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27-687: The area once belonged to the County of Pitten , which had been inherited by Margrave Ottokar III of Styria in 1158. After the dynasty of the Otakars became extinct with the death of his son Ottokar IV , the Duchy of Styria passed to the Austrian House of Babenberg according to the Georgenberg Pact . Duke Leopold V of Austria established the town called Neustadt in 1194 and financed

54-521: A few degrees above freezing in the daytime. Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof ( German : main station ) lies on the Südbahn (German: southern railway) as well as several regional railways. It is owned and operated by the ÖBB and is the busiest railway station in Lower Austria. There are also two additional S-Bahn stations and one regional train station within the city. Wiener Neustadt lies on

81-590: A few interruptions ( Erwin Rommel was appointed commandant after the Austrian Anschluss in 1938). In 1768, Wiener Neustadt was destroyed by an earthquake that damaged the castle, which was rebuilt using plans made by the architect Nicolò Pacassi . In 1785, Emperor Joseph II of Habsburg transferred the see of the Wiener Neustadt diocese to Sankt Pölten . In the 19th century the city, which

108-482: A paper in 1897, in which he had described the flying seed of Zanonia macrocarpa . Etrich and his co-worker Franz Xaver Wels designed an unmanned glider of similar form and flew it successfully in 1904. Attempts to add an engine failed, but a successful manned glider was flown in 1906. He also worked with Karl Illner. The next stop was Vienna, where Etrich had his second laboratory in the Wiener Prater at

135-471: A residence here and established the Diocese of Wiener Neustadt in 1469. His wife, Eleanor of Portugal , died in Wiener Neustadt in 1467, and the late Gothic church of the old Cistercian abbey contains a monument to her memory. The Wappenwand (coat-of-arms wall) at the local castle displays the coats of arms of his possessions in the middle. His son Maximilian I maintained his court in Wiener Neustadt and

162-647: A victory of the Hungarians over the Austrians. Neustadt gained important privileges given to the city in order to enable it to prosper. It remained a part of Styria, which after the 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld fell to the House of Habsburg and in 1379 became a constituent duchy of Inner Austria . In the 15th century, Wiener Neustadt experienced a population boom, when Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg took up

189-492: Is a Market Municipality in the district of Neunkirchen in the Austrian federal state of Lower Austria . Pitten lies in the northern part of the " Bucklige Welt ". This Lower Austria location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Igo Etrich Ignaz "Igo" Etrich (25 December 1879 – 4 February 1967) was an Austrian flight pioneer, pilot and fixed-wing aircraft developer. Etrich

216-455: Is buried here at St. George's Cathedral. The town then also had a significant Jewish commune with Rabbi Israel Isserlin as its most notable member, until all Jews were expelled by order of Emperor Maximilian I in 1496. Habsburg's long-time rival King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary conquered the city in August 1487 after having laid siege to it for two years . According to legend he dedicated

243-685: The Majestätsbrief , or patent of equal rights. The revocation of this patent helped to precipitate the Thirty Years' War . In 1751 the city received greater attention when Empress Maria Theresa of Austria decided to dedicate the First Military Academy, worldwide, inside the imperial castle. In 1752, the Theresian Military Academy took up its operations, which have continued to this day with only

270-694: The A2 Süd Autobahn and the S4 Mattersburger Schnellstraße. The cities' bus network has 11 lines operating in the city and connecting it to neighboring villages. The city has two airfields (the military Wiener Neustadt West Airport , the first airfield in Austria, and the civilian Wiener Neustadt East Airport ) and is the starting point of Austria's only shipping canal , the Wiener Neustadt Canal , which

297-652: The Rotunde . In 1907, he built his Etrich I, the Praterspatz ( Prater park Sparrow) there. Due to its low power (24  hp (18  kW ; 24  PS )) of the engine and the limited space for flying, the aircraft was unsuccessful. In 1909, the first airfield in the Austro-Hungarian Empire was founded in Wiener Neustadt . Etrich rented two hangars and continued to develop his design,

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324-564: The Taube ( Dove ). Meanwhile, Wels visited Paris to study the aircraft of the Wright brothers and split with Etrich over the question of whether to build a monoplane or biplane . In 1910, the Etrich II, or Taube , made its maiden flight. In an early flight, Etrich nearly broke his back when it crashed. From then on, Karl Illner made all of Etrich's test flights. Etrich continued to refine

351-662: The Taube so as to meet the specifications of the military, which included the requirement to be able to land on a freshly plowed field. In 1912 he founded Etrich Fliegerwerke in Liebau (today Lubawka , Poland) and designed an aircraft with an enclosed cabin for the passengers, which he named Luft-Limousine . Later he moved to Germany, founding Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke , which became Hansa-Brandenburg after he sold it to Camillo Castiglioni in 1914. From Liebau, Etrich took his chief designer, Ernst Heinkel , with him. Another aircraft designer, Edmund Rumpler , modified

378-727: The Wiener Neustadt Arena , which opened in 2019. In 1995, the Stadion Wiener Neustadt hosted the world championship round called the 1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Austria . It also hosted rounds of the Speedway World Team Cup in 1978, 1986 to 1989 and 1993 and rounds of the Speedway World Pairs Championship in 1988, 1990 and 1993. When speedway ended at the Stadion Wiener Neustadt, a smaller speedway venue

405-528: The Czechoslovak military planes of the time. The authorities claimed he built the plane for smuggling and impounded his plane. Igo Etrich was so disappointed, that he abandoned his aeronautical projects and dedicated himself to the production of textile machinery . Etrich died on February 4 1967 in Salzburg , Austria . Igo Etrich has recently been selected as a main motif for a euro collectors' coin,

432-615: The European leg of Woodstock '99 over the weekend of July 16 to 18 1999. It was intended that up to 300,000 people would the festival, but the European leg of Woodstock '99 was ultimately canceled. 1. Wiener Neustädter SC and then 1. Wiener Neustädter SC (2008) played in the Austrian Football First League at the Stadion Wiener Neustadt before the stadium was demolished and replaced by

459-500: The area of the Civitas Nova, a cancer treatment center for ion therapy was opened under the name of MedAustron . In 1996 Wiener Neustadt received international attention as the so-called "sidewalk" designed by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata was built around the main square. Wiener Neustadt is the setting for the book Reluctant Return: A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian town . It was announced that Wiener Neustadt would host

486-740: The construction of a fortress close to the Hungarian border with the ransom paid for the English king Richard the Lionheart , whom he had previously captured and held as a hostage at Dürnstein Castle. In 1241, a small Mongol squadron raided Neustadt during the Mongol incursions in the Holy Roman Empire but was later repulsed by Duke Friederich and his knights. In 1246 it was the scene of

513-475: The design of the Taube slightly, claimed to be the developer and refused to pay licensing fees to Etrich. With the advent of World War I , Etrich made the design for his Taube freely available and dropped his lawsuit. After World War I, Etrich moved to Trautenau (now Trutnov) in the newly founded Czechoslovakia , and built the Sport-Taube . It was claimed to be faster with its 40 hp engine than

540-593: The magnificent Corvinus Cup to the inhabitants after his victory. Maximilian I managed to reconquer his native city in 1490. During the 16th century, Wiener Neustadt lost its status as imperial residence and much of its importance. However, it still fulfilled its function as bulwark against the Turks and the Kuruc . It was at Neustadt that the emperor Rudolf II granted to the Bohemian Protestants , in 1609,

567-548: The marshalling yards, the Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) factory, and two Raxwerke plants which used forced laborers imprisoned at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp , were repeatedly bombed . Bombing operations such as Operation Pointblank left only 18 of 4,000 buildings undamaged. The average monthly temperatures are generally cool ( see table below ), with summer months reaching 21–26 °C (70–79 °F) and winter months reaching

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594-511: Was almost entirely rebuilt after a destructive fire in 1834, became an industrial town, especially after the opening of the Austrian Southern Railway in 1841. In 1909, the "first official Austrian airfield" was inaugurated north of the city. It served as a training ground for the flight pioneers Igo Etrich , Karl Illner and Adolf Warchalowski , who conducted their tests there. The Austro-Hungarian strike of January 1918

621-548: Was born on Christmas Day 1879 in the Upper Old Town of Trutnov , Bohemia . He attended school in Leipzig , where he came in contact with the works of Otto Lilienthal . His main interest was in aviation , the problems of bird flight. With his father, a factory-owner, he built a laboratory for developing aeroplanes. After the death of Lilienthal, Etrich's father acquired some advanced gliders. Prof. Ahlborn had published

648-678: Was ignored and they marched on the Town Hall. Here they were joined by other workers from the locomotive factory , the radiator works, the aircraft factory and local ammunition plants of G. Rath and the Lichtenwörther. On 14 January over 10,000 workers gathered outside the town hall to complain about the halving of the flour ration. Inspired by the Russian Revolution the workers set up Workers Councils . During World War II , strategic targets in Wiener Neustadt, including

675-596: Was meant to reach out to Trieste but was never finished. Elections in January 2020: Total: 40 seats Austria's first and largest Fachhochschule for business and engineering, the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt , is located here. The most recent extension of the city is the Civitas Nova , Latin for new city , an ambitious project for an industrial, research and commercial center. In 2015, on

702-581: Was started in Wiener Neustadt by workers from the Austro-Daimler factory, which was engaged in arms production, and inspired by the Bolshevik seizure of power to take strike action to oppose the war. A key factor in the strike was the halving of the flour ration. Porsche met the workers and agreed to drive to Vienna to speak to the Minister of Food. However his plea to the workers to return to work

729-404: Was used in nearby Eggendorf . The city is home to a baseball and softball team called the "Diving Ducks", which have had success both within the country and internationally. They provide teams for various age groups, starting from the youngest team to the softball team "Crazy Chicklets", the adult team "Rubber Ducks" as well as their professional team the "Diving Ducks". Pitten Pitten

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