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This post is about a 23km walk from Suben to Katzenberg. I walk into a prison yard and end up in a bivouac next to the river.
The lawn of the restaurant where I had pitched my tent had presented me with one problem: a robotic lawn mower. I thought about it for a while, then I placed my tripod, the spare wheel, an array of bottles and thermoses that I had in a perimeter around my tent to create a secure space. I went to sleep hoping for the best.
In the morning I took a photo with my enemy and walked on.
why is it this way?
I ended up walking directly into a prison. It wasn’t my fault. As I approached the village of Suben, I noticed that it nice church tower, so I decided to go check it out.
As it turned out, the premises including the church used to belong to an abbey, which was converted into a prison more than 150 years earlier.
People could still visit the rococo church (which, just like Engelszell had piles of bones on display in sarcophagi), but they needed to walk through the prison yard for that.
It seemed odd but I liked it.
bird watching, again
I walked for a long time after this, and several times I was held up by rain. One time I hid under a bridge, another time I found shelter in an abbey.
It was already past sunset when I finally reached a campground. I took a look around and hated it. The place seemed messy and the grass was too long. Somehow there was water coming out of the sanitary facilities. I decided to continue walking.
In the end I took shelter under a bird watching platform, just like I had with Brad two months before when we were walking through Slovakia.
I didn’t dare pitch the tent this time, though. The laws on wild camping were severe in Austria, especially when it came to nature preserves. So I used my bivouac sack, hoping that it wouldn’t rain at night. Or at least not rain too hard.
pictures
the walk from Suben to Katzenberg:
the perimeter
I sit with my enemy.
ice-cream for breakfast
church of Suben
gate to the church and the prison of Suben
Suben prison (right next to the church)
where the church and the prison meet each other
inside the church of Suben
another Victoria (but with her skull covered?)
light inside the church
a bird
the way to Katzenberg
stairs on the bike path
these gentlemen helped me carry the Caboose up the stairs
a different river: the Inn
wheat
deerstand
the Inn from above
church on the German side
horse pretending to be a zebra
thunderstorm brewing
Reichersberg Abbey
man with dog
Obernberg
campground
evening view of the Inn
bivouac under a bird watching platform