Hainburg

Hainburg, a walled town of Austria, on the Danube, 27 miles ESE. of Vienna, with a royal tobacco factory. It is usually identified with the ancient Carnuntum (q.v.); and a Roman aqueduct still supplies its market-place with water. In the Nibelungenlied the castle of Hainburg is called Heimburg, the border fortress of the country of the Huns. It was taken from the Hungarians in 1042 by the Emperor Henry III., and afterwards became a residence of the Austrian princes. In 1482 it was stormed by Matthew Corvinus, in 1683 by the Turks; and in 1827 it was burned to the ground. Pop. 4857.