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General Tips: Walking into Melk from the Train Station
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  • Written by yooperprof on Aug 12, 2003
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    • Melk - Melk Abbey looms above the village
  • Melk Abbey looms above the village
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    • Favorite Thing: Melk is about 50 miles west of Vienna. Some visitors come from the capital by boat, others by coach; I arrived by train. In all, Melk Stift is said to receive half a million visitors a year! But if you are fortunate, you can still feel as if you are making a personal pilgrimage to this impressive site. I was there on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in early June, and I didn't feel at all pressed or crushed or lost in a throng. When I was there, the village center was practically deserted; I felt as if I had the place to myself. (I've been told that the July and August are the busiest months at Melk.)


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    General Tips: The Village Square in Melk
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    • Melk - Pedestrian pathway
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    • Favorite Thing: Before climbing up to the Abbey, I was able to find an ATM machine in the village square, and to have a coffee at one of the outdoor cafes in the village square. (It continues to impress me that you can find ATM machines that accept my bankcard from rural Michigan all around the world.)


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    General Tips: Looking Up at the Abbey
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    • Melk - A Higher Dominion
  • A Higher Dominion
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    • Favorite Thing: Before it was an Abbey, it was a fortress: this is prime real estate indeed! Tenth century warlords and chieftains realized that this hilltop high above the Danube was a place of strategic importance, and they established a bastion there that helped to establish Melk as a key location for the control of the entire region. Really, it was quite a coup for the Benedictenes to gain control of the location, and to use it as the base of their own operations. The Benedictenes were also very interested in power - albeit in a somewhat different fashion from the typical medieval warrior.


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    General Tips: Monastery Gardens
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    • Melk - Benedictene Pagoda
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    • Favorite Thing: a cool place to be on a hot summer day


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    General Tips: Monastery Gardens - nifty sculptures
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    • Melk - form and fun-ction
  • form and fun-ction
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    • Favorite Thing: danicng shapes on the garden lawn


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    General Tips: Highwater Mark
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    • Melk - 40 days and 40 nights?
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    • Favorite Thing: Melk is on the Danube, and like all rivers, the waters of the Danube will occasionally overflow its banks. This riverside building in Melk shows its all-time highwater mark above the ground-floor windows. It occured all the way back in 1501, so we really can't blame it upon global warming.


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    General Tips: Old Stone House in Melk
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    • Melk - there's no place like home
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    • Favorite Thing: another house down on the riverside, this one looks as if it has been carved directly out of the stone that makes up its foundation


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    Nemorino Sun Dec 9, 2007 16:40 UTC
     Brings back memories of a canoe trip down the Danube in the fall of 1962. We stopped here, and I was suitably impressed despite having a huge case of the runs. (As long as you spend your money they don't mind if it comes from rural Michigan or wherever.)    		Jerelis Tue Mar 27, 2007 16:12 UTC
     Ghee ... it has been a while ever since I visited Melk. Way back in the days with my parents. Thanx for bringing back good old memories! :)
    Paul2001 Thu Mar 30, 2006 22:51 UTC
     One of the best baroque buildings in Europe. An outstanding page.    		matcrazy1 Tue Jun 28, 2005 00:55 UTC
     Very nice page with good info. I do hope to visit Melk soon.
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