Hainburg - Wiener Tor

At the western entrance to the town of Hainburg stands the Wiener Tor, over 20m/65ft high and one of Austria's most important town gates from an artistic viewpoint. The lower section was started in 1244 and is made up of 22 courses of knobbed square stone blocks; it is surmounted by an oriel-shaped pointed roof structure. The two figures on the inside of the gate are popularly known as Etzel (Attila) and Kriemhilde who, according to the "Nibelungenlied", spent a night here. The Wiener Tor houses a Heimatmuseum (local museum), displaying guild banners, Roman finds, a prehistoric seated-burial grave, etc. Next door is a branch of the Austrian Tobacco Museum.