A.E.I.O.U.

A.E.I.O.U. is a Habsburg motto, the Emperor Frederick III. (1415-1493) was a signature on his tableware, his coat of arms as well as monuments such as the Castle in Wiener Neustadt, the Linzer Schloss, and to the cathedral and castle in Graz, attach. Under Archduchess Maria Theresia of this choice and suitability spell was also mounted in the arms and at the world's oldest military academy (1752 ) in Wiener Neustadt. He still decorates the coat of arms and the seal rings of the graduates of the Academy, that is, the discarded young officers.

Interpretations

Already contemporary of Frederick - so Conrad Green Mountain in 1480 - occupied the interpretation of the signs. From the historian Alfonso Lhotsky comes a compilation of 86 of the 300 became known interpretations, some of which are as follows:

  • Austriae est imperare orbi universo ( Austria, it is destined to rule the world )
  • Austria erit in orbe ultima ( Austria will be in the globe the last ( country) )
  • Austria est imperium optime unita ( Austria is in the best possible geeinigtes Empire)
  • Augustus est optimus iustitiae vindex ( the emperor is the best protector of justice )
  • All soil is subject to Austria ( 16-17. Century)
  • Austria est omnis imperatrix universi ( Austria is the ruler of the world)
  • During the occupation of Vienna under the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus ( 1485 ) cultivated the Viennese following interpretation: "All is lost until Austria "
  • Eugen Rosenstock- Huessy (1888-1973) offered in 1951 reading: Austria Europae Imago, Onus, Unio - Austria as Europe 's image, load and drive for unification.

Examples

On a sundial in Merano.

Lettering on the predella of the altar of Wiener Neustadt

The motto at the Theresa Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt

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