Burgenland, a border-land
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Born to defense, a land rich in tradition.
Burgenland, a 20th century name for a very old land, came into being at the end of WWI when a sliver of land was transferred from Hungary to Austria. The music and traditions of this wonderful land remain. ~ Care to Travel Back in Time? ~ Burgenland was frontier to the Carolinian Empire and a part of "Wart" defense. It's borderland-guard role dates to Roman times and "Limes." Maps are dotted with the Celtic tribes that pre-date Roman history. The Roman outpost, Carnumtum, near today's Vienna was a crossroads of world trade. Ancient routes connected people of the North, South, West and Far East.
Amber was traded from the Baltic to the Black Sea along the Rhein and Danube rivers even 20,000 years ago. Bernstein, Austria, was named for the amber mined there, and bernstein is German for, you guessed it, amber. Bernstein-Borostyánku vára! The Hungarian language (of the Finno-Ugaric group) is the only language still spoken close to how it was 3,000 years ago.
Read about
Roman outpost, Carnumtum near modern Vienna ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnuntum
Celtic tribes ~ http://www.squidoo.com/ancient-celts-across-europe
18th c. German immigration to Hungary ~ http://www.felix-game.ca/html_files/germ-migration-1.html
"Hodis" - along the Gunns-Mountain-Range
Long-lived Oberwart village in the border-land wine-country homeland
The very old Oberwart District, part of the "Wart" border-defense system, is studied today by genealogists and historians. Read more:
Oberwart District ~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberwart District
Burgenland Genealogy ~ www.the-burgenland-bunch.org/homepage.htm
My childhoood grape-jelly crepes
My Burgenland family's favorite snack
Crepes spread with grape-jelly or jam, and rolled -- a VERY QUICK snack.
Cold mornings when I was little, my mom would have a pile of these, rolled and stacked on a platter, in the oven! They were my mom's favorite childhood breakfast in Burgenland.
Simple recipe, for just a few crepes:
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1/3 cup flour
Mix the milk and flour to a paste and beat in the egg.
To a medium-hot pan add 1/4 teaspoon oil OR your choice of shortening.
Grapes grew here before ancient Greeks
My family came from this border wine country
~1~ "Burgenland's sweet wine paradise" (image)
~2~ Introduction to Austrian Wine Country (map)
~3~ Wine-country WEATHER
DISCOVER Central Europe's Oldest Viticulture in Burgenland ~ Kollwentz ~ http://www.kollwentz.at
EXPLORE the headwaters of the Raab River. Hike the Raabklamm (the Raab River Gorge) and see ancient Graz, Austria ~ http://www.travelandtransitions.com/stories_photos/austria_graz.htm
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Sisi -- Franz Joseph fell in love at first sight
Inspired to Celebrate ~ Hofburg Kaiser Ball ~ Austrian New Year
Franz Joseph fell in love at first sight with 15-year-old Elisabeth--Sisi. He refused to marry anyone but her. Is not beauty inspiration for a celebration? Seeing in the New Year at the imperial residence is one of the finest Hofburg traditions.
Fledermaus
Austrian New Year Celebration
Elisabeth of Austria
Best known painting of Franz Joseph's Queen
Best known painting of Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) showing her famous hip-length hair. Elisabeth was a duchess in Bavaria. Franz Joseph's mother wanted him to marry Elisabeth's older sister, Helene, who she thought would make a suitable queen. Elisabeth accompanied her sister to the meeting, and Franz Joseph fell in love at first sight with the 15-year-old Elisabeth, known as Sisi, and refused to marry anyone but her.
Images of Sisi ~ baks449.blogspot.comMARK TWAIN on SISI, item 7, "Resting in Kaltenleutgeben when the murder of Elizabeth occurred, he (Twain) wrote the next day to a friend: 'This murder will still be talked of and described and painted a thousand years from now.' At this time I had to move from Austria to Switzerland, and was active in Geneva ..." from The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
See more at www.epubbud.com
Pummerin Bell
Pummerin Bell of St. Stephan's Cathedral at Vienna, Austria. Hear the Pummerin bell, all the bells ~ www.traveladventures.org/continents/europe/stephansdom07.shtml
Oberwart Girl, South of Vienna, 1908
Dressed for celebration and the dance! Vas County. Hungary.
A gypsy costume today. First generation American party-dress in the 1930's. Traditional festive costume at the turn of the century, 1900 and earlier.
Brahms' Hungarian Dances
Genealogy ...
People are the nations ...
My family recalls ancestors coming from the upper Rhein to do wood-carving in Austrian churches. People are the nations, so I'll include stories of people who made this area, what pushed and pulled them to come and stay or leave.
Befana's Legend -- Carolling in Europe
Candles on the Christmas Tree
CAROLLING IN EUROPE ~ The Befana's legend
"In our tradition there is a legend about the Befana . It tells that the three Kings, coming from the East and on the way to adore Baby Jesus, lost the way and asked an old lady to get them to the holy Infant to bring Him their presents. She refused to accompany them , then repent, prepared a basket of sweets for Baby Jesus, and run outside to reach the Kings but didn't find them.Therefore she stopped in each house on her way and left a sweet for each child hoping to find Baby Jesus. From then, every year, she goes around the world bringing sweets and presents to all the children to have forgiveness for her fault."
"La leggenda della Befana" ~ carollingineurope.wordpress.com
image ~ allpostersimages.com
Austrian Heraldry
Even in this lovely piece, see reference to the #dragon #slayer, via the dragon-like beast, right out of the mythology of ancient tribes. See more:
"heraldry" at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry
"germanic ~ in the time of tribes" at: http://www.squidoo.com/germanic
"Dragon Posters" by raphaelo at: http://www.squidoo.com/dragon-posters-prints
The Habsburg Empire began in Switzerland, Ancient Swabia
Roots of Germany and Austria differ
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It helps to understand about the Habsburgs starting out in Switzerland; it explains a lot.
The House of Habsburg, and also known as the "House of Austria, is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors ..."
Read more at "House of Habsburg" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Habsburg
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The Habsburgs started off in Swabia (Switzerland). Later there was migration from Swabia down the Danube. "The House takes its name from Habsburg Castle, a fortress built around 1020-1030 in present day Switzerland by Count Radbot of Klettgau, who chose to name his fortress Habsburg. His grandson, Otto II, was the first to take the fortress name as his own, adding "von Habsburg" to his title. The House of Habsburg gathered dynastic momentum through the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. By 1276, Count Radbot's seventh generation descendant, Rudolph of Habsburg, had moved the family's power base from Habsburg Castle to the Archduchy of Austria. " (ibid)
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Getting at the heart of the matter, Austria, the Ost Mark.
"Established by Charlemagne in the 790s, the Ostmark (Eastern March) was destroyed by the Magyars in 907. Otto I reconquered the area in 955 and Otto II recreated the Ostmark in 976 as a buffer against Hungary." A "march" was a frontier region, a border zone, like what the Romans had called a Lime.
Read more at: Rulers of Austria (?STERREICH): http://www-personal.umich.edu/~imladjov/AustrianRulers.htm
Hapsburgs
Rise and Fall of the Empire.
German Diaspora
CHOCOLATE growing in Uraquay, Paraguay and Argentina, attracted Europeans in the 19th century.
RUSSIA invited 18th century skilled farmers and craftsmen from the Rhein Valley to help them settle their vast lands.
CHARLEMAYNE'S EMPIRE, 800 AD, brought Germanic people the Empire's eastern border, our subject here, Burgenland.
ROME sent their guards to protect their empire's borders. Names carry the the names of the guards to many languages: Garner, Garnette, Warner, Warnke all came from names for the Guards.
- The German Diaspora
- The German Diaspora, Part 1, The Russian Germans - Guest Author - Holly Fox
- Ethnic Germans (German: Deutschstämmige, historically: Volksdeutsche) and collectively, the German diaspora
- Ethnic Germans are a largely West Germanic ethnic group, with minor West Slavic roots due to assimilated Sorbs, Obotrites and other Slavs, as well as Celtic roots in Southern Germany and Baltic in the formerly Prussian areas
Open Google Translate
- Google Translate
- You may want to open Google Translate,German to English, in a separate window!
Burgenland "Wappen" -- Symbols
Google translate will come in handy here!
Stephan of Hungary, 1000 AD
St Stephan's statue at his birthplace, Estergom.
Stephan was crowned the first King of Hungary in the year 1000. He asked for and received a royal crown from Pope Sylvester II His choice of patron gave hope that Hungary would remain independent of both Western and Byzantine Empires. Born at Gram (Estergom) in 975, Stephan was in his early twenties when he succeeded his father Duke Géza (970-997). Stephan lived until 15 August 1038.
Stephen of Hungary, 1000AD
History of St Stephan
image of Stephen's statue at his birthplace, Estergom (Gram)
The Bells of St. Stephan's Cathedral at Vienna, Austria.
St Stephan's in Vienna
for Stephan circa 1000 AD
The magnificent roof is so steep that you can see it's wonderful pattern from the the plaza below. St Stephans Cathedral was named for Stephan I, circa. 1000 AD. By the mid-12th-century when Vienna was an important European trade center, lands were set aside to hold St. Stephan's Cathedral. The cathedral was built upon ancient cemetery and religious structures carbon-dated to the 4 C BC. To understand the practice of building upon a cemetery, consider that many of us visit the cathedrals today to do bronze-rubbings of embellishments on tombs within cathedrals. Paupers, the penniless in unmarked graves, are included in the many entombed in the great cathedrals of Europe.After the great 1258 fire a larger Romanesque structure was built over ruins of the old church. Consecrated 23 April 1263, a yearly ringing of the Pummerin bell, celebrates the anniversary.
Charlemagne ~Charles the Great ~Charles I ~ 742-814
Emperor of the West 800-814 Carolingian king of the Franks 768-814
Burgenland was a far eastern borderland to Charlemagne's Empire and the area received many German speaking emigrants seeking new horizons.
image: webshots.com
Thunder of Horses!
Avars 680-804 AD
A map of the Carpathian Basin during the Late Avar Period (680-804 AD)image: wikimedia.org
The Avars were driven west
- Avars were driven west by the Turks
- Driven west with the Mongols, the Avars occupied what would become Hungary.
- Carpathian Basin Late Avar Period (680-804 AD)
- Map: Avars,Carpathian Basin 680-804 AD, around the Danube Bend in what would become Hungary
Wart History -- Following Charlemayne
Warts were territories of defense
Burgenland was frontier to the Carolinian Empire, which brought many germanic people to migrate here. The "Wart" defense system dates to the 11th century, and the borderland-guard role goes back to the Roman Limes.
Oberwart District
German: Oberwart
Hungarian: Felsoor
Croatian: Gornja Borta
A district and a town. The capital of the Oberwart District in Burgenland, Austria, lies on the Pinka River.
Upper 0rség, or the Wart microregion, was settled in the 11th century by guards of the western-Hungarian frontier. Historic surnames and dialects show relation to guards of the eastern-Hungarian border as well. Seen in documents of 1327 as "Superior Eör", a term important to research. Part of the Hungarian county, Vas, until 1921.
Roman Borders
Burgenland, west and south of the Danube's "Bend"
Map of the Roman Empire.
The Limes were zones along the Empire's borders that were defended by Roman Guards
Borders of the Roman Empire
Roman guard military camps
The Roman Limes in Hungary, Zsolt Visy
Limes Moesiae
The Danube Bend
A curve of the Danube river near the city of Visegrád, Hungary, where the Transdanubian Mountains are on one side (left), and the North Hungarian Mountains on the other (right). On a map of Europe the Danube bend looks like right-angle. The east-bound river takes a sudden southward turn. In the days of the Roman Empire, The Danube marked the northern boundary of the Empire.A map of the Roman Empire: www.unrv.com/roman-empire-map.php
The beautiful blue Danube
Provinces of the Roman Empire
Roman border regions are called "Limes"
Provinces of the Roman Empire. Look to the East of the border between Noricum and Pannonia. This where Burgenland is found today.
Map: www.unrv.com/roman-empire-map.php
Celtic & German Settlements in Burgenland ~ Northwestern Pannonia in Roman Times
Celtic, Germanic and Roman settlement in the northwestern Pannonian region in the 1st Century AD.
Today Sopron (Odenburg, Hungary) stands on the site of Roman SCARBANTIA. The place name is not much changed for the village Peresznye in Vas county, Hungary. The village is east of the historic garrison town, Koseg. Bernstein and her amber mines are on the route leading west out of Peresznye.
Map: www2.rgzm.de
green = Celtic Settlements
black = German Settlements
The Limes Moesiae
Click the map to your right to see how much the Romans had built in the Limes.
See the "wild territory" between Pannonia and Dacia, a stronghold against the Romans.
Read more:
LIMES: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_of_the_Roman_Empire
ROMAN MILITARY CAMPS: www2.rgzm.de/Transformation/Magyarorszag/Chapter_I.htm
LIMES IN HUNGARY: www2.sbg.ac.at
LIMES MOESIAE: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limes_Moesiae
The Amber Road
In Roman times, the Amber Road ran south from the Prussian Baltic coast, through Burgenland, and on to the Adriatic Sea. At a stop on the Amber road at Szombathely we would be walking distance from the Hungarian/Austrian border and close to my Oberwart-District ancestral home. The Amber mines at Bernstein are in the hills not far to the west. Near Vienna, the Amber Road joined trade routes east to the Silk Road and Asia. Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was entombed with Baltic Amber, and North-Sea amber was offered at Delphi's temple of Apollo.
Burgenland ~ small place with a big history
Where did Europe's early tribes come from?
Wild-Horses-Ancient-Celts-and-Europe
- ROOT OF EUROPEAN CULTURES AND LANGUAGES
- Early Ancestors of European Language and culture.
- My lens Wild-Horses-Ancient-Celts-and-Europe
- Celts knew the border-land, Burgenland, before the Romans.
History going very far back
Before the Celts, c. 24,000 - 22,000 BC
Goddess? the earliest carving, a woman.
Neolithic Danube Surrounds
What's been pieced back together from remnants of daily life - Neolithic-Danube Surrounds
Vienna in the news
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- Vienna road toll on the agenda again
- The Vienna Greens are risking a coalition-internal conflict by calling for a city toll. Rüdiger Maresch, the leftist party's traffic spokesman, said such a fee "is unavoidable on the long term". Maresch underlined the city government's ambition to ...
- Spring Fling weekend of festivities to kick off Thursday in Vienna
- Vendors interested in a space can call city hall at 618-658-5161. A 2.5K fun run/walk, ?Junk in the Trunk,? will be at 10 am May 19. The event will begin at Vienna ballpark and continue to the public square, where food and drinks will be provided.
Before we find your hat and coat ...
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kimark421
Apr 8, 2012 @ 8:27 am | delete
- Captivating lens and VERY well done. I love European history, so this lens is right up my alley. Thank you!
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- great lens with great resources!
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- This is one of the best lenses I've read!!! Thank you so much for carrying all the information together!
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GrowWear
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- A beautiful place, rich in history. ...Will have to try those grape-jelly crepes. :)
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- We often drive through Austria to visit our son's family in Switzerland so next time I will make sure we go here. Beautiful and historic.
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Austrian Soldiers
Innocents Abroad
image: baks449.blogspot.com
Genealogy in Hungary
Progenealogists & Radix
- Pro genealogists Hungarian Link List
- A resource list that includes Radix
Austrian traditions
My Grandma's Almond Strudel and . . . Die Fledermaus
Maps - I'm making these into Links
. . .there! I did it!
I love maps, so you'll be seeing lots of maps! Lots of sources.
1) 10th Cent. Hungarian Raids--Wikipedia
2) Charlemagne Additions Growth_of_Frankish_Power,_481-814.jpg
3) FEEFHS, Austria and Western Hungary North 1908
Leka/Lockenhaus, Bernstein, Rechnitz, Guns/Ko~szeg town (there's also K~oszeg district)
4) The Amber Road, Early EuropeanTrade Route--Translate to English at source
5) Amber Road on the map of Europe. Source: Map of the Amber Road in Portuguese.
6) Amber Findings
7) Empire of Charlemagne
8) Interactive Maps of European History
9) The DIR and ORB Ancient and Medieval Atlas; BY Christos Nüssli
10) Map: Time of King Arthur--The cliffs at Tintagel, one of the wonderful places I've camped.
11) Univ.Chicago Library: Maps
12) Gypsys, The Romani People in Europe
13) "Gypsy" - Romani People
Romani "Gypsy" image
14) Donau-Schwab Settlement in Austro-Hungary source
15) Early German Lacemaking
German/Bohemian border Barbara Uttmann B 1514, Enterlein near Annaberg and Chemnitz, Germany
16) Glass Works Map
17) www.burgenland-bunch.org
Burgenland MAPS with place names in German, Hungarian or Croat for Oberwart and Oberpullendorf Districts
18)www.tripadvisor.com
Austrian towns with hills and streams shown
19) Topographic Map--Set for Antero reservoir Quad
20) Roman Empire Carnuntum, near Vienna, Roman-Amber-trade center
BORDER-LAND LINKS
- The Burgenland Bunch
- Genealogy resource the area that became Burgenland at the end of WWI
- Family Search
- Far reaching genealogy resource
- Borderlands of the Roman Empire
- All Empires History Community
- European Middle Neolith Period Map
- Map of The Danube water-shed in the European Middle Neolithic Period
- 10th Cent. Hungarian Raids
- Map
- Charlemagne Additions Growth of Frankish Power,
- Map Charlemagne Additions, Growth_of_Frankish_Power,_481-814.jpg
- The DIR and ORB Ancient and Medieval Atlas; BY Christos Nüssli.
- INTER-ACTIVE Atlas to the Ancient Roman and Medieval Worlds
- Europe History Interactive Map
- Europe History Interactive Maps ,,, with Links to the World
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