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FEATURE (Category: Europe | Austria | summer | autumn | water | rivers | scenic drives | outdoor | cycling)
Austria: Along the Danube
Austria: Along the Danube
Once Sissy steamed down the Danube, on the way to becoming queen of Austria. From her birthplace Bavaria all the way to Vienna people along the river cheered. Now it's tourists who go downstream. Most of them not by boat, not even by car. Along the Danube the bicycle is favourite.
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04339]
'Looking up to heaven.'
Monks at a religious procession in the heart of Vienna. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50101139_zJ34W-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.WIEN 04339]
'Looking up to heaven.'
Monks at a religious procession in the heart of Vienna. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03691]
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, like in this picture, to become clear lakes when the level falls. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50101091_vvKPe-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03691]
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, like in this picture, to become clear lakes when the level falls. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03692]
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50100757_nh5uH-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03692]
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.")
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'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50100742_ADftU-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03694]
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03699]
'Martin Zberl and his floating mill.'
Once the Danube boasted many ship mills: water mills, floating on the river that turned the wheel. During the last decennies only Romania had some left, in an open air museum. Until Martin Zberl in Orth an der Donau decided to built an authentic ship mill with his own hands, using technical drawings from around 1800. After three years it was finished and functioned properly. Because it floats you can reach it only over water: with the Tschaike, a reconstruction itself of a boat dating 1530. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/138806646_GMRAi-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03699]
'Martin Zberl and his floating mill.'
Once the Danube boasted many ship mills: water mills, floating on the river that turned the wheel. During the last decennies only Romania had some left, in an open air museum. Until Martin Zberl in Orth an der Donau decided to built an authentic ship mill with his own hands, using technical drawings from around 1800. After three years it was finished and functioned properly. Because it floats you can reach it only over water: with the Tschaike, a reconstruction itself of a boat dating 1530. Photo Paul Smit.")
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'Roman Heidentor in Petronell-Carnuntum.'
For centuries the Danube was the northern border of the Roman empire. Military strongholds along the river often grew into cities. The largest became Carnuntum, where the Amber Route, connecting the Adriatic with the Baltic, crossed the Danube. It had more then 50.000 inhabitants. Nowadays it's the largest excavation of Austria. Main sight is the Heidentor, a name that is wrong in two ways. It was not a gate and not heathen, but a double triumphal arch, erected for christian emperor Constantine II. Maquettes show how it looked in those days, so does a drawing on plexiglass, through which you can see the ruins of today. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50100607_NxCWJ-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03705]
'Roman Heidentor in Petronell-Carnuntum.'
For centuries the Danube was the northern border of the Roman empire. Military strongholds along the river often grew into cities. The largest became Carnuntum, where the Amber Route, connecting the Adriatic with the Baltic, crossed the Danube. It had more then 50.000 inhabitants. Nowadays it's the largest excavation of Austria. Main sight is the Heidentor, a name that is wrong in two ways. It was not a gate and not heathen, but a double triumphal arch, erected for christian emperor Constantine II. Maquettes show how it looked in those days, so does a drawing on plexiglass, through which you can see the ruins of today. Photo Paul Smit.")
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'Roman Heidentor in Petronell-Carnuntum.'
For centuries the Danube was the northern border of the Roman empire. Military strongholds along the river often grew into cities. The largest became Carnuntum, where the Amber Route, connecting the Adriatic with the Baltic, crossed the Danube. It had more then 50.000 inhabitants. Nowadays it's the largest excavation of Austria. Main sight is the Heidentor, a name that is wrong in two ways. It was not a gate and not heathen, but a double triumphal arch, erected for christian emperor Constantine II. Maquettes show how it looked in those days, so does a drawing on plexiglass, through which you can see the ruins of today. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50100701_dKLWU-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03706]
'Roman Heidentor in Petronell-Carnuntum.'
For centuries the Danube was the northern border of the Roman empire. Military strongholds along the river often grew into cities. The largest became Carnuntum, where the Amber Route, connecting the Adriatic with the Baltic, crossed the Danube. It had more then 50.000 inhabitants. Nowadays it's the largest excavation of Austria. Main sight is the Heidentor, a name that is wrong in two ways. It was not a gate and not heathen, but a double triumphal arch, erected for christian emperor Constantine II. Maquettes show how it looked in those days, so does a drawing on plexiglass, through which you can see the ruins of today. Photo Paul Smit.")
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'Danube with a replica of a celtic defense wall.'
Before the Romans the Celts had taken positions along the Danube. On the Braunsberg, near the border between Austria and Slowakia, archeologists have found rests of a village with watchtower. The tower and part of the defense wall have been reconstructed. It's a favourite lookout for the inhabitants of Hainburg as well as Bratislava. Both can see their home town, in Austria the riparian forests of national park Donau-Auen can be seen as well. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50100709_5sK2g-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03709]
'Danube with a replica of a celtic defense wall.'
Before the Romans the Celts had taken positions along the Danube. On the Braunsberg, near the border between Austria and Slowakia, archeologists have found rests of a village with watchtower. The tower and part of the defense wall have been reconstructed. It's a favourite lookout for the inhabitants of Hainburg as well as Bratislava. Both can see their home town, in Austria the riparian forests of national park Donau-Auen can be seen as well. Photo Paul Smit.")
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'Bratislava old town tour.'
Kitschy old town tour 'oldtimer' coming out of the narrowest alley of Bratislava, Bastová Ulica. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/138806144_6Cto9-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [SLOVAKIA.WEST 03553]
'Bratislava old town tour.'
Kitschy old town tour 'oldtimer' coming out of the narrowest alley of Bratislava, Bastová Ulica. Photo Paul Smit.")
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'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.
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'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/50100742_ADftU-S.jpg "> [AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03694]
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.")
[AUSTRIA.NIEDER 03694]
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.
'National Park Donau-Auen.'
Just outside the eastern gates of Vienna the quiet of nature begins. National Park Donau-Auen (Floodplains of the Danube) gives the river the chance to relax after it has left it's main water source, the Alps, behind. Old river arms revive when the water level rises, to become clear lakes when the level falls, as seen in this photo. Actually the Danube breathes through a net of side arms, covered in riparian forest. Life is abundand, even turtles live here in the wild. Photo Paul Smit.
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