GASTEIN

gäˈstīn, valley, Salzburg prov., central Austria, in the N Hohe Tauern range. A popular and beautiful resort area, it has hot radioactive springs. Badgastein, one of the most fashionable spas in Europe, and Bad Hofgastein, also a resort, are found there. Gold and silver have been mined in the region since Roman times. Near Badgastein, the Gasteiner Ache River (c.25 mi/40 km long) forms two waterfalls. There is a hydroelectric plant near the mouth of the river, at Lend.

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books on: Gastein  - 212 results

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Austria-Hungary: Including Dalmatia and Bosnia; Handbook for Travellers
Book by Karl Baedeker; K. Baedeker, 1905
Subjects: Austria--Guidebooks
...emerges on the upper level of the green Gastein Valley; to the right rises the double...crossing it before 91/4 M. Dorf Gastein 2740 ft. , and then gradually ascend along the hill-side. 12 M. Hof-Gastein, 11/2 M. to the N.W. new road...
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The Symphony: A Listener's Guide
Book by Michael Steinberg; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Symphonies--Analysis, Appreciation
...there is a ghost to be exorcised, the so-called Gastein Symphony , named for a village with mineral springs...there remained the question, what became of the Gastein or Gmunden-Gastein Symphony ? Many assumed that this mystery piece would...
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Franz Schubert: A Biography
Book by Elizabeth Norman McKay; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Composers--Austria--Biography, Schubert, Franz--1797-1828
...written the bulk of the symphony in Gastein, 95 as was Bauernfeld. 96 On the other hand, even before his visit to Gastein, Schubert was known by Anton Ottenwalt...well before the composer arrived in Gastein on 14 August. Also staying in Gastein...
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The Life & Legend of E.H. Harriman
Book by Maury Klein; University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Subjects: Capitalists And Financiers--United States--Biography, Harriman, Edward Henry--1848-1909, Railroads--United States--History
He had summoned Straight to Gastein on the heels of Otto Kahn, who had...us much good, he wrote Schiff from Gastein. The only trouble with me is that...had grown worse during his stay at Gastein. The cure did him no good; he lost...
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A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year - Vol. 3
Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson; P. F. Collier and Son, 1902
Subjects: History, Modern--19th Century
...a meeting with the Austrian Emperor at Gastein. War was for the moment avoided by the treaty of Gastein, signed on August 16. By the terms of...Confederation, were held in common. Treaty of Gastein But the Gastein treaty was merely a truce...
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The Austro-Prussian War: Robert Pearce Examines the Factors That Led to Prussia's Victory in the German Civil War of 1866
Journal article by Robert Pearce; History Review, 2010
Subjects: Austro-Prussian War, 1866, Bismarck, Otto von--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Bismarck, Otto von--Practice, Chancellors (Government)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Chancellors (Government)--Practice
...should they be given a new duke? By the 1865 Convention of Gastein, Schleswig went to Prussia and Holstein to Austria, but Austria...enabling Bismarck to claim she had broken the Convention of Gastein. The Austrian delegate at the Diet in Frankfurt then argued...
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The Pornographic Mind and the White Hotel
Journal article by Ronald Granofsky; College Literature, Vol. 20, 1993
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...Giovanni and the prose version of the same events in "The Gastein Journal" are not primarily an erotic daydream or a sexual...generate the events and imagery of Don Giovanni and "The Gastein Journal." By the end of the novel, we understand, as Freud...
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Coincidences in Analysis: Sigmund Freud and the Strange Case of Dr Forsyth and Herr Von Vorsicht1
Journal article by Maria Pierri; International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 91, 2010
Subjects: Psychopathology
...constitutes the Postscript to his work on the theme of occultism entitled Vorbericht (Preliminary Report), prepared by Freud at Gastein in August 1921 for the Committee meeting in September in the Harz Mountains, which would be recorded as a "memorable event...
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Educator Preparedness to Teach Health Education in British Columbia
Journal article by Sandra Vamos, Mingming Zhou; American Journal of Health Education, Vol. 38, 2007
Subjects: British Columbia--Educational aspects, British Columbia--Health aspects, Educators--Evaluation, Educators--Health aspects, Educators--Powers and duties, Health education--Curricula
...European Union: towards a Europe of informed and active health citizens. Presentation delivered at the European Health Forum Gastein, October 2004. (21.) Leurs Met al. Developing of a collaboration model to improve school health promotion in the Netherlands...
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Prenatal Stimulation News*
Journal article; Pre- and Peri-natal Psychology Journal, Vol. 2, 1988
...Precept and Practice"-by Human Sciences Press of New York. Excerpts from a paper delivered at the 1986 ISPPPM congress in Bad Gastein, Austria, "The Ultimate Preventive: Prenatal Stimulation," have appeared in the German edition of Encounter with the...
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magazine articles on: Gastein  - 4 results

 
 
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The Iron Giant
Magazine article by Vernon Bogdanor; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, March 14, 2011
Subjects: Bismarck: A Life (Biography)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Bismarcks personality than on his policies; more on his malice, gluttony and hypochondria than on the Reinsurance Treaty or the Gastein Convention. There is some psychoanalytical speculation about the effects on Bismarck of his distant relationship with his...
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The Anorectic Empress: Elisabeth of Austria
Magazine article by Walter Vandereycken, Ron Van Deth; History Today, Vol. 46, April 1996
Subjects: Anorexia nervosa--History, Elisabeth, Empress of Austria--Health aspects
...about death. Lacking the strength to go for long walks, she settled for short outings in the health resorts of Kissingen, Gastein, Karlsbad and Nauheim. Her mood did not change for the better, nor did her shyness. She always dressed in black, a sunshade...
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Underdosed
Magazine article by Tom Bethell; The American Spectator, Vol. 35, July 2002
Subjects: Health, Poisons, Radiation
...the radioactive gas itself had been identified. In fact, many of the famous European spas correspond to radon sites. Bad Gastein in southern Saxony is one. There, customers pay $550 for 10 hours inhalation of radon at over a thousand times the EPA...
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Music Matters
Magazine article by Mark Doran; Musical Opinion, Vol. 134, May/Jun 2011
...the friend of pioneering musicologist Guido Adler have baulked at padding the list further with some imaginary and unknown Gastein Symphony? But even if somehow he didnt, it should have become clear by now that our list of scary ninths - the basis for...


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newspaper articles on: Gastein  - 45 results

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Alpine Beauty; Austria Is Second Only to France in Popularity with British Skiers the Belle Epoque Town of Bad Gastein, in the Hohe Tauern National Park, Is Dominated by a Large Waterfall from [Pounds Sterling
Newspaper article; January 21, 2009
Subjects: Real estate industry
...British Skiers the Belle Epoque Town of Bad Gastein, in the Hohe Tauern National Park, Is...Or in the Belle Epoque resort of Bad Gastein, Investors in Property is selling one...on offer The Belle Epoque town of Bad Gastein, in the Hohe Tauern National Park, is...
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Chill-Ed Out
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), February 8, 2009
...beautiful Gruner Baum Spa hotel nestled in the Gastein Valley, south of Salzburgerland in Austria...enough away from the historic town of Bad Gastein to fully appreciate the peace and tranquillity...the world-famous spring water of Bad Gastein with its special healing powers. The...
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LOVING COLD MOUNTAIN; Alpine Resort Is a Favourite of Hunky Jude Law
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), February 21, 2010
...included in my five-day break to the Bad Gastein region, an area renowned for its restorative...glorious hours at the Felsentherme in Bad Gastein, a centre almost solely dedicated to...of saunas. We also visited the amazing Gastein Healing Caves, reached only by a train...
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HALF-PRICE POWDER SNOW; Austria's Ski Resorts Offer British Second-Home Buyers Alpine Charm at Half the Price of France, Says Cathy Hawker
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 16, 2011
Subjects: Real estate industry, Ski resorts
...are steeper and more dramatic around Bad Gastein, an established spa town at 1,000 metres...and three-bedroom apartments at Chalet Gastein in the centre of the town start from pounds...meadows at Schonblick Mountain Resort, Bad Gastein are available through Cluttons Resorts...
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Holidays: These Boots Weren't Made for Walking
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), August 8, 2004
...idyllic Bad Hofgastein, which is set in the Gastein Valley at the heart of scenic Salzburgerland...rewarded with an afternoon at The Alpen Therm Gastein - a plush spa conveniently connected to...good nights sleep we took a minibus to Gastein Heilstollen, a special health centre...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gastein  - 5 results

 
 
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Gastein
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GASTEIN ga stin, valley, Salzburg prov., central Austria, in the N Hohe Tauern range. A popular and beautiful resort area, it has...
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Bismarck, Otto Von
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Danes in 1864, provided the necessary pretext. By the Gastein Convention of 1865 the two countries agreed to rule jointly...soon developed. Bismarck accused Austria of violating the Gastein treaty and thus precipitated the Austro-Prussian War (1866...
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Austro-Prussian War
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...dispute before the German diet and also decided to convene the Holstein diet, Prussia, declaring that the Gastein Convention (see under Gastein ) had thereby been nullified, invaded Holstein. When the German diet responded by voting for a partial...
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Schleswig-Holstein
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...policy, had already resolved to annex the duchies and had encouraged the Danish War with that end in view. By the Treaty of Gastein (1865) with Austria, Bismarck deliberately imposed a solution that was bound to create friction with Austria. Schleswig...
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Alps
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Zermatt, Interlaken, St. Moritz, Davos, and Arosa (Switzerland); Sankt Anton, Innsbruck, Kitzbuhel, Salzburg, and Bad Gastein (Austria); Berchtesgaden (Germany); Cortina dAmpezzo and Bolzano (Italy); and Bled (Slovenia). Alpine Regions The...


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