!!!Mayerling

Mayerling, Lower Austria, village in the district of Baden; belongs to 
the municipality of Alland. Manor, from 1550 in the possession of the 
monastery of Heiligenkreuz; Prince Rudolf bought the manor in 1886 and 
had it turned into a hunting lodge. It was in this lodge that he 
killed his lover Mary Vetsera and then committed suicide on January 
30, 1889. His father, Emperor Franz Joseph, who wanted to found a new 
church, had the building turned into a convent which was consequently 
settled by Carmelite nuns.


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