Empress Elisabeth has a rather elaborate garden surrounding her likeness. She was married to Franz Joseph I in 1854, and also had the title of Queen of Hungary. Elisabeth checked in at 5-foot-8, which was mighty tall for a woman back then. No wonder her statue is about seven feet high. Later in life she showed signs of obsessing over her weight; we might have used the word anorexic.
Elisabeth was hit hard by tragedy when her old son committed suicide in 1889. She spent the next several years traveling to relieve the grief. In 1898, she was in Lake Geneva, Switzerland, when she was stabbed by an Italian anarchist. You might know that many radicals of the time had called for anarchy among world governments; that included the man who assassinated President McKinley. Elisabeth soon died after more than 40 years as a Empress. She was honored and remembered in many ways around the region, including this one. It was completed in 1907.
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