Wollersdorf-Steinabruckl

Few communities in Lower Austria have a history as closely tied to the former Wöllersdorf munitions works as Gemeinde Wollersdorf-Steinabrückl. The municipality lies on the Piesting River, where the Vienna Basin meets the foothills of the Gutenstein Alps. During the First World War, the factory complex made the area an important centre of Austro-Hungarian arms production. Parts of the site were later used for the Wöllersdorf detention camp, established in 1933 by Austria’s authoritarian government. Today, its two constituent communities stand between the industrial plain around Wiener Neustadt and wooded uplands to the west. See how Gemeinde Wollersdorf-Steinabrückl fits within Lower Austria by browsing webcams nearby.

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