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Cuisine

Two Bakers Making Good with Outstanding Bread 

The Öfferl steam bakery in Gaubitsch is surrounded by the wine cellar lanes so typical of the Weinviertel region of Lower Austria. Two headstrong men have made a name for themselves there: Georg Öfferl and Lukas Uhl. They took something about to be relegated to history and revived it into what is again today: a flourishing family bakery. 

Kulinarik

A Sky Full Of Stars

Thomas Dorfer, proprietor of Landhaus Bacher in Mautern/Donau, runs the best restaurant in the country.

Waldviertel

Hooked on His Job

Waldviertel reservoirs and the creatures who dwell there have fascinated Bernhard Berger ever since he was a boy. He fishes all year round, whether it's beach weather or when a thick blanket of ice first blankets the water. That's when Bernhard heads out to go ice fishing.

Bergwelten

Mt. Ötscher is his medicine

Gerald Demolsky has made it his mission to inspire others to get into sports and start living a healthier lifestyle. His outdoor arena is Austria’s Mostviertel region. Because your backyard is really the perfect training ground with everything you need to put a sloppy grin on your face.

Manufacture and crafts

A Skilled Trade with an Edge

The material from which Florian Stockinger crafts his fine blades is nearly as old as the earth itself.

Wein

Love at Second Sight

Susanne and Max Riegelhofer produce crisp, fruity white wines and Veltliner sparkling wines in Poysdorf.

Weinviertel

Dutch Treats

In the ZART Pralinen chocolate craftery , Marieke Wijne-Slop produces world-class artisan chocolates in a quaint Weinviertel barn.

Innovation

From Field to Bottle

The world has taken quite a fancy to the brand-new range of spirits handcrafted by Doris and Josef Farthofer in Öhling.

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Editor's Choice

A Woman. A Hotel.  A History.

The photographer Yvonne Oswald has memorialized the Südbahnhotel am Semmering. A hotel that is gradually slipping out of the silence imposed upon it and telling its story to the world through the dedicated work of this artist. Through the power of her superbly composed pictures, this venerable structure can finally breathe a little easier once again.