Wiener Neustadt

Wiener Neustadt is a metropolis placed south of Vienna, inside the nation of Lower Austria, in north-east Austria. It is a self-governed town and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land District. The metropolis is the website online of one of the global's oldest military academies, the Theresian Military Academy, which turned into set up with the aid of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in 1752 to educate officers for the Austrian army. The place once belonged to the County of Pitten, which were inherited by way of 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 handed to the Austrian House of Babenberg in line with the Georgenberg Pact. Duke Leopold V of Austria hooked up the town in 1194 and financed the construction of a fortress near 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 all through the Mongol invasion of Europe but changed into later repulsed with the aid of Duke Friederich and his knights.