Upper Lusatia Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/upper-lusatia Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:08:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Map Of Czech Republic And Austria http://travelsfinders.com/map-of-czech-republic-and-austria.html http://travelsfinders.com/map-of-czech-republic-and-austria.html#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:36:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=261272 Protestantism spread throughout Austria, Bohemia and Hungary while the Habsburg monarchs remained Catholic. Maximilian II asserted that he was neither Catholic nor Protestant but Christian and he rejected aggressive counterreformation tactics and was largely tolerant of Protestantism. Rudolf II: 1576-1612 (1 minute) Rudolf II (1576-1612) was the son of Maximilian II who had been educated in Spain and was a strict Catholic. When he came to power he dismissed all Protestants from court service. He organized counter-reformation activities to convert Austria back to Catholicism. His efforts in Lower Austria were successful but Protestant opposition remained in Upper Austria which was

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