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General Tips: Austria - my homecountry
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Favorite Thing: A vacation in Austria offers a wonderful landscape like here on the pic on the top :
Traunsee with Schloß Orth
or historic buildings like :
Schloß Schönbrunn - the emperor's castle in Vienna
or the city of Salzburg (on the bottom of my pic ) - home of Mozart and Mozartkugeln...
There are plenty of pics and tips on my Austria-pages
Fondest Memory: Austria is part of the EU + Schengen States + €uro
and Austria is a NEUTRAL country...
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General Tips: Schloss Grafenegg
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Fondest Memory: Schloss Grafenegg is used for conventions, weddings and especially they have the 'Grafenegger Advent' a Christmas festivity with all kinds of performances by well known artists and a x-mas market.
some more pics are in the travelogue !
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General Tips: STEYR -and it's unique townsquare
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Fondest Memory: on Stadtplatz you will see ONLY houses in Roman-, Gothic-, Baroque- and Roccoco-style.
Steyr was lucky in WW II - although it was one of the centers of weapon-productions - but when the Allied Forces wanted to bomb Steyr in 1945 it was foggy and the bombs went down somewhere else... ;-)
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General Tips: STEYR - the baroque Town hall
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Fondest Memory: This is the town-hall and also the seat of the Tourist-information
It is the most beautiful baroque town-hall in Austria - simply have a look for the wonderful ornaments and statues on top
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General Tips: St.MICHAEL - in der Wachau
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Fondest Memory: with it's unique church: It is a mixture of a castle and a church.On top of the church-tower there is no roof, but a platform, where gun-men could shoot at enemies.
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and it seemed to be a necessity in the old times, so the farmers got protection inside the churchwalls and could defend themselves, as the enemies often used the Danube for transportation of goods and troops
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General Tips: KREMS an der Donau
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Fondest Memory: Krems an der Donau is a really nice little town, with plenty of baroque and roccoco houses. Krems is also the centre of vinyards in the Wachau.
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Krems is situated approx. in the middle between Vienna and Linz
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General Tips: Schloss Grafenegg
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Fondest Memory: Schloss Grafenegg is about 10 km west of Krems, not directy on the Danube, but really worth a visit.30 years ago I lived in that aerea and still remember this castle, with all glasses broken and the building in a very bad condition. I was told, that the russian soldiers burnt all wooden things - floors as well as ornaments after th 2nd WW. Then in 1968 the owner of the castle, called Fürst Metternich started to rebuild and restore the castle, and it looks really great today. They have big exhibitions there and conventions and every christmas they have a weekend with traditional austrian x-mas-songs...
I made a special travelogue about this castle !
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General Tips: Schloß SCHÖNBÜHEL
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Fondest Memory: Schloss Schönbühl is situated just a few km after MELK.This castle could not be seen from the left shore of the Danube. You could see it only from a ship, or if you take the street on the right shore of the Danube. And it could also be seen, from a distance, standing on the bridge of Melk.
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General Tips: GREIN an der Donau - Austria's oldest theatre
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Favorite Thing: In Grein an der Donau you may see Austria's oldest theatre.
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It was founded in Baroque times and is still used, although the town is very small (maybe 4000 inhabitants)
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General Tips: Grein an der Donau - shipping museum
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Favorite Thing: Grein is a nice village with the castle Schloß Geinburg - famous for it's innercourt with plenty of Arcades and the nice gardens. In the castle there is an interesting 'Museum of shipping the Danube'
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Ekaterinburg Mon Jan 8, 2007 14:03 UTC
A lovely page which has strenghtened my reolve to return and see the Alps and the Danube valley. Wonderful photos and informative tips. Youare lucky to live in such a beautiful country. Katherine:) | Sjalen Mon Jan 10, 2005 15:25 UTC
Very nice page as usual :) | lmkluque Sun Nov 14, 2004 16:50 UTC
What an enchanting and historic country you live in Michael!! I enjoyed your overview!! | Roeffie Fri Oct 15, 2004 18:34 UTC
Great page! Remembers me I have to book Salzkammergut to pick up memories of long time ago! I just remembered that 2 girls I met years ago in Millstatt came from Steyr. They visited me in Holland. |
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