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The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847-1918 (Penn State Press, 2013). Regal, Wolfgang and Michael Nanut. Vienna A Doctor’s Guide: 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history (2007) Rozenblit, Marsha. The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914: Assimilation and Identity (State University of New York Press, 1984).
In 1679, Vienna suffered one of the last great plague epidemics. Fleeing the city, the Habsburg emperor Leopold I vowed to erect a mercy column if the epidemic would end. In the same year, a provisional wooden column made by Johann Frühwirth was inaugurated, showing the Holy Trinity on a Corinthian column together with nine sculpted angels (for the Nine Choirs of Angels).
The plague of Vienna in 1679 was very severe, causing at least 76,000 deaths. Other urban centers in this area of Europe had similar levels of casualties. For instance, Prague in 1681 lost 83,000 due to plague. Dresden was affected in 1680, Magdeburg and Halle in 1682. In Halle, a mortality of 4,397 out of a population of about 10,000 was recorded.
881 – The Bavarians had their first clash at Wenia with the Hungarians (first mention of Vienna). 1030 – The Hungarians besiege Vienna. 1155 Henry II, Duke of Austria appoints Vienna as capital city [clarification needed]. [3] Schottenstift founded. 1160 – St. Stephen's Cathedral built. 1221 – Vienna receives rights as staple port.
The Neue Burg wing of the Hofburg palace in Vienna, which houses the Rainer Collection. The Papyrus Collection of the Austrian National Library, also known as the Rainer Collection (Papyruskollektion Erzherzog Rainer) and Vienna Papyrus Collection (Papyrussammlung Wien), is a papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library at Hofburg palace in Vienna.
The siege of Vienna, in 1529, was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna in the Archduchy of Austria, part of the Holy Roman Empire. Suleiman the Magnificent , sultan of the Ottomans, attacked the city with over 100,000 men, while the defenders, led by Niklas Graf Salm , numbered no more than 21,000.
The Battle of Vienna [a] took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 [2] after the city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire (led by the Habsburg monarchy ) and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , both under the command of King John III Sobieski ...
Vienna (/ v i ˈ ɛ n ə / ⓘ vee-EN-ə; [8] [9] German: Wien ⓘ; Austro-Bavarian: Wean) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants.