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Austria castles

Schloss Laxenburg castle
Castle Hagenau Austria
Hagenau Castle Austria
Burg Mauterndorf
Burg Heidenreichstein

Heidenreichstein castle
Burg Heidenreichstein castle
Schoenbuehel castle Danube Wachau
Hohenwerfen Castle Austria
Der Schlosspark Laxenburg

Ambras Castle Spanischer Saal
Burg Kreuzenstein
Birdhouse Schoenbrunn palace park
Heidenreichstein castle 2


Austria, officially the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Its capital city is Vienna.

The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when the countryside of upper and lower Austria became increasingly populated. The name "Ostarrichi" is first documented in an official document from 996. Since then this word has developed into the German word "�sterreich."