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A church in present-day Antau was first mentioned in 1390. It was elevated to a parish church before 1402. In 1641, a wooden belfry with two bells was added. During the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna, the old church burned down in 1683. Using older masonry, the church was rebuilt in 1809 and 1810. After a fire in 1853, the church was rebuilt in 1854. A church tower was added in 1898. It was restored in 1966. The church was extensively renovated again in 1984 and 2009.

So, a retention basin is not a lake! It's used to collect water masses during floods.

Pöttsching Sculpture Trail: 18 stone sculptures are in visual contact with each other and guide the viewer along the approximately 4.5 km long path.

Opposite the Catholic church is the Protestant bell tower. During the Reformation, Walbersdorf was a Protestant stronghold in Burgenland. After the Edict of Toleration in 1781, when Protestant Christians were again allowed to publicly profess their faith, a dispute arose over whether the bells of the Catholic church should be rung at Protestant funerals. It is said that the issue was also about money, as was the possibility of a fee being paid for the ringing. The people of Walbersdorf could not agree. So, in 1800, the Protestants finally built their own bell tower, because no one should embark on their final journey without hearing the sound of the bells. They built it as a small, self-assured symbol directly opposite the local Catholic church. Shortly after its construction, the tower began to lean. Today, it is more crooked than the Tower of Pisa, yet it still doesn't fall over. (https://evang.at/der-schiefe-turm-von-walbersdorf/)

Since I was last here, modern rest areas and information boards have been built

When I got closer, I kept searching for the huge lake, but only found a small biotope. An information board and some dams finally provided the information. After a major flood, a correspondingly large retention basin was built.

Many of the houses were obviously built in the middle of the 19th century and are surprisingly well preserved and maintained.

The Protestant parish (founded in 1783) encompasses most of the Mattersburg district. The neo-Gothic parish church in Pöttelsdorf is often referred to as the "Cathedral of the Wulka Valley."