Linienwall
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.75|Painting of the Linienwall fortification (by August Stefan Kronstein) The Linienwall was the outer line of the fortifications for the city of Vienna, Austria, that lay between the city's suburbs and outlying villages. Constructed in 1704, it was razed in 1894 to make way for the Vienna Beltway.
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thumb|upright=1.75|Painting of the Linienwall fortification (by August Stefan Kronstein) The Linienwall was the outer line of the fortifications for the city of Vienna, Austria, that lay between the city's suburbs and outlying villages. Constructed in 1704, it was razed in 1894 to make way for the Vienna Beltway.
== Construction == The construction of the Linienwall was begun by order of Emperor Leopold I in 1704 to protect against attacks by the Turks and the Kuruc (a group of anti-Habsburg rebels). It was part of a defensive line that followed the Austro-Hungarian border as delineated by the Danube, March, and Leitha rivers as well as by Lake Neusiedl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Linienwall” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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