Persons, places and events

Explore people, events, objects and locations connected with Habsburg history and learn more about their historical context.

The ‘Holy Grail’, an agate dish, was held to be the vessel that caught the blood of Christ on the Cross and was...

Item The ‘Holy Grail’

300–400

In its basic forms, the crown dates to the second half of the tenth century. It goes back to the renovatio...

1273–1806

Lying in the Swiss canton of Aargau, the Habichtsburg, also known as the Habsburg, is regarded as the ancestral seat...

Location Habichtsburg

1273–1282

Between the thirteenth century and the end of Habsburg rule in 1918, the Vienna Hofburg developed by stages into the...

Location The Vienna Hofburg

1278–1918

The historical capital of Tyrol has always benefited from its location at the intersection of important routes of...

Location Innsbruck

1282–1792

St Stephen’s cathedral is regarded as the most important Gothic building in Austria and is Vienna’s most salient...

Location St Stephen’s Cathedral

1282–1477

The plague pandemic which became known as the Black Death killed about one-third of the population of Europe. The...

Event The Black Death, 1348-1349

1348

The Austrian archducal coronet is both the ‘crown’ of the Habsburg patrimonial lands (Upper and Lower Austria in the...

Item Austrian archducal coronet

1359–1918

Vienna University was founded in 1365 by the Habsburg Rudolf IV as a rival to the university at Prague, which had...

Item Vienna University

1365

The scallop is the symbol of St James, the patron saint of pilgrims. Since the Middle Ages his grave in Santiago de...

1428

One of the wealthiest burghers of Vienna in the late Middle Ages was Simon Pötel, a wholesale merchant who owned...

1447

Wiener Neustadt was founded by the Babenbergs after they had acquired Styria in 1192, and was intended to...

Location Wiener Neustadt

1452–1493

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