Eisenstadt: July 21–22, 2026

Miscellaneous photos taken on the way to downtown.

Cylindrical bronze sculpture in middle of traffic circle. Flower bed to either side of the sculpture.

Silver colored metal gate with decoration in form of dragon headed snake with curled tail

At top, roman god Mercury. Below, woman working in a field. At bottom, man and woman in tracht, dancing.

Brick wall with varying shades of orange and brown bricks

The varying shades of the bricks appealed to me.

Brick wall with bricks of various shades of orange and brown.

Brick buiding that loos like part of a castle fortification

Abstract bronze sculpture. At bottom, a ring that looks like an oil sheen

In foreground, lily pads. At back, spout of a fountain

Vertical columnar drinking fountain. Text: Cool bleiben in der kleinsten Großstadt der Welt.

Stay cool in the smallest big city in the world. (Apparently Eisenstadt is the inverse of Reno, Nevada, “the biggest little city in the world”.)

Statue of Mary and Jesus. Cherubs are putting a crown on Mary’s head.

Chairs in shape of half-eaten ice cream cone with ice cream dripping down the sites. They are around a table that looks like an ice cream cone with a scoop of yellow and a scoop of red ice cream.

Clever chairs at an ice cream parlor.

Green, red, and yellow faces with comical expressions.

White column with gold trim, srrounded by holy figures

A Pestsäule (see below)

Detail of bottom of column, showing one figure pierced by arrows, and another holding a staff. Both have gold halos.

Pestsäule (Plague Column)

Almost every city has one of these. The Wikipedia entry happens to refer to the one in Eisenstadt. They were generally designed as either a monument to the end of the plague or as a plea to God to prevent or get rid of the plague.

Signage

The first sign has the closing quote facing the wrong direction. The second sign, for the same restaurant, has the closing quote facing the correct direction.

Restaurant with quotes left-facing lower quote and left-facing upper closing quote

Sign with opening lower left-facing quote and upper right right-facing quote maraks

Woman standing near a blue MG car. Text: Oh, MG!

Here you can see the s-z ligature clearly...

...and here it is combined into the standard „ß“ character.

Two smiling children in front of a sign with large letter H in green on yellow. Text: Eltern Haltestelle. One chid is saying Ab hier schaffen wir es alleine! In small print at bottom: Sicher unterwegs. In der kleinsten Großstadt der Welt.

In front of a school: Parents’ stop. “We’ll take it alone from here!”

Crocheted people looking anxiously at an electric car being charged. They are behind crocheted letters. Text: Keine E-NGSTE mehr! mit durchschnittlich 400 KM echter reichweite

No more E-nxiety! with an average range of 400 km

Sign on a recycling bin: A MIST-understanding is in charge here. („Mist“ is German for garbage)

Two posters with caption GOTT IS MA UNTAKEMMA. At left, bearded man, saying „Ich war eigentlich dauernd brennhas“ At right, a woman with glasses, saying „Ich dachte, Edelsteine würden mir Kraft geben“

God is my refuge (this is in dialect German). At left, “I was constantly on fire”. At right, “I thought jewels would give me power.”