienna Basin. What makes this place stand out is the scale of the barrows: in the late 19th century, Lajos Bella mapped 136 large and 60 smaller hill graves. Around 1970, Gyula Szádeczky-Kardos’s new measurements counted 159 in total. …
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