An elderly man from Lower Austria is recovering in hospital after suffering a circulatory collapse while bathing in a lake in Burgenland yesterday afternoon (Sun). The 61-year-old was dragged out of the pond by witnesses, police in Ritzing said today. A doctor who happened to be among the bathers managed to resuscitate the man who […]
A Styrian man died in a pond near Feldbach yesterday afternoon (Tues). The 58-year-old was already dead when a doctor and paramedics arrived at the lake in Riegersburg. Witnesses told the police he swam to the middle of the public bathing pond before he drowned. Medics did not manage to resuscitate him.
As an Alpine country with spectacular scenery Austria has always had an advantage in the tourism stakes. And with one in six people in the country earning their money from the tourism trade, Austria does not rest on its laurels with its vast natural wealth – walk through any alpine pasture and the variety of […]
A confused elderly man tried to find his way home in a German town almost 400 kilometres from his Austrian hometown, it has been reported.Newspapers in Bavaria reported yesterday (Mon) that the 81-year-old from Vienna had wandered around a retirement home in Breitbrunn at the Ammer Lake for more than three hours on Saturday before […]
An elderly woman lamenting her mothers death has been pronounced dead herself by bungling pension officials.Retired restaurant boss Edda S. revealed she stopped receiving payments from her public pension agency after the recent death of her mother at the age of 88. The 66-year-old Carinthian who ran an eatery at the Ossiacher Lake […]
A pensioner has died after he slipped while spending a penny close to a riverbank.Police in Peggau, Styria, said today (Tues) the 68-year-old had probably lost his balance while relieving himself on top of an embankment at the local Hammerbach creek.The mans body was discovered floating in the 40-centimetre deep water by a pedestrian last […]
A kite surfer suffered serious injuries as a wind gust threw him against a caravan today (Weds).The 44-year-old man from Vienna was transported to the citys Meidling Emergency Clinic after the dramatic accident at Lake Neusiedl in the eastern province of Burgenland.Local officials said the man sustained broken ribs and possibly spinal injuries as he […]
Residents of a small town in Carinthia feared they were doomed after a bird nicknamed the “Owl of Death” started to make strange sounds in the middle of the night.Locals in Drobollach at the Faaker Lake consulted the local hunter after several sleepless nights of the shrieking beeping sounds from the Eurasian Scops-owl. Obscure myths […]
The number of people stopped trying to illegally enter Germany via Austria is soaring.Police in the German State of Bavaria said today (Fri) officials prevented 2,800 attempts of people trying to enter the country illegally from Austria. This is a 15 per cent year on year increase, they stressed.Officials added there were 270 prevented attempts […]
Burgenland tourism bosses hope for more stays at the provinces Lake Neusiedl this summer after lakeside overnights in January and February soared by 25 per cent year on year.Tourism shipping transfer services at the lake which is the second-largest steppe lake in Central Europe started this morning (Fri), and lakeside towns have invested […]