A crowd favorite visited Turnau at the start of the Christmas season:     To kick off the pre-Christmas events, the market town of Turnau hosted a gala evening with audience favorite Heinz Marecek in the multi-purpose hall. Marecek, who celebrated his 80th birthday this year and was appointed a Kammerschauspieler (a prestigious title for actors in private theatre), presented his program "A Feast of Laughter".   He recounted Christmases that hadn't gone as planned and quoted L

Great joy in the market town of Turnau:     Nicole Urschinger, a Jiu-Jitsu athlete and coach from Turnau, brought the world title back to Austria in her class at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championships in Thailand. This is the biggest success of Urschinger's career to date. Her daughter Tessa was also highly successful, winning a silver and a bronze medal at the World Championships.   Upon the arrival of the two in their hometown of Turnau, the local council also congratulated them

The local council invited those celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries to a joint celebration:   Twice a year, the Turnau municipal council invites local residents celebrating birthdays and wedding anniversaries to a joint celebration. The duo "Fritz and Franz" provided the music, and local poet Maria Schneider entertained with her evocative texts.   It was a special afternoon for Agnes Schmied, as she was celebrating her 99th birthday that very day. As a gift, she r

Interesting symposium under the motto “New Bridges and Currents”:     The Wasserstatt Mill in Turnau, a large part of which is a listed building, served as a source of diverse, creative, and sometimes unusual ideas for fourteen architecture students at Vienna University of Technology last fall. The proposals were recently presented to the public as part of the "New Bridges and Trends" symposium.   In addressing the existing spatial situation, which is largely characterized by