Initial Site Visit

Our initial site visit was accompanied by Rosalinde Kleemaier-Wetl, who is ICOMOS Monitor for the Wachau World Heritage Site. She showed us places where the impact of traffic routes on the cultural landscape is clearly visible. In Spitz we met the World Heritage Manager Ingeborg Hödl and the nature conservation expert Hannes Seehofer in person, two proven experts on the Wachau. Ingeborg Hödl will accompany the project in an advisory position as member of the Advisory Board in the coming years. By visiting Olafur Eliasson’s Camera Obscura on the ferry in Spitz and Gelitin’s Nose in St. Lorenz, we saw two of the most important contemporary artistic works in the Wachau. The exciting insights on our first tour through the Wachau made us curious to understand this landscape in more detail.