Church Steeple

Throughout Austria you will see thousands of very carefully designed and maintained church steeple. Most countries are proud of their churches, and Cathedrals everywhere have large and carefully designed steeples, but no country maintains church steeples like the do in Austria. There are single onion shaped church steeples, double onions, very pointed, octagon, bishops miter, some with multiple round parts, most have blue, or red, or green shingles, just carefully taken care of, one after the other.

Near one church, way out in the countryside, we stopped to tour the cemetery, next to the church. Over each grave there were crosses made of iron with elaborate curlicues, and with a photograph of the “occupant” mounted on the cross. In the hay field right next door, elderly people were piling hay onto the drying racks. It rains too much for the hay to dry on the ground, so it is carefully “hung” on horizontal “arms” protruding from a vertical post.