Burggarten - Vienna, Austria
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In 1819, Napoleon left Vienna after crashing through it's city gates...and the space created led to the development of this park.
Waymark Code: WMKRZ1
Location: Wien, Austria
Date Posted: 05/25/2014
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This Park was once the private park of the Emperor.
This website (
visit link) provides the previous history:
"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Vienna was still surrounded by a defensive wall, at a time when most cities in Europe had started to demolish city fortifications. The wall proved useless in stopping Napoleon from occupying Vienna, and in 1809, when Napoleon left, he demolished large parts of the defensive wall.
This created space around the Hofburg, and part of it was used to create a private palace garden, the Burggarten. The garden was laid out in an informal English style. In 1918, with the fall of the Habsburg Empire, the park opened to the public."
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