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Very quite and calm place even in the middle of summer
Con
If you want to get in the castle reserve your visit
In a nutshell
Lovely old town by the Danube river!
WATCH THE BOATS PASSING THROUGH LOCKS
balhannah Says: If you follow the road alongside the river from Grein to Struden, a little further on you will come to some River Locks. We stopped here for a while, as a Russian tourist boat was just about to go into the lock. We watched it come in and out, before heading to the car for...
DRIVE ALONG THE RIVER ROAD TO STRUDEN
balhannah Says: The morning we left Grein, we followed the Donau Bundesstrasse [3], River road for 3kms to the small town of Struden. We saw wonderful scenery as the road follows the very edge of the River.We arrived at Struden, a town as pretty as a picture, I loved it! It stretched along...
balhannah Says: Grein is a wonderful town to do this. Grein is situated on the bend of the River Danube.The river bend was known for years as the "place where death resides," as it was one of the river's most hazardous stretches until the reefs were blasted away in the late 1700s.These...
balhannah Says: The Town square has a lot of historic buildings, I just can't put name to photo!Quite a few date to the 1600's, others were built in the 1800's. I liked the Volksbank which had graffito and was a very ornamental building.One of the buildings was once an old Inn, another the...
balhannah Says: This fountain is located in the Town Square. It was built in 1872, to honour the Count of Meggau, who cared for the social welfare of the people of Grein.There are other old fountains built in the 1600's. If you throw coins in one of them, it is said you will return to...
balhannah Says: You won't miss seeing this Church as it has a very tall tower. Inside, the Gothic church is beautiful!The main entrance used to be situated in the tower gangway, but in 1600 there was a murder, so it was walled up. Opposite this entrance is the headstone of the former...
balhannah Says: The Rathaus was dated 1468, and the Grein Theatre, 1791, making it the oldest, still regularly used town theater in Austria. Inside are well maintained stalls, a Toilet separated only by a curtain from the auditorium, a prison, from which the prisoners could watch for the...
balhannah Says: Schloss Greinburg is an impressive Castle that we couldn't miss seeing on entering Grein. Built between the years, 1488 - 1493, it is one of Austria’s oldest occupied castles. It is an architecturally beautiful, late Renaissance Castle, with an arcaded inner court which is...
Danube bicycle ride , Day 4- Grein/Melk
Henk.Irene Says: The day started gray and windy. Decided was take the south shore to the city Melk. Our destination for today is Ebersdorf / Leben near Melk. A bicycle tour of about 61 km. After a strong descent from Gasthof Aumuhle to Grein (we did this with the bus and trailer) followed a...
Inguuna Says: If you drive from Vienna by Deutsche Romantikstrasse, then after Melk I recommend to stop at Grein to see Greinburg castle. Entering Grein, you can park your car near Donau and go uphill where castle is situated. There are signs, so it is impossible to go astray. I was there...
zrim Says: Every town along the Danube must have a town square. Some of them have gaudy Rathauses with glockenspiels. At Grein the square is small and functional, but yet very photogenic. Pleasant, even in the October drizzle.
zrim Says: We wandered up the hill and gained entrance to the castle courtyard but wre shut out of the interior. Can you see the stag heads peering through all the portals? One resident of this palace was a serious hunter.
zrim Says: Every village seems to have a castle. The castle at Grein was not open for a tour, but we trudged up the hill nonetheless to get a closer look at the grounds. A smallish palace by Hapsburg standards, but well suited to the village atmosphere.
balhannah Says: Grein for some reason, was nearly completely booked out! It is a lovely little village, perhaps that was why. We tried many pensions, and all were booked out, but each one rang another to see if accommodation was available.This is how we found a pension for the night, run by...
Pension Martha: Pension Martha-Garni, just good
Henk.Irene Says: For visiting Grein and traveling cyclists a very nice address. Located in the center of the town and has parking for bikes. The Pension has a limited number of spacious rooms and offers only breakfast. This is not a problem a number of restaurants are nearby. In the past we...
Gasthof Aumühle: Gasthof at a high plateau.
Henk.Irene Says: Not far from Grein is this relatively new Gasthof on a high plateau. For cyclists, there is the possibility to be obtained with a Shuttelbus with trailer. Otherwise it is a good climb and not direct a stay place for traveling cyclists. In our case it is reserved by the tour...
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For those of you who have visited my hometown page (Northfield, MN) you know that I am a patron of an establishment (pub) known as the Contented Cow. Those of us who are regulars, take a ceramic Contented Cow mug on travels around the world. We then take pictures of ourselves and the mug against a scenic and preferably well-known backdrop (think Venice canals, Big Ben, Eifel Tower etc). Since I am obtuse, I took my photo with the mug at the most obscure spot on the journey.
Written May 1, 2003
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Favorite thing: Look at the mist nestling among the hills on either side of the Danube. This type of view is what makes an early morning hike all worthwhile. To me, there is nothing more mysterious than veils of mist hugging hills in faint light. It stirs some romantic notions in me--I'm not sure I can adequately articulate the feeling, but the fog seems to prevent a clear view of the countryside, thus opening up endless possibilities for those shrouded hillsides.
Written May 1, 2003
THE POPULAR SMALL TOWN OF GREIN
Poets called Grein "The Pearl of the Strudengau." Situated beside the Danube, indeed my husband and I did think it a pearl.
I'm not sure why the rivercruise put ashore here. Probably because we had several hours to kill before our scheduled tour of the Melk Abbey. At any rate, it was a Monday morning and nothing was open...
Grein the gateway to the Strudengau
Beautiful on the northern bank lying the historic town of Grein. Located at the entrance to the Strudegau, the beautiful river section between Ardagger and Ybbs. Above the town is the 15th century...
This is one of my fondest memories in Austria, we were biking along the Danube and it started POURING really hard. We had to seek refuge from the rain somewhere, so we ducked into a castle that was on...
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