1961 AD., Austria, 40th anniversary Burgenland commemorative, Vienna / Wien mint, 25 Schilling, KM 2891.

Austria, 40th anniversary Burgenland commemorative, Vienna / Wien mint, engravers: Hans Köttenstorfer (obverse) and Arnold Hartig (rev.), 1961 AD.,
25 Schilling (30 mm / 13,03 g), 0.800 silver, 13,00 g theor. mint weight, mintage 1.400.200 , medal alignment ↑↑ , plain edge with incuse legend " * FUENFUNDZWANZIG SCHILLING * ",
Obv.: 40 Jahre Burgenland / KÖTTENSTORFER / 1921-1961 , Berg- or Hayden-Kirche in Eisenstadt, engraver´s signature below.
Rev.: REPUBLIK / ÖSTERREICH // 25 / SCHILLING , value number within a beaded circle, small spray of leaves below, surrounded by 3/4 circle of nine shields of arms of the nine states of Austria.
KM 2891 .

Year / Mintage
1961 1,399,000
1961 1,200 (proof)

Burgenland is the easternmost and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte (towns with a charter) and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east (5 km wide at Sieggraben).
Through the history, territory of present-day Burgenland was part of the Roman Empire, the Hun Empire, the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths, the Italian Kingdom of Odoacer, the Kingdom of the Lombards, the Avar Khaganate, the Slavic State of Samo, the Frankish Empire, Great Moravia, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire, Austria-Hungary, Austria, and the World War II German Empire.
After the demise of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy in 1918, the German inhabitants of Deutsch-Westungarn (German Western Hungary, Burgenland) intended to join Austria. According to the 1910 census 291,800 people lived on the territory of present-day Burgenland. Among them 217,072 were German-speaking (74%), 43,633 Croatian-speaking (15%) and 26,225 (9%) Hungarian-speaking. Roma people were counted according to their mother language.
The area had also been discussed as the site of a Czech Corridor to Yugoslavia. The decision about Deutsch-Westungarn was fixed in the peace treaties of Saint Germain and the Trianon. Despite diplomatic efforts by Hungary, the victorious parties of World War I set the date of Burgenland's official unification with Austria as August 28, 1921.

Eisenstadt (Hungarian: Kismarton, Croatian: Željezni grad, Željezno, Slovene: Železno) is a city in Austria, the state capital of Burgenland. It has a population of about 12,000 (2006). In the Habsburg monarchy, Kismarton (Eisenstadt) was the seat of the Eszterházy Hungarian noble family. The composer Joseph Haydn lived there as Hofkapellmeister under Esterházy patronage. The Bergkirche in Eisenstadt, Burgenland today, began as a massive project. The local Esterhazy family was determined to make the church impressive. The overall intent was to create one of the region’s biggest pilgrimage churches. The intent fell flat in terms of size. Only the presbytery reached completion by 1722.
The Bergkirche is a squat, compact Baroque structure. It sits atop of a hill, the position dictated by Prince Paul Esterházy. The building, often called the Haydn Kirche, is actually dedicated to the Visitation of the Virgin Mary. Its interior features a rather magnificent artistic and architectural deception called “trompe l’oeil.” The mural executed in this fashion achieves a remarkable sense of three-dimension reality. Yet, what continually draws visitors to this church is not the building. There are two reasons: one is the Ways of the Cross display featuring life-sized figures; the other is the presence of Haydn’s Mausoleum on the grounds.