 They were received by the inhabitants of Burgenland with an overwhelming amount of hospitality.In 1957, the construction of the "anti-Fascist Protective Barrier" resulted in a complete sealing off of the area under Soviet influence from the rest of the world, turning the Hungarian-Austrian border next to Burgenland into a deadly zone of minefields and barbed wire (on the Hungarian side of the border), referred to as the Iron Curtain.Even during the era of the Iron Curtain, local trains between the north and south of Burgenland operated as "corridor trains" ("Korridorzüge") – they had their doors locked as they crossed through Hungarian territory.