Habsburgs

The House of Habsburg was one of the principal sovereign dynasties of Europe from the 15th to the 20th century and one of the most important royal houses of Europe, until the "renounced participation in state affairs" of Karl I in 1918. I will post things related to the last Habsburgs here. Feel free to ask me anything through inbox. English isn't my first language so please be patient. Enjoy !

[hylja]

“Have a nice day. I feel you near.”

— Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria wishes you, “Dear soul of the future!”  a nice day from beyond the grave. From the introduction to her poetry collection

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Kaiser Franz Joseph I.

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Crown prince Rudolf.

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Tagged by @rexnoctem to do a moodboard with existing pictures on my camera roll ft. Crown Prince Rudolf

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“Alone [Elisabeth] went down into the vaults, and the monk who had handed her a lighted torch waited at the top of the stairs. He felt cold shudders down his spine as he heard her calling, “Rudolf! Rudolf!” Only the echo replied. After a time she came up and in a troubled-voice told the trembling monk — “He does not answer.””

— The Road to Mayerling: The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria by Richard Barkeley (via xixthesun)

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On This Day In History~ January 30th

1889; Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera

In 1887, Rudolf of Austria bought Mayerling hunting lodge. In late 1888, the 30-year-old crown prince met the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Vetsera, known by the more fashionable Anglophile name Mary and began an affair with her. According to official reports their deaths were a result of Franz Joseph’s demand that the couple end the relationship: the Crown Prince, as part of a suicide pact, first shot his mistress in the head and then himself. Rudolf was officially declared to have been in a state of “mental unbalance” in order to enable Christian burial in the Imperial Crypt (Kapuzinergruft) of the Capuchin Church in Vienna. Mary’s body was smuggled out of Mayerling in the middle of the night and secretly buried in the village cemetery at Heiligenkreuz. After the deaths, the Emperor had Mayerling converted into a penitential convent of Carmelite nuns. Today prayers are still said daily by the nuns for the repose of Rudolf’s soul.

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losing sleep over that time Sissi asked Franz Joseph for a lunatic asylum as a name day gift

a madhouse..... or a tiger...... or a medallion......

[vienneseswan]

Woke up this morning, felt like being part of a Tarkovsky movie, went outside

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Franz Joseph surrounded by his suite (note the presence of Andrassy, 5th from the left, first row) in front of Dolmabahçe palace in Constantinople in 1869, during his oriental trip for the opening of the Suez Canal.

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Photography of Archduchess Sophie of Bavaria with her youngest son Ludwig Viktor (second from right) and other unknown persons by Hermann Norden, 1865.

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Emperor Maximilian when Archduke of Austria in costume, 1860.

Credits on the image.

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand & family spam 32/?

After his recovery of Tuberculosis in El Cairo, Egypt. 1895

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This may be the most 19th century thing I’ve ever seen I cannot

[feifalik]

July 1892 Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Duke Karl Theodor in Bavaria, King Albert of Saxony, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and King Francisco II of Naples in Tegernsee, where Karl Theodor's eldest daughter Amalie, married Duke Wilhelm of Urach. The photos were taken by Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria, wife of Karl Ludwig.

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The Imperial family in 1858.

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Franz Joseph and Rudolf.

How I love this picture.

[katherine-lacey]

Crown Prince Rudolf : 21st August 1858 - 30th January 1889

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“For Rudolf, his adored and ever-distant mother remained lifelong his most grievous difficulty.”

— Brigitte Hamann, Kronprinz Rudolf: Ein Leben (via schwarzervogel)