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The apartment we rented was right there, at No. 26. I was curious who Graf Starhemberg was. From Wikipedia: "Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (12 January 1638 – 4 January 1701) was military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city's defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat . . . In 1683 he was military commander of the city of Vienna, with fewer than 20,000 men to oppose about 120,000 besieging Ottomans. On 15 July 1683 Starhemberg refused an offer by the Turkish commander Kara Mustafa Pasha to capitulate, counting on the speedy arrival of an Imperial army, sent by the Habsburg emperor Leopold I who had fled his residence, and the strength of city walls which had been fortified after the first Ottoman Siege of Vienna in 1529. When after two months the relief army under the command of Polish king Jan Sobieski arrived in the first half of September, Vienna was on the brink of collapse. Its walls were breached by Turkish sappers who had tunnelled under the walls, packed the tunnels with gunpowder, and detonated the explosive charges. Finally, on 12 September, 80,000 Polish, Venetian, Bavarian, and Saxon troops attacked the Turks and were able to defeat them in the Battle on the Kahlenberg."
An dieser Stelle des Hohlweges starb Engelbert Graf von Berg, Erzbischof von Köln, Herzog der Rheinlande und von Westfalen, Verweser des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation, an den Hieb und Stichwunden, die er bei dem Überfall des Grafen Friedrich von Isenberg und dessen Gefolgschaft am 7. November 1225 erlitten hatte
I go by these train tracks on my way to work everyday. The cars that ride these rails have some of the most amazing graffiti I've ever seen. Thank you, LA.
In August of 1929 the Graf Zeppelin flew for 21 days and over 20,600 miles to become the first dirigible to circumnavigate the globe. Funded by William Randolph Hearst the rigid airship completed its world travels on August 29, landing in Lakehurst, NJ. Here the Graf Zeppelin sails over the Great Pyramids in stereoscope on another of its tours of the globe.
Date: August 30, 1929
Het Oude Kerkhof in Roermond is een historische begraafplaats in Roermond, Nederland. Het is een interessante locatie vanwege de historische graven en de architectuur van sommige grafmonumenten.