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
Landesliga Burgenland number of relegated Burgenland teams in the Regional League East. From "2. Liga Nord", "2. Liga Mitte" and "2. Liga Süd" respectively, one club advances into the Burgenland Landesliga. Landesliga Burgenland The Landesliga Burgenland is the football division of the Austrian state of Burgenland. It is in the fourth highest division in Austrian football for clubs of the Burgenland Football Association (). The league is made up of sixteen teams playing one home and one away match against each other. A season therefore comprises 30 match days. The end of the season the champion is entitled to promotion into the