© C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0Göttweig AbbeyFurth bei GöttweigGöttweig Abbey stands on a hill above the Danube in Lower Austria, near the town of Krems. Founded in 1083 by Altmann, Bishop of Passau, it began as a monastery of canons regular before adopting the Rule of St Benedict in 1094. The abbey once housed a monastic school and a nunnery where the earliest named German woman… read moreOpen place
© Haeferl · CC BY-SA 4.0Dürnstein castle ruinsDürnsteinDürnstein Castle stands as the ruined remains of a medieval fortress on a rocky outcrop above the Danube in Lower Austria’s Wachau region. Built in the early 12th century by Hadmar I of Kuenring, it once controlled river traffic from its elevated position. The castle’s walls once stretched down to the town of… read moreOpen place
© Haeferl · CC BY-SA 4.0Stift DürnsteinDürnsteinStift Dürnstein stands in the village of Dürnstein in the Wachau valley, Niederösterreich. It began as a small chapel founded in 1372 and grew into a collegiate foundation in 1410. The site includes a stately church, a cloister and extensive grounds. The blue-and-white tower of the church is recognised across the… read moreOpen place
© C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0St. VeitKremsThe Pfarrkirche St. Veit stands in Krems an der Donau, a town on the Danube in Lower Austria. It is a Roman Catholic church also called the ‘Dom der Wachau’. The building’s history begins with a donation by Emperor Heinrich II in 1014, when it served as the mother parish for a wide area. The present church was… read moreOpen place
© C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0Steiner TorKremsThe Steiner Tor stands in Krems an der Donau, a town on the Danube in Lower Austria’s Wachau valley. Built late in the 15th century, it was later reshaped in the Baroque style and remains the city’s emblem. Until the 1870s the town was enclosed by a wall, of which only the gate and its flanking towers survive. In 2005… read moreOpen place
© C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0Burgruine SenftenbergSenftenbergThe Burgruine Senftenberg stands on a hill above the market town of Senftenberg in northern Lower Austria. A paved road and a small car park now lead up to the ruin, which the local Burgruinenverein has leased for a century and steadily restored. The site commands wide views over the surrounding countryside, making it… read moreOpen place
© KathaKrems · CC BY-SA 4.0GozzoburgKremsThe Gozzoburg is a high-medieval town castle in Krems on the Danube in Lower Austria. It stands as one of the most important early Gothic buildings in the region. The structure consists of an eastern and a western wing linked by original masonry. Built around 1235 as a late-Romanesque L-shaped house, it was later… read moreOpen place
© Herbert Ortner · CC BY 4.0Piarist church KremsKremsThe Piaristenkirche stands in Krems on the Danube in Lower Austria. It is the city’s oldest church and may have been dedicated to Saint Stephen, patron of the Passau diocese. The present building blends medieval and later styles, with a Romanesque west tower at its core. Its late-Gothic hall was planned by the Vienna… read moreOpen place
© Clemens Mosch · CC BY-SA 4.0Beethoven-HausKremsThe Beethoven House stands in Gneixendorf, a village near Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria. The building, known as the Trautingerhof, has a 16th-century core and a mansard roof added in the late 18th century. Its ground floor shows groin vaults from the same period. The house once belonged to Berchtesgaden Abbey… read moreOpen place
© C.Stadler/Bwag · CC BY-SA 4.0Burgruine BertholdsteinKremsThe ruins of Bertholdstein stand on a hill above Hollenburg, a district of Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria. A bishop from Freising ordered a parish in Hollenburg in the 12th century. His successor built a castle west of the village in the 13th century. Bishop Berthold of Wehingen expanded it between 1381 and 1410,… read moreOpen place
