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George Khevenhüller

1533–1587

Born
22 Apr 1533
Died
1587, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
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  • Birth22 Apr 1533Probable1 source
  • Death1587, Klagenfurt am WörtherseeProbableDisputed1 competing claim1 source
  • TitleGeheimratConfirmed1 source
  • UnionSibylla WeitmoserConfirmed1 source

A life in time

  1. Born

    Birth

  2. Died · Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

    Death, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

What was it like?

The world around 1533: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Under the 1530 Augsburg dress code, which influenced regional standards, common citizens were forbidden from using costly materials like gold, silver, pearls, velvet, or silk.

Known for

Georg von Khevenhüller was a Carinthian nobleman of the Khevenhüller dynasty. Though a dedicated Protestant by faith, he served as a governor of the Catholic House of Habsburg for several decades. He is also famous for building the city-fortress of Karlovac in Croatia.

Titles held

  • Geheimrat

During their lifetime

  1. 1535

    Currency reform introduces the gulden

    A currency reform in 1535 introduced the gulden, which was worth 60 kreuzers or 240 pfennigs.

  2. 1539

    Record of food prices in Linz

    By 1539, the price of food was recorded in Linz as 5 pfennigs for a pound of beef and 4 pfennigs for a pound of mutton.

  3. 1540

    Vienna's first plague ordinance established

    To combat the plague, Vienna established its first official infection ordinance in 1540 to organize isolation and public health measures.

  4. 1545

    Introduction of drawbar wagons

    In 1545, new vehicles called drawbar wagons (Deichselwägen) began to be used in the area above the Enns.

  5. 1565

    Danube River permanently changes course near Vienna

    Between 1565 and 1571, severe ice jams and floods caused the Danube to permanently relocate its main current to the northern Wolf arm, radically altering the landscape near Vienna.

  6. 1573

    Ban on Croatian settlers in Lower Austria

    In 1573, a general mandate was issued that prohibited any further settlement of Croatian colonists in Lower Austria.

Family

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