MAGYARORSZÁG	HUNGARY
megye: Győr-Moson-Sopron

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In the 1st century AD the Romans founded the military camp Ad Flexum. The castle of Moson (German: Wieselburg) was built by King Stephen I of Hungary (b.969, king 997, d.1038), while the fortress of Magyaróvár (originally called Óvár, old castle) was erected by the lords of Győr in the 13th century. The name Magyaróvár (German: Ungarisch-Altenburg) was used to distinguish the town from Deutsch-Altenburg in Austria. At the end of the 18th century the castle was owned by Duke Albrecht of Sachsen-Teschen, son-in-law of Maria-Theresia of Austria and viceroy of Hungary. Moson, Magyaróvár and the village of Lucsony were merged in 1939.

The Baroque parish church of Moson [left, no. 314] was built in 1777–1787 in place of a medieval church which had been destroyed by the Turks.
 

Glass no. 2744 [near left] was a souvernir from Magyaróvár and shows a view of the ammunition factory (labeled in Hungarian: Töltény gyár).

The former German name of Moson, Wieselburg, is the same as the Austrian town Wieselburg in Lower Austria.