Rust & Neusiedler See
Rust is a great daytrip from Vienna and it is situated at the banks of Neusiedler See, the largest lake of Austria, it is surrounded by a thick belt of reeds and is mostly not deeper than 2 meters or even less.Rust is famous for its population of storks, in summer 2007 there were around 63 storks to be found in the nests on top of the chimneys of almost every house in the small town of Rust.Rust is a "Freistadt" - that priviledge was granted by the austrian empire after the city had given the whole production of wine plus a certain amount of money to the court in ....Beeing a "Freistadt" furtheron included certain priviledges and high prosperity and you can still see a lot of it in the plenty of great buildings in the centre of Rust.Take a walk and you will see 3 churches in quite a small town, a really high number of fine restaurants and wine-cellars.Auge Gottes - Haus (my 2nd pic) is a...
