St. Nikolai im Sausal, Austria

Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Walking to St. Nikolai

Tante Rili and Walli

Tante Rili lead us on a walk to St. Nikolai. This is the path she and Mom walked to school as children. It took about an hour to reach St. Nikolai.

View toward St. Nikolai
Todd, Angie, Tante Rili, Margit, and Tim

View back toward Flamberg
On the way, Tante Rili taught us an old folk saying said while picking the flower petals from a margarita (daisy) . . .

Er liebt mich...
...von Herzen
...mit Schmerzen
...ein bisschen
...ein wenig
...oder gar nicht.

. . . and she pointed out the changing architecture of the buildings and how to distinguish the old ones from the new ones. We learned that the vents in the facades of the pitched roofs are functional as well as decorative and that the fields are planted with corn, sage, rye, and soybeans. We saw a man putting up hay with an old, wooden, three-pronged pitch fork. We also saw some ducks and a rea (a rea is like a deer, but smaller). The scenery was beautiful. The sights and smells were wonderfully nostalgic. The walk was just what we needed.

St. Nikolai

Farming

We stopped first at one Gasthaus then another.

Gasthaus und Fleischhauerei Strauss

Angie, Tante Rili, Walli, Tim, Todd, and Frau Strauss

Gasthof

St. Nikolai information center

We visited the church in St. Nikolai.

Church
Note the roofers

Inside the church

We visited the St. Nikolai graveyard and the family grave.

What a view!

Before returning home, Onkel Karl drove us to a vineyard where he showed us the highest berg in Sausal and the last highest berg before the flatland begins. We then took the scenic route over the winding roads and through the hilly counryside back to Flamberg.

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