Austria News

The story about Josef Fritzl and his family breaks all records at austrianews.co.uk.
Yesterday 6.397 people were visiting the website, and 10.985 impressions were counted.

Ranking of the top three days at austrianews.co.uk:
1st … 29th April 2008: 6.397 visits/10.985 impressions
2nd … 28th April 2008: 4.245 visits/6.772 impressions
3rd … 12th October: 2.257 visits/3.602 impressions
Most of the visitors come […]

The horrible dungeon affair in Lower Austria, brought a new record of visitors to austrianews.co.uk.
4.245 visitors and 6.772 impressions were counted yesterday, on Monday the 28th April 2008, at austrianews.co.uk. Most of the visitors came through Google, searching for “austria news”, “austrian news”, “news in austria”, and “austria newspaper”.

The background of the visitors are countries […]

A new survey has revealed that Austrians don’t like to think positive.
52 percent of all Austrians say their life is predetermined by their personal destiny. Only 21 percent have the opion the destiny could be a chance to turn things into a better situation.

42 percent of the Austrians answered the question “Is positive thinking the […]

More than two third of the Austrians need a certain ritual to fall asleep.
The rituals are diverse: cuddle, orange juice with milo, or a walk. But the most important ways to fall asleep are watching television or to read a book.
Austrians also like an exchange of endearment with the partner. This should also help to […]

The hurricane arrived in Austria on Saturday lunchtime, and stayed until Sunday night.
Roofs were destroyed, trees disrooted, cars and caravans overturned, power supply lines disconnected, and four humans lost their lifes.

The highest wind velocity was measured by 140 km/h.
The Northern part of Austria was most affected. The hurricane arrived in Salzburg, and continued through Upper […]

There is a new website about a certain Austrian city.
Linz is Austrias third biggest city, and has 190.000 inhabitants. www.linz1.at offers a view of all details in the city centre of Linz.

Sights, shops, companies, or restaurants. It’s possible to browse through the virtual tour of Linz, and search for shops and restaurants in certain streets […]

The last weekend, was the weekend of “Hurricane Paula”.
Many parts of Austria were affected: obstructions in the rail traffic, 130.000 households without electricity, enourmous damages, and several casualties.

The hurricane had a speed of 150 kilometres per hour. The most affected part of Austria was the federal state of Styria.
Several people were hit by parts of […]

According to the latest survey of the opinion research institute “OGM”, almost one million of the Austrians want to stop smoking.
These are 41 percent of the 2,3 million smokers in Austria.

Especially older people over 50 years are fed up with smoking. Even 52% of them wants to resign the cigarette.
The most popular method to stop […]

The tendency of the past years continues.
Also this year the numbers of births in Austria are decreasing. According to the statistics, 7.001 babies were born in October. This means 193 less than last year.

There was a decrease of 1.173 babies from January to October. The amount of babies who where born to an unmarried mother […]

Next Saturday the association of Santa Clauses in Austria has announced to make a demonstration in the Viennese Mariahilfer Street, against shopping before christmas.
The boss of the association thinks that shopping before christmas damages the climate protection.

The Christmassy protesters named the following Saturday into a “don’t buy day”. The shoppers should think about their behaviour […]

Who likes to donate most of the Austrians?
Austrias best donors are the people who are living in the most Eastern part of the country, on the border to Hungary and Slovakia.

This province is called “Burgenland“, and it’s the home of the people who are giving most of their money for charitable donations.
According to a survey […]

No glory for the Austrian education authority is a story, which was found on the internetsite of the Austrian Broadcasting (ORF).
The Austrian Broadcasting claims that Austria has one of the most violet schools in Europe. The title of the story: “Violence in schools: Austria is on the top in Europe.”

In Vienna 14 percent of the […]

A survey of the German institute for rational psychology revealed, that the most jealous men in all German speaking countries come from the Austrian city of Graz.
The survey was published in the lifestyle magazine “Men’s Health”, and realised in the 50 biggest cities of Germany, and the 5 biggest of Switzerland and Austria.

4.480 men between […]

The early invasion of winter brings Austria up to speed. The whole country is littered with difficult road conditions because of storm and snow.
Last winter the whole country was moaning because of too little snow. This year the winter came back with double power. There is snow in all parts of Austria, already in the […]

AustriaNews.co.uk has a new record of visitors!
On Friday the 12th October 2007 2.257 people, who made 3.602 clicks, were visiting AustriaNews.co.uk.

The reason of this rush of visitors was a link at www.stumbleupon.com, about the story of the rapist in Vorarlberg who won the trial against his victim.
The story who caused the second most amount of […]

A survey of the Viennese opinion research institute “Makam”, shows that nine of ten Austrians have fun during work.
The working atmosphere is the most important thing for the Austrian worker. Much more than the salary.
Only 4 percent of the Austrians feel no fun when they have to work, but 2/3 say that working is “very […]

Today austrianews.co.uk is one year old!
The website went online in the evening of the 14th September 2006.
The first article was written in the next morning on the 15th September about Austrian politicans: “Charges against Strache and Westenthaler”.

At the moment austrianews.co.uk has 355 articles and 23 comments. The first comment was written by an US-American citizen […]

Vienna is better than the average of the European Union in terms of quality of life. This is the result of a survey by the European Union.
The best thing about Vienna is the supply of public transport. The integration of foreign persons is Viennas tender spot.
Also the medical care is one of Viennas top features. […]

The politican Uwe Scheuch of the BZÖ party has no mercy for people who are collecting mushrooms in Carinthia, and don’t follow the rules.
He wants them to pay high fines. Especially mushroomers from abroad are a thorn in his side.
“I will never accept people who are just coming to Austria to loot mushrooms in our […]

The animal rights spokesman of the Socialdemocratic Party Dietmar Keck is happy.
“Austria has the most modern animal transport law in Europe”, he told yesterday in the National Council.
Keck: “Now the European Union must take the case and guarantee the acceptation of the Austrian animal transport law for all other members of the European Union.”

Keck showed […]

The importance of marriages in Austria is still going down. 2006 was a record year of divorces.
Vienna is the top leader in the Austrian divorce statistics. 65,85 percent, almost two of three marriages, get divorced.
The two best provinces in Austria to be married are Tirol (37,55 % divorces) and Upper Austria (39,50 % divorces). 20.336 […]

The heatwave these days in Austria increases the demand for ice cream.
The latest survey of GfK shows the ice cream preferences of the Austrians.
25 percent of the Austrians prefer vanilla ice cream. People from Vienna eat the fewest amounts of ice cream, compared to the Austrians of other federal states.

The ranking of Austrias most popular […]

The mobile phone is becoming more and more important for the average Austrian.
Eleven percent of the Austrians can imagine to live without a television set, 6 percent without a car, but only four percent can imagine to live without a mobile phone.
89 percent of the Austrians always have a mobile phone in their pocket, if […]

The Socialdemocrat Helmut Hirt, who is the District Administrator for health in Styria, wants a stronger taxation on unhealthfully products.
In return the prices for healthy food should be lower.

Hirt says the advice of the WHO, and a talk with the health minister of the European Union Markos Kyprianou, were the determining reasons for his opinion.
Fat-laden […]

The Austrian car and motor club “ÖAMTC” made a survey about the relation of the Austrians to their cars.
Every fifth Austrian has a name for his car. Names from Daisy, Baby, Ferdl, Flocki, on to Silberpfeil (silverarrow), Rocket and Kübel (bucket) are possible.
One third took a credit to purchase the car. By new cars the […]

Bad luck for a bank robber in Vienna.
He tried to rob a bank which only offers cashless payment transactions.
The odd bank robbery happened yesterday afternoon in the Viennese district Hernals. The approximately 30-year-old man had a mask on his face and threatened the bank employees, but they were not able to satisfy his wishes. The […]

“What is the biggest pride of the Austrians”, was the title of the opinion survey.
The results were no surprise: neutrality, Austrian way of life, cuisine, world famous musicians and on the top of the list the scenic beauties of Austria.
The same survey was made in 1975. Compared with the questionnaire this year, the two top […]