The great history writer Stefan Zweig once said "Mystery excites creation." Since January 30, 1889, there is a name that symbolizes the mystery of a scandalous and tragic double death: Mayerling. The tragic and mysterious death Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, immediately caused a dynastic crisis. Rudolf and his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera were found dead at the Crown Prince's hunting lodge, Mayerling. The death of his only son devastated the Austrian e