When 24 tonnes of apples are catapulted across a road it can only mean a jam. And in this case it was a traffic jam that went on for three hours as firemen and police struggled to remove the fruit that had spread across the road in the agricultural district of Oberpullendorf in eastern Austria’s […]
The ‘Wein- und Genusstage 2013’ begins in the Austrian city of Eisenstadt today (Wednesday). The food and wine specialities festival which takes place in the pedestrian zone in the Burgenland capital offers local and international companies the chance to present their culinary delights. This year there are 47 companies taking part. This year for the […]
The junior World Grass Sking Championships was opened in Rettenbach, Burgenland in Austria yesterday evening (Weds) for the third consecutive year. Keen skiers from ten countries will battle it out to become grass ski champion. The Austrian Ski Team is represented by six skiers from four provinces, including Kristin Hetfleisch, Lisa Wusits and Andreas Guttmann. […]
Frank Stronach inaugurated his new regional party office in Eisenstadt (Burgenland) yesterday (Thursday). Around 100 people gathered outside the Team Stronach office in the Neusiedler Strasse to celebrate. The Austro-Canadian businessman and party leader Frank Stronach shook everyone’s hand and held a speech on his political and economic philosophy. He then dedicated some time to […]
Over 5,000 Burgenland school pupils studying Hungarian and Croatian will get new course materials from September. The materials were put together by teachers from across the region for the 5,018 students studying the languages and was developed in partnership with the language department of the Pedagogic College (Pädagogischen Hochschule) and ORF Burgenland. State school board […]
The FIS Grass-Skiing Junior World Championships opens up in Burgenland from 31 July to 4 August. Beating off stiff competition, the ski-centre in Rettenbach impressed a panel of judges from the International Ski Federation (FIS) enough to host the World Championships in their small village of 350 people. Johann Gschwandtner of the organising committee said: […]
The judiciary is still dealing with fake registrations of students in Burgenland. Students were registered as residence in several municipalities in order to stop the closing of schools. New charges have now been filed. The public prosecutor’s office of Vienna has now made further charges against the mayor of Deutsch Schützen, Franz Wachter (ÖVP), the […]
A new solar bus is now in use in Hornstein, Burgenland (Eastern Austria), which is operated by an electric motor. The Technical University in Graz and several companies in Burgenland have been involved in the project. The solar bus, which has 68-horse power, can drive without making any sound. The power for the electric motor […]
Hotel Burgenland in Eisenstadt is under new management from this year. The famous four-star hotel was formerly part of Austria Hotels Betriebs GmbH for 10 years and has now been sold. The hotel will now be run in its own rights are not as part of the chain, say the management. The director of the […]
Vintners in Austria’s wine making heartland of Burgenland have started harvesting the grapes to make ice wine (Eiswein). The sweet dessert wine from the region which is now sold around the world is only made from grapes harvested after temperatures fall below freezing and the grapes are completely frozen through. The sugars and other dissolved […]