MARCHFELD

märkhˈfĕltˌ, plain, NE Austria, NE of Vienna, between the Danube and the Morava (Ger. March) rivers, on the border of Slovakia. A strategic approach to Vienna, it was the site of several important battles. In 1260, Ottocar II of Bohemia defeated Bela IV of Hungary on the Marchfeld, and in 1278, Ottocar was defeated and slain by the forces of Rudolf I of the house of Hapsburg. In 1809, Napoleon I was defeated on the Marchfeld at Aspern by Archduke Charles, but was victorious at Wagram.

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English Prose of the Victorian Era
Book by Charles Frederick Harrold, William D. Templeman; Oxford University Press, 1938
Subjects: English Prose Literature--19th Cent
...what follows: Horrible enough! A whole Marchfeld 14 strewed with shell-splinters, cannon...richest level, -- intend thee, O Marchfeld, for a corn- bearing Nursery, whereon...absorbed into manure; and next year the Marchfeld will be green, nay greener. Thrifty...
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Scottish Literature: An Anthology - Vol. 2
Book by David McCordick; Peter Lang, 1996
Subjects: Scotland--Literary Collections, Scottish Literature
"Horrible enough! A whole Marchfeld strewed with shell-splinters...softest richest level--intend thee O Marchfeld, for a corn-bearing nursery...absorbed into manure; and next year the Marchfeld will be green, nay greener. Thrifty...
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Austria-Hungary: Including Dalmatia and Bosnia; Handbook for Travellers
Book by Karl Baedeker; K. Baedeker, 1905
Subjects: Austria--Guidebooks
...at the foot of which lies the town of Felsberg. In the Marchfeld, beyond 207 M. Hohenau, Ottocar of Bohemia routed the Hungarians...Enzersdorf branch to Poysdorf . Beyond 236 M. Wolkersdorf, the Marchfeld see above is traversed to 248 M. Stadlau junction for Marchegg...
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Napoleon's Italian Campaigns: 1805-1815
Book by Frederick C. Schneid; Praeger, 2002
Subjects: Italy--History--1789-1815, Napoleon--I--Emperor Of The French--1769-1821--Military Leadership, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815--Campaigns--Italy
...Russbach plateau five miles away. The area was referred to as the Marchfeld , its ground as flat as a tabletop. The Russbach plateau was not...of Aderklaa. Napoleon wanted to push the Austrians across the Marchfeld, allowing him
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Feudal Germany
Book by James Westfall Thompson; University of Chicago Press, 1928
Subjects: Germany--History--843-1273, Holy Roman Empire--History--843-1273
...introduced the bishops into the national Frankish assembly Marchfeld, Champ de Mars not only as proprietors but as prelates...propriete eccles, en France , pp. 424-38. In 755 the Marchfeld was changed to May in order that there might be more pasturage...
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Remembrances of Beethoven's Grandnieces Hermine Van Beethoven (1852-1887) from 1872 and Caroline Van Beethoven (1833-1919) and of a Visit to the Schwarzspanierhause before Its Destruction in 1903
Journal article by Maria Komorn; The Beethoven Newsletter, Vol. 8/9, 1993
...name of Beethoven. It was in 1872 that the owners of an estate lying between Matzen and Ganserndorf, in the lower Austrian Marchfeld, advertised for a governess whose chief duty it should to superintend the piano-instruction of the daughters of the house...


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magazine articles on: Marchfeld  - 2 results

 
 
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Whose Austria
Magazine article by Gordon Marsden; History Today, Vol. 46, October 1996
Subjects: Austria--History, Austrians--Exhibitions
...1246 the way was left open for Rudolf of Habsburg to retrieve their lands from the Bohemian interloper Ottokar in battle at Marchfeld near Vienna. Territorial expansion by the Habsburgs to the boundaries of todays Republic was accompanied by a new proprietorial...
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A Flying Heavyweight
Magazine article by Barbara Grabner; World and I, Vol. 18, December 2003
Subjects: Bustards--Behavior
...endangered species in the world. It is wintertime in Austria. Peering through his telescope, Rainer Raab scans the fields of Marchfeld, an agricultural area northeast of Vienna. He is estimating the number of great bustards that are wintering in this area...


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A GREEK ODYSSEY; Seven Trains and 3,000 Miles of Epic Landscape, a Rail Ride to Athens Proves to Be a Classic
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 17, 2009
...coffee to its people who reinvented the beverage. An armoured bear of a locomotive hauls a sorry show of passengers across the Marchfeld Plain, soaked with the blood of Vandals, Visigoths, Huns and Magyars, into Eastern Europe. The mighty Danube flows along...


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encyclopedia articles on: Marchfeld  - 6 results

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Marchfeld
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARCHFELD markh felt , plain, NE Austria, NE...Bohemia defeated Bela IV of Hungary on the Marchfeld, and in 1278, Ottocar was defeated...1809, Napoleon I was defeated on the Marchfeld at Aspern by Archduke Charles, but was...
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Rudolf I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in Italy. Rudolfs election was contested by the powerful King Ottocar II of Bohemia. Rudolf finally defeated Ottocar at Marchfeld (1278) and invested (1282) his own sons Albert (later King Albert I ) and Rudolf with Austria, Styria, and Carniola...
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Hapsburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Rudolf IV as Rudolf I , king of the Germans, provoked war with King Ottocar II of Bohemia. Ottocars defeat and death at the Marchfeld (1278) confirmed Hapsburg possession of Austria, Carniola, and Styria; these lands and the Austrian ducal title were...
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Ottocar II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...revived ambitions and Rudolfs interference in Bohemian affairs provoked a new war. Ottocar was defeated and killed on the Marchfeld in a fierce battle against Germans and Hungarians. He was succeeded by his son, Wenceslaus II . Ottocar greatly encouraged...
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Wagram
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WAGRAM va gram or Deutsch-Wagram doich , town, Lower Austria prov., NE Austria, in the Marchfeld, near Vienna. On July 5 6, 1809, Napoleon I gained one of his most brilliant victories there. Despite their heroic conduct...
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