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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Practical Information
Road map E3.
n Lindengasse 9, 4040 Linz,
(0732) 7277 800 for full details
of hotels, restaurants and
cycling tours.
∑ donauregion.at

Grein
Grein’s most popular sight is its late- Gothic castle,
extended in the 17th century.
Zwettl

Grein

St Nikola an der Donau
The Danube ends its journey
Donau (Danube) through Upper Austria near
St Nikola, an area of
outstanding natural beauty.
Vienna
Amstetten

Concentration Camps
During the Third Reich, more than 50 concentration camps were
built on Austrian territory. Most were destroyed immediately after
the war, but some commemorative plaques and symbolic sites have
been preserved: there is a memorial crematorium at Gusen, and
in Ebensee the cemetery and
Leoben underground mine tunnels
where prisoners once worked
can be seen. The most
0 kilometres 5 important memorial, however,
0 miles 5 is the former camp at
Mauthausen, where the
quarry, original buildings and
the “ash dump” have been
preserved. Just outside the
Key
camp is a visitors’ centre and
Motorway musuem operated by the
Major road Austrian government.
Each year the liberation is
Minor road
celebrated on the Sunday Mauthausen Todesstiege (Stairway of Death)
River nearest 8 May. between the quarry and the camp
Bundesland (province) border
For keys to symbols see back flap

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