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HAINBURG, or HAIMBURG

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 822 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HAINBURG, or HAIMBURG , a See also:town of See also:Austria, in See also:Lower Austria, 38 in. E.S.E of See also:Vienna by See also:rail. Pop. (1900), 5134. It is situated on the See also:Danube, only 22 M. from the Hungarian frontier, and since the See also:fire of 1827 Hainburg has been much improved, being nowaa handsomely built town. It has one of the largest See also:tobacco manufactories in Austria, employing about 2000 hands, and a large See also:needle factory. It occupies See also:part of the site of the old See also:Celtic town See also:Carnuntum (q.v.). It is still surrounded by See also:ancient walls, and has a See also:gate guarded by two old towers. There are numerous See also:Roman remains, among which may be mentioned the See also:altar and See also:tower at the town-See also:house, on the latter of which is a statue, said to be of See also:Attila. A Roman See also:aqueduct is still used to bring See also:water to the town. On the neighbouring Hainberg is an old See also:castle, built of Roman remains, which appears in See also:German tradition under the name of Heimhurc; it was wrested from the Hungarians in 1042 by the See also:emperor See also:Henry III. At the See also:foot of the same See also:hill is a castle of the 12th See also:century, where Ottakar of Bohemia was married to See also:Margaret of Austria in 1252; earlier it was the See also:residence of the See also:dukes of See also:Babenberg.

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island in the Danube, is the ruined castle of Rothelstein or Rothenstein, held by the Knights See also:Templars. Hainburg was besieged by the Hungarians in 1477, was captured by See also:Matthias See also:Corvinus in 1482, and was sacked and its inhabitants massacred by the See also:Turks in 1683.

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