The Hölzelstein near Oggau has already been called "Ayers Rock" - which is of course an exaggeration. This is rather only a "Rockerl".The Burgenland rock has one thing in common with the world-famous Australian monolith: it also looks like fallen from the sky - in the flat country.
The Hölzelstein is a limestone reef about 60 metres long, which reaches a rock height of about five metres at its highest point on one side. Even a wall hook can be found in the summit rock. So there are people who don't get sloppy when they say that they climbed at Lake Neusiedl.
300 metres to the east of the Hölzelstein, there is a second rocky peak rising out of the plains, where the Rosali Chapel stands. The local historian Gerhard Marx has observed that the needle of a compass placed on the threshold of the chapel is constantly turning there.
It is often heard and read that this positive and negative coexistence is a characteristic of old places of worship ...
