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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

Leopoldsberg

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

Leopoldsberg

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

Leopoldsberg

On top of the Leopoldberg is this memorial to Austrian prisoners of war from the second world war.

2006-05-25 16:52

Leopoldsberg

View down toward Vienna from the memorial.

2006-05-25, updated 2011-08-10