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Today I visited an exhibition about the meaning of the trees and the wood for the mankind. The show took place in the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna. I was especially surprised in how many religions, cultures and nations the tree plays a central role. More…
A Christmas crib at the entrance hall of the railway station Wien Westbahnhof in Vienna, Austria
On my train journey to Brno, I passed the Gasometer City in Vienna. Can you see the modern houses inside the structures of former gas holders?
The 9th day of my InterRail journey ended at the railway station Wiener Westbahnhof in Vienna. It was nearly midnight when I arrived. Only the statue of Elisabeth of Austria (‘Sisi’) bid me welcome.
Karlskirche by night as seen from the entrance of the Wien Museum.
On July 16th, 2011 the funeral procession for Otto von Habsburg took place in Vienna.
Note: Contrary to the colourful dresses of the most participants the family of the deceased went at the end of the procession in dark mourning.
The most participants preferred to wear uniforms and dresses of the time before 1918 so the funeral procession was also a kind of presentation of historical fashion.
Inhabitants of regions which were part of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy attended the procession in traditional uniforms as well. Here a detachment from Croatia.
Some areas were represented by outstanding many participants. E.g. Tyrol where still a lot of traditional associations are in existence.
The smaller the areas the smaller the groups.
Whereas the most units looked very colourful and glorious in their historical uniforms…
… this group wearing the functional uniforms of World War I reminded me of the horror of war and was for me an important counterpoint to all these brilliant uniforms before.
And here some impressions taken after the end of the procession.
The entrance hall of the Museum of Natural History (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) at Christmas time.
Next to the Museum of Technology in Vienna, I come across this tram-train of three tram cars. A rare pic in the Vienna of today.
A pair of griffins seen at a bollard in Vienna. Though I don’t believe in fabulous creatures, I always love to come across depictions of them on my urban walks.
I saw this sign next to the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Museum of Military History) in Vienna. The bark of the tree made me think the sign is pretty old.
An interesting item on the program of the Karlstag 2009 was a Tableau Vivant. A group of people walked in the dresses of the time before 1900 around the Karlsplatz. More…
Mosaic at a building in Vienna mentioning that the right principal gate (porta principalis dextra) of a Roman camp was situated here in 1st century. The name of this camp was Vindobona. More…