New furniture has been put out ready for the summer at the Museums Quarter (Museumsquartier, MQ) in Vienna. The summer furniture is blue this year – as voted in an online-poll last February. For the first time, there are also parasols for the popular lounging seats. These can be rented from the Aloha Bar daily […]
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From now on you can ice-skate even in Summer. The Wiener Stadthalle is offering an ice-skating area of 1.800 square metres, open every Tuesday throughout the summer. Today is a special ice skating event – the Stadhalle ice rink will open until 11:00 pm as part of the “Long Night of Summer Ice-Skating”. Winter clothes […]
Semperit share value drives upwards
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Semperit AG Holding (Semperit) shares soared in value today (Tues).As of 2pm, one stock in the rubber and synthetics industry company was traded at 40.81 Euros, up by 1.56 per cent. Semperit is based in Vienna and part of the German Continental AG group, a leading producer of tyres.Vienna-based fireproof products maker RHI AG also […]
Holiday traffic warning announced
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Drivers are being warned of the high possibility of traffic jams at the weekend.Austrian car clubs ÖAMTC and Arbö said today (Thurs) that, especially on Saturday, substantial tailbacks were expected for key routes in Tyrol, Salzburg and Vorarlberg. The organisations explained their predictions were based on the fact that several German regions including Bavaria, Hamburg […]
Five Hungarian hikers were rescued from freezing to death on a mountain in Lower Austria on Monday night.The group of friends called local rescue authorities around 9pm after getting lost on the Rax mountain range at dusk.The hikers were eventually discovered and salvaged by a group of rescuers after 0.30am. They were discharged from a […]
Paraglider injured in meadow crash
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A 36-year-old man was injured yesterday (Sun) afternoon when his paraglide crashed into a meadow shortly after he had taken off in Kürnberg in Lower Austrias Amstetten district.Police said the man, from Upper Austrias Steyr district, had failed to make use of the wind after a tension line in the left wing of his paraglider […]
An exhibition on the work of artist Susi Weigel will open at the Womens Museum in Hittisau, Vorarlberg on 13 May, it was announced today (Fri).Weigel, who died in 1990, produced a vast amount of childrens literature, including the classic “Das kleine Ich bin Ich” (The small me is me) in 1972. The exhibition will […]
An Innsbruck woman survived an avalanche yesterday (Thurs) after heavy, wet snow buried her entire body, leaving only a small air hole for her to breathe through.The woman, 57, was ski touring alone in an area near Arlberg mountain, Tyrol, when she triggered an avalanche at 1pm that dragged her 200 metres and left her […]
A skier is in a critical state after skiing into a piste grooming machine cable on Sunday evening at the Wagrain ski area in Salzburg, police said yesterday (Mon).Günther S., 50, was skiing down to the middle lift station at about 8pm after a birthday party at the “Gipfelstadl” mountain hut when he failed to […]
A skier buried by an avalanche yesterday (Sun) near Klösterle am Arlberg, Vorarlberg, was able to free himself, police said.The man and a male companion triggered a 40-metre wide avalanche about 11:30am. The other man was also caught in the avalanche but was not buried.A skier who witnessed the avalanche called rescuers.In a more serious […]