Heldenberg is a small municipality in the district of Hollabrunn in

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, about 50 km north-west of Vienna. It is most notable for the Heldenberg Memorial.

Geography

The municipality was created in the 1970s as an administrative unit encompassing the villages ''Glaubendorf, Kleinwetzdorf, Grosswetzdorf, Unterthern,'' and ''Oberthern''. It was named for the ''Heldenberg'' (literally, ''Mountain of Heroes'') memorial site located near Kleinwetzdorf, which was constructed in 1849 by Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder, an army supplies merchant and land owner, to commemorate heroes of the Austro-Hungarian army.

Sights

In Glaubendorf, a neolithical

circular ditch Approximately 120–150 Neolithic earthworks enclosures are known in Central Europe. They are called ''Kreisgrabenanlagen'' ("circular ditched enclosures") in German, or alternatively as roundels (or "rondels"; German ''Rondelle''; som ...

site was found through aerial photography in the 1980s. The larger of the two structures, which have not been permanently excavated, contains three ditches of 71, 90 and 109 meters in diameter, which have been made visible on the surface by planting different flowers. The Heldenberg memorial site was renovated in 2005 for a theme exhibition. In addition to the original memorial with sculptures of emperors and military personnel, a reconstruction of a circular ditch site and an automobile museum have been added. Near the museum, the Viennese

Spanish Riding School The Spanish Riding School (german: Spanische Hofreitschule) is an Austrian institution dedicated to the preservation of classical dressage and the training of Lipizzaner horses, based in Vienna, Austria, whose performances in the Hofburg are also ...

has established their summer stables.

References

Cities and towns in Hollabrunn District {{LowerAustria-geo-stub