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Lower Austria

State in Austria

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Overview

Lower Austria (German: Niederösterreich) — as the name implies — is a state of Austria.

Regions

Industrieviertel (Industrial Quarter)
Mostviertel (Most Quarter)
A hilly region with lots of beautiful countryside. Is especially pretty in mid April when trees bloom. Most is a form of cider that is grown here from pears and apples.
Waldviertel (Forest Quarter)
Weinviertel (Wine Quarter)

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Cities

St. Pölten

the capital of Lower Austria, though that title historically belonged to Vienna

Amstetten

Amstetten is an industrial city in Lower Austria and the economic centre of the Mostviertel. The city has about 23,000 inhabitants.

Baden bei Wien

Baden, also known as Baden bei Wien (i.e., "Baden near Vienna") is a city in Lower Austria near Vienna with around 25,000 inhabitants. Baden is one of 11 "Great Spa Towns of Europe", a transcontinental UNESCO world heritage site.

Klosterneuburg

Klosterneuburg is a city in Lower Austria near Vienna with 25,900 inhabitants.

Mödling

Mödling is a city of 20,500 people (2018) in Lower Austria, on the southern outskirts of Vienna.

Perchtoldsdorf

Perchtoldsdorf is in Lower Austria. It is a small town south of Vienna on the eastern fringes of the Vienna Woods (Wienerwald), best known for its wine.

Wiener Neustadt

Wiener Neustadt is a city and Vienna suburb in Lower Austria. For travellers the city might be a starting point to explore the southern parts of Greater Vienna: to the west there are the foothills of the Alps, to the east Neusiedler See and Hungary are not far away, and to the north central Vienna.

Semmering

the best known alpine resort in eastern Austria and the closest to Vienna

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Tulln

Tulln an der Donau is a city in Lower Austria. Because of its abundance of parks and gardens, Tulln is often referred to as Blumenstadt ("City of Flowers").

Wachau

inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000 with the towns Melk, Spitz, Dürnstein and Krems

Retzer Land

a small wine region

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