Line money

One of the last remaining remnants of the line wall on the Wiener Schnellbahn at Landstraßer Gürtel

From the beginning of the 18th century, the road toll that had to be paid when entering the city of Vienna was referred to as line money .

term

The line wall was the simple fortification built at the beginning of the 18th century around the suburbs of Vienna, which was intended, among other things, to ward off the Turks and other attacks. When crossing the lines , the line fee had to be paid for every horse and wagon. The fee had to be paid every time you entered the city, which meant that, for example, merchants or chamberlains who acted both within and outside the city limits had to pay the line fee several times a day.

In his historical-political magazine, the historian Leopold von Ranke described the line money as a "very important" source of income for the city of Vienna.

literature

• Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia . tape 79 , p. 325 f . ( kruenitz1.uni-trier.de ).
• Leopold von Ranke : Historical-Political Journal . tape 2 (1833-1836) . Publishing house Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, p. 703 ( Google Books ).
• Friedrich Nicolai : Description of a trip through Germany and Switzerland in 1781 . tape 11 . Berlin / Stettin 1796, p. 88 ( Google Books ).