Cervejaria Vienense – when the Schwechat brewery expanded to Brazil After the war and his return to Austria George III continued to support the takeover policy of foreign breweries and therefore also used his contacts in Brazil, where he had spent several years of war. With a share capital of 11 million Cruzeiros, he founded […]
On February 8, 1972, around half past eleven, the Austrian Airlines’ DC9 “Niederösterreich” lands with skier Karl Schranz at Vienna Schwechat Airport. When “Schranz sees the crowd waiting for him for the first time, his eyes light up. He sits up and straightens his tie”, writes Alfred Kölbel in the “Arbeiterzeitung”. “And there, on his […]
The Jedleseer brewery was the first brewery in Floridsdorf, which was later merged with the breweries of the Mautner Markhof family. It was founded in 1787 by Anton Freiherr von Störck, Maria Theresia’s personal physician, after he had bought the estate with the associated manor house in 1778. Since, as a doctor, he probably knew […]
The Reininghaus coat of arms was certified on March 21, 1884. Submissions were examined by the so-called coat of arms censor (in this case Mr. von Lucki), who had to determine whether it corresponded to “the art and the state of honor”. The description in the document papers was made twice, the second time in […]
Maria von Reininghaus, née Eisl1 (*Graz 11.8.1860 / † St. Radegund 23.9.1945), the young widow of Gustav I, married Dr. Paul Reininghaus on 22.8.1888 in Schloss Rabenstein in her second marriage. (*Graz 20.4.1859 / † Gainfarn 18.10.1920), the second son of Julius and Emilie Reininghaus and cousin of her husband. She brought the children Emy […]