Thaw 13.3.2005
Spring at least comes. Daytime temperatures climb up to 8 C, and the
weather report says even 17 C on Thursday, 17.3. These temperatures of course
do great harm to the snow cover, although heaps and wind drifts will stay much
longer. A 90 min walk from Winzendorf via Weikersdorf, Nussbaumweg
and the fields to Fischauer Berge, finally via vineyards to Winzendorf, about 7 km.
Frauen beck
View back to Winzendorf
The tracks are already free of snow, however at times flooded by the melting water
Schneeberg, to the left Weikersdorf´s last building, to the right in the background Winzendorf
View to Brunn an der Schneebergbahn
A lot of mud today. Never mind, ´cause ...
... in Prosset beck ...
... you get clean again !
Hedges for wind break
View along the first Vienna´s aqueduct to Weikersdorf´s church. The
aqueduct was constructed more than 150 years ago during
the reign of Emperor Franz Josef. It leads from Hoellental between Schneeberg
and Rax more than 70 km to Vienna and was a
revolution at its age. Till that time, water bound epidemics occured frequently
in Vienna, for eample typhoid fever, which killed
the composer Franz Schubert in 1828 at age of 31.
Further course of the aqueduct alongside Fischauer Berge