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The Imperial Park
The Imperial Park was created during the 1850s for Emperor Franz Joseph on the rising ground between the River Ischl and the steep wooded higher slopes of the Jainzen hill. It is a magnificent...
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Life in Imperial Ischl
Life in Imperial Ischl From the very beginning the Kaiservilla was designed to be a private home for the Emperor and his family, somewhere they could relax in peace away from the stress of the imperial...
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The End of Imperial Patronage
The End of Imperial Patronage Nothing in this world is for ever. A series of Habsburg family tragedies began in 1868 with the execution of Maximilian, the second of the “salt princes”, who had rashly...
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Imperial Ischl Today Bad Ischl, now a thriving community of 14,000 inhabitants, has succeeded in retaining its character, and to a considerable extent even its appearance. The Ischl salt mine, where...
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The Emperor’s Birthday
The infant Archduke and Crown Prince Franz Josef's first birthday was celebrated in Ischl on 18 August 1831, in a house on the Kreuzplatz, where his young mother Sophie tended him personally on the...
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Impressum
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View ArticleSisi - Homes
Empress Elisabeth'S Other Homes: Herzog Max Palais, Ludwigstrasse, Munich: Built from 1828 to 1831 in Neo-Renaissance style by the architect Leo von Klenze, and decorated in classical style by...
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Her Romances: Ludwig II - King of Bavaria (1845 -1886): Elisabeth's cousin and soulmate. In his youth, when he first ascended the throne, he was extremely handsome and exceptionally tall. He was the...
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Her Tragedies: A cursory examination of the Empress Elisabeth's life would lead one to wrongly surmise that she was a woman who had everything - wealth, beauty and an enviable social position. Nothing...
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Her Travels Elisabeth, due to various factors in her life, became an inveterate traveller. She detested and avoided the stifling court life of Habsburg Vienna, which to her was full of people that she...
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