View to Danube river

View to the Donube River

Live broadcast to the Wachau Valley shows the second largest river in Europe – Danube, located between Melk and Krems cities in the small Austrian town of Spitz. The Wachau Valley you see online is included in the UNESCO list. There are excellent vineyards and dazzlingly beautiful landscapes. The length of the Danube river in the webcam is 2857 km. This is the largest river that flows into the Black Sea. The source of the Donau or Danube in live footage is located on the lands of Germany in the Black Forest mountains near the town of Donaueschingen where the two mountain streams Breguet and Brigham connect in one stream. Before entering the Black Sea, the Danube, which is perfectly visible in the online webcam, passes through the regions of 16 European countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Ukraine, Slovenia, Czech Republic , Bosnia and Herzegovina, part of Switzerland, Italy and Poland.

The landscape surrounding the Danube in live stream is different: here are high glacier mountains, medium attitude mountain ranges and plains thick covered  forests.

Spitz

The Austrian town of Spiez, which picturesque part the webcam demonstrates perfectly, is located in the Lower Austria (Niederosterreich) region, preoccupying the north-eastern part of the country. There is a huge number of rivers and lakes here: the rivers – Kamp, Krems, Klamm, Lainsitz, March and Thaya, lakes – Lunzer and Erlaufsee. The largest European river, the Danube, which is visible in the web camera, also passes through the territory of Spitz.

The Lower Austria capital is the city of St. Pölten.

It is Lower Austria part of whish you see online, due to its favorable geographical position and warm climate, famous for its vineyards. Wine from this region is exported outside the state. One of the most popular regions of Lower Austria – Retzer Land, is located near the city of Retz, about one hour drive from Vienna. There is the largest and oldest wine cellar in Austria, where are many daily visitors.

In the region with web camera online  there are interesting sights too. For example, the Hardegg fortress, the baroque castle of Riegersburg, which is a museum now, the Holy Blood temple Hl. Blutkirche in Pulkau and the Rosenburg castle made in Renaissance style time.

There are national parks here too. For example, Thayatal park is Austria – Czech Republic natural border and Donau-Auen Park lies between Austrian Vienna and Slovak Bratislava.

In the same area there is the first old Alpine mountain railway Semmering-Bahn built in 1854. It lies through the Semmering Pass. Later, in 1999, Semmering-Bahn was included in the UNESCO list. This 41 km length railway connects Lower Austria and Styria.

Lower Austria showed in live camera is a popular ski resort. Here are such resorts as: Semmering, Annaberg, St. Corona, Mönichkirchen and Hochkar. In summer, it nice to go mountain biking or just walk.

Watch other beautiful Baltic Live Cam live streams from Austria –  Zell am See Alpine town and the New Square of Klagenfurt.

Climate

The climate in the town of Spiez online is temperate and quite warm. Dry and hot weather does not happen here. The average temperature in the summer is + 19C.

Weather forecast in Spiez for 7 days is available on our website online.