Built around scattered farmsteads on the wooded foothills of the eastern Alps, Gemeinde Altendorf grew into a small municipality in Lower Austria’s Neunkirchen District. It forms part of the historic Industrieviertel, the southeastern quarter of the state, where settled valleys meet forested uplands. The Semmering Railway, opened in 1854 and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, is a defining monument of railway engineering in the wider region. Altendorf is a quiet base for understanding this transition between alpine country and the Vienna Basin. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Altendorf relates to the Semmering and the surrounding eastern Alps.
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