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

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

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

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

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 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

(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

building next to the Ferris Wheel since 2023. Its permanent exhibition tells the 250-year history of Vienna's amusement park.

between Gloggnitz and Murzzuschlag built in 1848-54 was part of the Sudbahn, the railway that linked Vienna, capital of the Habsburg Empire, with the principal imperial port at Trieste. It was the first main

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

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

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

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

‘pater-noster’ from Borzas, and the first steam engine used in present-day Romania, brought from Vienna in 1853 to work a combined corn- and oil-mill, as well as several steam pumping engines from met

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

son of a railway engine driver, and educated in the same city. After several jobs, including one in Vienna, where he failed to settle, he set up an iron foundry with August Ritter in 1871. His partner proved

the Austrian Sudbahn. Karl Golsdorf was born at Semmering, studied at the Technical University of Vienna, and spent some time working for general engineering companies before becoming chief mechanical engineer [...] freight locomotive of which nearly a thousand examples were built, as well as passenger stock for the Vienna Stadtbahn, powerful rack locomotives for the Erzbergbahn and narrow gauge locomotives for mountain

transformed into a joint stock company in 1902, and subsequently studied paper-making technology in Vienna and in the United States, where he became acquainted with new thinking about occupational safety

with Bela Egger (later Brown Boveri) in Vienna rather than to attend university, although he surreptitiously went to lectures at the Technical University of Vienna. He went to work in 1898 for Lohner, a

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