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Construction of the Verbund project Limberg III pumped storage power station is currently underway in the area of the Kaprun/Salzach power station group. Preliminary work started on 6 April 2021, the main construction work started on 7 January 2022 and the overall facility is scheduled to be commissioned the end of 2025. Kaprun has a long history in the construction of power stations. The Kaprun storage power stations in the 1950s were an outstanding engineering feat and is symbolic of the reconstruction efforts that took place in Austria in the wake of World War II. The power station facilities at the main and upper stage have been in existence since the 1950s and have since been continuously expanded. From 2006 to 2011 the all‐year‐round reservoirs Mooserboden and Wasserfallboden were extended to include the Limberg II pumped storage station. The group is currently expanding the Kaprun/Salzach power station group by building the Limberg III pumped storage station, for which the same design as Limberg II has been adopted for implementation purposes. In addition to the significant logistical challenges posed by the high mountain location of the construction site, this report also covers the tunnelling systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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"The Alps consist of mountains and valleys. Phenomenologically and emotionally, the construct of “Alpine architecture” is characterised by the image of a building located in an idyllic mountain setting – regardless of its style. The fact is, however, that architecture in the Alps means primarily building in the valleys. Building in the valleys is usually far less poetic than embedding a building in a complex and idyllic mountain landscape. It entails dealing with scarcity of land, overexploitation and the often-incompatible proximity of transport infrastructures, power lines, residential areas, emission sources and intensive agriculture. These challenges are part of contemporary Alpine architecture. So, what distinguishes Alpine architecture from the rest? In this contribution, the different challenges of building in the Alps are illustrated through two examples from two different locations. The first deals with building in an inner-Alpine side valley and picks up the traces of bygone days that still exist, whereas the second deals with the sustainable management of overexploited territories, characterised by land pressure and conflicts over their use in an inner-Alpine urban area. The two examples show that, although there is no such thing as a homogeneous Alpine architecture, there are specific framework conditions and challenges for building in the Alps that justify the specific categorisation of “Alpine architecture”."

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In Germany the causal agent of dwarf bunt of wheat, Tilletia controversa, has so far been found mainly in organic farming in the southern part of the country, and there especially in the mid mountain ranges and in the Alpine foothills. Whether T. controversa also occurs in conventionally produced winter wheat in the northern federal states was subject of a survey in the years 2016 and 2017. According to the wheat production levels in the German federal states Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony, Saxony- Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein a total of 1302 wheat grain samples were analysed originating from geographically representatively distributed operators. 4 of which tested positive for T. controversa (0.3%). With < 0.5 spores per grain these exhibited a very low contamination level. In 9 additional samples (0.7%), an infestation could neither be clearly confirmed nor excluded. Repeated occurrence of the pathogen at individual sites in consecutive years was not observed. Thus, T. controversa generally does not play a significant role in the production of conventional winter wheat in Northern Germany. The observed very low spore concentrations could have been caused by rare infection events of seeds that had not been optimally treated with seed dressing. However, it also could have been caused by wind-blown spores originating from neighboring organic wheat fields or by contaminated harvesters or transport vehicles. T. controversa is a quarantine pest in several countries. According to the here reported results, it can principally also occur in the northern federal states of Germany, which is of importance for the export of wheat, depending on the country of destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on relationship networks, ethnological, and historical perspectives on South Tyrolean mountain farmers. Topics discussed include the American Cultural anthropologists on the Alps in the 1960s and 1970s, research on geographically isolated mountain farmers, historical development and documentation, and the individual farms in a time of agricultural political and economic upheaval photographed in the 1960s.

The Moravian diaspora work that was undertaken from Gnadau lasted for more than a century and extended over a region that stretched from the foothills of the Harz mountains to Mecklenburg. The diaspora reports in the archives in Herrnhut and Gnadau, brought together here for the first time, make it possible to trace and analyse the methods of the diaspora workers and their assistants. The diaspora workers looked after awakened Christians in small groups (^Häuflein1), as well as pastors and cantors, and tried as far as possible to keep in contact with the church authorities. The lives of several diaspora workers are described, their variety indicating that the choice of diaspora workers must have been based on their social capabilities. Their activity consisted in holding services, fellowship groups and individual conversations. The different groups were classified either as small groups or societies. The so-called 'assistants' ('Gehiilferi) were those who had organizational responsibility for a small group. They were appointed, often by the diaspora worker himself, which sometimes resulted in conflicts, whether because their mode of life was disreputable or because they were in dispute with each other. There was also potential for conflict in their engagement with the civil authorities, which essentially consisted of the local police, the local nobility and the church administration. In the first decades most of the journeys were undertaken on foot, and the diaspora workers generally stayed in private homes. It is difficult to find in the records traces of women in the diaspora work. It was their husbands who wrote the reports, and it was men who read them. Even in their wives' memoirs the diaspora work is mentioned only marginally. From 1838 the context for the diaspora work became ever more complex. Other associations were formed and Herrnhut was no longer unique in the region for having missions among the heathen. First and foremost among the associations were the temperance societies and the missionary associations. The Old Lutherans, and their eventual toleration and recognition by representatives of Lutheran orthodoxy, hastened -- along with the waves of emigration -- the decline of Gnadau's diaspora work. In sum-mar}', it can be concluded that the task of the diaspora workers consisted only in looking after the small groups, not in winning possible members for the Moravian Church. The diaspora workers remained suspicious of more extensive revivals. In principle, they tried to move in protected spaces and avoided any possible disturbance of the authorities, whether secular or religious. They preferred working in rural areas. None the less, the Moravian diaspora work remains to this day the clearest legacy of Zinzendorf s philadelphian idea. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses how Wilhelm Raabe's narrative Prinzessin Fisch relates different types of transitions to each other and thus creates a network of implications that resists the logic of violence which is inscribed into the every-day normality German Society in a small city in the German Harz mountains in a transitional process of modernization. A close reading reveals that the father obviously has abused his children. Different types of textual strategies creating transitional moments are shown to be aiming at unmasking this highly illegitimate, tabooed bodily border-crossing, that could not be explicitly mentioned by that time. In addition, the cultural bias first suggested by the text appears to be a wrong track: Not the ‹foreign' migrants and returnees from the US and Mexico are the malicious ones, but the patterns of violence are located within the German bourgeois milieu, being perpetuated all over the world as part of transborder early Globalization. Literary transitions and intertextuality appear as resistance moments in this abysmal view on the German society at the end of the 19th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, continuity and discontinuity in the development of Iberoromance languages and of Rumanian are focussed. Only in the north of the Iberian peninsula the local vulgar Latin has survived, because south of the Cantabrian mountain range the local Latin has been supplanted after 711 by Arab dialects and by uncivilised Latin varieties exstinct in the course of history; the actual Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan dialects of this territory have been imported from northern regions in the course of Reconquista. Dacia was a heavily latinisted Roman territory from 106 up to 271, but in this year all Romance military and civil structures were ordered to leave the region. The vulgar Latin of the regions south of the Danube were imported to the northern regions at the beginning of the Middle Eves in the dark ages of the migration of peoples. There is no continuity between the vulgar Latin in Dacia; the Latin stock of Rumanian is typical of Thracian Latinity used south of the Danube imported to the north in the first time of the Middle Eves. Neither Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan nor Rumanian continue the vulgar Latin of the respective zones, but they are imported from other zones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rare linyphiid spider species Maro lehtineni Saaristo, 1971 was recorded in the Polish part of the Sudetes, in the Giant Mountains (in Polish Karkonosze). Five males were found on one of the sloping transition mires in the spring and early summer of 2011 and 2012. We provide new figures for identification of this species, and summarize and discuss data on its distribution, characteristic habitats and phenology.

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The article reviews the conference, "Alpen und Karpaten: Die Erschließung zweier europäischer Bergregionen zwischen Nutzungszielen und Schutzansprüchen" on the subject of environmental and natural protection in the mountainous regions of the Alps and Carpathian Mountains, and held from October 10th to November 10th, 2012 in Munich, Germany. Topics include a poem on the Alps by German poet Albrecht von Haller, written in 1729 and reflecting the early enlightenment view of nature, a report by the European Commission on Europe's mountain from 2004, and the economic relationship of tourism to environmental protection.

An essay titled "Begegnungen mit dem Kaiser" is presented. It offers a perception of the dominion of the realm in the Appenine area during the twelfth century. The author bases his essay on written and pictorial sources which demonstrate the importance of the Appenine mountain range as an obstacle and at the same a transportation interface in the High Middle Ages.

The article focuses on Friedrich Stolberg followed in his 1968 publication handbook with fortifications in and on the Harz Mountains from Early History to the Neuzeit, Germany. It mentions art monuments of the Duchy of Brunswick which deals specifically with the art monuments of the district of Blankenburg (Harz) and by the art historian Karl Steinacker. It also mentions state archive Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg under the signature and description of the location of the property.

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