Schwarzspanierhaus

SCHWARZSPANIERHAUS. THE, or House of the Black Spaniards, into which Beethoven removed at the beginning of October 1825, and where he died March 26, 1827. The political and ecclesiastical relations between the two bigoted catholic countries Austria and Spain, in the 16th and 17th centuries, were very close and intimate. The Infanta, Marianne, daughter of Philip III of Spain, on her departure (1629) for Vienna, to become the wife of Ferdinand, took with her Prior Benedict von Pen-nalosa Mondragon,...