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y 8 Oswald von Wolkenstein The three envoys sent to plead the cause of the nobles were Oswald von Wolkenstein, Ulrich von Starkenberg and H. von Schlandersberg. The secret of their mission, however, was care fully kept, and they marched openly through Tirol with a considerable following to serve their Kaiser in the field. But, once across the frontier, the three delegates pushed on to Vienna to interview the ruling Duke of Austria, Albert V. This prince was a man of high character, renowned

no right to submit their patent to Albert of Austria, nor he any right to confirm it. The delegates themselves were

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Pagina 139 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

to the father-in-law, who survived his son-in-law some five years. Albert of Tyrol’s daughter, Elizabeth, the widow of the last Andechs, married the Count of Hirschberg, a power ful Bavarian family, while Adelheid became the wife of Duke Meinhard of Goricia (Gbiz). Thus the two sons- in-law of Albert divided among themselves the great Andechs-Tyrol heritage. With the details of this par tition we need not concern ourselves, for soon the son of this Duke of Goricia, Meinhard II., had again united

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[ca. 1910]

Autore: Coursen, Charlotte H. ; Reinhart, J. [Hrsg.] / by C. H. C. Souvenir presented to his guest by J. Reinhart

Pagina 21 di 177

irresistible knights of Terriolis, until, in 1240, Count Albert of Tirol was in a position to style himself Prince Count - (gefürsteter Graf) of Tyrol, which now comprehended much more than his. own ancestral estate. Thik Principality re mained a fief -of,the German- Empire • until -the time of Maxiriiilian I, when it 'was incorporated among, the .possessions', of the crown. In 124S Count Albert obtained , from the Counts of Andechs the Inn Valley region, where once . had stood the Roman Veldidena

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1855

¬A¬ handbook for travellers in Southern Germany : being a guide to Würtemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, ecc., the Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea

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hours ; and it is generally necessary to request admission some hours be forehand. His house stands behind the Egidienlrirche. Albert Dürer’s house is still standing, though much altered internally, at the corner of Albert Dürer’ s Street, No. 376, close under the castle, near the Thiergarten Gate. It is now occupied by a Society of Artists, who carefully preserve it from further injury. Two private collections of works of art in the town deserve the attention of strangers ; e. g, the richly-worked

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1901

Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol

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Autore: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari

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Oswald von Wolkenstein 7 Wolkensteins in particular. These teachings naturally fired all three boys with an inordinate pride of birth, while Oswald, whose precocious brain, was already crammed with the romances of chivalry and minstrel lays so constantly heard in his music-loving home, was seized with a premature ambition to win his spurs 2s a. knight. All too soon his opportunity came. In 1377 Duke Albert III. of Austria pro claimed a crusade against the heathen of Prussia and Lithuania

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1901

Owsald von Wolkenstein : a memoir of the last minnesinger of Tyrol

Pagina 27 di 182

Autore: Villari, Linda / Linda Villari

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Editore: Dent

Soggetto: p.Oswald <von Wolkenstein>

Segnatura: II 100.626

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and her husband proved stubborn antagonists. They brought their case to the notice of Duke Albert of Austria, who referred it to the Court of Heinrich von Rottenburg, Captain of the Etsch. Proceed ings were instituted; but trial of the case was continually postponed, now by political emergencies, then by devices of the defendants, who meanwhile lorded it at Hauenstein and felled timber wholesale. Very probably Hein rich of Rottenburg had little wish to give judgment against such firm friends and

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Autore: Coursen, Charlotte H. ; Reinhart, J. [Hrsg.] / by C. H. C. Souvenir presented to his guest by J. Reinhart

Pagina 30 di 177

Innsbruck. -5 Speekk acker, I am*. The chiefs addressed their replies: «To Andreas Iiofer, wherever he is*. Already he had inspired his friends with his own ardent patrio tism, and a new Roncevaux was impending, above the perilous de file of Sack, near Mittewald. We find from the admirable narrative of Albert Wolff, that tne vanguard of marshal Lefcbre, under the orders of general Rouyer, had advanced to Sterzing; a column of four thousand Saxons had even gone beyond the village, with orders

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1855

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, readied the ears of the Duke, who had planned his son a more exalted match, and carried his anger so far as to deny idmissiou to a tournament, on ac count of what he called his dishonour able connexion with a female of low birth. Albert retorted by publicly ac knowledging .Agnes as his lawful wife ; but by this announcement brought ruin on her and misery on. himself, since his father, taking advantage of his absence not long after, caused Agnes to bo seized, condemned to death upon false accusation

, and cast from the bridge of Straubing into the Danube, amidst the lamentations of the populace, A.n. 14-16. Having succeeded in freeing herself from the bonds which surrounded her, the poor victim, shrieking for help and mercy, endeavoured to reach the hank, and had nearly effected a landing, when a miscreant with n hooked pole caught hsr by her long luiir, and;, dragging her back into the stream, kept her under water until, the tragedy was completed. The_ fury and despair of Albert on hearing

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1855

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212 ROUTE 19 5 . —VIENNA—PICTURES. the history of art. —Matthew Griinc- vcaid: 12, The Erop. Maximilian ; his Wife, Mary of Burgundy ; his Son, Philip I.: and .his Grandsons, Charles V. and Ferdinand I. — Albert Dürer 13, Emp. Maximilian ; taken the year of his death. 15, The Martyrdom of the 10,000 Christians under Sapor II., King of Persia; a picture of extra ordinary power, in which every form of death and torture is represented. In the centre stands Dürer with his friend Pirkheimer. A paper

of Albert Dürer will be astonished at the superiority and magnificence of his works preser ved in this collection: here alone can his great powers be fully appreciated.— Ducas Cranach: 25, Portrait of Luther: and 27, of Melanchthon ; 63, of Frede rick the Wise, Elector of Saxony,— Mans Holbein: Many admirable por traits, 61, Jane Seymour. 62, J. Chambers, Physician of Henry VIII. 100, Erasmus. 83, A. capital Head of a Man.— Wohlgemuth: 47, An altar- piece with 4 doors containing figures of Saints

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1855

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Albert— original!)' to Prince Eugene. The habitations fo the upper part of the village are for the most part subterranean, and excavated out of the solid limestone-rock, as wen as a very extensive cellar, formed to hold the wine produced in the neigh' bouring vineyard. The first town at which the steah 1 * Danube has been a scourge rather than a blessing to the country through which it passes, or at least that none of the advantages have been derived from it which such a watercourse might be capable

con dition of a morass, not only useless, but pestiferous. The only spot where effectual at tempts .have as yet been made to re strain the river, is 3farienmt, the pro perty of the Archduke Albert, who in herited it from his father the late Arch duke Charles, one of the best managed estates on the Danube,,,, and one of the few instances in Hungary where a race ■Of happy tenants live under a benevo lent and liberal landlord. ' rt. *3 W. below Buda is Promon boat stops is rt. Pdldvar: it has 9000

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1855

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of Saxony» by Burgkmair , and many works of the artists of Nuremberg during the 14th centy. In one of the residence cham bers is the portrait of Albert Dürer, ® copy, the original having been sawn off from the panel by one Kuffner, a painter, to whom it was intrusted to ho copied, and who, substituting his oW® work, sold the original to the Elector of Bavaria (p. 68). Another suite of rooms serves every summer for exhibit' ing the works of native artists. Tb© walls, and many angular bastions' o® the

aristocracy of Nuremberg for many centuries,. Among the 3500 gravestones contain®® in it, all regularly numbered and mostly decorated with bronze plates bearing coats-of-arms and devices of decease® patricians, the following are remark' able:—No. 649, Albert Dürer’s grav®* A recent examination has proved th® his remains no longer occupy it, b fl have been replaced by those of others' Dürer died of a piteous complaint-'* termagant wife, a perfect XantipP*' who plagued his gentle spirit out of bj body. The

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1855

Pagina 140 di 598

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here, a prisoner, in 966; and Otto of Wittelsbach murdered the Emp. Philip II. in this castle, 1203. It was taken and reduced to ruins 1553, by Margrave Albert of Baireuth; and although restored, never regained its former splendour. The part now remaining has been re paired ; a chapel has been fitted up in one part, and a coffee-room in an other. The dungeons are converted into cellars which furnish beer, said to be excellent. The view from the top of the round tower is one of the finest

pictures and a fine library. The ! gallery , besides an enormous mass of I rubbish, contains a portrait, by Albert- } Dürer, of Jacob Muffed, burgomaster of | Nuremberg, 1526—somewhat hard, hut | forcible and expressive ; Mabuse t a Vir- t gin and Child, showing the transition f into his Italian manner ; many by 2?»* J bens (some sketches) ; a few good l 7 «»- § dykes; very remarkable Dembrandts ; J Guido, St. Peter and St. Agatha, very I beautiful ; Giorgione, two female and. ü one male heads

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1855

Pagina 105 di 598

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different styles. Portions of the clois ters are of the 10th Century, others are considered by Möller to date from the 13th. They present an early ex ample of the use of the pointed arch in Germany. The nave has double aisles, the inner barrel-vaulted, the outer aisles pointed. In the church is the bronze monument of Card. Albert of Brandenburg, 1525, by Polar Visoher. A canopy also supposed to be by him is evidently the work of a more re cent age and a very inferior artist, facing the monument

of Albert of Brandenburg, in the choir, is a very re markable bas-relief of the Virgin in bronze by his son Herman. A bronze monument by Hack is also remarkable. The house and garden of Baron Mer- hünhaum, near the Schöne-Busch, are deserving of attention, and travellers are received by him with the utmost urbanity. The house contains a large collection of pictures, and in the garden is a building the door and windows of which are filled with painted glass from churches, &c. There is also an 8-sided

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Pagina 151 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

words managing to obtain them for him, but their identity can no longer be ascer tained. Rudolph IV. of Habsburg, who had thus secured for his dynasty the fair country of Tyrol, and who, in spite of his youth, was one of the wisest princes of his time, was not destined to en joy the throne very long. After his death in 1365, at the age of five and twenty, on a journey to Italy, his two brothers Albert and Leopold reigned jointly. But the discomfited Bavarian relations of Duchess Margaret gave them

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Anno:

1829

¬The¬ Cornice, the Grimsel and the Gries, the Bernardin and the Splugen, the Brenner, the Tende and the Argentière, and the Simplon.- (Illustrations of the passes of the Alps ; Vol. 2)

Pagina 90 di 164

Autore: Brockedon, William / by William Brockedon

Editore: Print. for the author, sold by Rodwell

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Commenti: Illustrations of the passes of the Alps : by which Italy communicates with France, Switzerland, and Germany

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, by whom she had this son, disputed the claims of the Duke Rodolph of Austria, and their wars made the Tyrol desolate; every place in the lower Inn-thal was burnt, except Inspruck and Hall, and a severe winter following the calami ties of war, completed the misery of the Tyrolese. Rodolph bought off the claims of Bavaria, to prevent a renewal of the war. His successor, Albert, by a wise policy, greatly relieved the Tyrolese from the effects of these dreadful scourges. Under Leopold,* his brother, the

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Pagina 64 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

months later, to the See of Salzburg by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in person. By this act Albert III., hitherto Archbishop of Salzburg, was unceremoniously ousted from his throne, A sanguinary feud arose between these two great militant church-lords, for both were bellicose and forceful per sonages, and the prize consisted of the absolute sovereignty over vast territories. On which side the Frundsbergs fought is not known. Archbishop Adalbert, it may be mentioned, was a nephew of the Duke Leopold

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Pagina 152 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

86 TYROL PAST AND PRESENT In 1379 the brothers divided their heritage, Leopold retaining Tyrol, but his reign was not a long one, for he fell seven years later in the battle of Sempach, where the Swiss peasantry inflicted such a disastrous blow to feudalism. Until 1406, when Leopold’s youngest son Frederick, was given the sovereignty of Tyrol, his elder brothers, under the guardianship of their uncle Albert, ruled the country in a more or less perfunctory manner, the nobility rapidly gaining

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Pagina 270 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

is very little left, for the ^Eliy mine-owner Tanzel, after acquiring it from lat+ '^ I11 P eror Maximilian, and being raised by the Ve 61 no 61 e rank, rebuilt it entirely during the last ars of the fifteenth century. The family continued to Piece^ W ° Ver ^ ^ ne Private collections particularly rich in the choicest aQ d oic, *^^ T0 ^ ese Gothic are those of Dr. Albert Figdor in Vienna, Vien na ° Un ^ VWlczek at his castle Kreuzenstein, a few miles out of tfeas ' ^ ’would be quite impossible to-day

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1907

¬The¬ Land in the mountains : being an account of the past and present of Tyrol, its people and its castles

Pagina 137 di 406

Autore: Baillie-Grohman, William A. ; Landis, Charles [Vorredner] / by W. A. Baillie-Grohman. With an introduction by Charles Landis

, figured among the great territorial nobles who came to the fore at the disintegration of the Empire. According to the well-known historian Hormayr, it was in the year 1140 that the brothers Berchtold and Albert of that family first styled themselves Counts of Tyrol. They were staunch adherents to the Ghibellme cause and for this reason a family feud constantly raged between them and the Eppans. The origin of the third great territorial noble family of Tyrol, that of the Andechs, is also shrouded

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[ca. 1910]

Autore: Coursen, Charlotte H. ; Reinhart, J. [Hrsg.] / by C. H. C. Souvenir presented to his guest by J. Reinhart

Pagina 18 di 177

. Innsbruck, Wagner. Stcrzing: Sterling am Eisack. Innsbruck, Wagner, 1885. Kitzbühel: Vordermayr ?.. Kitzbühel und seine Umgebung. Salzburg, ■ ; Pustet, 1886. Rattenberg: Rattenberg und seine Umgebung. Rattenberg, Ver schönerungsverein, 1889. «Le Tyrol et kt Carinthie», by Albert Wolff. Michel Lévy Frères. ■ And so forth, and so forth. Historical Sketch. Tyrol and Vorarlberg are always mentioned together, politically speaking, for they are united under the same governor or Statt halter, though each has

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[ca. 1910]

Autore: Coursen, Charlotte H. ; Reinhart, J. [Hrsg.] / by C. H. C. Souvenir presented to his guest by J. Reinhart

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