The denk wine garden , in the town of weissenkirchen , overlooks the gray-green danube river as it winds through lush hilltops decorated with gleaming abbeys and small towns dotted with terra-cotta roofs and baroque church steeples .
Church steeples have yielded their domination of the skyline to towering glass-and-steel slabs that look as if they came off the same drawing boards as those on new york 's park avenue .