@Julia Szent-Györgyi I contacted archiv@evang.at and they sent me a link to Matricula-Online where the Lutheran records are available from 1783, and they do include the figures that I was looking for!
https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/burgenland-ab-hb/rust/
Those records are completely different from the ones uploaded here to FS. So far, the records only show births from 1783. According to the representative who contacted me, they are still in the process of uploading the records, so deaths and marriages from those years might appear later.
What happened to the records in Ruszt (Sopron/Burgenland)?

Concerning these records:
There are very large gaps within them. Have they been lost permanently or are those years present in another Parish?
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Ruszt is on neither Wikipedia's nor MACSE's lists of lost registers.
Kálniczky says 1851-1895 for what's on microfilm at the MNL for both Roman Catholic and Lutheran, with no indication of what happened to earlier years. (It says the RC church was built between 1674 and 1685, and the Lutheran one in 1722.)
The MNL's online catalog (Adabázisok Online) says:
RC mixed 1872-1895 (listed three times, identically as far as I can tell)
RC mixed 1851-1859
Luth mixed 1851-1859
Luth mixed 1880-1895While (as you linked), FS says it has:
RC: mixed 1851-1895
Luth: mixed 1851-1859, 1880-1895Modulo that cataloging hiccup at Adatbázisok Online, it looks to me like they're all listing the same material, and none of them give any indication of where to look for the missing years.
I ventured into the Images section for cataloging and found some 20th century death records from what appears to be the Lutheran church in Ruszt (film 110898223: https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/110898223?cc=1393793&i=0); I don't have time to play with it, but it may be worthwhile to explore whether any of the "adjacent" film numbers yield any other relevant records. (Given the length of the numbers, these are all much too new to show up in the Catalog.)
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This is a bit unusual, considering documentation is extensive for this area and that the individuals I'm interested in finding data (1820s-1830s and 1860s-1870s) were very important for the town:
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi I contacted archiv@evang.at and they sent me a link to Matricula-Online where the Lutheran records are available from 1783, and they do include the figures that I was looking for!
https://data.matricula-online.eu/de/oesterreich/burgenland-ab-hb/rust/
Those records are completely different from the ones uploaded here to FS. So far, the records only show births from 1783. According to the representative who contacted me, they are still in the process of uploading the records, so deaths and marriages from those years might appear later.
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Various Burgenland Lutheran registers showed up on FS a few months ago, partially indexed but uncataloged. (I've been slowly wading my way through Felsőlövő; I can tell that the opening paragraph mentions the Edict of Tolerance, but I haven't figured out what — if anything — it says about where or if things were recorded previously.) Thank you for the tip about these scans being now also found on Matricula; both its cataloging and its image viewer are superior to FS's, at this point. (Before the disimprovements to the catalog's image viewer, FS had the advantage in navigation and was equivalent in pan/zoom, but unfortunately navigation is now just as clunky and slow as Matricula's and pan/zoom are now smarter-than-thou and infuriating.)
(I notice that my unfavorable assessment of the Images section's cataloging has been edited out of my Jan. 5th comment's last paragraph, resulting in a less-than-sensible first sentence there.)
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Only issue is I cannot download the images so I could attach them as sources. Instead, I have to create a direct link to Matricula and hope the link still works in 10 years. Making screenshots and stitching them together in Photoshop is a way around it, but it's such a hassle with the resulting quality being worse.
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I think for these "dual-site" images, I'll be mostly using Matricula to find the event, and then seeing if FS will cough it up, either as an image or as an index entry, simply because it's at least slightly easier to work with FS sources on FS. But while I recognize that "will this still be here in a decade?" is a concern for all online images (including on FS), I seldom actually download or screenshot things, preferring instead to concentrate on good transcriptions and complete citations (or breadcrumb trails).
(I've never noticed any difference in quality between screenshots and downloads; perhaps this is because my laptop screen has ridiculously high native resolution?)
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I asked them about marriages and deaths. They have now generously made available those records as well.
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