!!!Groissenbrunn

Groissenbrunn, Lower Austria, district of Gaenserndorf, village in the 
municipality of Engelhartstetten; scene of the decisive battle between 
 Otakar II of Bohemia and King Bela IV of Hungary over the 
Babenberg lands on July 12, 1260. The last Austrian high-free nobles 
(counts of Plain-Hardegg) were killed in this battle. In the 
subsequent Peace of Vienna the Hungarians had to give up Styria. - 
Parish since 1250, church (about 1780) heavily damaged in 1945.


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