Station IV: Parish church

They are almost fifty meters high, the two mighty towers of the parish church in Tulln. During Egon's childhood, they shaped the image of the town. The people of Tulln have to tilt their heads back if they want to look up at the spires when they visit the church on Sundays. However, their gaze usually remains fixed on the pillars of the west portal anyway. They were installed around 1200 and decorated with the stone busts of twelve Passau bishops. Strict lords who were supposed to secure Bishop Wolfger von Erla's claim to his property. The people of Tulln, however, preferred to see the companions of Jesus in it. And call the imposing west portal their "Apostles' Gate".

Precise plan.

Egon is rarely there. A home tutor taught him for two years before he started elementary school. It's hard to make friends then. He prefers drawing and painting to chasing after a ball. That's why he can be found on the station grounds more often than on the church square. There he trained his technical eye on the huge steam locomotives and the newfangled automobiles that were slowly replacing ox carts and horse-drawn carriages in the Tulln cityscape. Years later, his sketchbooks prove that there is a precise plan behind every work. Even if you can't see it in many of the pictures.