St. Emmerichskirche

The St. Emmerichskirche, consecrated in 1903, was the parish church of Inzenhof, Tschanigraben, and several Hungarian communities until World War II. During the Iron Curtain era, it stood in no man's land between Austria and Hungary. The communists allowed the church to fall into disrepair, and it was inaccessible from Austria.The St. Emmerich Church, near Güssing, offers ideal conditions for people on both sides of the still-existing border to meet. It is located precisely on the Austrian-Hungarian border strip, in a clearing in the middle of an extensive forest, and is the only place along the border where one can meet for church or concert visits without border formalities – a place with high symbolic value.