(Landscape in green, Steyr Village by lake in Austria)

Hans Figura

Steyr is a small town with the old city still intact and is located on the eastern edge of Upper Austria. The town is located at the intersection of two rivers, Enns and Steyr. Figura chooses a view from the Steyr River looking toward the spires of St. Michael's Church.

Steyr has had a number of well-known residents or visitors, including Franz Schubert, who wrote his Trout Quintet there while on holiday, and composer Anton Bruckner, organist at the local parish church. Young Adolf Hitler spent a brief period there while he attended the Steyr secondary school in 1904, living in a room on Grünmarkt. The school is located in the same building as the famous Saint Michael's Church.