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Lately, on my tours, I keep stumbling across memorials to the last World War. Here I learned that our former Federal President Kirchschläger also played a rather inglorious role in the German Wehrmacht.

Worth seeing

A real bee educational garden - interesting for laypeople and beekeepers.

The Count's Cross was erected by Henry, Count of Chambord in memory of Count Ferdinand of Ferronays, who died here in a riding accident on December 21, 1866.

Pitten Castle, also called Burg Pitten, is a former hilltop castle in the market town of Pitten in Lower Austria that was converted into a hunting lodge in the 19th century. [wikipedia] It is privately owned. Note: The path to the castle is lined with 'cycling prohibited' signs.

A castle was probably built in the middle of the 11th century on the site of an old rampart, secured by ditches and palisades, on the mountain spur above the Pitten parish church. Today, only images of this once fortified structure, which was first mentioned in documents in 1094 and is also mentioned in the Nibelungenlied, exist. In its dominant position, the castle secured the border to Hungary, but was nevertheless captured and destroyed by Matthias Corvinus in 1482 after a four-year siege. The subsequently rebuilt and enlarged structure, however, withstood the Turks in 1529 and 1683. The famous 140 m deep well was commissioned by Johann Christoph Teufel Freiherr zu Gundersdorf. It was dug by hand, as gunpowder was not yet used for blasting at that time. A major reconstruction took place around 1840 and a further extension with residential wings was added in 1884, although the castle-like character was lost. Only in the west are the remains of a high medieval ashlar wall preserved. The hunting lodge was primarily used as a base for noble hunting parties; it passed to the House of Parma/Habsburg in 1883. Today the castle is privately owned.

The small chapel was built as a reminder of the fate of the Bad Erlach textile and brickworks workers. On June 15, 2008, the small chapel was consecrated to St. Joseph, the patron saint of workers.

The natural monument commemorates two tragic historical events - one in 1683 and the other in 1945.