Sopron is a city in Hungary, close to the Austrian border, with a population of about 55,000. The officially bilingual town historical German language name Ödenburg is situated at the Amber Road, and in Roman times was named Scrabantia.
On August 19, 1989 the "Pan-European Picnic" took place near Sopron, when the "Iron Curtain" between Austria and Hungary was lifted for a few hours, allowing some hundred DDR citizens to cross the border.
