List of the sieges of Vienna

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This list of sieges of Vienna includes sieges of the city of Vienna, including military threats from nearby enemy forces.

year description
1239 Outlawing Friedrich II. , The arguable: Siege of the briefly free imperial city between June and December by Friedrich, surrender
1276 Campaigns by Rudolf I against Ottokar II. Přemysl : Siege between October 18 and November 25 by Rudolf von Habsburg , surrender
1287 Siege between autumn 1287 and February 18, 1288 by Albrecht I , surrender
1428 Hussite Wars : Threat from May to June by the Hussites near Stockerau and Jedlesee
1447 Hungarian Wars : Threat on December 5th and 6th by Johann Hunyadi near Perchtoldsdorf - Mödling - Gumpoldskirchen
1461 Threat between August 5th and September 6th from the Bohemian King George of Podebrady
Brotherly dispute between the Habsburgs: Siege from June to September by Albrecht in a dispute with Friedrich (III. As emperor)
1462 Siege of the Friedrichs imperial family in the Vienna Castle by the Viennese Oct. 21 to Dec. 4
1477 Hungarian Wars : unsuccessful siege between August 14th and December 20th by Matthias Corvinus
1485 Hungarian Wars : Siege from March to May 31, 1485 by Matthias Corvinus, entry on June 1
1490 Wars in Hungary : Siege from August 19 to 29 by Maximilian I , surrender
1529 First Austrian Turkish War , First Turkish Siege of Vienna : Unsuccessful siege from 23 September to 14 October by Suleyman I.
1532 First Austrian Turkish War : Threat in September from the Turks who had advanced to Baden near Vienna , Enzesfeld and Leobersdorf
1606 Third Austrian Turkish War : Threat between July 5th and 10th by Stephan Bocskai near Jedlesee, Orth on the Danube and Eckartsau
1619 Thirty Years' War : unsuccessful siege between June 5th and 12th by Bohemian troops under Heinrich Matthias von Thurn
Thirty Years War : Threat at the end of September by Gábor Bethlen and Heinrich Matthias von Thurn near Kaiserebersdorf
1643 Thirty Years War : Threat from Swedish Field Marshal Carl Gustav Wrangel , who roamed the area around the Danube bridges with light cavalry
1645 Thirty Years War : Threat between April 9th ​​and 29th from the Swedes under Lennart Torstensson near Floridsdorf
1683 Fifth Austrian Turkish War , Second Turkish Siege of Vienna : unsuccessful siege between July 14th and September 12th by the Turks under Kara Mustafa
1704 Revolt of Franz II. Rákóczi : Threat between March and June by Franz II. Rákóczi near Sankt Marx and the new building
1741 Austrian War of Succession : Threat October 14 to November 30 through Bavaria and French, who until Sankt Polten , Mautern on the Danube and Krems penetrated
1805 Third Coalition War : Siege between November 11th and 14th by the French, capitulation and occupation of the city of Vienna.
1809 Fifth Coalition War : Siege and bombardment on May 12th, capitulation of the city and occupation by the French on May 13th
1848 Revolution : Siege between 23rd and 31st October by Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Graetz , conquest
1866 Prussian-German War : Threat interlocutory 20 and 22 July by the Prussians, to Stockerau, Breitenlee and Lassee penetrated
1945 Second World War , Operation in Vienna : Conquest between April 5 and 13 by the Soviet Union ( Red Army , 3rd Ukrainian Front, 2nd Ukrainian Front ), then occupation of Vienna from September 1, 1945 by the USA , Great Britain and France until 1955 ( Handover in the State Treaty)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ War of Archduke Albrecht VI. against Emperor Friedrich III. - Siege of Vienna . Lower Austria State Museum.
  2. ↑ 26.12.1462 Siege of the imperial family in the Vienna Castle by the Viennese . Lower Austria State Museum.
  3. ^ Hermann Wiesflecker: Austria in the age of Maximilian I: the unification of the countries to form an early modern state: the rise to world power. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1999 ISBN 9783486564525 , p. 51