The way the place presented itself for the fire department´s 75th annyversary is no longer possible today because most of the gable fronts have disappeared. © Holzer

A / NOE: Weikersdorf am Steinfelde: Topotheque online

Here, in the south of the Vienna Basin, where a long-vanished sea built the soil in prehistoric times, lies the community of Weikersdorf am Steinfelde, whose name is reminiscent of this past. The town is documented in 1146, the oldest photograph currently in the new Topotheque dates from 1896 – probably too late for contemporary witnesses to be able to recognize the children in this class photo. In many photos you can still see the characteristic gable fronts of the houses, which have already disappeared today. That‘s why the Topothequers Marlene Nemeth and Edith Neubauer hope that experts can reconstruct the locations where some photos were taken. Fortunately, just as many gabled houses have disappeared is the method of transporting students to an excursion destination, as the photo from a school trip from the early post-war years shows. Click through the new topotheque in Weikersdorf am Steinfelde – maybe you too have clues, memories or even suitable photos!