The best walks and hikes around Straning-Grafenberg

In a sermon on Good Friday, Innsbruck Bishop Reinhold STECHER spoke of how the darkness of the day Christ died on the cross was illuminated by flashes of divine insight, comparable to heat lightning in the mountains that moves through and brightens the dark sky. “The first flash strikes a man from the rich establishment of Jerusalem. We cannot even measure what the decision to give Jesus an honorary grave meant for Joseph of Arimathea,” said the popular pastor, referring to the Gospel of John (19:39-42). “Crucified people were otherwise thrown onto the rubbish heaps; in the eyes of the world at that time, they were not only physically but also morally finished. The councillor Joseph of Arimathea made himself socially impossible with this act. But he was struck by the flash [of an Easter insight].”

To the left and right are cellars and press houses, but nobody lives here. The cellar itself is a passageway dug into the loess, cool and evenly tempered. This is how wine used to be stored, long before refrigeration technology existed. The press house above was purely a workspace. That's where the grapes came in and were pressed. In Stoitzendorf, such an alleyway runs through a wide hollow way, built almost continuously on both slopes, cellar after cellar, some with press houses, some without. Above them are old walnut trees that provide shade all summer long. Book a guided tour for more interesting information on the topic: https://www.weinviertel.at/kellergassenfuehrungen.

The town of Eggenburg, whose origins date back to the 13th century, was once one of the best-fortified towns in the country. The town walls were expanded over time with towers and gates, and Eggenburg's importance as a political center was underscored by events such as the proclamation of Duke Albrecht V. as ruler of the land.

At the entrance to Carlsthal, below the Eggenburg city wall, stands the Torborgen.

The Krahuletz Museum presents its latest highlight: the true-to-scale model of the town of Eggenburg as it looked around 1590. The builder of this model, Mag. Alexander Korab (Vienna), took inspiration from the latest archaeological findings and historical depictions.

The Eggenburg main square impresses above all with its vastness, which reflects the importance of the former ducal town of Eggenburg as a trading and market place. Markets were important sources of income for the town in the Middle Ages. On August 13, 1277, Rudolf von Habsburg confirmed to the town of Eggenburg the same freedoms, rights, and privileges with which Vienna had been favored by his predecessors and himself.

Currently, the listed neoclassical building houses the Dr. Erwin Pröll - Study Collection of the Krahuletz Museum.

A very idyllic place!