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5 unusual facts about Imperial and Royal


Empress Elisabeth Railway

Named after Empress Elisabeth, the k.k. privilegierte Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Bahn operated a line from Vienna to Linz, which was built between 1856 and 1858.

Franz, Count of Meran

He served the Habsburg emperors as Imperial and Royal Chamberlain, member of the Aulic Council and as a general in the Imperial army, becoming in 1868 a knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

Hinterer Bratschenkopf

The name "Hinterer Bratschenkopf" was given to the mountain in 1871 on the recommendation of the Imperial and Royal Austrian survey officer, Major Joseph Pelikan, of Plauenwald.

Imperial and Royal

A discussion of Kakania became a highlight of the first volume of Robert Musil's novel The Man Without Qualities (1930).

Milan–Monza railway

It was the first railway in the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, part of the Austrian Empire, opening in 1840 as the Imperiale Regno Privilegiata Strada Ferrata da Milano a Monza ("Imperial and Royal Privileged Railway from Milan to Monza") and was 12.8 km long.


Cisleithania

According to the "December Constititution", a redraft of the emperor's 1861 February Patent, the Austrian government was generally responsible in all affairs concerning the Cisleithanian lands, except for the common Austro-Hungarian Army, the Austro-Hungarian Navy and the Foreign Ministry, these k.u.k. matters remained reserved for the Imperial and Royal Ministers' Council for Common Affairs of Austria-Hungary.


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Fagerborg Church

Stained glass is made of imperial and royal court stained glass artist Max Roth from the studio Miksa Roth in Budapest, Hungary, with Art Nouveau features.

Heeresfeldbahn

For example, in the 1870s, when the Imperial and Royal Military Railway built a supply line from Bosnian Brod to Zenica in Bosnia was quickly expanded into a fully operational narrow gauge railway for general use, thus founding the extensive railway network built to the so-called Bosnian gauge of 760 mm.

Heissler

Donat John Count Heissler of Heitersheim (* 1648; † September, 1st 1696 at Szeged) was Impérial and Royal Marshal ( KK) of the Austria-Hungary empire.

Imperial and Royal Majesty

Napoleon I was also styled Imperial and Royal Majesty between 1805 and 1814 as Emperor of the French and King of Italy.