Adrian and Peter von Walenburch
Franz Wilhelm, Count von Wartenberg
Diocese of Waterford and Lismore
Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber
Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner
Abbacy Nullius of Wettingen-Mehrerau
William, Abbot of Saint-Bénigne
Feast of the Holy Winding Sheet of Christ
Friedrich Heinrich Hugo Windischmann
Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann
Windows in Church Architecture
Louis-François-Michel-Reymond Wolowski
(NEOSTADTIENSIS).
A suppressed see in Lower Austria. Upon the request of Frederick III it was erected by Paul II on 14 January, 1469, and was immediately subject to the Holy See. At first it was coterminous with the town of Wiener-Neustadt, but in 1769 the new parish of Theresienfeld was added and in 1784 its territory was extended from Wiener-Neustadt to the boundary of Styria. On 21 April, 1785, the see was incorporated in the Archdiocese of Vienna by Joseph II. Its last bishop, Heinrich Johann Kerens, S.J. (1775-85), and his cathedral chapter was transferred to the newly erected diocese of Sankt Pölten. Of the twenty-three bishop of Wiener-Neustadt the most noteworthy were: Melchior Klesl, also Bishop of Vienna and cardinal (1614-30); Leopold, Count von Kollonitsch (1670-85), later Bishop of Raab, and Christopher Royas von Spinola (1686-95).
WIEDERMANN, Beitrage zur Gesch. des Bis. Wiener-Neustadt, in Oesterreich, Vierteljahrsschrift fur kath. Theol. (Vienna, 1864-9).
MICHAEL OTT