The Austrian post office wants to reduce the number of people having to come and pick up packages from post collection centres in the Austrian capital of Vienna. By the end of the year the postal service wants to double the number of parcel boxes in apartments blocks in the city meaning that less people […]
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By Rob Hyde Thieves managed to remove the contents of a hundred cellars within the same municipal housing complex on a street in Vienna. Shoes, tools, clothes, bikes and even skis were stolen from a hundred cellars of flats belonging to the Schüttausstraße housing estate, which lies just a brief stroll away from the United […]
By Matthias Loinig The year 2013 is going to start off an expensive one for more than 2,500 people living in Vienna housing associations. The reason is that building contracts that were signed 60 years ago will run out from the end of 2012. Many of the buildings were built in the 1920s when there […]
Michael Ludwig has vowed to improve the quality of services to people living in social housing flats in Vienna. The Viennese Social Democratic (SPÖ) housing councillor told the Kurier newspaper today (Thurs) his department recently raised the number of advice and information checkpoints situated at community housing complexes to 100 in the past months. He […]
Drunk smoker falls off balcony
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A sozzled teenager fell off a balcony while having a cigarette, police in Vienna said yesterday (Thurs). The 19-year-old attended a party in a third-floor flat in Vienna-Meidling on Wednesday night. He landed on a patch of grass in the housing estate’s inner courtyard. The young man was allegedly sitting on the balcony railing smoking […]
After 130 years of exposure to the weather, the facade of Vienna’s town hall is to be renovated as a whole for the first time. The general renovation of the façade will cost at least 35.7 million Euros but so far undiscovered damage could increase costs. No other building on Vienna’s Ring street has used […]
Horrified plumbers called the police after finding body parts in buckets of dry cement in a basement.The workers were ordered to lay new gas and water pipes in the cellar of the housing estate in Vienna-Meidling when they made the terrifying discoveries on Monday afternoon. Police evacuated the basement to search for clues.Forensic investigators are […]
Salzburg police catch German speeder
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A German lost his licence for racing at nearly 190 kilometres per hour (kph) on a motorway in Salzburg yesterday evening (Tues).Traffic police in Zederhaus said today the 56-year-old from Ravensburg was stopped on the A10 Tauern motorway for going at 189 kph in a 100 kph limit zone.The general speed limit on Austrian highways […]
Pole stabs girlfriend’s ex
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A Polish man has been arrested for stabbing his girlfriends former partner.The 32-year-old was put in custody after he knifed his love rival a 28-year-old compatriot in the stomach once in the hallway of a housing estate in Vienna-Meidling yesterday evening (Mon).The victim was hospitalised with injuries described as not life-threatening by doctors.
A man has been arrested after claiming that his girlfriend “was clambering about” in their flat in front of the window before she plunged to her death.The 29-year-old woman died before an ambulance arrived at the housing estate in Vienna-Landstraße yesterday evening (Tues).Her boyfriend, 24, told police he had been drinking with her in their […]