!!!Salm, Niklas Graf

b. Niedersalm (Belgium), 1459, 
d. Salmhof (municipality of Marchegg, Lower Austria), May 4, 1530, 
supreme commander-in-chief of  Ferdinand I. Fought in Burgundy, Italy 
and Hungary. In the peasants' war of 1526 he conquered Schladming, 
defended Vienna in 1529 during the first of the two  Turkish Sieges of 
Vienna. Tomb in the Votivkirche, Vienna.

!Literature
W. Hummelberger, Wiens erste Belagerung durch die Tuerken 
1529, 1976.



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