He filled the old apartment in the church tower of St. Egid with life, met his wife there, and is now breaking new ground.
“It fits New Year’s Eve so well for me: I look back on six and a half wonderful years at the tower, let go, open a new door,” said Horst Ragusch, who organized the last New Year’s Eve on the tower of the city’s main parish church on Sunday. Wife at the tower In recent years, up there at a height of 45 meters, he has led countless groups and hosted many musicians and writers. “Once I heard the heels of a woman on the last of the 225 steps, then there she was: a woman who is now my wife. We met upstairs,” says the 61-year-old, whose interest in history and the question of the lives and thoughts of the people of the past (and of today) led him quite logically to Austria Guide training. Even if Ragusch was a tower guard When he says goodbye and a team of tower keepers takes over, he stays with him with his knowledge and warm manner of communicating – up on the tower, downstairs as a night watchman. New Year’s Eve at the city parish tower: 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. From 10 p.m. only with registration at: 0650/ 2424555.
source site-12