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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: Believe it or not: The rolling landscape of the Weinviertel is a geological contemporary of the Alps and the Carpathian Mountains.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: The very flat top of the Glockenberg.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: The hilltops are covered in hornbeam, beech and oak.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: In spring, wild cherry sets white accents in the woods.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: Underfoot: periwinkle (Kleines Immergrün).
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: The Ulrichskirchen Kellergasse, a splendid example of a holloway.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: Napoleon‘s armies ‘visited’ the Weinviertel several times. A war cemetery above Ulrichskirchen.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: A 19th century map showing the war cemetery (‘Soldaten Kreuz’) and the Kellergasse (yellow line) leading to it. The field hospital was in the castle (‘Schl.’, bottom right).
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: The Napoleontic wars weren’t the last. Memorial in the Kellergasse for a woman ‘killed by shrapnel on 13 April 1945 during the liberation battles.’
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: Lunch at an ancient crossroads.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: In the valley of the Russbach.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: The Drechslermühle (drechseln = woodturning) was one of the many watermills on the Russbach.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: Part of a prehistoric wall at Gsteinert enclosing an area four times that of the VIC.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: The enclosure is so heavily overgrown that it remains unexplored by archeologists.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: An 18th century landownership marker.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: The ancient shortcut over the Hundsberg from Unter Olberndorf to Niederkreuzstetten…
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: … as it appears on an 18th century map.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: Toad migration during spring leads to many road casualties. A ‘toad guidance system’ near Niederkreuzstetten.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: In Niederkreuzstetten’s Kellergasse.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: A well-deserved glass of wine…
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: …and another…
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: … plus food in Heuriger quantities.
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VIC Hiking & Mountaineering Club: Weary wanderer?