Merkenstein ruins

Großau is a village and a cadastral community within the city of Bad Vöslau.

Berndorf is a town in the district of Baden in Lower Austria in Austria. Because of its historic development in the 19th century it is also referred to as the Krupp town.

The Stilklassen (German, lit. "style classes") are located in two schools in Berndorf, Lower Austria.

Pottenstein is a town in the district of Baden in Lower Austria in Austria.

Kolonie is a settlement in the municipality of Berndorf in the Baden District of Lower Austria. The settlement, a former miners' settlement, is located south of Berndorf on the L4020. It was built in 1919 as a residential area for the miners of the Grillenberg lignite mining in the local style.

Gainfarn is a village on the western edge of Bad Vöslau, in Lower Austria, Austria. It is an urban quarter and a cadastral community within Bad Vöslau city.

The Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in Heiligenkreuz is a Lourdes grotto in Heiligenkreuz, a municipality in the Vienna Woods in the district of Baden near Vienna, which was created in 2017 by the Heiligenkreuz Abbey as a religious monument in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Like all similar grottoes of Our Lady of Lourdes around the world, it is reminiscent of the world-famous grotto of the apparition of the Virgin Mary in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes.

Heiligenkreuz Abbey (German: Stift Heiligenkreuz; English: Abbey of the Holy Cross) is a Cistercian monastery in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, c. 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world.

The Via Sacra (Latin for Holy Road) is a centuries old pilgrimage trail in Lower Austria. It starts in Vienna and passes through the Wienerwald to Mariazell. One version of the route starts in Vienna and passes by the Wildegg Castle along the way to Heiligenkreuz. Another version of the trail starts in Brunn am Gebirge goes from Mödling through Gaaden, Heiligenkreuz, Alland, and the pilgrimage destination Hafnerberg, first into the Triestingtal, and then over the Gerichtsberg into the Gölsental and Traisental. Along it there are many remarkable shrines. The pilgrims have been an economic factor in the area since early in its history. There are many inns on the trail, which live off the pilgrims.

Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn is a town in the district of Baden in Lower Austria in Austria. The city was governed by social democracy until 2010, and since 2010 a citizens' list of Franz Scheider has been in power. During the Second World War there were several labor camps for the factories in Enzesfeld. The factories were for war production and were often bombed by the Royal Air Force. In 1944 there was a large explosion in a factory that could be felt as far away as Wiener Neustadt and cost lives. Shortly before the end of the war, prisoners in the work camps in Enzesfeld were still being murdered by the SS. The Soviet Army liberated the communities of Enzesfeld and Lindabrunn. The NSDAP mayor of Enzesfeld Karl Gschiel flees to Carinthia and never returns. Shortly after the war, his villa was set on fire by the population and burned down, it was finally demolished. In the post-war period there was a strong SPÖ in Enzesfeld and Lindabrunn. In the first years even KPÖ local councils. The city was founded in 1970 from the communities of Enzesfeld and Lindabrunn. Erich Nebel (SPÖ) ruled until 1985, and Erich Fangl (SPÖ) until 2010. In 2005, the SPÖ had the greatest success, 19 out of 25 mandates. In the 1990s and 2000s there was a list of citizens with the names: Citizens list Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn. In 2009, the local Social Democratic party fell out and the SPÖ municipal council from Lindabrunn founded his list of citizens, Liste Schneider. In the 2010 elections, he was able to bring many Red voters to his list and the Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn citizens' list merged with the Schneider list. Franz Schneider becomes mayor in 2010. After 2020: The municipal council currently consists of 14 mandates from the List Schneider citizens' list of Mayor Franz Schneider. The opposition is formed by the SPÖ with 10 mandates from Karin Scheele, she is also a member of the Austrian Social Democratic Party in the Lower Austrian state parliament. The ÖVP of Deputy Mayor Alexander Schermann has 3 mandates. The FPÖ had seats in the local council up until the 2020 elections, but has since lost importance and lost most of the voters. This is a follow-up to the Ibiza affair of 2019. On June 1, 2023, Stefan Rabl will be elected mayor. He is the successor of Franz Schneider.

Hirtenberg is a town of approx. 2,500 inhabitants near Baden bei Wien in Lower Austria, Austria. The river Triesting is located at the south border of the town. Coming from the Vienna Woods, the valley of Triesting joins the Vienna Basin here.

The Mayerling incident is the series of events surrounding the apparent murder–suicide pact of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and his mistress, baroness Mary Vetsera. They were found dead on 30 January 1889 in an imperial hunting lodge in Mayerling. Rudolf, who was married to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, was the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, and was heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Rudolf's mistress was the daughter of Albin von Vetsera, a diplomat at the Austrian court. Albin had been created a Freiherr (Baron) in 1870. The bodies of the 30-year-old Rudolf and the 17-year-old Mary were discovered in the Imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods, 26.6 kilometres (16.5 mi) southwest of the capital, on the morning of 30 January 1889. The death of the Crown Prince interrupted the security inherent in the direct line of Habsburg dynastic succession. As Rudolf had no son, the succession passed to Franz Joseph's brother, Archduke Karl Ludwig, and his eldest son, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This destabilisation endangered the growing reconciliation between the Austrian and Hungarian factions of the empire. Succeeding developments led to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip, a Yugoslav nationalist and ethnic Serb, at Sarajevo in June 1914, and the July Crisis that led to the start of the First World War.