The decision to entrust Edelmann with the leadership of the festival followed an intensive selection process A broadly composed jury of experts and representatives from Klosterneuburg’s cultural committee reviewed 21 highly qualified applications Mayor Christoph Kaufmann and Culture Councillor Katharina Danninger presented the new artistic director during a press conference at the monastery in October 2024 we’ve gained a personality who not only has excellent artistic credentials but also knows how to lead and develop a festival,” said Danninger Edelmann promises “top-level operatic experiences” and aims to position operklosterneuburg with a clear artistic signature Edelmann hails from a musical family and is the son of the renowned bass Otto Edelmann and in 1989 he won the top prize at the International Belvedere Singing Competition – the Mozart Prize – along with seven additional special awards This marked the beginning of an international career that soon brought him to the great opera houses of Europe Edelmann was a permanent ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin performing over 90 leading roles and establishing himself as a versatile and charismatic baritone Guest appearances followed at the Vienna State Opera Edelmann also worked as a director and producer As artistic director of the Seefestspiele Mörbisch (2017–2022) he brought in new energy by combining modern stagings with high musical standards making the festival accessible to new audiences he has served as Professor of Voice at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and is deeply committed to nurturing young talent Set in revolutionary Rome in the year 1800 who aids a political fugitive and falls into the hands of the ruthless police chief Scarpia Scarpia manipulates the jealousy of Cavaradossi’s lover The tragic tale culminates at the Castel Sant’Angelo “Tosca” is among Puccini’s most expressive works: arias such as “Vissi d’arte” and “E lucevan le stelle” remain beloved staples in the global opera repertoire moving audiences even over a century later Edelmann has assembled an experienced creative team: Francesco Cilluffo takes over musical direction The main roles will be sung by Federica Vitali (Floria Tosca) accompanied by the Beethoven Philharmonie and the operklosterneuburg chorus A heartfelt priority for Edelmann is the promotion of young audiences he seeks to captivate children and teenagers with the world of opera The children’s performance will take place on 20 July 2025 at 6:00 PM – featuring a full orchestra and specially adapted child-friendly production of high musical quality Edelmann also announced plans to expand the festival’s social media presence and strategically grow its sponsorship network ensuring a sustainable future for operklosterneuburg The premiere of “Tosca” is scheduled for 5 July 2025, with additional performances on 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 22, 24, 26, and 29 July and 2 August – all at 8:00 PM in the impressive setting of the Kaiserhof. Ticket sales via the official website www.operklosterneuburg.at a new artistic era begins for operklosterneuburg – one built on experience and a clear vision to elevate the festival as a cultural beacon beyond regional borders “Tosca” is more than a classic opera; it becomes a powerful symbol of this bold new beginning Opera Klosterneuburg “Evangelization is more than just simple doctrinal and moral transmission These are powerful words from Pope Francis.  the most important mission of the Church has always been to proclaim the Gospel to men and women.  the Church makes use of modern means of communication to do so But even in the days when the internet had not yet been invented the preachers of the Gospel were extremely creative.  “The Verdun Altar is a very beautiful example of how the Bible was explained and presented in the Middle Ages Since not everyone could read and write at that time the message was conveyed through the art.”  “The Augustinian Canons who have been living and working here since the twelfth century especially in the many parishes around Klosterneuburg and Vienna and then extending as far as the USA and Norway.”  The Verdun Altar in Klosterneuburg has been recounting the Gospel of Jesus Christ for over 800 years is very familiar with the technical details.  “The enamel altar of Nicholas of Verdun is not only the largest preserved goldsmith's work of the Middle Ages but also of both artistic and technical quality This is an outstanding work that can hardly be matched but 45 that actually date from the 12th century.”  Father Elias Carr has been living in Klosterneuburg for many decades now and is still fascinated by the Verdun Altar.  Father Elias notes: “What we have here is an incredible monument to Catholic biblical interpretation which is based on the way the Bible explains itself It's based on the idea of anti-type and type which tells stories which we find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ and in the Church and in other aspects of God's plan.”  “So let's have a little look at some of these images before to see how it all works His image is going to come up multiple times in here because they needed to find somebody who could be an antitype to Jesus Christ.”  is the finding of the grapes from the two scouts in the Book of Numbers which Jesus turns into his Precious Blood in the Eucharist.”  “The very end of the Verdun Altar is eschatological but now six tablets that are in the two columns that refer to the last things and then the judgment of those who have chosen not to be with God people tend to really like this one because it has a bishop in it or a couple of bishops and a king and a monk and all this It's showing that the medieval Christianity valued human freedom He wants us to be fully realized in ourselves to be the person he already knows us to be.”  the message of this 800-year-old altar is still relevant today We asked the priest from New York one important question: What is his favorite German word?  I mentioned recently when I was with EWTN in Europe and that is ‘Untergangstimmung.’ That is the term that means everything's going to hell And it's a terrible temptation that people think it's all just getting worse And that's the one thing that we Christians can't accept God has chosen us to be the people on this earth at this time and we just let him surprise us with what happens when we say yes to him.”  SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER HERE Rudolf Gehrig has been working for EWTN since 2013 From 2019 to 2022 he was chief correspondent for German-speaking Europe at CNA Deutsch before moving to the Italian capital as a Rome correspondent and has since reported for EWTN Vatican and CNA Deutsch directly from the heart of the universal Church And now there is an added attraction: a new branch of the Albertina Museum The goal of the new facility is to display the Albertina’s collection of post-1945 contemporary art “The Albertina Klosterneuburg is a vision come true The decentralized location on the outskirts of a large city represents a key stimulus for the region,” said the head of the Albertina who is leaving this year after 25 years at the helm In 2020 the famous museum opened the Albertina Modern to focus on contemporary art in a privileged space after a renovation that cost nearly €60 million Now it has taken over a building that housed the vibrant Essl Museum between 1999 and 2016 The uniqueness of Klosterneuburg is the main challenge for the Albertina as an art museum of international standing Its latest addition is not located in the heart of Vienna at the doors of the Opera like the original museum nor in the middle of the Ringstrasse next to the Musikverein — home of the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert — like the Albertina Modern a satellite center located just 10 minutes walk from the mother ship The Essl Museum opened its doors in 1999 to exhibit one of the best collections of contemporary art in the world assembled by the business magnate Karlheinz Essl; it closed in 2016 the building had served as a repository for the Albertina which received the Essl collection as a donation the Kaiser’s trompe-l’oeil monastery and Heinz Tesar’s demolished museum-turned-warehouse seemed to be in dialogue with one another The architect designed a bright building with white minimalist lines reminiscent of a ship stranded on the banks of the Danube Schröder and Constanze Malissa have curated three exhibitions with a total of 150 works inside 3,000 square meters of exhibition space. On the first floor, visitors are greeted by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein a Monty Python-style adagio to an artistic current that reveals to us people — is susceptible of becoming a fetish Soon after that one runs into canvases by Mel Ramos the work by Robert Klemmer with which the opening of the Albertina Modern was announced to the world The upper floor exhibits From Hundertwasser to Kiefer: From the Symbol of Freedom to the Shadows of the Past If pop art is concerned with interpreting capitalism Markus Lüpertz and Anselm Kiefer focused on Germany’s ominous past “employed representation not as propaganda but as criticism of their own history — of war and of society’s atomization.” There is also work by Maria Lassnig the artist who developed the concept of “body consciousness,” where the perception of one’s own body provides the starting point for exploring the world the charred corpses of Auschwitz and the drama of refugees Although there is also room for young artists like Stefanie Holler capable of evoking the nostalgia of an old typewriter with a stick of charcoal Albertina Klosterneuburg’s opening hours for the remainder of the year will be Thursday through Sunday until November 2 The new facility is a reminder of how the Albertina’s departing director with two new buildings and a focus on contemporary art (in the Viennese salons people talk about the museum with some sarcasm as the “Albrechtina”) It will be up to the new boss taking over in 2025 Ralph Gleis — until now responsible for the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin — to write the future of Vienna’s famous museum Sign up for our weekly newsletter to get more English-language news coverage from EL PAÍS USA Edition ¿Quieres añadir otro usuario a tu suscripción ¿Por qué estás viendo esto? cambia tu suscripción a la modalidad Premium Cada uno accederá con su propia cuenta de email lo que os permitirá personalizar vuestra experiencia en EL PAÍS ¿Tienes una suscripción de empresa? 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Metrics details Computer scientist takes the helm at new Austrian science and technology institute Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout Download citation Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Transmission electron microscopy image of a candidate Klosneuvirus particle detected in the Klosterneuburg waste water treatment plant biomass The particle exhibits features reminiscent of Mimiviridae including a faceted multi-layered envelope surrounding a central core Biologists have been fascinated by giant viruses since 2003, when a research team led by CNRS scientist Didier Raoult discovered and characterized Mimiviruses Since then, a handful of other giant virus groups, such as Pandoraviruses and Pithoviruses The unique ability among them to encode proteins involved in translation piqued researchers’ interests as to the origin of giant viruses (i) one posits that giant viruses evolved from an ancient cell perhaps one from an extinct fourth domain of cellular life; (ii) another presents the idea that giant viruses arose from smaller viruses “The discovery of Klosneuvirus supports the latter idea,” said lead co-author Dr. Tanja Woyke, Microbial Genomics Program lead at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute a smaller virus infected different eukaryote hosts and picked up genes encoding translational machinery components from independent sources over long periods of time through piecemeal acquisition.” Woyke and co-authors found Klosneuvirus in the wastewater of a treatment plant in Austria “Analysis of low-complexity metagenomes from a wastewater treatment plant in Klosterneuburg revealed clearly separated genomic bins comprising many genes typically found in giant viruses,” they explained “From these data, a 1.57-Mb genome of a putative virus the team screened nearly 7,000 environmental metagenomes and discovered “three metagenomics bins with high assembly quality and strong overlap in gene content.” “All three bins were identified as giant virus genomes ranging from 0.86 Mb (Indivirus) to 1.33 Mb (Hokovirus) to 1.53 Mb (Catovirus),” the scientists said the suite of ‘cellular’ genes in Klosneuviruses seemed to have a common origin the authors observed they came from different hosts From the evolutionary trees the scientists built they noticed that they were acquired by the viruses bit by bit The Klosneuvirus genes contained aminoacyl-tRNA (transfer ribonucleic acid) enzymes with specificity for 19 out of 20 amino acids along with more than 20 tRNAs and an array of translation factors and tRNA modifying enzymes — an unprecedented finding among all viruses including the previously known giant viruses The predicted hosts for Klosneuviruses are protists and while their direct impacts on protists are not yet worked out these giant viruses are thought to have a large impact on these protists that help regulate the planet’s biogeochemical cycles The team also determined that Klosneuviruses belong to a family called Mimiviridae “The discovery presents virus evolution for us in new ways, vastly expanding our understanding of how many essential host genes viruses can capture during their evolution,” said co-author Dr. Eugene Koonin, an evolutionary and computational biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health “Since protein synthesis is one of the most prominent hallmarks of cellular life it shows that these new viruses are more ‘cell-like’ than any virus anyone has ever seen before.” Giant viruses with an expanded complement of translation system components Science 356 (6333): 82-85; doi: 10.1126/science.aal4657 Metagenomic studies suggest that giant viruses—currently known as Nucleocytoviricota but formerly referred to as Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA viruses (NCLDV)—have an enormous amount of diversity and can be found in almost every environment around the world Despite this almost ubiquitous distribution the number of protist and algal hosts that the viruses have been isolated from is very small a new report describes the first large viral isolate that replicates in the amoeboflagellate Naegleria—the genus that comprises the incredibly deadly human pathogen Naegleria fowleri The research group from the University of Vienna went on to uncover the structure and infection cycle of the giant virus known as Catovirus naegleriensis The researchers also show how the virus adapted to its Naegleria host using fluorescence in situ hybridization This work is published in Nature Communications in the paper, “A giant virus infecting the amoeboflagellate Naegleria.” Illustration of Naegleriavirus based on electron microscopy A section through a virus particle with the star-shaped stargate is shown [Stefan Pommer]“The newly discovered Naegleriaviruses were isolated from a waste water treatment plant in Klosterneuburg near Vienna and represent only the fourth isolate from a group called Klosneuviruses,” said Patrick Arthofer a former graduate student at the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna Naegleri species are single-celled amoebae thrives in warm waters above 30°C and causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) a rare but almost invariably fatal brain infection Giant viruses were identified two decades ago primarily infecting single-celled organisms boasting unique structures and genetic traits previously thought exclusive to cellular life Their discovery sparked debates over the definition of viruses and the origins of life Naegleriaviruses are taken up mistakenly as a food source but destroy their amoeba hosts within just a few hours They exhibit a structure familiar in giant viruses infecting host cells via a stargate structure that facilitates DNA entry a structure known as a virus factory forms inside the amoeba cell replicating viral genetic material outside the nucleus and assembling hundreds of new virus particles To keep the host cell alive during this process Naegleriaviruses likely use special proteins that suppress the cell’s natural immune response Only after successful viral replication does cell destruction and virus release occur “The newly identified Naegleriaviruses may not be suitable to treat Naegleria infections given the challenging accessibility of the brain where infections occur,” noted Matthias Horn head of the department of microbiology and ecosystem science at the University of Vienna this discovery opens the door to the possibility of preventative treatment of at-risk water bodies such as during swimming pool water treatment but this would first require further research the discovery of these viruses will enhance our understanding of both Naegleria biology and the viruses that infect them.” Copyright © 2025 Sage Publications or its affiliates including those for text and data mining and training of large language models We have detected that you are using an adblocking plugin in your browser The revenue we earn by the advertisements is used to manage this website Please whitelist our website in your adblocking plugin It looks like nothing was found at this location Maybe try one of the links below or a search KLOSTERNEUBURG, Austria – A new high-definition stealth radar system that could change the nature of warfare has been demonstrated for the first time. 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Continue reading original article The Military & Aerospace Electronics take: 5 Sept. 2019 -- The result, quantum radar is a high definition detection system that provides a much more detailed image of targets while itself remaining difficult to detect Quantum radars could provide users with enough detail to identify aircraft and other aerial targets by specific model Researchers at Austria’s Institute of Science and Technology in Klosterneuburg, Austria, used entangled microwaves to create one of the world’s first quantum radar system Under a principle known as quantum entanglement two particles can be linked together regardless of distance forming what scientists call a quantum entangled pair When something happens to one particle it can be noticed in the other particle This in turn leads to a process called quantum illumination where information about one particle’s environment can be inferred by studying the other particle Related: China reveals prototype configuration of jam-resistant and counter-stealth quantum radar Related: The U.S and China are in a quantum physics arms race that will transform warfare Related: Air Force joins consortium to explore quantum computing for Air Force applications like machine learning visited Klosterneuburg Monastery together with her second Embassy Secretary the treasure chamber (Schatzkammer ) with the Holy Crown the Austrian Archduke's Hat (1616) and the Stiftskirche (collegiate church) were visited or Log In New giant viruses found at an Austrian wastewater treatment plant probably evolved from a smaller virus that picked up bits of genome from its hosts and incorporated it The giant viruses in the Mimivirus group were discovered just in 2003 Giant viruses live up to their name: They can reach sizes of up to 500 nanometers in diameter compared to a few dozen nanometers for typical viruses Giant viruses also have more complicated genetic machinery than their tinier cousins The discovery of the new viruses was accidental — but enlightening The research team was combing through genetic sequences from a wastewater treatment plant in the town of Klosterneuburg trying to understand bacteria that convert ammonia to nitrate during the treatment process "Finding a giant virus genome took the project in a completely new and unexpected yet very exciting direction," Woyke said in the statement Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox "The discovery presents virus evolution for us in new ways vastly expanding our understanding of how many essential host genes viruses can capture during their evolution," Koonin said Others are likely still waiting to be discovered "I'm quite confident that the current record of the genome size of giant viruses will be broken," he said "We are going to see the real Goliaths of the giant virus world."  Original article on Live Science.  Stephanie PappasSocial Links NavigationLive Science ContributorStephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science covering topics ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior She was previously a senior writer for Live Science but is now a freelancer based in Denver and regularly contributes to Scientific American and The Monitor the monthly magazine of the American Psychological Association Stephanie received a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California La Niña is dead — what that means for this year's hurricanes and weather El Cono: The mysterious sacred 'pyramid' hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest Medievalists.net Monasteries have extensive collections of medieval manuscripts there is no information on how many scribes were active in any one monastery whether they travelled between monasteries A new research project – called Scribe ID AI – from St Pölten University of Applied Sciences will make use of artificial intelligence to identify copyists of manuscripts from the 12th century in the library of Klosterneuburg Monastery Located in eastern Austria, Klosterneuburg Monastery was founded in 1113 and remained an important monastic site throughout the Middle Ages Its library contains 1250 medieval manuscripts Den Schreibern des Mittelalters auf der Spur 📜🧐 Niederösterreichs Klöster verfügen über umfangreiche Sammlungen mittelalterlicher Handschriften — FH St. Pölten (@fh_stpoelten) December 1, 2022 traditional manual writing style analysis has been carried out by experts in a tedious and time-consuming process By using artificial intelligence and machine learning The purpose is not to identify individual scribes as persons or by name but to ascertain whether different texts come from the same or different scribes “There are approaches to identifying the manuscripts of medieval scribes with the help of machine learning. However, these cannot be applied to large collections of texts. We’re talking about tens of thousands of pages”, says Markus Seidl from the Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies at the St. Pölten UAS developed a procedure that makes it possible to apply automatic analysis to large volumes of manuscripts “We take machine learning and human expertise and combine the best of both worlds” The machine suggests a certain scribe to the palaeographers who can either accept or reject the suggestion or make an alternative suggestion The computer model is gradually improved through the experts’ assessments “This project does not just help us to interactively work on a significant desideratum of historical research,” comments Martin Haltrich head of the monastic library in Klosterneuburg.”It also creates new possibilities and tools of analysis that enable a deeper knowledge of all other medieval scriptoria in the area that is now Lower Austria Based on the study of the scriptorium of Klosterneuburg Monastery in the final third of the 12th century we can answer bigger unresolved questions regarding the organisation of the written word in high medieval (Lower) Austrian monasteries.” Click here to view the Scribe ID AI website Top Image: Medieval Gospel at Klosterneuburg Abbey – image © Klosterneuburg Abbey We've created a Patreon for Medievalists.net as we want to transition to a more community-funded model We aim to be the leading content provider about all things medieval podcast and Youtube page offers news and resources about the Middle Ages We hope that are our audience wants to support us so that we can further develop our podcast and remove the advertising on our platforms This will also allow our fans to get more involved in what content we do produce Member Login This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page View upcoming auction estimates and receive personalized email alerts for the artists you follow intrinsic and objectified.“ (George Santayana) An Austrian museum presents a wide-ranging survey of works made over almost 50 years by residents and other autodidacts associated with the Art Brut Center Gugging The Outsider Art Fair announces Art Brut Global a curated virtual exhibition of artworks sourced from the Fair’s renowned galleries and dealers Researchers have discovered a new type of giant virus at the wastewater treatment plant in Klosterneuburg near Vienna they will not trigger a new pandemic - in fact they attack brain-decomposing amoebae - one of the deadliest parasites for humans we are talking about the protozoan Naegleria fowleri which decomposes the brain of those affected after infection the disease is rare and the protozoa are rarely found in our latitudes Unicellular organisms multiply in warm waterNaegleria are unicellular organisms that occur in bodies of water worldwide and feed on other microorganisms the causative agent of a severe brain and meningitis called "primary amoebic meningoencephalitis" (PAM) mainly multiplies in warm waters above 30 degrees Celsius according to the study published in the journal "Nature Communications" The disease - the protozoa are ingested via the nose when swimming Counterparts from the group of "toilet neoviruses" The team led by Patrick Arthofer and Matthias Horn from the Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at the University of Vienna has now been able to isolate giant viruses that infect various Naegleria species for the first time They come from the group of "toilet neoviruses" whose name refers to a spectacular discovery in the Klosterneuburg sewage treatment plant a few years ago: Viennese microbiologists had come across various giant viruses during genome analyses at the time The toilet neu viruses represent a group of viruses that were previously unknown to science Virus species possesses a particularly large number of genes"They are particularly interesting among the giant viruses: they possess a particularly large number of genes that are otherwise only known from cellular organisms such as animals and which would never have been associated with viruses before the discovery of toilet neoviruses," Horn told APA It has also been shown "that toilet neoviruses are distributed worldwide and are very diverse" the researchers searched for viruses that infect amoebae of the genus Naegleria - and found what they were looking for in toilet neuviruses: The now discovered giant virus with the trivial name Naegleria virus was isolated from the sewage treatment plant in Klosterneuburg "We used samples from the sewage treatment plant because we knew from previous studies that the diversity of giant viruses for which there are no cultivated representatives in the laboratory is particularly high there," explained Horn the environmental samples were therefore brought together with the single-celled organisms cultivated in the laboratory - in this case Naegleria clarki as a harmless species The result: the virus was mistakenly ingested as food which it then destroys within just a few hours The virus infects its host cell and then forms a "virus factory" inside the amoeba cell which replicates the viral genome outside the cell nucleus and assembles hundreds of new virus particles In order to keep the host cell alive during this process which suppress the natural immune response of the amoeba cell and thus prevent premature cell death The host cell is only destroyed and the viruses released once the viruses have successfully multiplied Giant virus with health potential"Both the structure of the Naegleria virus and the course of infection are largely similar to known giant viruses characterized in the laboratory," said Horn A number of genes "that originally came from the chromosomes of naegleria but were incorporated into the viral genome" such as those genes that can prevent the premature cell death of naegleria are presumably important for the adaptation to the amoeba The giant viruses could perhaps one day be used prophylactically to combat Naegleria fowleri in the treatment of polluted waters "but this would first require further research," says Horn Willkommen in unserer Community! 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Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren In Kürze bekommen Sie eine Bestätigungs-Mail von uns The Local Europe ABVästmannagatan 43113 25 StockholmSweden most companies have become more flexible when it comes to allowing their employees to work from other places than the office This means that living outside Vienna has become more possible than earlier there are many nearby towns and cities within reach is listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage sites You can reach Baden from Vienna in about 30 minutes by train Baden bei Wien offers a great mix of beautiful nature and culture The town is located in the forested areas known as Vienna Woods where you can enjoy different hiking and biking trails just outside of town There are also many forests to explore and wineries to visit the town offers various festivals and events such as the Badener Sommernacht and the Beethoven Festival Korneuburg is a historic town in Lower Austria Because it only takes about 30 minutes to reach the town from Vienna it is a popular place to live if you work in the capital Korneuburg offers quiet living near beautiful nature and water It is a popular alternative to the more stressful and crowded Vienna you will find great nature spots like the hill Bisamberg where you can enjoy marked hiking and cycling trails and some of the town's highlights are Korneuburg Castle and the cute and small old town with its narrow streets and historic buildings The Local found one bedroom apartments to rent for less than €700 per month READ ALSO: Train travel in Austria: The best day trips from Vienna located around 14 kilometres south of Vienna in Lower Austria is known for its closeness to nature and rich cultural heritage It only takes 15 minutes of train travel to reach Mödling from Vienna Mödling is known for its surrounding nature and offers many hiking It is also famous for having one of the region's best via ferratas (klettersteig) for beginner climbers The town also has a rich cultural heritage Beethoven dedicated the music Mödlinger Tänze (Mödling Dances) to the town and there is also a Beethoven museum where you can go and learn more about the famous composer Mödling is famous for The Mödling Wine Festival which is held annually in the historic town centre The Local found property prices per square meter for Mödling to cost around €3,986 settling down in Neusiedl am See in Burgenland might be a great idea This town is surrounded by Austria’s most famous wine regions and it only takes you 40 minutes to travel there from Vienna by train The town is a popular summer and spring day trip destination for people living in Vienna who want to escape the city to spend some time at the lake The town centre offers a mixture of modern and traditional cafes The lake is a great place for enjoying sports such as kite surfing Many people also visit the area for birdwatching since it is home to a diversity of birds Property is generally considered to be quite affordable in Burgenland but Neusiedl am See is one of most expensive district in the province If you want to buy a house, the average price per square meter is €3.623.Prices for apartments are expected to be similar READ MORE: 6 great alternatives to Austria's overcrowded tourists hotspots located in the Vienna Woods in Lower Austria you can reach Klosterneuburg in about 40 minutes by train while driving takes around 30 minutes via the B14 and the B227 The town is known for its historic Klosterneuburg Monastery that was built in the 12th century and is described by Wienerwald Tourismus as “one of the most beautiful and charming forest communities in the Vienna Woods” Klosterneuburg has a historical city centre where you can meet up with your friends do your groceries or maybe visit some of the museums to check out an exhibition Since the town is located in the Vienna Woods nature is easy accessible and you can reach many hiking trails just by walking from the city centre A post shared by Kseniia Chebaeva (@kssennonn) Wiener Neustadt is a city located in Lower Austria and a more affordable and quieter alternative to living in the capital The city is one of the largest rail transport hubs in Austria and is well connected to the capital which you can reach in about 30 minutes by train Driving takes around 50 minutes if you go via the S Autobahn/E59 This city is also a great alternative to Vienna if you love nature since it is surrounded by it Wiener Neustadt offers bicycle lanes and trails including the EuroVelo 9 - a long-distance cycle path connecting the Czech Republic which is the highest mountain in the area and a great place to go if you want to enjoy hiking The price for buying an apartment in the centre of Wiener Neustadt is around €3,500 per square meter. Rent prices are in general 37 percent lower than in Vienna, according to Numbeo. Pölten is the capital of Lower Austria and it is known for having both an entrepreneurial and an art scene Using the train is very convenient since the train station is centrally located in the old town of St.Pölten with small streets and historical buildings like the church And if you feel like enjoying some cultural performances Pölten offers affordable living in a city near nature The mountain Schneeberg is very nearby and it does not take you long to get there if you want to enjoy hiking The Local found one bedroom apartments to rent in the city for less than €600 per month READ NEXT: 8 exciting events taking place in Vienna this May Do you have better options for commuter towns near Vienna that have not been included on this list Please log in here to leave a comment