Curious search for clues

“Austria” celebrates the national holiday twice

Popular photo motif on National Day in beautiful Styria: the wooden town sign. Rudi Pöschl, Ilse Pötscher and Thomas Gschier (from left to right)

(Bild: Jauschowetz Christian/Christian Jauschowetz)

They celebrate the national holiday "twice" every year: Ten Styrians live in Austria, a small district of Hitzendorf in the Graz-Umgebung district. How did this curiosity come about? The "Krone" went in search of clues. It all started with a special type of wine ...

Günter Schwarz can claim that he knows every Austrian by their first and last name and has shaken hands with every Austrian woman. The Styrian would certainly have been crowned king of the competition had Thomas Gottschalk not retired from "Wetten dass..." last year. But to accomplish this seemingly impossible feat, Schwarz doesn't need an Albert Einstein memory or inexhaustible stamina, he just has to set foot outside the front door.