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3 unusual facts about Colloredo-Mansfeld


Colloredo-Mansfeld

Hieronymus Graf von Colloredo (1732–1812) was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 and last Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1771 until 1803, when the Archbishopric was secularized.

Allegedly one Liebhart (Liobardo) of Waldsee came to Italy attendant King Conrad II and about 1031 was enfeoffed by Patriarch Poppo of Aquileia with Mels Castle near Udine in Friuli.

The Colloredo family achieved the elevation to the noble rank of Freiherren by the Habsburg Emperor Rudolf II in 1588 and became immediate Reichsgrafen in 1724.


Battle of Dessau Bridge

Wallenstein and the Imperial Catholic league marched to Dessau, where Mansfeld and the Protestant army would inevitably try to cross in order to reach Magdeburg and the German Catholic League headquarters in Aschersleben.

Battle of Voltri

Sebottendorf's 3,200-man division included two battalions of the Wenzel Colloredo Infantry Regiment Nr. 56, the 2nd Battalion of the Carlstädter Grenz Infantry Regiment, and single battalions of the Alvinczi Infantry Regiment Nr. 19 and Lattermann Infantry Regiment Nr. 45.

Béatrix de Cusance

They had no children and in 1679, a widow, she married Count Heinrich Franz von Mansfeld, Prince di Fondi, by whom she had two daughters.

Bennungen

Bennungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Bornstedt

Bornstedt, Mansfeld-Südharz, a municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitenstein, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitenstein is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Breitungen, Saxony-Anhalt

Breitungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Brücken

Brücken, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt

Conrad Porta

Conrad Porta (1541-1585) was a Lutheran pastor of Mansfeld, and author of theologian tracts of the first generation following Martin Luther.

Dietersdorf

Dietersdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Drebsdorf

Drebsdorf is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Ernst Rexer

Additionally, Pose procured equipment from the companies AEG, Zeiss, Schott Jena, and Mansfeld, which were in the Russian occupation zone.

Friulian Revolt of 1511

That was the last act of a clash that had been dragged on for some time now between the inhabitants of Virco, Flambro and Sivigliano against the noble Colloredo, the owners of the castle, accused of usurping the community's pastures and woods for their own advantage.

It was the magi or event that raised the public opinion since for various years all the region was shaken by disputes and skirmishes stirred up by the peasants against the nobility, their families, soldiers, servants or their representatives (clashes occurred with Spilimbergo, Maniago, Valvasone, Portogruaro, Colloredo, Tarcento).

Hainrode

Hainrode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Hayn

Hayn is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Kleinleinungen

Kleinleinungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Mansfeld Castle

The castle, which is surrounded by forest, stands on top of a large rock overlooking the town of Mansfeld.

Mansfeld Land

Since the county reform of 2007, Mansfeld Land – after several years as the independent county of Mansfelder Land – has belonged to the county of Mansfeld-Südharz.

After the foundation of East Germany, these 2 counties were disbanded and transferred to the counties of Hettstedt and Eisleben, small areas of Mansfeld Land in the west went to Sangerhausen and in the south to Saalkreis and Querfurt.

Opočno Castle

In 2003 the Czech courts decided to return the property to the Colloredo family, but as of 2007 the decision was reversed, although the family has appealed to the higher Courts.

In 1634 when Adam Erdmann von Trčka died, the emperor Ferdinand II allowed the Colloredo family to buy the property for 35,000 "Reichsgulden".

Province of Saxony

territory gained from the Kingdom of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig in 1813: the towns and surrounding territories of Wittenberg, Merseburg, Naumburg, Mansfeld, Querfurt, and Henneberg;

Questenberg

Questenberg is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Roßla

Rossla (German: Roßla) is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Rottleberode

Rottleberode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Schwenda

Schwenda is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Sebastian Colloredo

Colloredo's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 11th in the team large hill event at Liberec in 2009 while his best individual finish was 25th in the individual large hill at those same championships.

Seeburg

Seeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, in the district Mansfeld-Südharz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

South Harz Karst Landscape Biosphere Reserve

The biosphere reserve has an area of 30,034 hectares and lies in the county of Mansfeld-Südharz on the territory of the towns of Allstedt and Sangerhausen and the municipalities of Berga, Südharz and Wallhausen.

Uftrungen

Uftrungen is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Walbeck

Walbeck, Mansfeld-Südharz, a municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt

Wickerode

Wickerode is a village and a former municipality in the Mansfeld-Südharz district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Wilhelm Ule

He studied mathematics and geography in Berlin and Halle, where he graduated in 1888 with a dissertation on the lakes of Mansfeld, Die Mansfelder Seen.

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin

He fought under Ernst von Mansfeld and led his troops after the death of Mansfeld in 1626.

Wolfgang, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

Wolfgang was born on 6 April 1531 in Herzberg, the fifth son of Duke Philip I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and his second wife, Catherine of Mansfeld.


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