"Heast as net ...": The voices of the millennia
The Danube deep below between Aggsbach Markt on the left and Aggsbach Dorf on the right, the wind and birds high above in the beech trees: at places like the Eichberg vantage point, you don't just want to take a break, you want to lie down on one of the loungers for hours.
A certain Venus of Willendorf has been lying just a few kilometers north of here for much longer: it took around 30,000 years before it was discovered in 1908 during construction work on the Wachau railroad. The Palaeolithic figurine is still the most spectacular and best-known archaeological find on Austrian soil. Willendorf is regarded as a Mecca by excavating experts: around 20,000 years have left their traces of civilization through the various layers. For example, the Willendorf finds were the first to prove that groups of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens coexisted in Europe for a long time.
Would you have thought it?
The down-to-earth-looking Venus of Willendorf also has its cosmopolitan side: it is made of oolitic limestone, which presumably comes from the region around Lake Garda.
