But so few people know just how the relief occurred.

Vienna was slowly starving -- another week and they would be forced to surrender to the marauding Turks. But the general officer of a relieving army went twenty miles upstream and released huge quantities of fish into the river. When the fish reached the city, the people were able to haul them in and sustain themselves for that crucial week it took the army to reach them.

Grateful artisans carved a large wall mural to memorialize the general and his ingenuity. It was the first instance in that part of Europe of bass relief.




TEd