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31 unusual facts about Lower Austria


Adelma Vay

In her early youth she lived on the family estate near Schwarzau, Lower Austria.

Alexander Tollmann

In August 1999, he predicted a world-wide catastrophy that he awaited in his bunker in Lower Austria.

Allentsteig

Allentsteig is a municipality in the district of Zwettl, in Lower Austria, Austria.

Arbesbach

Arbesbach is an Austrian municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Bärnkopf

Bärnkopf is a municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Cornštejn Castle

After the Lichtenburgs died out in 1576, the new owners – Streuns of Schwarzenau abandoned the castle and may well have got all roofs removed (so as not to pay tax).

Dominik Starkl

Bustling young forward Dominik Starkl began his career at Kremser SC in Lower Austria.

Echsenbach

Echsenbach is a municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Eggendorf

Eggendorf, Lower Austria, in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land, Lower Austria

German Thaya

It flows further eastward to Schwarzenau and gradually turns to the north, zig-zagging through Waidhofen, Thaya, and Dobersberg.

Göpfritz an der Wild

Göpfritz an der Wild is a municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Grafenschlag

Grafenschlag is a municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Gutenbrunn

Gutenbrunn is a municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Heldenberg Memorial

The Heldenberg Memorial is an open-air pantheon in the grounds of the castle at Kleinwetzdorf, Heldenberg, Lower Austria.

Hermann Fehringer

Hermann Fehringer (born 8 December 1962 in Amstetten) is a former pole vaulter from Austria.

Horní Břečkov

A bridge across the river links the village of Čížov with the town of Hardegg in Lower Austria.

Judenau-Baumgarten

Judenau-Baumgarten is a market town in the district of Tulln in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Kirchschlag in der Buckligen Welt

Kirchschlag in der Buckligen Welt is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Langschlag

Langschlag is a municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Lichtenegg

Lichtenegg is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Luci Pollreis

The young Viennese woman hid two Jewish women and a Jew in her apartment in Vienna, on her farm and in a country house in Ramsau near Hainfeld three years from 1942.

Matzendorf-Hölles

Matzendorf-Hölles is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Muggendorf

Muggendorf is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Robert Sara

Robert Sara (born 9 June 1946) is a former Austrian football player, born in Oberlainsitz, near St. Martin im Waldviertel.

Schloss Krumbach

Schloss Krumbach is a castle located in the market town of Krumbach in the state of Lower Austria in Austria.

Schweiggers

Schweiggers is a municipality in the district of Zwettl, in Lower Austria, Austria.

Traunstein, Austria

Traunstein is a municipality in the district of Zwettl in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Wilhelm Heinrich Kramer

He published in 1756 a work entitled Elenchus Vegetabilium and Animalium per Austriam inferiorem Observatorum, a flora and fauna of Lower Austria noted especially because it was one of the first works to adopt the binomial nomenclature of Carl von Linné (1707–1778).

Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf

Winzendorf-Muthmannsdorf is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl

Wöllersdorf-Steinabrückl is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.

Zillingdorf

Zillingdorf is a municipality in the district of Wiener Neustadt-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria.


Centrope

CENTROPE is a joint initiative of the Austrian Federal Provinces of Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland, the Czech Region of South Moravia, the Slovak Regions of Bratislava and Trnava, the Hungarian Counties of Győr-Moson-Sopron and Vas as well as the Cities of Bratislava, Brno, Eisenstadt, Győr, Sopron, St. Pölten, Szombathely and Trnava.

Christian von Ehrenfels

On June 20, 1859 Christian von Ehrenfels was born in Rodaun near Vienna and grew up at his father's castle Brunn am Walde in Lower Austria.

Emil Steinbach

Emil Robert Wilhelm Steinbach (11 June 1846, Vienna – 26 May 1907, Purkersdorf, Lower Austria) was an Austrian politician.

Erwin Pröll

He was born in Radlbrunn, Lower Austria and after obtaining his Matura at Tulln he studied at the University of Natural Resources (BOKU), Vienna.

Friedrich Gauermann

Friedrich Gauermann (September 10, 1807 – July 7, 1862), Austrian painter, son of the landscape painter Jacob Gauermann (1773–1843), was born at Miesenbach near Gutenstein in Lower Austria.

Infanta Blanca of Spain

Blanca married Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, second child and eldest son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria and his wife Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, on 24 October 1889 at Schloss Frohsdorf in Lanzenkirchen, Lower Austria, Austria.

Jožko Šavli

Then he continued his studies at the Vienna School of International Trade ("Hochschule für Welthandel"), where in 1975 he obtained a doctorate in social and economic sciences with a thesis on the economic structure and regional economic development in the district of Horn in Lower Austria.

Korneuburg District

The political district Bezirk Korneuburg is located in Lower Austria and borders Vienna to the north.

Maria Lanc

Maria Lanc (born Maria Jenewein; born 1911) lived in Gmünd, Lower Austria with her husband Arthur Lanc, a medical officer, in 1944.

Murboden Cattle

Murboden Cattle are bred primarily in Carinthia, Styria and Lower Austria in Austria, and in the bordering Slovenia.

Natália Kelly

Natália Kelly (born 18 December 1994) is an Austrian singer, born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States to an American father and Brazilian mother; Kelly currently resides in Bad Vöslau, Lower Austria.

New Danube

It diverges from the main channel in Langenzersdorf in Lower Austria (northwest of the city), flows through the 21st district, and rejoins it at the Danube-Auen National Park in the 22nd district (in the southeast).

Palais Wilczek

What is known is that in 1728 the palace came into the possession of Lower Austrian Lord Marshal Carl Ignaz Lempruch.

Servi Jesu et Mariae

In the beginning the scholastics of the Congregation went to the seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter and to the seminary of the Diocese of Fulda, but now they have their own seminary in Blindenmarkt in Lower Austria.

Tegernsee Abbey

Settled by monks from St. Gall and dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Rome, whose relics were brought here from Rome in 804, the monastery soon spread the message of Christianity as far as the Tyrol and Lower Austria.