World Heritage Trail, Wachau, Day 4

The path winds through vineyards, grass land areas and forests and provided

gorgeous views down to the Danube valley.  Castles, rocks and churches tell stories of

the past; legends of robbing knights and stories about deals with the devil came into

my mind.

 

 

St. Michael's mountain
St. Michael’s mountain with view to the Danube

 

St. Michel‘s church
St. Michel‘s church

 

Through the Red Door (Rotes Tor) I entered into the former city area of Spitz.  The

Red Door was part of a fortification wall surrounding Spitz. The name Red refers to

a fierce battle against the Swedish forces in the 30 Years‘ war.

 

At one time, Spitz was a center of Protestant religion.  It was crushed by the Catholic

forces in the time of the Counterreformation.  Also in my family, the two religious

forces met.  One family branch was serious Protestant, the other one was Catholic.

My grandmother was raised in a strict Catholic boarding school, but she became an

atheist.  At the time when I was a child, religion was not important any more in our

family.

 

 

Red Door, piety column and Spitz
Red Door, piety column and Spitz

 

gwwien
gwwienhttps://simplyjustwalking.com
Born and raised in a village along the Danube in Austria, Traude Wild soon ventured out into the world. After a two-year program for tourism in Klesheim/Salzburg, she spent nearly a year in South Africa and Namibia. By returning back to Austria, she acquired a Master of Economics at the University of Vienna. After moving to the United States with her four children, she studied Art History at Arizona State University and stayed in the United States for fourteen years. Here, she was teaching Art History in several Universities like Webster University and University of Missouri-St. Louis. Now, she lives partially in Arizona and Vienna and works together with her husband for the University of South-Carolina, Moore School of business as Adjunct Professor organising and leading Study tours in Central Europe. She also teaches at the Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. Since 1999, she is practicing Zen meditation in the lineage of Katagiri Roshi. She loves to hike and to write and is a student of Natalie Goldberg. During her often many weeks long hikes she brings her awareness into the Here and Now, describing her experiences in an authentic way. She loves to walk pilgrimages. The longest hike so far was the 1,400 km long 88 Temple pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan in 2016.

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