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Mikulov (Czech pronunciation:; German: Nikolsburg; Yiddish: ניקאלשבורג, Nikolshburg) is a town in Břeclav District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 7,600 inhabitants. The historic centre of Mikulov is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument reservation.
The Peace of Nikolsburg or Peace of Mikulov, signed on 31 December 1621 in Nikolsburg, Moravia (now Mikulov in the Czech Republic), was the treaty which ended the war between Prince Gabriel Bethlen of Transylvania and Emperor Ferdinand II of the Holy Roman Empire.
Nikolsburg (Yiddish: ניקאלשפורג) is the name of a Hasidic dynasty descending from Shmelke of Nikolsburg, a disciple of Dov Ber of Mezeritch. From 1773 to 1778 he was the Chief Rabbi of Moravia , in the city of Nikolsburg , today Mikulov, Czech Republic, from which the dynasty gets its name.
Shmuel Shmelke HaLevi Horowitz of Nikolsburg (Yiddish: שמואל שמעלקי הלוי הורוויץ פון ניקאלשבורג, [ˈʃmɛlkɛ ˈfʊn ˈnɪkɛlʃbʊʁɡ]; 1726 – April 28, 1778) also known as the Rebbe Reb Shmelke was an early Hasidic master and kabbalist, who is amongst the most important figures to early Polish Hasidism.
Mikulov Castle (German: Nikolsburg) is a castle in the town of Mikulov in South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. The castle is on a site of historic Slavonic settlement, where the original stone castle was erected at the end of the 13th century. The end of World War II saw the castle destroyed by a fire whose origins are unclear. [1]
Nikolsburg-Monsey: Yosef Yechiel Mechel Lebovits Shmuel Shmelke HaLevi Horowitz of Nikolsburg (1726–1778) Monsey, New York: Nikolsburg, Moravia Novominsk: Yoshua Perlow (Borough Park, Brooklyn) Yisroel Perlow Yaakov Perlow I (1843–1902) Borough Park, Brooklyn: Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland Pinsk-Karlin: Aryeh Rosenfeld
The Nikolsburg branch was elevated to the rank of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1624, while a member of the Hollenburg branch was elevated to the same dignity in 1684. The family held two territories with imperial immediacy – the Principality of Dietrichstein , along with castles in Carinthia and Moravia , and the Barony of Tarasp in ...
Portrait of Ferdinand Josef by Franciscus van der Steen. Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein (25 July 1628 [1] – 1 December 1698), was a German prince member of the House of Dietrichstein, 3rd Prince of Dietrichstein zu Nikolsburg, Princely Count (gefürsteter Graf) of Tarasp, Baron of Hollenburg, Finkenstein and Thalberg; in addition, he served as Lord Chamberlain (Obersthofmeister ...