Austrian Sights

[J. A.]

The following posts will show photos from my walk in Vienna yesterday. I was just seeing most of the buildings from outside. There was no time to visit them, but most of these have visiting hours, or even guided tours.

Since all of the images are from Vienna, I won't add the name of the city.

We started our tour at Westbahnhof. As of now, it's one of Vienna's major railway stations. This will supposedly change once Vienna Central Station is finished.

You can also find this memorial there:

It reminds of the 10,000 children that were allowed to escape to Britain in 1938 and 1939.

 

[J. A.]

Haus des Meeres - a public aquarium
A part of it from outside (obviously not only an aquarium)

And the top of the building

The building is made of concrete, and was used as flak tower in WW II.

 

[J. A.]

Maria Theresien Platz

Maria Theresa and Art History Museum behind it

Some of the fountains between the museums

 

[J. A.]

Volksgarten (People's Garden)

Empress Elisabeth Monument, with Burgtheater behind it

Detail

Franz Grillparzer Monument (he was an Austrian writer)

 

[J. A.]

A few buildings along Ringstraße

Austrian parliament building

Rathausplatz

Burgtheater - the entrance

Staatsoper

 

[scifan57]

Thanks for the many interesting photos, they make me wish I were there.

 

[The OB]

A really great series of photos, Johanna. They bring back a lot of memories
Andrew


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[J. A.]

A really great series of photos, Johanna. They bring back a lot of memories
Andrew


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Thank you, Andrew! I hope they are nice memories.

 

[Bennettb]

Thank you, Johanna. The pictures were lovely and I particularly liked the garden photos. The allee with the benches looked so inviting.

 

[J. A.]

It's nice to hear you liked them.
You're welcome.

 

[J. A.]

Roman Palace Complex, Bruckneudorf


Located next to a highway, there's a Roman Palace Complex in my district. The visible part is small, compared to Carnuntum (it's just one building), but it's worth visiting.

You can detect the first signpost between Parndorf and Bruckneudorf, and it's easy to find the location. A cycle way runs next to it, but it's also possible to get there by car.

Here's a screenshot from Apple Maps, showing where you're coming from(1):

From a distance, it looks like this:

A view from different angles:

What looks like door frames, is the location where doors have been, but it also contains the description and information about the rooms you're looking at. It's only written in German, though.

This one shows the heating system during three periods.

You can see what the floors looked like when the complex was found, and the mosaics are described exactly. Most of the mosaic floors are in a museum now.

There have been four different periods for this building: a wooden building was erected here about 50 - 90 AD. About a hundred years later, a half-timbered building took it's place. About 200 AD, it was replaced by a stone building. The palace was built after an earthquake, in the 4th century. It used some of the walls of the stone building.

It's allowed to walk around there, and take pictures. I needed about 50 minutes for walking around there, reading and taking pictures. I've seen others, writing 30 minutes are enough. So if you're searching for a location where you don't have to spend a lot of time, I'd recommend the palace complex.

 

[scifan57]

Roman Palace Complex, Bruckneudorf


Located next to a highway, there's a Roman Palace Complex in my district. The visible part is small, compared to Carnuntum (it's just one building), but it's worth visiting.

You can detect the first signpost between Parndorf and Bruckneudorf, and it's easy to find the location. A cycle way runs next to it, but it's also possible to get there by car.
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Here's a screenshot from Apple Maps, showing where you're coming from(1):
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From a distance, it looks like this:
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A view from different angles:
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What looks like door frames, is the location where doors have been, but it also contains the description and information about the rooms you're looking at. It's only written in German, though.

This one shows the heating system during three periods.

You can see what the floors looked like when the complex was found, and the mosaics are described exactly. Most of the mosaic floors are in a museum now.

There have been four different periods for this building: a wooden building was erected here about 50 - 90 AD. About a hundred years later, a half-timbered building took it's place. About 200 AD, it was replaced by a stone building. The palace was built after an earthquake, in the 4th century. It used some of the walls of the stone building.

It's allowed to walk around there, and take pictures. I needed about 50 minutes for walking around there, reading and taking pictures. I've seen others, writing 30 minutes are enough. So if you're searching for a location where you don't have to spend a lot of time, I'd recommend the palace complex.

That would have been a fabulous place in its day. Are there pictures at the site showing what it looked like when it was occupied.

 

[J. A.]

That would have been a fabulous place in its day. Are there pictures at the site showing what it looked like when it was occupied.

There are images showing what it could have looked like, but they are from other places (Carnuntum, e.g.).

Here's an example:

1 is from Carnuntum
2 is a mural painting from Pompeii

 

[J. A.]

I was near Klagenfurt this week, so I visited Minimundus again. There were quite a few changes since my last visit. You can find an Indoor area, with several activities for children (and perhaps adults as well)

A few examples:

There are plush toys, representing the real animals in the bubbles hanging from this "tree". If you press a button, the bubble with the toy will come down, and a short film will show information about the animal.

An interactive globe - press a button on this globe, and a video of an animal will be displayed on the screen.

Turn back time - using a watch next to it, turn back time to show what this area looked like in former times.

Here's a video, showing how the buildings were made.

Statue of Liberty indoors (there's another one outdoors)

Gorch Fock, training ship earned by the German Navy

View from above - parts of the area

 

[J. A.]

We had sunshine when I visited Minimundus, so the park was quite crowded, and taking a picture without people was kind of a waiting game, or even impossible.

Outdoor area, with more than 150 buildings/sights. This includes ships, such as the Queen Mary

They are fixed, so they don't move.

Various trains, e.g. Wuppertal Suspension Railway (moving)

A station

The train in the middle was moving when I was there (see the smoke)

Buildings
Taj Mahal

Parthenon

El Castillo Pyramid (Mexico)

Sydney's Opera House

Neuschwanstein Castle

Suleiman Mosque

St. Peter's Basilica

Belvedere Palace

The Louvre

Tower of London

White House

The Alamo