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Lower Austria

Lower Austria (German: Niederösterreich or ; Austro-Bavarian: Niedaöstareich, Niedaestareich) is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt Pölten, replacing Vienna which became a separate state in 1921. With a land area of and a population of 1.685 million people, Lower Austria is the second-most populous state in Austria (after Vienna). Other large cities are Amstetten, Klosterneuburg, Krems an …

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Zentralfriedhof
Zentralfriedhof
Kledering
The Vienna Central Cemetery (German: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the most well-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. The cemetery's name is descriptive of its significance as Vienna's biggest cemetery, not of its geographic location, as it is not in the city center of the Austrian capital, but on the southern outskirts, in the outer city district of Simmering. History and description Unlike many others, the Vie…
wikipedia/Vienna_Central_Cemetery
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Kahlenberg
Kahlenberg
Klosterneuburg
The Kahlenberg (German: [ˈkaːlənˌbɛʁk]) is a mountain () located in the 19th District of Vienna, Austria (Döbling). General The Kahlenberg lies in the Vienna Woods and is one of the most popular destinations for day-trips from Vienna, offering a view over the entire city. Parts of Lower Austria can also be seen from Stefaniewarte at the peak. Next to Stefaniewarte is a 165-meter high steel tower that serves as the transmitter for the ORF, the Austrian Broadcast Corporation. Two terraces are loca…
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Wenen vliegveld
Wenen vliegveld
Vienna International Airport (German: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat; ) is the international airport of Vienna, the capital of Austria, located in Schwechat, southeast of central Vienna and west of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the country's largest airport and serves as the hub for Austrian Airlines as well as a base for low-cost carriers Wizz Air and Ryanair. It is capable of handling wide-body aircraft up to the Airbus A380. The airport features a dense network of European destinatio…
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Lainzer Tiergarten
Lainzer Tiergarten
Purkersdorf
The Lainzer Tiergarten is a 24.50 km² (6,054-acre) wildlife preserve in the southwest corner of Vienna, Austria, 80% of it being covered in woodland. It dates back to 1561, when Ferdinand I created it as a fenced-in hunting ground for his family to use. Since 1919, it has been open to the public. Its name consists of its location by the Lainz district of Vienna's 13th District, and Tiergarten, which means zoo (literally, "animal garden"). Location The Lainzer Tiergarten is located mostly in Vien…
wikipedia/Lainzer_Tiergarten
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2017-09-03 AT Engelhartstetten, Schloss Hof
2017-09-03 AT Engelharts…
Schloss Hof is a palace located in Marchfeld, Austria near the border of Slovakia. It once belonged to Prince Eugene of Savoy who purchased it late in his life in 1726. He had it enlarged in the Baroque style by the architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt in 1729, and used it as an elaborate hunting lodge. He left it to a niece in his will, and it was later purchased by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and became part of the imperial estates. The castle was built in the 1620s to the east of what …
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Melk 2010 47
Melk 2010 47
Melk Abbey (German: Stift Melk) is a Benedictine abbey above the town of Melk, Lower Austria, Austria, on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Danube river, adjoining the Wachau valley. The abbey contains the tomb of Saint Coloman of Stockerau and the remains of several members of the House of Babenberg, Austria's first ruling dynasty. History The abbey was founded in 1089 when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gave one of his castles to Benedictine monks from Lambach Abbey. A monastic school, the Stif…
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120814_Museumsdorf_G_ 012
Museumsdorf Niedersulz is an open-air museum in Austria that displays traditional buildings and architecture from the Weinviertel. It is located in the village of Sulz im Weinviertel, about 45 km north of Vienna in the province of Lower Austria. The Museumsdorf Niedersulz has over 80 original buildings and structures that have been transported from their original sites. The Village-Museum of Niedersulz is the largest open-air museum in Lower Austria and was founded in 1979. It consists of 80 his…
wikipedia/Museumsdorf_Niedersulz
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ÖVP14 Klausur Mariahilfberg
ÖVP14 Klausur Mariahilfb…
The Schwarza is a river in Lower Austria. It is the left headstream of the Leitha. Course The Schwarza rises near the mountain Tettenhengst, part of the Gutenstein Alps, flows through the Höllental gorge and the Schwarza valley. Near Haderswörth in the parish of Lanzenkirchen the Schwarza combines with the Pitten and is then called the Leitha. It is long. Its basin area is . The Schwarza is part of the Natura 2000 region known as "North Eastern Border Alps: Hohe Wand – Schneeberg – Rax" (Nordös…
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Devín Castle
Devín Castle
Jägerhaussiedlung
Devín Castle (Slovak: hrad Devín Slovak: [ˈɦrad ˈɟeʋiːn] or Slovak: [ˈɟeʋiːnski ˈɦrat], Hungarian: Dévényi vár, German: Burg Theben) is a castle in Devín, which is a borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. Description The site has been settled since the Neolithic Age and fortified since the Bronze and Iron Age and later by Celts and Romans. The cliff (elevation 212 meters) is an ideal place for a fort due to its position at the confluence of the Danube and Morava rivers. The fort watche…
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panoramio-79574725
Zwettl (German: [ˈt͡svɛtl̩]; Central Bavarian: Zwedl; Czech: Světlá) is a town and district capital of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. It is chiefly known as the location of Zwettl Abbey, first mentioned in October 1139. History The name originates from Slavic "svetla" meaning "glade". Although the etymology suggests an early population of Slavic people no archeological evidence has been found yet. Zwettl was founded by the knights of Kuenring and was first mentioned in a monastery record…
wikipedia/Zwettl
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Stilklassen in Berndorf
Stilklassen in Berndorf
Burgruine Starhemberg was a castle in Lower Austria, Austria. Built in the 1140s, the castle fell into ruins by the late 19th century. Burgruine Starhemberg is above sea level. History The name is derived from the original name of 'high mountain' or 'Starkenberg'. A small castle was built here by Ottokar III, Margrave of Styria between 1140 and 1145. At the time, the Piesting river was the border between Styria and the March of Austria. In 1192, Styria—and, thus, the castle—was acquired by the …
wikipedia/Burgruine_Starhemberg
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Bücherei Reichenau an der Rax
Bücherei Reichenau an de…
The Lower Austrian Höllental Railway (German: Höllentalbahn) is a narrow gauge electric railway with a track gauge of , which runs from the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) station of Payerbach Reichenau on the Semmering Railway for approximately five kilometres through the market town of Reichenau an der Rax to Hirschwang. History The railway opened in 1918 to serve a paper mill and was opened to passengers and general goods traffic in 1926. Apart from local commuter traffic the railway also ser…
wikipedia/Höllental_Railway_(Lower_Austria)
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Burgruine Aggstein
Burgruine Aggstein
Willendorf in der Wachau
Aggstein Castle (German: Burgruine Aggstein, lit. "castle ruins of Aggstein") is a ruined castle on the right bank of the Danube in Wachau, Austria. The castle dates to the 12th century. Aggstein Castle is above sea level. Location The castle ruins are situated at about above the right bank of the Danube on an outcrop running from east to west. It is some long and has a rock structure at both ends. The ruins are located within the municipality of Schönbühel-Aggsbach in the Melk District of L…
wikipedia/Aggstein_Castle
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20150319_202_RU5_Steinhof
20150319_202_RU5_Steinhof
The Wienerwald Tunnel (German: Wienerwaldtunnel) is a 13.35-kilometre-long railway tunnel near Vienna, passing underneath the northern part of Wienerwald between Gablitz and Mauerbach. It is part of a new 250 kilometres per hour section between Vienna and St. Pölten which is part of the Western Railway (Austria). The Wienerwald Tunnel was constructed as part of a major expansion of Austria's most important rail corridor, it was intentionally built as a measure to minimise gradients and facilitat…
wikipedia/Wienerwald_Tunnel
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Pater Josef, Babsi, Paul and me
Pater Josef, Babsi, Paul…
Heiligenkreuz Abbey (German: Stift Heiligenkreuz; English: Abbey of the [[Christian cross) is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, c. 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world. History The monastery was founded in 1133 by Margrave St. Leopold III of Austria, at the request of his son Otto, soon to be abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Morimond in Burgundy and a…
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Figl Observatory
Figl Observatory
The Vienna Woods (German: Wienerwald) are forested highlands that form the northeastern foothills of the Northern Limestone Alps in the states of Lower Austria and Vienna. The and range of hills is heavily wooded and a popular recreation area with the Viennese. Location The Vienna Woods are bounded by the rivers Triesting, Gölsen, Traisen and Danube, and are on the border of the Mostviertel and the Industrieviertel, two of the four quarters of Lower Austria. Reaching into the city of Vienna it…
wikipedia/Vienna_Woods
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Sanatorium Purkersdorf
Sanatorium Purkersdorf
Purkersdorf
The Sanatorium Purkersdorf was built as a sanatorium in Purkersdorf, Wien-Umgebung, Lower Austria. It was built in 1904-05 by the architect Josef Hoffmann for the industrialist Victor Zuckerkandl and is an example of the style of the Viennese Secession in architecture. Sanatorium Zuckerkandl, the general director of the Silesian Iron Work of Gliwice, purchased the property at the city border of Vienna in 1903. It was acquired as a "mineral spa together with cure-park." Since the 19th Century a m…
wikipedia/Sanatorium_Purkersdorf
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Schlosspark Laxenburg, franzensburg ferry across the lake 2013-10
Schlosspark Laxenburg, f…
The Seegrotte, near Hinterbrühl, Austria, is a cave system with a large grotto located under a former gypsum mine. It was closed in 1912 after the mine flooded with 20 million litres of water. It became a tourist attraction after 1930 and has been one ever since, with the exception of World War II. The lake is 60 meters below ground, the water surface is 6200 m² and pumps are used to keep the water level down. Visitors can tour the old mine and take a boat ride across the underground lake. World…
wikipedia/Seegrotte
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Leitha
Leitha
Lanzenkirchen
The Leitha (German: [ˈlaɪtaː]; or , formerly ; Czech and Slovak: Litava) is a river in Austria and Hungary, a right tributary of the Danube. It is long ( including its source river Schwarza). Its basin area is . Etymology The Lithaha River in the Carolingian Avar March was first mentioned in an 833 deed issued by Louis the German, son of the Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious and ruler over the stem duchy of Bavaria. The Old High German name probably referred to a Pannonian (Illyrian) denota…
wikipedia/Leitha
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Steinertor 2
Steinertor 2
The University for Continuing Education Krems () is an Austrian university specializing in further education for working professionals. It is located in Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria. Name The Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research calls the university the Danube University Krems in English and the Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria calls the university the University of Continuing Education Krems in the English translation of the Universities Act 2002. Histor…
wikipedia/University_for_Continuing_Education_Krems
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Klosterneuburg Monastery
Klosterneuburg Monastery
Klosterneuburg
Klosterneuburg Abbey or Monastery (German: Stift Klosterneuburg) is a twelfth-century Augustinian monastery of the Catholic Church located in the town of Klosterneuburg in Lower Austria. Overlooking the Danube, just north of the Vienna city limits at the Leopoldsberg, the monastery was founded in 1114 by Saint Leopold III of Babenberg, the patron saint of Austria, and his second wife Agnes of Germany. The abbey church, dedicated the Nativity of Mary (Maria Geburt), was consecrated in 1136 and re…
wikipedia/Klosterneuburg_Monastery
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Seitenstetten Abbey
Seitenstetten Abbey
Seitenstetten
Seitenstetten Abbey (German: Stift Seitenstetten) is a Benedictine monastery in Seitenstetten in the Mostviertel region of Lower Austria. History The monastery was founded in 1112 by Udalschalk, or Udiskalk, a relative of Bishop Ulrich of Passau, to which he gave all his estates as an endowment. In 1114 the new foundation was settled by monks from Göttweig Abbey. Bishop Ulrich dedicated the church in 1116 and granted the abbey the large parish of Aschbach. In 1142 it also received the large pari…
wikipedia/Seitenstetten_Abbey
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MODUL University Vienna
MODUL University Vienna
Klosterneuburg
Modul University Vienna (short MU Vienna) is a private university established in 2007 in Vienna, Austria, that focuses on social and economic development. In particular, it focuses on the areas of tourism, new media information technology, sustainability, business management, and public governance. History Foundation and vision MU Vienna was founded by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Saudi-Austrian businessman Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber, and built with the support of the City …
wikipedia/Modul_University_Vienna
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Wiener Neustadt, Blick zum Wasserturm (1910)
Wiener Neustadt, Blick z…
Burg Wiener Neustadt is a castle in the Austrian city of Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria. It is the location of the Theresian Military Academy, which was founded in 1751. The site is above sea level. History The first castle at Wiener Neustadt was built in 1193–94, and the city walls were built at the same time. The costs were paid from the ransom of Richard the Lionheart. This castle is said to have stood on the north-eastern corner of the city, but there is no archaeological evidence of this…
wikipedia/Burg_Wiener_Neustadt
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