A Home in the Vienna Woods, near Mayerling.
Vienna
Woods
Mayerling:  Once the hunting lodge of Crown Prince Rudolf, it is now a strict Carmelite Convent.
Mayerling
Entrance to the Chapel at Mayerling
Once the hunting lodge of Crown Prince Rudolf, it is now a strict Carmelite Convent.

On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Prince shot his 17 year old lover, Baroness Mary Vetsera, with his revolver, then turned it on himself. The hunting lodge was turned over to the nuns and the room in which the deaths occured is now a chapel.

Mayerling
Heiligenkreuz: A Monastery Church in the Romanesque style.
Heiligenkreuz: A Monastery Church in the Romanesque style.
Heiligenkreuz
A Monastery Church in the Romanesque style.
Seegrotte: Largest subterranean lake in Europe.
Seegrotte



This is the largest subterranean lake in Europe. Hundreds of year ago, it was a chalk mine. 1944-45 it was used by the Germans for the development and production of the world's first jet fighter
.

Boat Tours of the lake are available.
Seegrotte: Under ground stable for horses
Horses were used to pull carts through the mines.

This is the under ground stable for those horses.


A Home in the Vienna Woods.
A Home in the Vienna Woods
Josef's Dynamiden returns you Home
Josef's Dynamiden returns you Home
Go To Zentralfriedhof (Graves of the Composers) Go To Thunder and Lightning Museum Go to House of Johann Strauss Go to Theatre Museum Go to Statues in Vienna Go to Scenes of Vienna
Central
Cemetery
Thunder and Lightning Johann's House Theatre Statues Vienna Views
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