City fortifications Groß-Enzersdorf

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City wall at the former Raasdorfer Tor

The city ​​fortifications Groß-Enzersdorf , which has largely been preserved and surrounds the old town, was started in 1396 to raise the town of Groß-Enzersdorf and completed in 1399.

The approx. 6 m high crenellated city ​​wall ring has largely been preserved. Furthermore, the remains of two round corner towers and the rest of a square corner tower and parts of the former upstream ditch and rampart. The city fortifications initially had three city ​​gates , in the north (!) The Raasdorfer Tor to Vienna , in the south to the Danube and in the east to the Marchfeld . In the area of ​​the Raasdorfer Tor is a copy of the inscription plaque to Bishop Berthold von Wehingen with 1396.

After a traffic accident, several meters of the city wall and a pillar of the Vienna Gate had to be removed in 2020.

literature

• Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 , Groß-Enzersdorf, Stadtbefestigung, p. 323.

Web links

Commons : Stadtbefestigung Groß-Enzersdorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• About the city wall town of Groß-Enzersdorf gross-enzersdorf.gv.at, accessed on September 1, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The original of the Raasdorfer Tor inscription is in the Groß-Enzersdorf local history museum.
2. ↑ After a bus accident: Part of the city wall has to be removed. In: diepresse.com. January 21, 2020, accessed January 21, 2020 . 

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 16 ° 32 ′ 58.2 ″  E