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4 unusual facts about Wiener Riesenrad


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Watermouth Castle

He built the Wiener Riesenrad ("Vienna Giant Wheel") in Vienna in 1897, still standing in 2012, for many years the largest in the world, to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria.

Wiener Riesenrad

It also appears in The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson, Max Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman and its Generation X counterpart, Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise, and The Glass Room by Simon Mawer.

It was constructed in 1897 by the English engineer Lieutenant Walter Bassett Bassett (1864-1907), Royal Navy, son of Charles Bassett (1834-1908), MP, of Watermouth Castle, Devon.



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