Hollabrunn () is a district capital town in the
Austria
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state
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of
Lower Austria
Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...
, on the Göllersbach river. It is situated in the heart of the biggest wine region of Austria, the
Weinviertel
The ("wine quarter") or ("area below the ") is located in the northeast of Lower Austria.
In the east, the borders Slovakia at the March River. In the south, it borders and , its limits being the Wagram, the Danube and the . Its western nei ...
.
History
The surroundings of Hollabrunn were first settled in
neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...
times. Around 300 B.C. one of the most significant
La Tène culture
The La Tène culture (; ) was a European Iron Age culture. It developed and flourished during the late Iron Age (from about 450 BC to the Roman conquest in the 1st century BC), succeeding the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any defi ...
cities in central Europe briefly flourished on the southern slopes of the Sandberg hill at Roseldorf close to the village of
Platt, a few kilometers to the northwest of Hollabrunn.
On November 16, 1805, the nearby town of Schöngrabern was the site of a battle between the French Napoleonic troops under
Joachim Murat
Joachim Murat ( , also , ; it, Gioacchino Murati; 25 March 1767 – 13 October 1815) was a French military commander and statesman who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. Under the French Empire he received the ...
(including general
Nicolas Charles Oudinot, who was wounded) and the Russian general
Pyotr Bagration
Prince Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration (10 July 1765 – 24 September 1812) was a Georgian general and prince serving in the Russian Empire, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars.
Bagration, a member of the Bagrationi dynasty, was born in Tbilisi. Hi ...
(who was protecting
Kutuzov
Prince Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov ( rus, Князь Михаи́л Илларио́нович Голени́щев-Куту́зов, Knyaz' Mikhaíl Illariónovich Goleníshchev-Kutúzov; german: Mikhail Illarion Golenishchev-Kut ...
's retreat north).
People
*
Philipp Fleischmann, born here
(de)
*
Hans Hermann Groër
Hans Hermann Wilhelm Groër OSB (13 October 1919 – 24 March 2003) was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995, and became a cardinal in 1988. Pope John Paul II replaced him as arch ...
, lived here
*
Felix von Luschan
Felix Ritter von Luschan (11 August 1854 – 7 February 1924) was an Austrian doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer.
Life
Luschan was born the son of a lawyer in Hollabrunn, Lower Austria, and attended the Akademische ...
, born here
*
Karl Anton Nowotny
Karl Anton Nowotny (June 21, 1904 in Hollabrunn – December 31, 1978 in Vienna) was an Austrian ethnographer, art historian and academic, specialising in the study of Mesoamerican cultures. He is most renowned for his analyses and reproductions ...
, born here
*
Markus Suttner
Markus Suttner (born 16 April 1987) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for SK Wullersdorf.
Club career Austria Wien
Suttner came through the youth system at Austria Wien before making his breakthrough season at the V ...
, born here
*
Felix von Winiwarter, lived here
*
Dr. Berta M. (Drechsel) Weber
Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb 'to teach'. It has been used as an academic title in Europe since the 13th century, w ...
, born here
Sources and references
* ''Nouveau Larousse illustré'', undated, early 20th century, in French
Cities and towns in Hollabrunn District
La Tène culture
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