Gloggnitz
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Gloggnitz is a mountain town in the Neunkirchen district of Lower Austria, Austria.
East view of Gloggnitz
Coat of arms
Gloggnitz Provostry with the old Catholic parish church
Semmering Railway
Semmering Railway
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The Semmering Railway in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering to Mürzzuschlag, was the first mountain railway in Europe built with a standard gauge track. It is commonly ref
Gloggnitz
…persons to Gloggnitz include: Emperor Francis Joseph I (1850 and 1854), Crown Prince Rudolph and his wife Princess Gisela (1862). The building of the Semmering Railway encouraged further progress. On 5 May 1842, the first train on the "Südbahn" arrived in Gloggnitz. In its earliest years the railway opened up the…
Semmering railway with surrounding mountain scenery
Semmering railway at Mürzzuschlag, around 1900
Kartnerkogel
Pettenbach