Spittelau: Incinerating Art

Our last day in Vienna we wanted to visit another heuriger, so we took the train and tram out to Stammersdorf, east of the Danube, to check out several recommendations. We didn't find anything to our liking--we like our heurigers to have nice views of vineyards--and so hopped back on the tram and eventually a bus back to Amstift am Walde and a sure thing, old friend Fuhrgassl-Huber. Between the tram and bus there was a walk across the Danube Canal and past the Spittelau incinerator, the one re-decorated in the 1990s by Friedensreich Hundertwasser (at the city's request). Still processing 250,000 tons of household waste per year. Artfully. Well worth a detour, with plenty of smiles. So Viennese.

Crossing the Danube Canal (note: this is the channel that historically
went through Vienna, now called the Danube Canal; the BIG river
is a couple miles east; and paralleling it is the New Danube Canal,
recent, and primarily for navigation (I guess))

Back-lit sighting of Spittelau

So Hundertwasser

So if you cross-bred Bowellism and Hundertwasser,
it might look like this

Ground level

In Spain, the Catholic bell-towers often conceal the Moorish
Minaret; here, the 1960's brick smokestack peaks out above the
Hundertwasser "hat"

All of it producing tons of electricity, cleanly; beautifully; well,
interestingly...

Definitely worth a look!