Heldenberg Memorial
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The Heldenberg Memorial is an open-air pantheon in the grounds of the castle at Kleinwetzdorf, Heldenberg
, Lower Austria
. It houses busts and statues of Austrian rulers and military personnel and was set up in 1849 by Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder, a major supplier to the imperial army, who claimed to be an illegitimate son of Emperor Joseph II.
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
, an Austrian Army Field Marshal and national hero, died on January 5, 1858 after an accident in Milan. On January 19, 1858, he was buried in Heldenberg.. The Emperor wished that he be buried in the Capuchin crypt (the Imperial Crypt in Vienna), however, Radetzky bequeathed his earthly remains, and the right to bury him, to Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder, who decades earlier had settled Radetzky's debts. Radetzky lies buried under a monumental obelisk, next to Field Marshal Maximilian von Wimpffen
and Pargfrieder himself.
Heldenberg
Heldenberg is a small municipality in the district of Hollabrunn in Lower Austria, Austria, about 50 km north-west of Vienna. It is most notable for the Heldenberg Memorial.- Geography :...
, Lower Austria
Lower Austria
Lower Austria is the northeasternmost state of the nine states in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria since 1986 is Sankt Pölten, the most recently designated capital town in Austria. The capital of Lower Austria had formerly been Vienna, even though Vienna is not officially part of Lower Austria...
. It houses busts and statues of Austrian rulers and military personnel and was set up in 1849 by Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder, a major supplier to the imperial army, who claimed to be an illegitimate son of Emperor Joseph II.
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz
Johann Josef Wenzel Graf Radetzky von Radetz was a Czech nobleman and Austrian general, immortalised by Johann Strauss I's Radetzky March...
, an Austrian Army Field Marshal and national hero, died on January 5, 1858 after an accident in Milan. On January 19, 1858, he was buried in Heldenberg.. The Emperor wished that he be buried in the Capuchin crypt (the Imperial Crypt in Vienna), however, Radetzky bequeathed his earthly remains, and the right to bury him, to Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder, who decades earlier had settled Radetzky's debts. Radetzky lies buried under a monumental obelisk, next to Field Marshal Maximilian von Wimpffen
Maximilian von Wimpffen
Maximilian, Freiherr von Wimpffen was a military commander who served in the Austrian army during the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars...
and Pargfrieder himself.
See also
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(Hall of Liberation, Kelkheim, Germany) - Ruhmeshalle (Hall of Fame, Munich, Germany)