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Dürnkrut (Slovak: Kruta, Suchá Kruta, Czech: Suché Kruty) is a market town in the district of Gänserndorf in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. Castle Dürnkrut (pictured) is the most famous landmark of the town. The town is agricultural with some noteworthy businesses. Crops grown in the flatter areas are canola, corn ...
Dürnkrut es una localidad del distrito de Gänserndorf, en el estado de Baja Austria, Austria, con una población estimada a principio del año 2018 de 2267 habitantes. Se encuentra ubicada al noreste del estado, entre Viena, al oeste, el río Danubio, al sur, y el río Morava (afluente del Danubio) que la separa de Eslovaquia, al ...
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- In Art and Popular Culture
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The deposition of Emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen by Pope Innocent IV in 1245 created a grave crisis for the Holy Roman Empire, as in the following decades several nobles were elected as Rex Romanorum and Emperor-to-be, none of whom were able to gain actual governing power upon the Emperor's death in 1250. That same year, Ottokar II, son of Ki...
As the election had taken place in his absence, Ottokar did not acknowledge Rudolph as King. Rudolph himself had promised to regain the "alienated" territories which had to be conferred by the Imperial power with consent of the Prince-electors. He claimed the Austrian and Carinthian territories for the Empire and summoned Ottokar to the 1275 Reichs...
Ottakar fielded 6,000 cavalry, of which 1,000 were heavily armed and armored and 5,000 lightly equipped riders. Ottokar's heavy cavalry rode armored horses. About one third of Ottakar’s knights were Poles from Silesia, Greater Poland and Lesser Poland. Rudolf had 300 heavy cavalry and 4,000 light cavalry, of which an indeterminate number were Hunga...
Surprised by Rudolph's maneuver, Ottokar quickly abandoned the siege at Laa, marched southwards, and on August 26 met the united German and Hungarian forces near Dürnkrut. When he arrived his enemies had already taken the opportunity to explore the topography of the future battleground. From the early morning, the left wing of the advancing Bohemia...
Rudolph, to demonstrate his victory, had Ottokar's body displayed in Vienna. The "poor count" from Swabian Habsburg Castle assured his possession of the Duchies of Austria and Styria, the heartland and foundation of the rise of the House of Habsburg. At the 1282 Diet of Augsburg, he installed his sons Albert and Rudolf II as Austrian dukes; their d...
The battle was depicted in art especially during the rise of nationalismin the 19th century, when it was viewed as the example of a traditional co-operation between the Habsburg dynasty (Austria) and the Kingdom of Hungary, from one side, and the traditional tension between the Habsburg dynasty and Bohemia, from the Czech side. The tragedy König Ot...
Dürnkrut es una localidad del distrito de Gänserndorf, en el estado de Baja Austria, Austria, con una población estimada a principio del año 2018 de 2267 habitantes.
Dürnkrut ist eine Marktgemeinde mit 2239 Einwohnern (Stand 1. Jänner 2023) im Bezirk Gänserndorf in Niederösterreich .
26, 1278, at Dürnkrut, Austria, he lost both the battle and his life. (In the same period Hungary underwent its own disintegration, and strong feudal warlords ruled over its different parts. Most of Slovakia was then controlled by the mighty Matúš Čak, lord of Trenčín.)
1233, in Městec Králové, Bohemia – 26 August 1278, in Dürnkrut, Lower Austria ), the Iron and Golden King, was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty who reigned as King of Bohemia from 1253 until his death in 1278.
