SHEBA' ḲEHILLOT:

By: Isidore Singer, Alexander Büchler

Designation of the following seven populous Jewish communities in the counties of Oedenburg (Sopron) and Wieselburg (Mosony), Hungary: (1) Eisenstadt (Hungarian, Kis-Marton); (2) Deutsch-Kreutz (Német-Keresztur; Judæo-German, ); (3) Mattersdorf (Nagy Marton); (4) Lakenbach (Lakompak); (5) Kobersdorf (Kábold); (6) Kittsee (Köpcsény); (7) Frauenkirchen (Boldogasszony). They enjoyed special privileges, and were among the most wealthy communities of Hungary from the end of the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century.

S. A. Bü.