A few weeks after his defeat in the Battle of Aspern (Vienna), Napoleon rearranged his troops to fight the Marchfeld and the way north. This led to the Battle of Wagram on July 5 and 6, 1809.
Napoleon had his headquarters near Raasfeld. From there he had the best overview of the battlefield between Aderklaa and Marktgrafneusiedl. The French troops won. On the road from Deutsch-Wagram to Rassdorf stands a monument to the side, slightly elevated. It marks the location of the headquarters of the French emperor.
The memorial also commemorates a second exciting time in Austrian history. After the Second World War, Europe was divided into two between the states allied with the USA and the states occupied by the Soviet Communists. The neutral Austria in between was the meeting point of the secret services. One of the agents exposed late was Siegfried Wanka, intelligence officer of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), a communist state around Berlin. He was particularly a spy for business and high technology.
E.g. he got the latest developments from "Semperit", a company that was then a leader in car tire production. Wanka's wife, "the beautiful Helga" was also called, spied in Austria. She worked in the party headquarters of the ÖVP, which provided the Federal Chancellor until 1970. She knew very well about the political developments in Austria. The results of their espionage activity sent the two of them across the border. To do this, they had hidden a radio and cipher device behind the monument in Raasdorf.
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