Burgenland could well be taken as a sign of the Soviet Union towards opening the borders to the Western countries, starting in the late 1970s. Despite Burgenland (especially the area around Neusiedler See) always producing excellent wine, some vintners in Burgenland added illegal substances to their wine in the mid-1980s. When this was revealed, Austria's wine exports dwindled dramatically. After recovering from the scandal, vintners in Austria, not only in Burgenland, started focusing on quality and mostly stopped producing poor quality wine. On 27 July 1989, the Foreign ministers of Austria and Hungary, Alois Mock and Gyula Horn, cut the Iron
Krumbach, Vorarlberg Krumbach, Vorarlberg Krumbach is a village in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg in the Bregenz district. The municipality has about 1000 inhabitants. Krumbach stretches over an area of 8.71 km². It lies in the west of the country, more specifically in the Vorderwald which is part of the Bregenzerwald. Two rivers, the Weißach and the Bolgenach, flow through Krumbach. A special landscape feature of Krumbach are the numerous peat bogs. Krumbach is a member of the German-Austrian community project Naturpark Nagelfluhkette. The parish church Hl. Martin was built by local builders and consecrated in 1806. The church furnishing is partly