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Gallspach
Gallspach is a municipality and spa in the district of Grieskirchen in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Centre of the municipality ist the market town Gallspach. It comprises also the following villages: Enzendorf, Gferedt, Niederndorf, Schützendorf, Thall, Thongraben, Vornwald and Wies. Population History In the Roman era the forested tract of Gallspach belonged to the area of the ''Colonia Aurelia Antoniana Ovilabis''/(Wels), which became the capital of the province of Noricum Ripensis in the 4th century. Settlement started probably not before the 10th century. Until 1180 Gallspach belonged to the dukedom of Bavaria, afterwards to the dukedom of Styria/Steiermark and since 1254 to the dukedom of Austria. As a consequence of the peace treaty of Schönbrunn in 1809/10 Gallspach came under French administration and from 1810 to 1816 large parts of the Gallspach municipality went to the kingdom of Bavaria. In 1343/44 a separate parish was founded by Eberhard from Wallsee. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friederike Zeileis
Friederike Zeileis (also known as Friederike Mekler von Traunwies, 20 December 1872 – 1954) was an Austrian women's right's activist and one of the founding members of the International Women's Suffrage Alliance. She was also involved in the founding and implementation of the Vienna Settlement Movement, serving in various capacities on its board from 1901 to 1932. Early life Friederike Mautner von Markhof, known as "Fritzi", was born on 20 December 1872 in , a village near Vienna, in Austria-Hungary to Karoline "Charlotte" (née Biehler) and Georg Heinrich Mautner von Markhof. Her father's , originally from Smiřice in Bohemia, were involved in brewing, and her grandfather, was knighted for his development of a method to industrially produce compressed yeast. Her father expanded the brewery, which became the third-largest distillery in Europe, opening a yeast and brewing factory in Floridsdorf in 1864 and another in 1893. Mautner von Markhof grew up in the wealthy, assimilated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grieskirchen District
Bezirk Grieskirchen is a district of the state of Upper Austria in Austria. Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. * Aistersheim (786) * Bad Schallerbach (3287) *Bruck-Waasen (2302) * Eschenau im Hausruckkreis (1176) * Gallspach (2575) * Gaspoltshofen (3609) * Geboltskirchen (1412) *Grieskirchen (4807) *Haag am Hausruck (2047) *Heiligenberg (710) * Hofkirchen an der Trattnach (1510) *Kallham (2543) * Kematen am Innbach (1262) * Meggenhofen (1236) * Michaelnbach (1232) * Natternbach (2338) * Neukirchen am Walde (1686) * Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis (1447) *Peuerbach (2234) * Pollham (915) * Pötting (541) * Pram (1840) * Rottenbach (1009) * Schlüßlberg (2998) * Sankt Agatha (2119) * Sankt Georgen bei Grieskirchen (967) * Sankt Thomas (460) *Steegen Steegen is a municipality in the district of Grieskirchen in the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grieskirchen (district)
Bezirk Grieskirchen is a district of the state of Upper Austria in Austria. Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated in small characters. * Aistersheim (786) * Bad Schallerbach (3287) *Bruck-Waasen (2302) * Eschenau im Hausruckkreis (1176) * Gallspach (2575) * Gaspoltshofen (3609) * Geboltskirchen (1412) *Grieskirchen (4807) *Haag am Hausruck (2047) *Heiligenberg (710) * Hofkirchen an der Trattnach (1510) *Kallham (2543) * Kematen am Innbach (1262) * Meggenhofen (1236) * Michaelnbach (1232) * Natternbach (2338) * Neukirchen am Walde (1686) * Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis (1447) *Peuerbach (2234) * Pollham (915) * Pötting (541) * Pram (1840) * Rottenbach (1009) * Schlüßlberg (2998) * Sankt Agatha (2119) * Sankt Georgen bei Grieskirchen (967) * Sankt Thomas (460) *Steegen Steegen is a municipality in the district of Grieskirchen in the Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous city and state. A landlocked country, Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has a population of 9 million. Austria emerged from the remnants of the Eastern and Hungarian March at the end of the first millennium. Originally a margraviate of Bavaria, it developed into a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire in 1156 and was later made an archduchy in 1453. In the 16th century, Vienna began serving as the empire's administrative capital and Austria thus became the heartland of the Habsburg monarchy. After the dissolution of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert II Of Germany
Albert the Magnanimous KG, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (10 August 139727 October 1439) was king of the Holy Roman Empire and a member of the House of Habsburg. By inheritance he became Albert V, Duke of Austria. Through his wife (''jure uxoris'') he also became King of Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, and inherited a claim to the Duchy of Luxembourg. Biography Albert was born in Vienna as the son of Albert IV, Duke of Austria, and Joanna Sophia of Bavaria. He succeeded to the Duchy of Austria at the age of seven on his father's death in 1404. His uncle Duke William of Inner Austria, then head of the rivaling Leopoldinian line, served as regent for his nephew, followed by his brothers Leopold IV and Ernest the Iron in 1406. The quarrels between the brothers and their continued attempts to gain control over the Albertinian territories led to civil war-like conditions. Nevertheless, Albert, having received a good education, undertook the government of Austria proper on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meggenhofen
Meggenhofen is a municipality in the district of Grieskirchen in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Geography Meggenhofen lies in the Hausruckviertel The Hausruckviertel (literally German for the ''Hausruck'' quarter or district) is an Austrian region belonging to the state of Upper Austria: it is one of four "quarters" of Upper Austria the others being Traunviertel, Mühlviertel, and Innvier .... About 14 percent of the municipality is forest, and 76 percent is farmland. References Cities and towns in Grieskirchen District {{UpperAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schlüßlberg
Schlüßlberg is a municipality in the district of Grieskirchen in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Geography Schlüßlberg lies in the Hausruckviertel The Hausruckviertel (literally German for the ''Hausruck'' quarter or district) is an Austrian region belonging to the state of Upper Austria: it is one of four "quarters" of Upper Austria the others being Traunviertel, Mühlviertel, and Innvier .... About 15 percent of the municipality is forest, and 74 percent is farmland. References Cities and towns in Grieskirchen District {{UpperAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grieskirchen
Grieskirchen is a town in Austria. It is capital of the Grieskirchen district of Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, an ..., in the Trattnachtal valley. Notable people * Franz Födermayr (1933–2020), musicologist, was born in the town. * Otto Prechtler (1813–1881), dramatist and librettist, was born in the town. * Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg (1897–1944), SS functionary Population References Cities and towns in Grieskirchen District {{UpperAustria-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Hall
Bad Hall () is a market town in the Steyr-Land district of the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Its name, Bad Hall, means "salt bath," a reference to its long history of baths and spas. It is renowned for its saline springs, strongly impregnated with iodine and bromine. Although the springs have been known since the 8th century, Hall has been noted for them only since 1855, when the springs became the property of the government. Due to the saline springs tourism is well developed in Bad Hall. There are also some industrial companies (e.g. AGRU Kunststofftechnik) as well as oil exploration around Bad Hall (e.g. RAG AG). Geography The town is situated in the Traunviertel region, about 30 km south of the Upper Austrian capital Linz. History Bad Hall was first mentioned in the year 777, which makes it one of the first recorded towns in Upper Austria. In 1287 Hall received the rights of a market community. In 1861 the rural parts of Hall split up. The parts that have been cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carinthia
Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German language, German. Its regional dialects belong to the Southern Bavarian group. Carinthian dialect group, Carinthian Slovene dialects, forms of a South Slavic languages, Slavic language that predominated in the southeastern part of the region up to the first half of the 20th century, are now spoken by a Carinthian Slovenes, small minority in the area. Carinthia's main Industry (economics), industries are tourism, electronics, engineering, forestry, and agriculture. Name The etymology of the name "Carinthia", similar to Carnia or Carniola, has not been conclusively established. The ''Ravenna Cosmography'' (about AD 700) referred to a Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps, Slavic "Carantani" tribe as the eastern neighbours of the Bavarians. In his ''History of the Lombards'', the 8th-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millstatt
Millstatt am See is a market town of the Spittal an der Drau District in Carinthia, Austria. The traditional health resort and spa town on Lake Millstatt is known for former Benedictine Millstatt Abbey, founded about 1070. Geography It is situated on the southern slope of the Gurktal Alps (Nock Mountains), on an alluvial fan peninsula on the lake's northern shore. The municipal area reaches from an elevation of at the lakeside to AA at the crest of the Millstätter Alpe massif. It comprises the cadastral communities of Millstatt proper, Obermillstatt, Matzelsdorf, and Laubendorf. Beneath the Millstatt marketplace stand the extensive buildings of the former Benedictine monastery with its four massive towers and the monastery church at the highest point. History While the oldest archaeological artifacts found in the area date back to the Neolithic, the name "Millstatt" may refer to the Celtic expression "mils" meaning mountain stream or brook. The Celts entered this region from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albrecht Haushofer
Albrecht Georg Haushofer (7 January 1903 – 23 April 1945) was a German geographer, diplomat, author and member of the German Resistance to Nazism. Life Haushofer was born in Munich, the son of the retired World War I general and geographer Karl Haushofer (1869–1946) and his wife Martha, née Mayer-Doss (1877–1946). Albrecht had one brother, Heinz. He studied geography and history at Munich University. In 1924 he graduated with his thesis ''Paß-Staaten in den Alpen,'' Erich von Drygalski (1865–1949) was his supervisor. Haushofer then worked as an assistant for Albrecht Penck. A fellow student in geopolitics was Rudolf Hess, a very early follower of Adolf Hitler and close friend of his Haushofer's father, Karl. Karl Haushofer was a frequent visitor to Landsberg Prison, where Hitler and Hess were jailed after the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch and ''Mein Kampf'' was written. Later, under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 (effective from 1936), Albrecht Haushofer was categorized as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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