Horsching: blue danube airport Linz

Hörsching has served as an aviation centre in Upper Austria since Linz Airport opened in 1955. The municipality lies on largely level ground west of Linz, near the Traun River before it joins the Danube. Linz Airport, also known as Blue Danube Airport Linz, gives this rural-urban fringe an international transport role, while the adjacent Hörsching air base is an important site for the Austrian Armed Forces. The Austrian Aviation Museum preserves historic aircraft and documents the region’s links with flight. Fields and residential settlements remain an essential part of the setting beside the runways. Browse other webcams across Upper Austria to place Hörsching in a wider geographic context.

Formed around the Danube and Enns corridors, Upper Austria developed into one of Austria’s nine federal states. Linz, its capital on the Danube, combines a major industrial tradition with cultural institutions including the Ars Electronica Center. North of the river, the Mühlviertel rolls towards the Czech border; southward, the terrain rises into the Alpine foothills and the lake country of the Salzkammergut. Hallstatt, beside Hallstätter See, is among the region’s best-known historic settlements and lends its name to the Hallstatt period of early Iron Age Europe. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Upper Austria.

Austria stretches from the Bohemian Massif along its northern edge to the Carnic Alps on the Italian border, encompassing high Alpine ranges and the Danube lowlands. The Danube links cities including Linz and Vienna, while the Grossglockner, at 3,798 metres, is the country’s highest mountain. Vienna developed for centuries as the seat of the Habsburg court, leaving imperial architecture around the Hofburg and Schönbrunn Palace. Salzburg is closely associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was born there in 1756. Alpine Tyrol, wine-growing areas east of Vienna and the lakes of Salzkammergut add markedly different regional identities. Browse other webcams across Austria to place this setting in a wider geographic context.