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HELDENPLATZ (HEROES' SQUARE)
The Heldenplatz tells (and has) a sundry history. Archduke Karl beat Napoleon near Vienna in 1809 (it didn't last). Prince Eugene of Savoy, the "Prinz Eugen" of a popular Austrian song, drove the Turks from the Balkans (and that one did last). Prince Eugene wasn't Austrian, but he built the best-looking palace in Vienna (the Belvedere, see later). Hitler once gave a speech at the Heldenplatz, after his troops invaded Austria. It was an invasion that Austria barely survived. The Viennese are just glad that he didn't get a monument there...
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Prince Eugene
In front of the "Neue Hofburg"
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Archduke Karl
(Vienna City Hall and the Volksgarten in the background)
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Prince Eugene
If he could see how many Turks Vienna has nowadays...
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First posted: September 2003
Last updated: February 2007
All pictures and text © Walter A. Aue, 2003, 2007
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