From Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Schönbrunn Palace, Austria is filled with a rich history, beatifull mountains and rich culture. Here are 15 interesting facts about Austria you need to know.

1. Amazing facts you need to know
about Austria

3. FACT 1
• The Austrian flag is one
of the oldest national flag
in the world. According to
a legend the flag was
designed after a tough
battle during the third
Crusade, by Duke
Leopold V. After the battle
his clothes were
completely soaked with
blood, but when he pulled
the belt has seen the
material remained white.
Duke was impressed by
the scene and adopted as
flag colors

5. FACT 2
• One of the world’S best-
known austrians is Arnold
Schwarzenegger, who
starred in Terminator
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7. FACT 3
• Austro-Hungarian
Baroness Bertha von
Suttner was the first
woman to win the
Nobel Peace Prize in
1905

9. FACT 4
• Schönbrunn Palace,
the summer palace of
the Habsburgs, has
no less than 1,440
rooms

11. FACT 5
• The oldest zoological
garden in the world is
the Tiergarten
Schönbrunn in Vienna,
founded in 1752 by
Emperor Franz
Stephan

13. FACT 6
• The Porsche
automobile company
was founded in 1931
by austrian Ferdinand
Porsche. Porsche
also contributed
significantly to the
Nazi war effort in
World War II.

15. FACT 7
• Vienna’s Akademie
der Bildenden Künste
is famous for rejecting
a young painter by
the name of Adolf
Hitler

17. FACT 8
• Austria is famous for its
composers: Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Haydn
Joseph Haydn, Franz
Schubert.

19. FACT 9
Born in Germany in 1770,
Ludwig van Beethoven
lived most of his life in
Vienna

21. FACT 10
• One of the great
mysteries in the history of
Austria, is the suicide of
Crown Prince Rudolf and
his lover Baroness Mary
Vetsera in 1889. The
main consequence of
Rudolf's suicide: his elder
brother Karl Ludwig
becomes heir to the
throne and in 1896 his
son, Franz Ferdinand in
turn becomes heir to the
throne.

23. FACT 11
• The most famous of
Austrian dishes is
Weiner Schnitzel

25. FACT 12
• Austria’s highest point
is the Großglockner at
12,461 feet (3,798 m)

27. FACT 13
• So far 21 Austrians
have won the Nobel
prize

29. FACT 14
• In 1955, the Austrian
Parliament adopted a
'Declaration of
Neutrality'. Austria
remains in this way in a
permanent state of
neutrality.
Consequence? Austria
is the only country of
the European Union
that is not a member of
NATO.

31. FACT 15
• Did you know that
Adolf Hitler was
Austrian? He was
born in the Austrian
town of Braunau am
Inn in 1889.

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