Korneuburg city wall

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Section of the city wall in Korneuburg

The city ​​wall in the municipality of Korneuburg in the Korneuburg district in Lower Austria was built from the beginning of the 14th century. It is a listed building .

The wall encircled the city within what is now the ring. The first fortifications were laid out at the beginning of the 14th century. From 1421 the city wall was built from stones from the quarries in Höflein with a width of around two meters and a height of six to eight meters. There was a second, lower wall in front of it and in between a deep ditch into which the water from the small streams in the area was channeled.

Today, in the area behind the tax office, most of the preserved part of the city wall including the remains of the moat can be seen. Another piece of the city wall, which was restored in 2005, is located on the Wiener Ring. 185 meters of the original 1650 meter long city wall are still preserved today.

Web links

Commons : Stadtmauer Korneuburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of September 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), ( CSV ( Memento of September 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive )). Federal Monuments Office , as of June 9, 2017.

Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 29.2 "  N , 16 ° 19 ′ 57.7"  E