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The Ringstraße is a circular road surrounding the Innere Stadt district of Vienna and is one of its main sights. It is typical of the historical style called Ringstraßenstil (Ringstraße Style) of the 1860s to 1890s. The Innere Stadt is the the first Viennese Municipality District. ...
Vienna (German: Wien [viËn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...
Events and trends Italian unification under King Victor Emmanuel II. Wars for expansion and national unity continue until the incorporation of the Papal States (March 17, 1861 - September 20, 1870). ...
The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkins aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that color in fashion, and also as the Gay Nineties, under the then-current usage of the word gay which referred simply to merriment and frivolity, with no...
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The street was built to replace the city walls, which had been built during the 13th century and reinforced as a consequence of the First Turkish Siege in 1529, and instead of the glacis, which was about 500m wide. The fortification had been obsolete since the late 18th century, but the Revolution of 1848 was required to trigger a significant change. The defensive wall of Braşov, Romania. ...
(12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...
Engraving of clashes between the Austrians and Ottomans outside Vienna, 1529 The Siege of Vienna of 1529, as distinct from the Battle of Vienna in 1683, represented the farthest Westward advance into Central Europe of the Ottoman Empire, and of all the clashes between the armies of Christianity and Islam...
Events April 22 - Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal, stipulating that the dividing line should lie 297. ...
A glacis, in military engineering (see Fortification and Siege) is an artificial slope of earth in the front of works, so constructed as to keep an assailant under the fire of the defenders to the last possible moment. ...
(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...
—Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections The European Revolutions of 1848, in some countries known as the Spring of Nations, were the bloody consequences of a variety of changes that had been taking place in Europe in the first half of the 19th century. ...
In 1850, the Vorstädte (today the Districts II to IX) were incorporated into the municipality, which made the city walls a simple impediment to traffic. In 1857, they were finally demolished, and the creation of a boulevards was ordered. 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Vorstadt is a German term that could be considered roughly considered equivalent to a suburb, i. ...
This article is about the city and federal state in Austria. ...
1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Since the Ringstraße had always been meant primarily for show, a parallel Lastenstraße (burden road) was built on the outside of the former glacis. This street is commonly known as 2-er Linie, named after the index "2" in the identifiers of the tram lines which used it. It is still important for through traffic. Street cars in New Orleans A modern tram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland For modern innovations aimed at increasing the capacity and speed of tramway systems, see light rail. ...
After some disputes about competence between the government and the municipality, a "City Extension Fund" was created, which was administered by the government. Only the town hall was planned by the city. A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ...
During the following years, a large number of public and private opulent buildings were erected. Both nobility and the moneyed aristocracy rushed to build showy mansions along the street. One of the first buildings was the Heinrichshof, owned by the beer brewer Heinrich Drasche, which was located opposite the opera house until 1945. A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top. ...
Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper), located in Vienna, Austria, is one of the most important opera companies in Europe. ...
1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Buildings Most buildings date back to the time before 1870. The most notable ones include: 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
The only sacred building is the Votivkirche (in neo-gothic style), which was built after Emperor Franz Joseph had been saved from an assassination attempt in 1853. (Disambiguation: you may be looking for Neoromanticism (music) or New Romantic (British pop music)) The term neo-romanticism is synonymous with post-Romanticism or late Romanticism. ...
The Austrian parliament consists of two chambers, the Nationalrat (national council) and the Bundesrat (federal council). ...
The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ...
Theophil Edvard Freiherr von Hansen (born July 13, 1813 in Copenhagen, Denmark ; died February 17, 1891 in Vienna, Austria) was a Danish architect. ...
// Definitions Flanders (Dutch: Vlaanderen, French: Flandre or Flandres) has two main designations: a historical region (the County of Flanders), and an administrative region of Belgium (the Flemish Region and the Flemish Community). ...
Gothic architecture characterizes any of the styles of European architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, in use throughout Europe during the high and late medieval period, from the 12th century onwards. ...
The Burgtheater (English: Castle Theater), originally known as Theater an der Burg, then from 1918 known as the Hof-Burgtheater, is the Austrias Federal Theater in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world. ...
University of Vienna, main building, seen from Beethovens apartment The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) in Austria was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma mater Rudolphina. ...
Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ...
Franz Joseph I Franz Joseph I (in English also Francis Joseph) ( August 18, 1830 – November 21, 1916) of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria and King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and King of Hungary from 1867 until 1916. ...
1853 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
The Hofburg was extended by an oversized annex, the New Hofburg, which houses the Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian National Library today. On the other side of the street, there are the Museum of Art History and the Museum of Natural History, which were built for the imperial collections. Originally, there should have been a parallel wing opposite the New Hofburg, which would have been attached to the Museum of Natural History. The Heldenplatz and the Maria-Theresien-Platz would have become the Kaiserforum. However, that plan was shelved for lack of funds. Hofburg Neue Burg section, seen from Heldenplatz. ...
Heldenplatz in Vienna The Heldenplatz (Heroes Square) is a historical plaza in Vienna, where in 1938, Adolf Hitler announced the Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich. ...
The construction ended only in 1913 with the completion of the Kriegsministerium (Ministry of War). At that time, the Ringstraßenstil was already somewhat outdated, as is shown by the Postsparkassengebäude (Postal Savings Society Building) by Otto Wagner, which was built at the same time. 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
The biggest catastrophe was the fire of the Ringtheater in 1881, in which several hundred people died. 1881 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Sections of the Ringstraße The Ringstraße has several sections. It surrounds the central area of Vienna on all side, except for the northeast, where its place is taken by the Franz-Josephs-Kai, the street going along the Donaukanal (a branch of the Danube). Starting from the Ringturm at the northern end of the Franz-Josephs-Kai, the sections are: Length 2,888 km Elevation of the source 1,078 m Average discharge 30 km before Passau: 580 m³/s Vienna: 1,900 m³/s Budapest: 2,350 m³/s just before Delta: 6,500 m³/s Area watershed 817,000 km² Origin Black Forest (Schwarzwald-Baar, Baden- Württemberg...
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