Can you tell the difference between an “e” and an “n”? Probably not. Namely when you should read it on the billboard on the left in the picture. (The solution of the riddle: The word in Kurrent reads “Verlangen”, in German: “Ask for …”). In comparison, the phrase “with the crown” […]

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We welcome the new Topothek from Asparn an der Zaya in the eastern Weinviertel of Lower Austria with a rare picture. Most of the photos are taken on the festive days, when people dressed up like to face the camera. In everyday life, on the other hand, a camera was […]

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In northern Croatia the Prelog Topotheque has gone online. This new archive wants to show the life of ordinary people with an emphasis on culture, art and architecture. In contrast to previous documentations of the history of Prelog, the Topotheque will focus less on […]

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It‘s not a special picture for the elderly, but for the younger ones, who now take buses to schools, it seems very old: when the ÖBB buses were presented in orange and wore a logo typical of the time. The production of adhesive films with color gradients had only just […]

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A particularly extensive Topotheque has gone online for the market town of Markersdorf-Haindorf in Lower Austria. The Topotheque team, with Franz Nagl, Georg Schwab, Erwin Cech and Anna Rabacher as well as Stephanie Birgmayr as the contact person at the municipal office, […]

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Marija Bistrica’s Topotheque was opened this summer. She will deal with the history of this national Marian shrine from 1715. The tradition of pilgrimage has endured since the discovery of the miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary in 1648 and since then millions of people have […]

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The recently launched Topothek Pressburgerbahn is the first cross-border topotheque. It is run by the Association of Friends of Urban and Regional Public Transport (Klub priateľov mestskej hromadnej a regionálnej dopravy) in Bratislava, which deals with the rescue and restauration […]

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