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At the Edge of Two Worlds. Aristocracy in Time of Josef Václav Radecký of Radeč

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2018

Abstract

The famous commander Joseph Wenzel Radetzky of Radetz had after his death a special journey. On the basis of an adjustment with a rich businessman Joseph Gottfried Pargfrieder, his body should be buried on a new Hero's Hill (Heldenberg) at Lower Austria's (Niederösterreichisch) Kleinwetzdorf.

After building this memorial, Pargfrieder donated it to Emperor Francis Joseph I.