Mexikoplatz
Sign in to saveMexikoplatz (Mexico Square) is a square in the Austrian capital Vienna. It is located in the city's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt, near the banks of the Danube, on the southwestern end of the Reichsbrücke (Empire Bridge), which links Leopoldstadt with Donaustadt, the 22nd district of Vienna.
Key facts
- Urban feature.name
- Mexikoplatz
- Urban feature.place_type
- Square
- Urban feature.image_place
- Wien - Mexikoplatz.JPG
- Urban feature.image_caption
- St. Francis of Assisi Church and the Mexikoplatz
- Urban feature.features
- St Francis of Assisi Church
- Urban feature.open
- 1884
- Urban feature.dedicated_to
- Mexican protesters of the Anschluss
- Urban feature.location
- Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria
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- Austria
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Mexikoplatz (Mexico Square) is a square in the Austrian capital Vienna. It is located in the city's 2nd district, Leopoldstadt, near the banks of the Danube, on the southwestern end of the Reichsbrücke (Empire Bridge), which links Leopoldstadt with Donaustadt, the 22nd district of Vienna.
==Overview== The square was named Mexikoplatz in 1956, to honor the support Mexico (led by President Lázaro Cárdenas) gave to Austria in 1938, when it was the only country at the time to protest the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria by Nazi Germany. Mexico was the only nation to file a formal complaint with the League of Nations, publicly denouncing the annexation as an attack on international law.
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