You only see what you know (Goethe)
A very dangerous species living in Salzburg City is the rising bollard. Joking apart it is important to know, they are very strong and are able to damage a car if they hit it from below. Not sure if this species will live there forever but for now it is worth a look to check out the attached website.
This exhibition hall at the Karlsplatz in Vienna is an outpost of the Kunsthalle at the Museumsquartier. By the way, the bird-like sculpture at the right edge of this pic is an owl decorating the library of the Vienna University of Technology.
This commemorative plaque for Frédéric Chopin is placed at the address Kohlmarkt 9 (1st district of Vienna) where the Polish composer used to stay from November 1830 to July 1831 in a meanwhile demolished building.
On a harbour tour with a boat of the company ‘Wurm+Köck’ in Linz, we also entered this shipyard founded in 1840 and still producing and overhauling ships. My first impression: ‘Gosh, how neat and green such a slipway can be’.
Speaking in terms of space the New Cathedral of Linz (Neuer Dom) is the largest church of Austria. It is even larger than St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. This photo was taken from the top of a wooden tower named Keine Sorgen Turm, which has been erected for the event Höhenrausch.
One of my favourite diversions: Taking photos of decorations which don’t fit to the geography of the region. So I took this pic of an elephant seen at a building at the main square of Linz. The house is also known for being the home of a cellar theatre (Kellertheater) which generally performs comedies.
During a stopover in Linz, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the Symphony No. 36 (Linz Symphony) in this building located in the historic centre of the city. The Mozarthaus isn’t open for public but the inner court is worth a visit though.
While having lunch at the restaurant Schlossbrasserie on top of the castle hill, I caught sight of this remarkable tower. The 30-metre high tower made of wood is named No Sorrow Tower (Keine-Sorgen-Turm) and is part of the event Höhenrausch. Later, I had a good view of the New Cathedral from there.
This locomotive ÖBB 1040.09, built in 1951, forms an exhibit at the Waldviertel Railway Museum (Waldviertler Eisenbahnmuseum) in Sigmundsherberg. In addition to Austrian railway history, you also see an exhibition about the Sigmundsherberg POW camp from WWI. [German]
Have you ever been misguided by your navigation system? People living in Weissenbach an der Triesting are obviously so kind as to give us a hint this is the wrong route. Weissenbach is a small place in the Austrian state of Lower Austria (Niederösterreich).
A particular program point of the Vienna Classic Days 2014 was a parade of all participating cars along the Ringstraße. Unfortunately a heavy rain took place just at that very moment. Well, perhaps the water spray around all those classic cars made this event even more exciting. [German]
The nail man (Wehrmann in Eisen) was erected in 1915, to raise funds for widows and orphans of fallen soldiers. Each donor was allowed to drive a nail into the wooden figure. Today the figure is located under the arcades of the Felderhaus next to the Vienna City Hall. [German]