Austria-Hungary - with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest - handbook for travellers (1911) (14775732051)

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Title: Austria-Hungary : with excursions to Cetinje, Belgrade, and Bucharest : handbook for travellers
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Baedeker, Karl
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Publisher: Leipzig : K. Baedeker New York C. Scribner
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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Southern Railway Station (PI. A, 4) we proceed ina straight direction through the Bahngasse, to the S. of which liesthe Stadt-ParJc (PI. A, B, 4), and through the Burggasse to the(Y2 M.) former ducal Castle of the Babenbergs, founded at theend of the 12th cent., remodelled in 1457-75 by Emperor Fred-erick III., and converted in 1752 by Empress Maria Theresa intothe Theresianische Militdr- Akademie (PI. C, 4; 450 students).In the late-Gothic Schloss-Kajjelle (admission obtained from thecommandant of the academy, at the head of the flight of steps inthe court) are three superb stained-glass windows of 1479, that inthe centre with portraits of the Emperor Maximilian I. and histwo wives and the Baptism of Christ above. By the high-altar,beneath which is the burial-vault of the emperor (comp. p. 185),is an admirable bronze statue of St. George, dating from the 15thcentury. On the N. wall is a terracotta relief of the ArchdukeMaximilian J1I. praying to the Virgin (16th cent.). In the court,
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■o3psm<rcps i -^pinsriB^r ^ *. Schneeberg. WIENER-NEUSTADT. 3. Route, 117 over the entrance, are the armorial bearings (107 quarterings; inpart quite imaginary) of Emp. Frederick III., with his motto:A. E. I. 0. U. (Austria erit in orbe ultima or Austrise est imperareorbi universo); below is a statue of the emperor (1453). In thegarden are a statue of the Empress Maria Theresa (PL C, 4; ca.13 ft. high) by Gfasser (1862) and a monument to former studentsof the academy who have fallen in battle. The late-Gothic Neukloster-Kirche (PI. C, 4) contains the mon-ument of Eleanor of Portugal (d. 1467), wife of Frederick III., byNicolas Lerch. The convent library contains ancient miniatures,a collection of early-German paintings, ivory-carvings, majolica,and other objects of interest (adm. on application to the custodian). The Liehf7*auen-Kirche (PI. B, 3; key at the Propstei), with alate-Eomanesque nave of the 13th cent., late-Gothic choir and tran-sept of the 15th cent., and two towers a

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