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We offer: A spacious country home located near forests, mountains, lakes and vineyards and within easy reach of one of Europe's most illustrious cultural capitals - Vienna.
Our house consists of five bedrooms and a study which may also be used for sleeping. In addition we have all other necessary rooms (living room, kitchen, two baths, two toilettes) along with a balcony, patio and a large garden (approx. 1000 sqm). The house was built in the early 1960s in the style traditional to the area of southern Lower Austria and northern Burgenland, and we have renovated it since moving in several years ago. In the way of recreation we can offer Sat-TV, VCR, stereo with an assortment of CDs, tapes and records, PC with internet access, a variety of musical instruments, a ping-pong table, four bicycles and a small sauna in the basement. In our town there is a supermarket as well as the usual shops (bakeries, butcher shop, tobacco and newspaper shop, post office). The city of Wiener Neustadt (pop. 30,000) is a 10-minute drive away (20 min. by bicycle) and there you will find a large shopping center as well as a downtown area with many stores.
We live in the town of Bad Fischau-Brunn (population ca. 2,000) which is situated 40 km south of Vienna (pop. 1.8 Mill.) and six km west of Wiener Neustadt (pop. 30,000), the capital of our county. Bad Fischau is about 800 years old and here and there one can see remnants of older edifices (castles in Bad Fischau and Brunn). The town's main tourist attractions are, on the one hand, the bath (hence the name "Bad" Fischau) which goes back to the imperial period. While the water is not quite hot (constant 19 degrees), it is refreshing and its many regular visitors claim it to be very beneficial for one's circulation. The bath is open all summer and is frequented by locals as well as people from Vienna. Bad Fischau also offers a selection of "Heurigen". These are traditional wine gardens operated by local farmers and they offer a taste of the country kitchen as well as of course the varieties of wine native to southern Lower Austria (our province). Here the Grüner Veltliner (a light, emerald-colored white wine) and the Blaufränkischer (a full-bodied, ruby-red wine) are the favored varities. Bad Fischau is located on the edge of the Vienna Basin, expansive flatlands extending from the northeastern ridges of the Alps to the Danube river between Vienna and Bratislava. There is much farmland here and an assortment of bicycle trails invite you to explore this 15 km-wide corridor bounded by hills and mountains on three sides. On the fringes of Bad Fischau, about ten minutes walking distance from home, begin the southernmost reaches of the famous Vienna Woods, an expanse of forest (to a great degree pine) and hills rising up to 1000 meters above sea level. The Vienna Woods belong, geologically speaking, to the Eastern Alps. From our home it is about 20 km (20 minutes by car) to some of the highest peaks of the Eastern Alps. The Schneeberg (which we can see from our yard), for example, is 2076 meters high and there is a nostalgic, steam-driven railway taking hikers and tourists up to the high plateau.
Other summer recreation facilities nearby include Neusiedler See, a large lake on the border between Austria and Hungary and a half an hour by car, where one can enjoy swimming, sailing and paddling. There is a large bicycle route completely encircling the lake (the terrain is very flat) and leading through a national park with a variety of water fowl. The towns around the lake are very open to bikers and you can rent a bicycle here almost anywhere (price: approx. 150 Schillings (11 Euro) /day).

The nearby city of Wiener Neustadt (founded 1194) is a former bishop's see as well as a former imperial residence. The city was heavily bombed at the close of the Second World War and of the older edifices the restored Gothic cathedral, several monasteries and parts of the city walls remain. Wiener Neustadt enjoys importance as a commercial center and has the largest per capita number of square meters of shopping area of any city in Austria. On the main square there is also a farmer's market where one can purchase fresh local produce.

Taking the A2 highway north, one arrives in Vienna within a half hour. Here the attractions and opportunities for tourists and visitors are virtually limitless: from shopping on the luxurious and ornamented Kärnterstrasse, to boat rides on the Danube Rivers and Canal; from a wealth of art galleries offering works from antiquity as well the modern period, to museums providing glimpses into Austrian history and culture; from the superlative Hofburg palace, winter residence of the Habsburgs, to a score of other famous castles and palaces including Schönbrunn, Schwarzenberg, Belvedere, Liechtenstein, Palffy and Augarten (seat of the renowned porcellan works); from musical theaters ("Dance of the Vampires", "Mozart"), to foreign-language (also French) cinemas; from the towering cathedral of St. Stephan's, to the crypt of the Cappucine monastery where most of the Habsburgs from the 17th century to the present lie interred. No question: for those interested in European culture, Vienna alone is worth a two week stay.