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    Heinrich von Brühl (category People from Saxe-Weissenfels)
    including large palaces at Pförten (present-day Brody), Oberlichtenau and Wachau-Seifersdorf was found to amount to a million and a half talers, and was...
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    the Kinsky Palace, as well as the entire Göttweig Monastery estate in the Wachau Valley. At the time that the prince was planning to buy the land on the...
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    folk costume. For example, the traditional blue polka-dotted dress of the Wachau region of Austria can be referred to either as "Wachauer Tracht" or as the...
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    lieutenant-colonel in the War of Liberation in 1813; won the Iron Cross at Wachau, near Leipzig; and became colonel in 1815. Wrangel commanded a cavalry brigade...
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    the Battle of Leipzig (where he was badly wounded during the storming of Wachau), in 1815 in the Battle of Waterloo. At the end of the war, Pierer worked...
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