He was only one step away from the Polish royal crown. But then everything changed: the history of a Habsburg, whose path began in Wiener Neustadt and ended in a dramatic power struggle. NÖ. Wiener Neustadt is the birthplace of a personality whose way of life went far beyond the borders of Austria. On 12 October 1558 Maximilian III, a son of the later Emperor Maximilian II and his wife Maria of Spain, was born here.
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He was only one step away from the Polish royal crown. But then everything changed: the history of a Habsburg, whose path began in Wiener Neustadt and ended in a dramatic power struggle. NÖ. Wiener Neustadt is the birthplace of a personality whose way of life went far beyond the borders of Austria. On 12 October 1558 Maximilian III, a son of the later Emperor Maximilian II and his wife Maria of Spain, was born here.