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Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph I
and Empress Elisabeth, died - of the side of his mistress Baroness Marie of Vetsera
- in January 30, 1889, in his hunting lodge in Mayerling near Vienna. Already
few months after his death the property was converted on request and order of
the emperor into a convent. To this day the sisters of the medal of the Unbeschuhten
Carmelites in the Carmel Saint Joseph retain the memory of Rudolf.
Since that fateful winter day in 1889, more than a century ago, much has been
said, speculated and written about the deaths at Mayerling. To this day a multiplicity
has been published by articles, books, plays, films and music to the "drama
of Mayerling ". However, the discussion with the "Causa Mayerling "
never happened on scientific basis. Since 1989 the Mayerling-Archive is busy with
the mysterious death of the Crown Prince, the hope porter of the monarchy, and
his young mistress ones. The Mayerling-Archiv represents a serious approach point
for researcher and interested beyond Austria and cooperates with known historians
and international archives.
Today with more than 4.000 media to the Austrian house of Habsburg, the Mayerling-Archiv
is one of the biggest private aristocracy archives in Germany. The founder of
the archive, the journalist Lars R. Friedrich (36), represents the view that a
study of the sources is meaningful exclusively on the spot in original documents
and has opened the supplies of the archive, therefore, for a wide public after
arrangement. The Mayerling-Archive library and the Vetsera-Archives under construction
are interested to find the reference objects and materials for its object collection.
This collection serves neither the satisfaction at all like taken sensation-seeking,
nor to commercial purposes. It is only intended bringing together materials and
making this public.
We can guarantee that material is lifted all around the "Causa Mayerling"
in the Mayerling-Archiv very well, because we sight and collect not only objects
and materials, books and letters, but these also interested guests place at disposal
to the realization and research. The Mayerling-Archiv offer to journalists, historians,
researchers and exhibition makers all accessible materials of the reference library
to the free realization and use after arrangement. In addition, the objects of
the existing collection can be lent by museums and exhibitors free of charge.
Archive founder Lars R. Friedrich plans to summarise available sources on basis
of the collection supplies and to give access generally in form of a publication.
At present materials and own search results are evaluated and are put together.
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