(then Troppau), in the present-day Czech Republic, who had worked with Otto Wagner (1841-1918) in Vienna. The Tietz family were forced to flee from Germany in the early years of the Third Reich, and were

plant operation and electricity transmission. This state-of-the-art equipment had to be shipped from Vienna and Budapest to Užice. The king of Serbia, Aleksandar Obrenović (1876-1903), laid the foundation

Franz Josef Gerstner in 1807, but was realised by his son Franz Antonin Gerstner, a professor at Vienna Polytechnic, who studied similar lines in England. The line was converted to steam operation in 1870

Hungary, an Arpad railcar built by Ganz in 1934 that could accomplish the journey from Budapest to Vienna in just over three hours, a rotary snowplough and several motor cars that were built to run on railway

the principal outlet to the sea of the Habsburg Empire. In 1857 the city gained a direct link to Vienna with the completion of the Sudbahn (southern railway) over the Semmering Pass, whose terminus was [...] includes 11 steam locomotives made by several Italian companies, and by works in Wiener Neustadt, Vienna-Floridsdorf, Berlin and Budapest, as well as diesel and electric locomotives and several railcars

metal rock were piled up – the current biotopes of the "calamine violet". In 1815 the Treaties of Vienna resulted in a part of the area being divided between the Netherlands and Prussia. But, because of

The municipality in Vienna in the period between the end of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 and the anschluss of 1938 expended much energy in the provision of housing for the city’s working class, and many [...] four arched passageways and crowned with six towers. Like all the large community buildings of Red Vienna, the Karl-Marx-Hof also had a whole range of infrastructure and community facilities, such as a mother's [...] set up in the rooms of Laundromat No. 2, whose permanent exhibition presents the history of "Red Vienna" from 1919 to 1934/45, municipal housing and subsequent facilities, educational and cultural work

The technical museum in Vienna holds many artefacts of significance to the industrial history of Europe. It was formally established in 1908, with Dr Ludwig Erhard as its director, as part of the jubilee [...] 1795, with several nineteenth-century steam engines, including one of 1856 made by Vincenz Prick of Vienna. There is a particularly important collection of early electricity-generating equipment, including [...] collections of machine tools and sewing machines, and of early bicycles and motor cars made in Styria and Vienna. The building department includes models of early Garden City style developments, and there is also

Grand Canal de l’Alsace. Removal of the many tolls on the river was begun in 1815 by the Treaty of Vienna which established the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine, which met for the first time

The company Hackl und Söhne, which manufactured high quality clothing, was established in Vienna in 1843, and subsequently set up a factory around a manor house at Weitra in Lower Austria, 8 km south-east

than 30 standard gauge steam locomotives. One of the oldest, No 310.076 was built at Floridsdorf, Vienna, in 1899, worked until the 1950s, and stood on a plinth at Ceské Budĕjovice until it was removed

realised at the end of the 18th century, when the initial motivation was the prospect of supplying Vienna with firewood from the Šumava forests. The system incorporated part of the River Mŭhl, and it was

Vienna’s Arbeitsgruppe des Verbandes der Eisenbahn freude (Working Group of the Association of Friends of Railways, or VEF) was formed in 1969, and formally organised from 1972. The association opened [...] opened a Museum of the Vienna Tramways at Ottakring station in 1972 after six years of collecting, but space was limited and in 1986 the collections were moved to the Erdberg station near the Stadium Bridge [...] restoration of historic buildings but re-opened from 13 September 2014. The museum is concerned with Vienna’s tramways, underground railways and buses, and their history is portrayed in 15 chronologically arranged

The Vienna Arsenal is a huge industrial complex that once supplied one of the largest European armies. Unlike the Arsenale in Venice, it has no ancient origins, having been established in 1849 on the

Strasshof lies 25 km east of Vienna and between 1908 and 1951 was the site of a large marshalling yard around which grew up a community of railwaymen living in houses in the Garden City style. The railway [...] railway museum, a branch of the Technical Museum in Vienna, occupies an 8.5 ha site that includes the buildings of a railway depot. It holds a collection of more than 50 locomotives as well as many passenger

The collection of rolling stock at Schwechat, 12 km south-east of Vienna, is modest in size in comparison with those of the great national railway museums, but it represents a particularly interesting [...] the political exigencies of the Danube valley during the 20th century. The main line railway from Vienna to the present day Slovakian city of Bratislava [German: Pressburg] follows the north bank of the [...] that would be called an ‘interurban’ route in the United States. At either end of the line, 12 km in Vienna and 7 km in Bratislava shared the tracks of city tramways. The new section extended 50 km across

the lake from which it takes its name. Motive power is provided by three steam locomotives built in Vienna in 1899, and by a fourth built to the same original design in 2005. The Zillertalbahn was built to

pioneering Heinkel He 162 Salamander jet fighter, but the aircraft were assembled at the airfield at Vienna Schwechat. A model of a Salamander aircraft is displayed in the workings, and there is a monument

Guntramsdorf is a small town with about 9000 inhabitants, south-west of Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. The Museum Walzengravieranstalt (Museum of Engraving) opened in 1989 on the premises that

large collection of vehicles made and used in the town, the oldest of which is a horse tram built in Vienna in 1869. A 2-axle steeple cab electric locomotive used to haul freight wagons on the network is also