Truck powered by wood gas

Truck powered by wood gas

Wood gas driven automobiles remind us of times with fuel shortages, e.g. during and after World War II. This truck powered by wood gas is a still-running model displayed at a classic military car meeting on the grounds of the Vienna Museum of Military History.

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Theseus Temple in Vienna

Theseus Tempel in Vienna

Visitors who enter the Volksgarten, a public park in Vienna, seem to face a piece of Greek antiquity. Of course, it isn’t ancient. The Theseus Temple is a classicistic building from the years 1819/23. Today, it forms a dependence on the Museum of Fine Arts.

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Liechtenstein Castle

Liechtenstein Castle in Maria Enzersdorf

Liechtenstein Castle (Burg Liechtenstein) is the ancestral seat of the House of Liechtenstein. The chief of this family still rules the European state of Liechtenstein. The castle was destroyed during the Ottoman wars and rebuilt in the 19th century.

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Seeschloss Ort in Gmunden

Seeschloss Ort in Gmunden

Seeschloss Ort impresses with its location on a tiny island in the Upper Austrian Traunsee Lake. The castle became known through a TV series and the mysterious disappearance of one of its owners. Today, it houses a restaurant visitors reach by a bridge.

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Fischertor in Hainburg

Fischertor in Hainburg an der Donau

One of the biggest attractions in Hainburg an der Donau is its 13th-century town wall. The Fischertor (Fisherman’s Gate), one of three still visible gates, connected the Old Town of Hainburg with the Danube bank, where the freshly caught fish entered the city.

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Carnuntinum Roman Museum

Carnuntinum Roman Museum in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg

At first glance, the Carnuntinum Roman Museum in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg looks like a villa rustica. In fact, it was only opened in 1904. It houses artefacts from the Roman town of Carnuntum and is considered the biggest Roman museum in Austria.

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Schloss Hof in Marchfeld

Schloss Hof in Marchfeld

Schloss Hof is the largest castle of the five Marchfeld Palaces between Vienna and Bratislava. Two famous owners – Prince Eugene of Savoy and Empress Maria Therese – transformed it into a Baroque gem with a French garden stretched onto seven terraces.

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