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unusual facts about city wall



Bremgarten, Aargau

Because of the growth, the city wall was taken down, and it was connected to the Swiss railway system in 1876.

Drummond Street, Edinburgh

Originally called Back Wall as the street was just outside the city wall, it was from the 1850s named after George Drummond.

Leopold V, Duke of Austria

Leopold's share of the immense ransom, supposedly six thousand buckets—about 23 tons—of silver, became the foundation for the mint in Vienna, and was used to build new city walls for Vienna, as well as to found the towns of Wiener Neustadt and Friedberg in Styria.


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Blackfriars, London

Edward I gave permission to rebuild London's city wall, which lay between the river and Ludgate Hill, around their area.

Century Assembly

Because of this, as well as the large size of the assembly (as many as 373 centuries), the assembly often met on the Field of Mars (Latin: Campus Martius), which was a large field located right outside of the city wall.

Hamburg Museum

The area was part of the old city wall defences built by the Dutchman Jan van Valckenborgh.

Hispellum

Five other gates may still be seen as well as part of the city wall, built of rectangular blocks of Subasio limestone: the wall is among the finest specimens of Roman wall in central Italy.

Lady Well

It lay just outside the city wall and Drygate Port in medieval times and will have refreshed Romans travelling the old Carntyne Highway east-west between forts along the Antonine Wall.

Mandalay Hill

Aerial bombardment was resorted to when shelling from the hill failed to breach the city wall and destroy the enemy, and Mandalay Palace, a national heritage of great importance, burnt down during the siege.

Ming City Wall Relics Park

The Ming City Wall Relics Park is accessible by Beijing Bus to Dongbianmen (Routes 25, 29, 39, 43, 44, 59, 434, 525, 610, 674 and 特2), Chongwenmen East (Routes 12, 25, 39, 43, 44, 525, 610) and Jianguomen South (Routes 25, 39, 43, 44, 52, 122, 434, 637, 638, 750 and 特2); and by Beijing Subway to Chongwenmen (Line 2) and Jianguomen (Lines 1 and 2).

Monastery of St Saviour

The Monastery of St Saviour (locally also known as San Salvador monastery) is a Franciscan monastery located east of Jerusalem's New Gate, inside the city wall, on 1 St. Francis Street.

Phrom Phiram District

They found remains of the city wall, Chedi basements and Sukhothai Celadon on the way of Phra Ruang road from Sukhothai in Tambon Si Phirom and Dong Prakham.

Saint Christopher

According to church tradition, a bishop waved the relics from the city wall in 1358AD in order to end a siege of the city by an Ottoman army.

Storkyrkobrinken

In 1422 Storkyrkobrinken is referred to as sancte nicolauese port ("Gate of Saint Nicholas") while the section outside the city wall (west of Västerlånggatan) appears as S:t Laurentii gränd ("Alley of Saint Lawrence") in 1436 and a name it retained throughout the second half of that century.

Tribal Assembly

By the late republic, the assembly often met right outside of the city wall on the Field of Mars (Campus Martius), because the size of the field allowed votes to occur more quickly.

Tudor London

The first theatrical district was located north of the City wall, in Shoreditch.

Vasily Shibanov

For a source Tolstoy used the fragment of Nikolay Karamzin’s History of the Russian State relating how "…Kurbsky by night clandestinely left his home, climbed over the city wall, found two of the horses his loyal servant prepared for him and safely reached Volmar, then under the Lithuanians".