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Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is Germany’s largest opera and concert house, with a 2,500 seat capacity.The Baden-Baden Theater is a fascinating building. From the outside, it enchants with its Belle...

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Fürstenkapelle in Kloster Lichtenthal Baden-Baden

Prince's Chapel in Lichtenthal Abbey, Germany, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Baden-Baden.The Prince's Chapel is situated in Lichtental village at the end of the Lichtenthal Abbey. The abbey was founded in 1245...

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Baden-Baden: Sommerhauptstadt Europas

German spa-resort of Baden-Baden is called a "summer capital of Europe". The German word, Baden, translates as "bathing, to bathe or baths". The old castle above Baden-BadenBaden-Baden is located in...

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Polnischer Held General Bór-Komorowski in Innsbruck 1945

Polish hero General Count Tadeusz Komorowski (Korczak Coat of Arms), 1895 – 1966 , better known by the name Bór-Komorowski (after one of his wartime code-names: Bór - "The Forest"), at the end of World...

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Schlacht von Itter 1945: Amerikaner und Wehrmacht Seite an Seite gegen SS

The Battle for Castle Itter in the Austrian North Tyrol village of Itter near the town of Wörgl was fought on 5 May 1945 in the last days of the European Theater of World War II. It may have been the...

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Stephansdom in Wien

St. Stephen's Cathedral the symbol of Vienna and  it is one of the most important Gothic structures in Austria.St. Stephen's Cathedral is 107.2 meters long and 34.2 meters wide. It has four towers. The...

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Polnischen St. Josefskirche am Kahlenberg in Wien

The Kahlenberg (in English literally means bald mountain) is a hill 484 m asl located in Vienna, Austria (Döbling) and lies in the Vienna Woods. Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland launched his attack on...

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Hundertwasserhaus Wien - ein Ökohaus

The Hundertwasser House in Vienna is one of Austria’s architectural highlights.The Hundertwasser House Vienna (German Hundertwasserhaus Wien) is an apartment house in Vienna, Austria, designed by...

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"Oh du lieber Augustin" und Die Große Pest In Wien

"Oh du lieber Augustin" ("Oh, you dear Augustin") is a popular Viennese folk song. It was presumably composed by the famously balladeer and bagpiper Marx Augustin (1643 - 1705?, Vienna) in 1679, though...

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Hofburg Wien einzigartig auf der ganzen Welt

The Hofburg in Vienna is the former imperial residence. From 1438 to 1583 and from 1612 to 1806, it was the seat of the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, thereafter the...

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Römischen Lagervorstadt in Wien

Canabae of Vindobona later Vienna, AustriaReconstruction of the Vindobona. Source www.wien.gv.atAround 15 BC, the kingdom of Noricum was included in the Roman Empire. Henceforth, the Danube marked the...

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Der ehemalige Wien: Palais Lanckoroński

The Palais Lanckoroński was a palace in Vienna, Austria, located at Jacquingasse 16-18, in the Landstraße District. It was constructed in 1894-95 for Count Karol Lanckoroński and his family as a...

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Günzburg eine kleine romantische Stadt in Schwaben

Günzburg is a little romantic city located on the banks of the river Danube, Swabia, Bavaria, South Germany. The city of Günzburg dates back nearly 2000 years and has a population of about 20.000...

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K.K. Theater an der Burg Wien

The Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria, also known in English as a Imperial Court Theatre and  K.K. Theater an der Burg was built from 1874 to 1888 according to designs by Gottfried Semper and Karl von...

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Österreichische Parlamentsgebäude, wie "ein griechischer Tempel"

The Parliament building in Vienna, Austria was constructed between 1874 and 1884 as the seat of the Reichsrat, the Imperial Parliament representing the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian...

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Günzburg’s Frauenkirche

The Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche) in Günzburg, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany built in 1735 by Dominikus Zimmermann, who was a German Rococo architect and stuccoist.Günzburg Frauenkirche, Nonnenempore -...

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Hohenwerfen castle as the Schloss Adler: Where Eagles Dare

Hohenwerfen Castle (German: Burg Hohenwerfen) stands high above the Austrian town of Werfen (623 m asl) in the Salzach valley, approximately 40 km south of Salzburg.The castle is surrounded by the...

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Bad Gastein: Belle Époque, Spa-Resort, Radontherapie und Geschichte

In the midst of Hohe Tauern National Park and in the heart of Austrian state of Salzburg lies at elevation of 1,000 meters Bad Gastein. Its distinctive townscape, which includes beautiful "Belle...

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Mutter von Königen: Königin von Polen Elisabeth von Habsburg

Poland / Austria: common history and the curse of Jagiellon tombWawel royal castle, Kraków, PolandFot. Arkadiusz FrankowiczElisabeth of Austria Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania, Polish:...

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Dorf Fucking in Ober Österreich

There is a small lovely village called "Fucking" in western Upper Austria. This is no joke or vulgarism. The village Fucking has a very rich and long history in itself.Traffic sign at the entrance to...

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