I know the badges of two Honvéd mounted artillery units. For a long time, I couldn’t get much information about the badges, or the units themselves. Then an acquaintance of [ … ]
Category: Roundtrip in Austria-Hungary
Nagyszeben – Hermannstadt
The XII. corps headquarters was placed in a neo-baroque palace on Schewisgasse (today Bulevardul Victoriei). Nagyszeben was the largest fortified city in Transylvania, so it was not by chance that [ … ]
Pussterthal – Bruneck
A beautiful, shield-shaped badge shows a portrait of Archduke Eugen, with the inscription Pussterthal below. It took a little research to find the place and also how the badge can [ … ]
Pappfalva 2
This small village on the border of Bukovina and Hungary, which may have been named after Colonel Dániel Papp, was mentioned in a previous post. I recently noticed a sketch [ … ]
Galata bridge
In the series presenting the cities and landscapes of the Monarchy, I can now only show badges on which we see landmarks of other countries. The current badge and the [ … ]
Sarajevo
The name of Sarajevo is most famous for the assassination that started the Great War. But Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne, was not brought to this city by [ … ]
15. Corps at Isonzo
Both the badge and the photo are my favorite. I already wrote about the destroyed Salcano valley bridge here. For me, this panorama is the symbol and emblem of the [ … ]
6th Schützen Regiment Eger
In the Sudetenland, the city of Eger and its surroundings were the home of the 6th Landwehr (later rifle) regiment. The usual story applies here as well: the Austrian Landwehr [ … ]
Belgrade panorama
Belgrade, a city built at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers, has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The Celts and the Romans built a permanent settlement here for [ … ]
Zugna Torta
Zugna Torta was an observation point in the Etsch valley above the town of Rovereto, south of it. During the Italian attack in 1915, Austro-Hungarian troops set up to defend [ … ]