Hungarian mark
The Hungarian Mark ( Ungarnmark , also Neumark ) was a short-lived historical area in the Middle Ages on the area of today's Austrian state of Lower Austria . It stretched between the Leiser Mountains , the March and the Leitha . Together with the Bohemian Mark , it formed the outermost border of the Holy Roman Empire to the east against the Hungarians .
existence
The Hungarian mark was founded in 1043 after King Henry III. which Hungarians had pushed back in several campaigns. The Hungarian and the Bohemian Marks were in front of the margravate Austria , which was settled more and more over the decades in order to protect them as well. At the Fürstentag zu Ingelheim in 1043 Luitpold from the house of the Babenbergs , the older son of Margrave Adalbert the Victorious , was appointed Margrave of the Hungarian March, but died a few days later. The capital of the Hungarian Mark was stillfried an der March , which was founded by Margrave Luitpold. In 1045 King Henry III awarded the margraviate to the Spanheimer Siegfried I , who only held it for a short time. The margraviate did not remain in the Spanheimers' house, but fell to Ernst the Brave from Babenberg , Luitpold's younger brother, who united the Hungarian and Bohemian marches with his margravate Austria.
Regents
- Luitpold († 1043)
- Siegfried von Spanheim (1045-1046)
- Ernst the Brave , Margrave of Austria
literature
- Walter Kleindel: The Chronicle of Austria. 2nd, revised edition. Chronik-Verlag, Dortmund 1985, ISBN 3-88379-027-3 .
- Friedrich Hausmann : Siegfried, Margrave of the "Ungarnmark" and the beginnings of the Spanheimers in Carinthia and the Rhineland. In: Yearbook for regional studies of Lower Austria. New series Volume 43, Vienna 1977, ISSN 1016-2712 , pp. 115–168 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).