### BURG, Joseph Vitus
Bishop, born at Offenburg on 27 Sept. 1768, died at Mainz on 22 May 1833. He entered the Franciscan Order in 1787 and exercised parochial ministry. He was also entrusted with the commissarial administration of parts of the dioceses of Strasbourg incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Baden. After 1817 he became a doctor of theology at Freiburg, and was one of the most influential members of the Frankfurt conference for the restoration of ecclesiastical organization in the Upper Rhine. He accompanied Wessenberg, representative of the diocese of Constance, to Rome. Dean of the Cathedral and auxiliary bishop of Freiburg, then bishop of Mainz on 28 Sept. 1829, he proved to be the leading representative of Josephinism and Febronianism, aiming to secure real independence for the Catholic Church in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt; he therefore approved in 1830 the articles of the princes and governments of the German states in the ecclesiastical province of the Upper Rhine, which were condemned by Pius VIII in the brief *Pervenerat* of 30 June 1830.
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### BURGENLAND, Apostolic Administration of
Established on 18 May 1922, comprising parts of the Hungarian dioceses of Győr and Szombathely, which passed to Austria under the Treaty of St-Germain (1919). It is administered by the Archbishop of Vienna pro tempore, who has a provicar in the capital, Eisenstadt.
It is divided into 15 deaneries with 157 parishes. The Burgenland, the "land of castles," is politically one of the states of the Austrian Confederation, with its own government and diet; it covers 3,977 sq. km., has 273,000 inhabitants, of whom 234,000 are Catholic; ethnically, 10,000 are Magyar, 40,000 Croatian, the rest German.
From the 14th century onwards the territory of present-day Burgenland repeatedly passed from Hungary to Austria and vice versa as security for military aid; from 1647 it remained united to Hungary until the Peace Treaty of St-Germain (10 Sept. 1919), but was not definitively occupied until 3 Dec. 1922. Remains of a Paleochristian church were discovered at Donnerskirchen. Noteworthy are the famous castles of Forchtenstein, Schlaining, Landsee, Halbturn; as an example of a fortified village, Purbach; as rustic towns, Eisenstadt and Rust. Shrines: Frauenkirchen (14th cent.), Baumgarten (1465), Loreto (1431), the "Bergkirche" of Eisenstadt, a magnificent Baroque complex (1701-1705). *See* Pl. XVI.
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