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4 unusual facts about House of Esterházy

Anton Weidinger

Johann Nepomuk Hummel, who was Haydn's successor as Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family, also composed a Trumpet Concerto for Weidinger; this was originally written in the key of E major, but it is often played in the key of E flat major.

Jewish history of Sopron

In 1740, at the insistence of Counts Esterházy, Batthyány, and Draskovits, the city granted permission to all Jews of the counties of Sopron and Eisenstadt to enter the city.

Mietingen

From 1142 until the secularisation in 1803, the village was subject to Heggbach Abbey, after which it was transferred into the ownership of the counts of Plettenberg und Bassenheim who in turn sold it on to the Hungarian counts Esterhazy.

Schloss Nordkirchen

In 1833 the complex passed to Baron von Esterházy who sold it to Duke Engelbert Marie von Arenberg in 1903.

Franz Nikolaus Novotny

Franz Nikolaus Novotny (also Novotný, Novittni, Novotni, Nowotny) (6 December 1743, Eisenstadt – 25 August 1773) was an Austrian organist and composer of Bohemian descent at the Esterházy court in Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt.

Herend Porcelain Manufactory

The name of well-known patterns refer to the first customers (Queen Victoria, Esterházy, Batthyány, Rothschild, Apponyi).

Írott-kő

Its present name (Írottkő in Hungarian, Geschriebenstein in German) can be translated as written stone and is assumably derived from border stones with inscriptions between the properties of the Batthyány and Esterházy families.