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Floating School and Cormorant Hangout

The two firmly anchored and interconnected ships in the background are home to Vienna's Bertha-von-Suttner-Gymnasium, a grammar school founded in 1994. It is located on the Danube Island between the bridges Floridsdorfer Brücke and Nordbahnbrücke. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha-von-Suttner-Gymnasium_(Wien)

 

The school is named after Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914), "an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner

 

The remains of one of the piers of the old Floridsdorf bridge are a hangout very popular with cormorants. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floridsdorfer_Br%C3%BCcke

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