The Knocking Ceremony during the funeral of Otto von Habsburg.
u/Distinct_Salad4995 — 2 days ago
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K.U.K belt buckle
Any opinions on authenticity? I know the belt itself was made by my grandpa a few years ago, he said he bought the buckle for 5000 huf.
u/Yhorm_The_Gamer — 1 day ago
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Full list of Cities in Austria Hungary as of 1880 with official population figures
This has been a personal project of mine and now that I've finished it I thought I might as well post it to the relevant community.
This is a list of all the settlements legally classified as cities as of the census of 31/12/1880 and of 31/12/1890.
It also includes data for the condominium of Bosnia & Herzegovina which had censuses on 16/06/1879 and 01/05/1885.
I have also added a geometric growth formula to approximate what the populations were on 01/01/1881 across the whole empire.
Enjoy.
Also for those interested, here are the primary sources which I based this spreadsheet on:
Lower Austria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555988
Upper Austria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555989
Salzburg 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555990
Styria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555991
Carinthia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555992
Cariniola 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555993
Littoral 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555994
Tyrol & Vorarlberg 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555995
Bohemia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555996
Moravia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555997
Silesia 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555998
Galicia & Lodomeria 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11555999
Bukovina 1880: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11556000
Cisleithania General 1880: https://digi.landesbibliothek.at/viewer/fullscreen/AC00962105\_1882/1/
Dalmatia 1890: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11556001
Cisleithania General 1890: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb11471946
Transleithania 1880: https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA\_1881\_02/?pg=0&layout=s
Transleithania 1890: https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA\_1891\_01/?pg=0&layout=s
Bosnia & Herzegovina 1879: 96555105-Popis-stanovništva-u-Bosni-i-Herce govini-1879.pdf (on scribd)
Bosnia & Herzegovina 1885: https://www.poreklo.rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Popis-BiH-1885.pdf
Edit: apologies for the lack of diacritics
u/TheMartianEmbassy — 1 day ago
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Antisemitic caricature (made by the same guy who made that mobile guard painting) portraying the jews as anti democratic reactionaries. Made during the 1848 Vienna revolutions.
u/Yhorm_The_Gamer — 1 day ago
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Announcement coming soon!
Thanks to everyone here who has been supporting The Time Traveler's Guide To Dalmatia and encouraging my posts. I've got two announcements coming soon that you'll like - with two people you probably already know!
I'll post more about it later, but for the moment just know we've got some surprises on the way!
Plus, bonus points to anyone who can identify the battle in this video.
Cheers!
u/timetraveltodalmatia — 1 day ago
Title: How could Austria-Hungary solve its nationality problem after 1880?
I'm working on an alternate-history scenario where Austria-Hungary manages to survive and become a stable, prosperous empire instead of eventually collapsing.
The scenario starts around 1880, and I'm wondering what realistic reforms could have been introduced to deal with the empire's nationality problems.
Would federalization, greater autonomy for the different nationalities, language rights, electoral reform, or a completely different constitutional system have been the best solution? And more importantly, how could such reforms realistically have been implemented despite Hungarian resistance and the competing interests of Germans, Czechs, South Slavs, Romanians, Poles, etc.?
I'm looking for historically plausible solutions rather than something that would require completely unrealistic political changes.
If you were advising Franz Joseph in 1880, how would you reform Austria-Hungary to make it stable for the long term?
u/Ok-Pressure9052 — 3 days ago
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Political caricature made during the 1848 Vienna revolution, portraying a shabby and uncouth loyalist Croatian soldier to a clean and civilized revolutionary mobile guard. Contrary to the artist's depiction, the guard was a hasty last minute organization and suffered from notoriously poor discipline
u/Yhorm_The_Gamer — 2 days ago
TIL that Otto von Habsburg, the pretender to the Austrian throne, offered to take over the Austrian government expressly to repel the Nazis This offer was declined and after Germany annexed Austria Otto was sentenced to death by the Nazi government.
en.wikipedia.orgu/DrakeSavory — 5 days ago
Happy Birthday to Bl. Kaiser Karl I of Austria-Hungary
Yesterday, me and my friends went to a symposium that was held by Traditionalist Catholics to celebrate the birthday of Bl. Kaiser Karl I of Austria-Hungary. Even though I'm a Serbian Orthodox Christian, I have a strong love for Bl. Kaiser Karl I given he sought to end WW1 early via the Sixtus Affair(which would've included giving Bosnia to Serbia and allowing the two monarchies to coexist). The symposium was held at a Catholic school in the DC Area and for the French Monarchists, the school's mascot are the Vendeens. During the symposium, Archduchess Kathleen met via zoom where she gave marital/familial advice to a young couple that was expecting their first child. There were a few other people who gave talks such as a Priest who talked in detail about the Sixtus Affair. As we were about to head back, we bought a statue of Bl. Kaiser Karl I as well as Charles Columbe's book on Bl. Karl I. I pray that Karl I & his wife are interceding to The LORD on behalf of the lands they once ruled over, just as the Romanovs are doing for their lands.
Happy birthday to Bl. Kaiser Karl I of Austria-Hungary.
u/Monarchist_Weeb1917 — 3 days ago
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Croatian Grenz officer smokes with an Austrian infantry officer on the outskirts of Vienna during the 1848 revolutions. (contemporary illustration)
u/Yhorm_The_Gamer — 3 days ago
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My great-grandfather
Hi all! This is my great-grandfather. He was recruited from the first day of the war, participated in all the battles of the 5th Army, the Isonzo and the Piave. All the time on the front line and returned alive. He was born in Kisorosz, hungarian, a place near Nagykikinda. Territory of Délvidék, Torontál County. (Today-Rusko Selo, Banat, Assigned to Serbia in the Trianon Peace Dictate 1920)
u/Sea_Double3104 — 4 days ago
On this day in 1914, Battle of Cer started; fought between invading Austro-Hungarian army and defending Serbian forces, it ended 9 days later with a major Serbian victory, marking the first defeat of the Central Powers in WW1
Austria-Hungary expected a quick victory over Serbia in WW1, having both numerical and technological superiority. On the other hand, Serbian army was still recovering from two brutal Balkan Wars, which happened only a few years prior.
Austro-Hungarian invasion was commanded by General Oskar Potiorek, the Governor of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Before the battle, Potiorek had predicted an easy victory over the Serbians, calling them "pig farmers." The Serbian army was commanded by Crown Prince Alexander and Field Marshal Radomir Putnik as his deputy and de facto military leader. Generals Petar Bojović, Stepa Stepanović and Pavle Jurišić Šturm commanded the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Serbian Armies, respectively.
The battle began on the night of August 15 when elements of the Serbian 1st Combined Division encountered Austro-Hungarian outposts that had been established on the slopes of Cer Mountain earlier in the invasion. The clashes that followed escalated into a battle for control over several towns and villages near the mountain, especially Šabac.
On August 19, the morale of the Austro-Hungarians collapsed and thousands of soldiers retreated back into Austria-Hungary, many of whom drowned in the Drina River as they fled in panic.
After the battle, Austro-Hungarian soldier and journalist Egon Erwin Kisch wrote in his diary about those dramatic moments: "The army has been utterly defeated and is in a ruthless, wild, and panicked flight. A defeated army - no, a shattered mob - was rushing in blind fear towards the border..."
u/Imaginary_Plastic_53 — 5 days ago
A beautiful picture of a 30.5 howitzer Skoda
u/Longjumping-Kale-283 — 6 days ago
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My great-great grandfather before ww1
Sadly this might be the only ancestor i have no information about.
u/po1sonedtea — 7 days ago
Austro-Hungarian soldiers in recaptured positions on the Vorobyovka Heights, Brusilov Offensive, July 1st 1916.
Translated Austro-Hungarian first hand account on the Brusilov Breaktrough has just been posted on WW1 archives substack, for those interested, here is the link: https://ww1archive.substack.com/p/under-brusilovs-hammer?r=5pm4g9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
photo source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
u/KaiserMeyers — 8 days ago
Administrative divisions of Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.
Source, according to wikipedia map author was Mariusz Paździora.
u/PolishFemboy_69 — 8 days ago
Baptism and Marriage Records for Charles I of Austria
Due to the popularity of genealogy in recent years many documents from lands that comprised Austria-Hungary are now available online. This has resulted in many royal and noble records coming along, because the parish registers were for pauper and prince alike.
These are the birth and marriage records for Charles I of Austria. If you'd like to see them, I can share those of other family members.
Birth / Baptism
https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/oesterreich/st-poelten/persenbeug/01%252F04/?pg=76
Birth: 17 August 1887, Persenbeug 1 (Château)
Baptism: 19 August 1887, Church of the Holy Florian and Maximilian, Persenbeug
Name: Charles Francis Joseph Louis Hubert Geore Otto Maria
The columns are Catholic/Protestant, Male/Female, Legitimate/Illegitimate
Father: His Imperial and Royal Highness, the Most Serene Prince and Lord Otto Francis Joseph, Imperial Prince and Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia etc. etc., Knight of the Golden Fleece, Knight Grand Cross of the Spanish Order of Charles III and the Royal Saxon Order of the Rue Crown, First Lieutenant in the Royal and Imperial Dragoon Regiment "Alexander, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine N.6", son of His Imperial and Royal Highness the Archduke Charles Louis.
Mother: Her Imperial and Royal Highness, the Most Serene Princess and Lady Archduchess Mary Josepha, née Royal Princess of Saxony, Lady of the Order of the Rue Crown, daughter of His Royal Highness the Prince George of Saxony
Note below name: Died on 1 April 1922 in Funchal on Madeira in exile as the last Emperor of Austria.
Godparent: Charles Louis, Imperial Prince and Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia etc. etc. etc.
Marriage to Zita of Bourbon-Parma
https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/oesterreich/wien/schwarzauamsteinfeld/02-06/?pg=72
21 October 1911, Schwarzau am Steinfeld
Groom: His Imperial and Royal Highness Charles Francis Joseph Louis Hubert George Otto Maria, Imperial Prince and Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia etc., Catholic, single, of legal age, born in Persenbeug, Lower Austria, on 17 August 1887, legitimate son of His Imperial and Royal Highness Otto Francis Josef, Imperial Prince and Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary and Bohemia etc., and Her Imperial and Royal Highness Mary Josepha, Imperial Princess and Archduchess of Austria, Royal Princess of Hungary and Bohemia etc., née Princess of Saxony.
Bride: Her Royal Highness Zita Mary of Grace Adelgunda Michaela Raphaela Gabriella Josephine Antonia Louisa Agnes of Bourbon, Princess of Parma, Catholic, single, a minor, born in the Villa Pianore in the parish of Capezzano in Lucca in Italy on 9 May 1892, legitimate daughter of the deceased His Royal Highness and Serene Lord Robert of Bourbon, Infante of Spain, Duke of Parma, and Her Royal Highness and Serene Lady Mary Antonia, Duchess of Parma, née Infanta of Portugal (Braganza).
Columns next to them are Catholic/Evanglical, age, Single/Widowed.
Correction below Zita say that her full name on the baptism certificate is: Zita Mary of Grace Adelgunda Michaela Gabriella Josephina Antonia Louisa Agnes Stanislava Anna Margaret Philomena Adelaide Roberta Vincentia Francisca.
Witness 1: Frederick Augustus, King of Saxony
Witness 2: Archduke Franz of Austria-Este
They were granted a dispensation in the "4th degree of consanguinity." I think that's because of their shared descent from Francis I of the Two Sicilies (via different marriages), which the closest blood link I could find.
u/No-Antelope853 — 9 days ago
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Need help with a heraldic origin
I'm searching for the origin of the trefoil as used by Croatia during WW2, and it was apparently appropriated from (croat?) Austro-Hungarian units during WW1, but I have yet to find any pictures/banners to confirm this.
Does anyone have any references or knowledge to confirm this? Any information is appreciated!
u/CyborgSmoker — 9 days ago
You can clearly see the old borders of Austria Hungary based on what they called a tomato
u/Inzan6 — 14 days ago