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.
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| 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)) |
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| Back-lit sighting of Spittelau |
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| So Hundertwasser |
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| So if you cross-bred Bowellism and Hundertwasser, it might look like this |
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| Ground level |
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| In Spain, the Catholic bell-towers often conceal the Moorish Minaret; here, the 1960's brick smokestack peaks out above the Hundertwasser "hat" |
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| All of it producing tons of electricity, cleanly; beautifully; well, interestingly... |
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| Definitely worth a look! |
