!!!Elefant

Elephant: In 1551/1552 Archduke Maximilian, who later became Emperor 
Maximilian II, brought the first elephant to Austria on his way 
back form Spain. Today some house epigraphs recall that event and mark 
its route (Brixen/Bressanone, Lambach, Linz, Vienna). The elephant was 
kept in the Kaiserebersdorf zoo, where it died quite soon afterwards 
(1554). Vienna´s mayor, Sebastian Huetstocker had a bone chair 
made out of the elephant´s right foreleg, which has been kept in 
the monastery of Kremsmuenster since 1678.


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