Kümmerling Rock, Family Mausoleum of the Esterházy Family, Germbuttn-Tree, Furrier Hollow (Kürschnergrube), Antoni Chapel,The Buried Treasure, Teufelskirnstein near St. Jörgen (St. Georgen)
Kümmerling Rock (Kleinhöflein)
Up on the way into the forest, to your right-hand side you will see the Kümmerling rock. Late at night, if you happen to be in one of the wine-inns of the village you may find the older citizens share stories of this rock - even to this day! According to the accounts, the rock bows before the most industrious vintner, the one who passes the rock first on his way to working the vineyards.
It appears that this story motivated many a not-so-eager vintner's son to rise early throughout the centuries.
Mausoleum of the Esterházy Family (Eisenstadt)
On 31 March 1682 Ursula Esterházy, the wife of Prince Paul I. Esterházy, passed away. According to tastes and customs of the time, she was laid out standing up. It remains a mystery why the corps of Ursula Esterházy never decayed: if was mummified. Due to the fact that over the decades and centuries a form of pilgrim-culture had developed, the family decided at the beginning of the 20th century to move the corps and to close the mausoleum.
Germbuttn-Tree (Kleinhöflein)
In the forests of Kleinhöflein, (past the settlement Pröstlweg), about a 20-minute walk into the woods, you get to the Germbuttn tree. Story has it that at the foot of this tree a smuggler once froze to death in his sleep. This smuggler smuggled yeast in a large trough from Lower Austria to Western Hungary. The smugglers at the time were scared stiff when they found out what had happened to their fellow and never used this smuggler's path again.
Furrier's Hollow (Kürschnergrube) (Eisenstadt)
If you head north through the Palace Park behind the castle, you will pass Johannes Grotto (follow the marked hiking paths), and about 1.5 hours on your way you will get to the Furrier's Hollow (Hornsteiner Hotter). The Furrier's Hollow is an old quarry with an extensive hollow that goes deep in the Leitha Mountains. In times of need it is said the inhabitants of the city would hide inside this hollow. The hollow got its name from the fine sand that can be found there and that the furriers got from there.
Antoni Chapel (Eisenstadt)
The Antoni ditch is a rift valley in the Leitha Mountains to the west of the Gloriette. It is said that young girls went there to pray to St. Anthony so he would see to it that they found a good husband. The chapel was built around 1700, in 1900 a neo-gothic niche was added.
The Buried Treasure (Eisenstadt)
Somewhere on Hauptstraße or in Pfarrgasse (depending on who you listen to), there could be found a treasure, buried during the ravages of the Ottoman occupation. Once a year at midnight, during full moon, the shadow cast by the parish church indicates the place the treasure is buried at.
Teufelskirnstein near St.Jörgen (St. Georgen)
Once upon a time a devil lived in the oak forest on Scheibenberg near St. Jörgen. This devil fell out of grace with a more powerful devil in hell and had been banned from hell, so he settled down near St. Jörgen, in said oak forest. During the day he led his animals to the meadow. The nights he spent underneath an immense rock, called Teufelskirnstein. Every evening he went up to the rock and called his grazing animals home - he yelled with a hoarse voice and lashed his whip loudly. It was the devil a great joy to make such hellish noise every evening and to send chills down the spines of the people in St. Jörgen. This hellish noise caused pets to be stubborn and stopped cows producing milk. The farmers wished this devil back to hell!
One day a stranger passed through the village on his way home from captivity. He was looking for a place where he could live in peace as eremite. The mayor offered him to stay in St. Jörgen. He had one favour to ask, though: the mayor told the stranger the story of the devil in the oak forest nearby. And he told the stranger that only a pious eremite could get rid of the devil. The old man gave the matter a thought and then gave the mayor his word to take care of the problem. The next day the stranger walked up to Scheibenberg and began building his hut. He had not been working long, when the devil passed by and nosily inquired what the old man was up to. The old man told the devil that the community had charged him with building the devil a home. He was extremely happy and jumped through the forest, making hellish noise again. No one in St. Jörgen could close an eye that night. The next couple of days the devil helped the old man build the dwelling. The priest and the people of the village, however, had consecrated a bell and had secretly brought it to the eremite's dwelling. In the evening the old eremite rang the bell for the first time. This was too much, even for this devil. He jumped up and ran off and had never been seen or heard of again. The farmers of St. Jörgen could now live in peace and quiet. Soon ferns grew out of the footprints the devil left when he ran. Nothing reminded the people of the devil any longer. The den of the eremite has long disappeared, too. A few moss-covered rocks remind of the place where it once stood.