The castle is best known for being the birthplace of Mozart’s famed Requiem, which was commissioned by Count F.A. von Walsegg in honour of his late wife, Anna Countess von Walsegg, who died at the property on Valentine’s Day 1791.
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If you’re one of the people with a ‘Give Up Everything And Move To A New City’ list, then it will be wise to consider the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index.
An Austrian man’s trip to the toilet on Monday should have been just like any other, except it turned out to be a bit of a nightmare.
After decades of sign-stealing and amused tourists, the village of Fucking has had enough.
The perpetrator of the terror attack in Austria had been enrolled in a deradicalisation programme before he took to the streets armed with a machete and two guns.
People in Switzerland, Austria and Germany had a mini freak-out Sunday evening as a meteor blazed across the sky. A few people managed to snap some footage of the events unfolding.
Some clever Austrians are looking below the city in order to take it forward, offering an efficient and clean way of providing heating from an unorthodox source.
Film’s have often romanticized the lives of the famous ancient warriors. But the truth of the matter remains; they were slaves housed in fortress prisons. The gladiator school discovered outside of Vienna, Austria, is the first one discovered outside the city of Rome.
You don’t cross this bridge – it crosses you. A bridge that crosses the Morava river between Austria and Slovakia is in need of a name. In the spirit of democracy, the local government left it up to the people to decide. The result? The leading contender is to have the bridge named after martial-arts-expert-turned-actor, Chuck Norris.
In a landmark decision, Austria has granted “pastafarian”, Niko Alm, the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head for his driver’s license photo.