Vienna from Above
If you take the U4 line to Heiligenstadt ("Holy Place"), you can jump onto bus 38A and head up into the hills north of Vienna.
2006-05-25 16:01
At Heiligenstadt train station you'll be faced with Karl Marx Hof[a], an aptly named brutalist style[b] building.
2006-05-25 16:40
Looking down at Vienna from Leopoldberg. The river is of course the Danube, with the Old and New Danube rivers on each side of the Donauinsel ("Danube Island")[c]. The Leopoldberg was the site of the Battle of Vienna[d], where the Holy League[e] routed the forces of the Ottoman Empire[f] in 1683.
2006-05-25 16:55
On top of the Leopoldberg is this memorial to Austrian prisoners of war from the second world war.
2006-05-25 16:52
View down toward Vienna from the memorial.
Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl-Marx-Hof | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donauinsel | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vienna | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_League_%28Great_Turkish_war%29 | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire |