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Archduchess Agnes Christina of Austria

1928–2007

Born
14 Dec 1928, Persenbeug Castle
Country of birth
Austria
Died
31 Aug 2007, Vienna
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A life in time

  1. Born · Persenbeug Castle

    Birth, Persenbeug Castle

  2. Child born: Prince Dominik of Liechtenstein

    Birth, Vienna

  3. Child born: Prince Andreas of Liechtenstein

    Birth, Vienna

  4. Child born: Prince Gregor of Liechtenstein

    Birth, Vienna

  5. Child born: Princess Alexandra of Liechtenstein

    Birth, Vienna

  6. Child born: Maria-Pia Liechtenstein

    Birth, Vienna

  7. Child born: Princess Katharina of Liechtenstein

    Birth, Vienna

  8. Child born: Princess Birgitta of Liechtenstein

    Birth, Vienna

  9. Died · Vienna

    Death, Vienna

What was it like?

The world around Persenbeug Castle, 1928: 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.

Archduchess was born the same year as Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, and Maya Angelou.

Born the same year

  • Andy Warhol

    American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

  • Stanley Kubrick

    American filmmaker and photographer (1928–1999)

  • Maya Angelou

    American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)

  • Elie Wiesel

    Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)

  • Che Guevara

    Argentine Marxist revolutionary (1928–1967)

  • Noam Chomsky

    American linguist and activist (born 1928)

Fashion

Four Sets of Traditional Clothes

People traditionally owned four sets of clothes: daily workwear, clothes for ordinary feast days, Sunday attire, and special outfits for high religious holidays. Many people were even buried in their wedding suit, which served as their formal holiday attire.

Underwear Habits in Rural Austria

In the rural summer, women did not wear underpants; instead, they wore several petticoats if it was cold in winter. Men wore long winter underwear that had to be tied at the waist and ankles.

Music
Around 1931–1933

Cost of Vienna Folk Dance Events

In the 1930s, outdoor folk dance events in Vienna, such as those in Türkenschanzpark, charged an admission fee of 80 Groschen.

Traditional Austrian Folk Instruments

Traditional musical instruments used in regional Austrian folk music included violins, harps, zithers, dulcimers, wind instruments, and the diatonic button-key accordion known as the Styrian harmonica.

Getting around
Around 1925–1925

Transport in 1925: Horses and Electric Trams

Around 1925, most of the population in rural Austria relied on horse-drawn carriages for transport, while city dwellers in Vienna used a modern network of electric trams and buses. Private automobiles were rare, reserved only for the very wealthy.

Around 1933–1938

Rail Travel in the 1930s

During the 1930s, a rail journey from Munich to Reit im Winkl took approximately 5 hours.

Daily life
Around 1918–1924

Childhood and education in Tyrol

Children in rural Tyrol often faced heavy agricultural labor, which frequently hindered their school attendance. Access to further education was strictly dependent on the family's financial situation.

Shared Facilities in Urban Apartments

Many Viennese apartments were cramped, with single rooms lacking private sanitary facilities, meaning residents often had to share toilets and water sources located in the building's hallway.

Food
Around 1914–1918

War bread and synthetic food substitutes

When bread grain became scarce during the war, bakers used inferior surrogates, causing the resulting "war bread" to crumble into thousands of crumbs when cut. Housewives also increasingly relied on synthetic food substitutes like margarine and beet sugar to supplement limited supplies.

Around 1914–1918

Wartime food queues and charity soup meals

During World War I, famine forced city dwellers to wait in queues for hours, sometimes starting at night, for small and often unpalatable food rations. A single daily meal at charity kitchens might consist of a thin vegetable soup of turnips, carrots, and beets, costing 30 heller.

Prices and wages
Around 1925–1925

Food prices in 1925 Vienna

In 1925, a kilogram of bread in Vienna cost 65.2 Groschen, while a kilogram of beef cost 329.4 Groschen.

Work

Domestic work as a common livelihood

By the 1930s, there were over 133,000 domestic workers in Austria, many of whom were women from rural regions who moved frequently between jobs to find better livelihoods. Although legislation in 1920 improved their status by including rights like sick pay and holidays, competition for these positions remained high due to unemployment.

Around 1900–1924

Hardships of domestic service work

Domestic servants often worked from early morning until late at night, and until 1911, masters had the legal right to physically punish their staff. Even after laws were passed in 1920 to limit hours to 13 per day, many servants continued to work longer shifts and could not lock their own rooms.

News and letters

Vienna's fast pneumatic mail service

In Vienna, the pneumatic tube system delivered messages within the city in about 30 minutes, costing 15 kreuzer or 30 heller, which was equivalent to the price of two ordinary letters or a loaf of bread.

Around 1914–1918

Postage-free military mail during the war

During World War I, military personnel could send letters weighing up to 100 grams and official field service postcards postage-free within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

During their lifetime

  1. 1933

    Mass unemployment, 1933

    In February 1933, the Great Depression reached a peak in Austria, leaving approximately 600,000 people unemployed.

  2. 1955

    Austria State Treaty signed in 1955

    In 1955, the Austrian State Treaty was signed, ending the Allied occupation and restoring Austrian sovereignty.

  3. 1959

    First Steyr tractor introduced in 1959

    The introduction of the first Steyr tractors in 1959 revolutionized agricultural work, making many manual farm roles obsolete.

  4. 1961

    Washing machines became household standard in 1961

    In 1961, washing machines became more affordable for broader social classes, transforming household chores for many women.

  5. 1995

    Austria joined European Union in 1995

    Austria joined the European Union in 1995, significantly shifting the country's economic and political landscape.

Family

Parents

Spouses

Children

Ancestors and children

Open the full tree

Four generations back to the right, the children to the left. The number beside a child counts the generations of descendants known after them.