Aigen im Mühlkreis was a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Continue reading... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Historic Sites Attractions In Aigen im Muehlkreis
1. Mauthausen MemorialMauthausen The Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camp complex consisted of the Mauthausen concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen plus a group of nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St Georgen/Gusen, just a few kilometres from Mauthausen, held a significant proportion of prisoners within the camp complex, at times exceeding the number of prisoners at the Mauthausen main camp. The Mauthausen main camp operated from the time of the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich in 8 August 1938, to 5 May 1945, at the end of the Second World War. Starting with the camp at Mauthausen, the number of subcamps expanded over time and by the summer of 1940 Mauthaus... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Aigen im Muehlkreis Videos
Summer Specials in Eastern Austria, July & August 2008
Steam, diesel and electric specials, some with rarely used (combinations of) locos. One scene from May with 629.01 pulling the weekend ErlebnisWeltBahn special to Ernstbrunn near Vienna, strange-looking DT 1.07 (3071.07) with the same special at a nearby location in August, some regular traffic in Marchfeld at sunrise, old railbus 5042.14 on the freight only branch line Vienna Liesing - Waldmühle, 1044.40 in nostalgic livery pulling a EuroCity to Croatia and 4061.13 with special at Vienna Atzgersdorf, 2050.04 GM-Henschel Diesel at Wiener Neustadt and 2050.04 & .02 double header at Vienna Hernals, Absdorf-Hippersdorf and in a race with modern 2016 diesel at Vienna Speising where also some scenes with regular traffic (Greece-Taurus, DB 151, 185) were taken. Finally a great steam special with 93.1420 & .1421 celebrating the 120 year anniversary of the Mühlkreis line Linz - Aigen-Schlägl with several scenes including one of the steepest standard gauge sections in Austria (which surprisingly isn't located in the Alps ;-)) and as conclusion the combined road-rail bridge across the River Danube in Linz only used for transferring trains (the same line also crosses the tram tracks shortly before reaching the bridge).