[3] Rattersdorf offers direct access to the nature park at the Geschriebenstein (Írott-kő); since Hungary joined the Schengen Agreement in 2007, no border controls have been in place.

[5] After World War I the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) provisionally assigned the German-speaking Burgenland to Austria but did not settle the exact Austro-Hungarian border.

Pursuant to the 1920 Treaty of Trianon, the four villages initially became a part of the Kőszeg subdivision of the Vas administrative district in the Kingdom of Hungary, and a neutral boundary determination commission was created to delineate the frontier.

As it happened, although a short-lived communist government took power in 1919 under Béla Kun, it failed to redistribute large Hungarian estates, such as those of Esterházy, to the peasantry and became embroiled in war with both Romania and Czechoslovakia.

[5] Austrians also feared losing Lockenhaus to Hungary, believing that local boundary changes would lead to the loss of the glassworks in Glashütten (known in Hungarian as Szalónakhuta), which manufactured a beautiful yellow glass through the admixture of sulphur.

[5] The dispute was referred to the League of Nations Council in Geneva, which decided on 19 September 1922 that the mostly German-speaking communities of Lockenhaus and Hammerteich — as well as of Luising in the district of Güssing, some 35 km south of Rattersdorf and also claimed by Hungary — would be assigned to Austria, whilst Rattersdorf and Liebing, despite the wish of German-speaking majorities as expressed in a 1921 plebiscite, should be assigned to Hungary.

At a meeting in Ödenburg (now known by its Hungarian name Sopron) on 22 November 1922 the two countries reached consensus on the proposed swap, and the Paris Conférence des Ambassadeurs ratified the border settlement on 27 January 1923.

After both sides accepted an accurate map detailing the line of demarcation, the neutral boundary determination commission was dissolved at its last meeting in Sopron on 2 August 1924.

[5] From the time of the Austrian Anschluss of 1938 until the end of World War II in 1945, Rattersdorf, as with the rest of Austria, was incorporated within Nazi Germany.