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4 unusual facts about Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch


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Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch, otherwise Kolonić, (1631–1707), a Cardinal Archbishop of the Austrian Empire

Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch

In 1862 a street in the city's Landstraße district was named after him Kolonitzgasse, and in 1873 this was joined by the Kolonitzplatz.

He became a Knight Hospitaller in 1658 and was next appointed as Prior and Castellan of the Order of Mailberg, based at Schloss Mailberg.

After the Battle of Kahlenberg on 11 and 12 September 1683 which lifted the siege, he organized the care of some five hundred orphans at Schloss Mailberg, children whose parents had been killed in the conflict.



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