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Köflach
Köflach is a small city in the district of Voitsberg in the Austrian state of Styria, at the foot of the Stubalpe mountain. The town has a federal stud in the village of Piber that supplies the Lipizzaner horses to the famous Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Traditionally known for its coal mining, Köflach is slowly changing from an industrial town to a center of the service sector. It is connected by rail to Voitsberg. Population Sights The main attractions are " Bundesgestüt Piber" (Piber Federal Stud) with its famous white Lipizzaner horses and the thermal bath "Therme Nova" which is supplied from mineral spring in Piber. Also a point of interest is the House of Art and Culture which holds exhibitions, mostly of local artists. Infrastructure Köflach has a railway terminal, it is the first station of the railroad between Köflach and Graz. The nearest Autobahn (Freeway) is the " A2 Südautobahn", the nearest connections are "Modriach" and "Mooskirchen". The most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Eisner
Hubert Eisner (born 7 August 1897 in Köflach, Austria; date and place of death unknown) was an Austrian Nazi and became Kreisleiter of Voitsberg. Biography Eisner attended primary (volksschule) and secondary (hauptschule) schools, and completed his education in Fachhochschule. He was taught and impressed by pan-German thinking. After school, he went to work running his father's mill, made it flourishing business. At the begin of the 1930s he sympathized with the illegal Austrian National Socialist movement. Eisner joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) on 1 May 1934. Belonging to a group of former participants of the paramilitary organization Heimatschutz, he saw himself as weak Nazi. On 19 February 1934 he was arrested for illegal arming and therefore did not take part in the failed July Putsch. After the failed uprising against the Austrian state, Eisner tried to convince his former Heimatschutz members and the NSDAP group they had built with others to follow the Vaterländische Fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voitsberg (district)
Bezirk Voitsberg is a district of the state of Styria in Austria. Municipalities Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the following municipalities: * Bärnbach * Edelschrott * Geistthal-Södingberg * Hirschegg-Pack * Kainach bei Voitsberg * Köflach * Krottendorf-Gaisfeld * Ligist * Maria Lankowitz * Mooskirchen * Rosental an der Kainach * Sankt Martin am Wöllmißberg * Söding-Sankt Johann * Stallhofen * Voitsberg Municipalities before 2015 Suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. * Bärnbach **Hochtregist * Edelschrott **Kreuzberg * Gallmannsegg **Hadergasse * Geistthal **Eggartsberg, Kleinalpe, Sonnleiten * Gößnitz **Hochgößnitz, Niedergößnitz * Graden * Hirschegg **Hirschegg-Piber-Sonnseite, Hirschegg-Piber-Winkel, Hirschegg-Rein * Kainach bei Voitsberg **Breitenbach, Oswaldgraben * Köflach **Gradenberg, Piber, Pichling bei Köflach, Puchbach * Kohlschwarz **Hemmerberg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Perschel
Hannah Perschel (born 1940 in Köflach, Styria) is an Austrian born and raised artist of Swiss nationality. With her basic art education in painting and typography at the Zurich School of Art and Design Perschel continued her learning at the international summer academy in Salzburg. Influenced by masters Joseph Mikl and Emilo Vedova, she soon started to develop her own distinctive style of paintings focusing in her works on the effects and interactions of lights and colors. Perschel's interest in chromatics and the effects of lights redirected her artistic talents with noticeable impact on her works. Since 1989 she conducts chromatic seminars and courses in painting in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Starting in 1993, she further deepened her expertise and education in the interdisciplinary composition of colors in the area of architecture at the International Association of Color Consultants (IACC) represented by the alliance of European color consultants (BEF) in Salzburg. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voitsberg
Voitsberg () is a small city in the district of Voitsberg in Styria, Austria, with a population of c. 9,700 . It grew upon the St. Margaret church at the Tregistbach river and was first mentioned in 1220 as Civitas. Remains of the Greisenegg palace and Obervoitsberg castle can be seen. Other objects of interest are its Cityhall Voitsberg, designed by architect Arik Brauer. Transport Voitsberg is connected by rail to Köflach and Styria's capital city Graz. Twin towns * San Martino Buon Albergo San Martino Buon Albergo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about east of Verona. San Martino Buon Albergo borders the following municipalities: Caldiero, Lav ..., Italy References Cities and towns in Voitsberg District {{Styria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stölzle Glass
Stölzle Glass Group is an Austrian multinational manufacturer of glassware. History Karl Smola founded the Oberdorf glassworks in Bärnbach (Styria) on 15 June 1805. In 1978, Stölzle Glasindustrie AG became Stölzle-Oberglas AC. Structure The company is headquartered in Köflach (Styria). United Kingdom Stölzle Flaconnage have a glassmaking site in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, where it has been since 1994 on the A645, and makes glass containers (around 100 million a year) and flint glass. The site had been founded as J.W. Bagley and Co in 1871. The site provides spirit (Scottish whisky) bottles for Diageo Diageo plc () is a multinational alcoholic beverage company, with its headquarters in London, England. It operates from 132 sites around the world. It was the world's largest distiller before being overtaken by Kweichow Moutai of China in 2017 .... Another site of Bagley became Rockware Glass. References External links Stölzle Flaconna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telephone Numbers In Austria
This article details the use of telephone numbers in Austria. There are no standard lengths for either area codes or subscriber numbers in Austria, meaning that some subscriber numbers may be as short as three digits. Larger towns have shorter area codes permitting longer subscriber numbers in that area. Some examples: Mobile phone codes In ascending numeric order: *1 Telering was bought by T-Mobile in 2005. As of 2006, Telering uses the network-infrastructure of T-Mobile. As a special requirement of the European commission, many of the former transmitters and frequencies previously operated by Telering were given to Orange and Drei. *2 BoB is a discount service of A1. yesss! was a discount service of Orange, now sold to A1. Eety is a discount service of Orange (now 3). Due to Mobile number portability Mobile number portability (MNP) enables mobile telephone users to retain their mobile telephone numbers when changing from one mobile network carrier to another. Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piber
The Piber Federal Stud (''Bundesgestüt Piber'') is a stud farm dedicated to the breeding of Lipizzan horses, located at the village of Piber, near the town of Köflach in western Styria, Austria. It was founded in 1798, began breeding Lipizzan horses in 1920, and today is the primary breeding farm that produces the stallions used by the Spanish Riding School, where the best stallions of each generation bred at Piber are brought for training and later public performance. One of Piber’s major objectives is "to uphold a substantial part of Austria’s cultural heritage and to preserve one of the best and most beautiful horse breeds in its original form." History Piber Castle was formerly the Abbey of St. Lambrecht. The stud was created 1798 for the purpose of breeding military horses. In 1867, it came under the governance of the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Ministry for Agriculture. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Boots
Green Boots is the name given to the unidentified body of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. The body has not been officially identified, but he is believed to be Tsewang Paljor, an Indian climber who died on Everest in 1996. The term ''Green Boots'' originated from the green Koflach mountaineering boots on his feet. All expeditions from the north side encountered the body curled in the limestone alcove cave at , until it was moved in 2014. History The first recorded video footage of Green Boots was filmed by British film-maker and climber Matt Dickinson in May, 1996. The footage can be viewed at minute mark 42:45 in "Summit Fever Brian Blessed Documentary" (1996). Over time, the corpse became known both as a landmark on the north route and for its association with the death of David Sharp. In 2014, Green Boots was moved to a less conspicuous location by members of a Chinese expedition. Possible identities Tsewang Paljor Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giengen An Der Brenz
Giengen (; full name: Giengen an der Brenz; Swabian: ''Gẽänge'') is a former Free Imperial City in eastern Baden-Württemberg near the border with Bavaria in southern Germany. The town is located in the district of Heidenheim at the eastern edge of the Swabian Alb, about 30 kilometers northeast of Ulm on the Brenz River. Giengen is the hometown of the Margarete Steiff corporation, who invented the teddy bear. Positioned on the Nuremberg-Ulm-Constance route, one of the main feeder routes of the Compostella Trail, Giengen is visited each year by an increasing number of walking pilgrims on their way to Santiago de Compostella. History The first documentary evidence of the town was contained in a chronicle of the monastery of Peterhausen that reported on the death in battle in 1078 of margrave Diepold II von Vohburg, lord of Giengen. In 1147, Adele, daughter of Diepold III, was married to Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa but was divorced after a few years due to childlessness. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villach
Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 61,887. Together with other Alpine towns Villach engages in the Alpine Town of the Year Association for the implementation of the Alpine Convention to achieve sustainable development in the Alpine Arc. In 1997, Villach was the first town to be awarded Alpine Town of the Year. Geography Villach is a statutory city, on the Drau River near its confluence with the Gail tributary, at the western rim of the Klagenfurt basin. The municipal area stretches from the slopes of the Gailtal Alps (Mt. Dobratsch) down to Lake Ossiach in the northeast. The Villach city limits comprise the following districts and villages: }) * Dobrova (''Dobrova'') * Drautschen (''Dravče'') * Drobollach am Faaker See (''Drobolje ob Baškem jezeru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Süd Autobahn
The Süd Autobahn (A2) ('South Motorway') is a motorway (''Autobahn'') in Austria. Completed in 1999, it runs from the outskirts of Vienna south via the cities of Graz and Klagenfurt to the border of Italy at Arnoldstein, where it joins the Autostrada A23. With a total length of , the A2 is Austria's longest motorway. History Plans for the A2 originated from the so-called '' Reichsautobahn'' system laid out after the ''Anschluss'' annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. However, construction had not begun by the outbreak of World War II which terminated all road building projects. With the first cut of the spade on 6 May 1959, road works were inaugurated on a first section between Vösendorf south of Vienna and Leobersdorf, the segment was opened to the traffic on 26 May 1962. By 1975, the motorway was completed up to Seebenstein in Lower Austria, notably with three lines in each direction. A first segment in Styria between Gleisdorf and Raaba was already opened in 1969 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freeway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway and expressway. Other similar terms include '' throughway'' and '' parkway''. Some of these may be limited-access highways, although this term can also refer to a class of highways with somewhat less isolation from other traffic. In countries following the Vienna convention, the motorway qualification implies that walking and parking are forbidden. A fully controlled-access highway provides an unhindered flow of traffic, with no traffic signals, intersections or property access. They are free of any at-grade crossings with other roads, railways, or pedestrian paths, which are instead carried by overpasses and underpasses. Entrances and exits to the highway are provided at interchanges by slip roads (ramps), which allow for speed changes between the highway and arter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
