Wiener Neustadt
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Wiener Neustadt is a city in southern part of the Austrian state of Lower Austria. The city is located some 50 kilometres south of the centre of the capital Vienna. It is a self-governed city and the
Wiener Neustadt Hauptplatz
Reckturm mit Stadtmauerresten Wiener Neustadt
Wiener Neustadt Dom
Wr Neustadt Stadtmauer SW Ecke
Maximilian I was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was never crowned by the Pope, as the journey to Rome was blocked by the Venetians. He procla
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…a monument to her memory. The Wappenwand (coat-of-arms wall) at the local castle displays the coats of arms of his possessions in the middle. His son Maximilian I maintained his court in Wiener Neustadt and is buried here at St. George's Cathedral. The town then also had a significant Jewish commune with Rabbi…
Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I, 1519
Frederick III and Eleanor of Portugal
Eleanor and Maximilian, from Empress Eleanor's Book of Hours. The mother fed him knights' tales, encouraged him to fence, dance and hunt, while the father wanted Maximilian to be good at Latin.
Garden scene in an MS of the Roman de la Rose, Bruges c. 1490, possibly depicting Maximilian and Mary. Maximilian wrote, "Had we but peace, we would sit here as in a rose garden."