Theme Week Carinthia – Hüttenberg
Tuesday, 23 December 2014 - 01:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union
Category/Kategorie: General
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Historic blast furnaces in der Heft © Mefusbren69
Hüttenberg (Slovene:
Železni Hrib) is a town in the district of
Sankt Veit an der Glan with 1,500 inhabitants.
Heinrich Harrer was born in the town and was an moutaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. A museum is dedicated to him today.
Harrer Museum, seen from Tibetian pilgrimage-path Lingkor © Johann Jaritz/cc-by-sa-3.0
The municipality includes the Görtschitz valley in the southern foothills of the
Seetal Alps. On the north, it borders
Styria.
Neighboring municipalities are
Reichenfels,
Bad Sankt Leonhard, and
Wolfsberg on the east,
Klein Sankt Paul on the south, and
Guttaring and
Friesach on the west.
Here you can find the complete
Overview of all Theme Weeks.
Read more on
Hüttenberg,
Museen Hüttenberg and
Wikipedia Hüttenberg. Learn more about the
use of photos. To inform you about latest news most of the city, town or tourism websites offer a newsletter service and/or operate Facebook pages/Twitter accounts. In addition more and more destinations, tourist organizations and cultural institutions offer Apps for your Smart Phone or Tablet, to provide you with a mobile tourist guide (
Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State -
Weather report by weather.com -
Johns Hopkins University & Medicine - Coronavirus Resource Center -
Global Passport Power Rank -
Democracy Index -
GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank -
Global Competitiveness Report -
Corruption Perceptions Index -
Press Freedom Index -
World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index -
UN Human Development Index -
Global Peace Index -
Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at
comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.
Recommended posts:
[caption id="attachment_186187" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Cornmarket © J.-H. Janßen/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Liberties is an area in central Dublin, located in the southwest of the inner city. One of Dublin's most historic working-class neighbourhoods, the area is traditionally associated with the River Poddle, market traders and local family-owned businesses, as well as whiskey distilling, and, historically, the textiles industry and tenement housing. Many places in The Liberties still have connection...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_206169" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Unukorno/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Saint Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey as well as the main port with a population of about 19,000. In Guernésiais and in French, historically the official language of Guernsey, the name of the town and its surrounding parish is St Pierre Port. The "port" distinguishes this parish from Saint Pierre Du Bois. As well as being a parish, St. Peter Port is a small town consisting mostly of steep narrow streets and ...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_4979" align="aligncenter" width="590" caption="Kotkatjärvi village © MaSii"][/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Karelia, the land of the Karelian peoples, is an area in Northern Europe of historical significance for Finland, Russia, and Sweden. It is currently divided between the Russian Republic of Karelia, the Russian Leningrad Oblast, and Finland (the regions of South Karelia and North Karelia).
Various subdivisions may be called Karelia. Finnish Karelia was a historical province of Finland, now divid...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_165845" align="aligncenter" width="590"] New Hampshire - Berlin © Americanadian 8[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]N E W H A M P S H I R E
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. New Hampshire is the 5th smallest by land area and the 9th least populous of the 50 United States. Concord i...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_207665" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Nha Trang beach © ntt/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Southeast Asian Indochinese Peninsula. With an estimated 95.5 million inhabitants as of 2018, it is the 15th most populous country in the world. Vietnam shares its land borders with China to the north, and Laos and Cambodia to the west. It shares its maritime borders with Thailand through the Gulf of Thailand, and th...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_161676" align="aligncenter" width="590"] The traditionell Dhow, an enduring symbol of Oman © Pranav21391[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Oman, is an Arab country in the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Holding a strategically important position at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, the nation is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest, and shares marine borders with Iran and Pakistan. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the south...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_192100" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Chinatown © Laitr Keiows/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Kobe is the sixth-largest city in Japan and the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is located on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay and about 30 km (19 mi) west of Osaka. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto.
The earliest written records regarding the region come fr...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_162933" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Al Khor Harbour with mosque © Vincent van Zeijst/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Al Khor is a coastal city in northern Qatar, located 50 kilometres north of the capital, Doha. It is the capital city of the municipality of Al Khor. The name of the city means creek in Arabic as the town is located on a creek. Al Khor is home to many employees of the oil industry due to its proximity to Qatar's northern oil and natural gas fields, and due to its proximity to t...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_159814" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Hoher Dachstein with Vorderer Gosausee © Einer flog zu Weit/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Hoher Dachstein is a strongly karstic Austrian mountain, and the second highest mountain in the Northern Limestone Alps. It is situated at the border of Upper Austria and Styria in central Austria, and is the highest point in each of those states. Parts of the massif also lie in the state of Salzburg, leading to the mountain being referred to as the Drei-Länder-Berg...
[ read more ]
[caption id="attachment_168238" align="aligncenter" width="590"] International Criminal Court building © OSeveno/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal that sits in The Hague in the Netherlands. The ICC has the jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. The ICC is intended to complement existing national judicial systems and it may therefore ...
[ read more ]