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LINZ , See also:

capital of the See also:Austrian duchy and crownland of Upper See also:Austria, and see of a See also:bishop, 117 M. W. of See also:Vienna by See also:rail. Pop. (1900) 58,778. It lies on the right See also:bank of the See also:Danube and is connected by an See also:iron See also:bridge, 308 yds. See also:long, with the See also:market-See also:town of Urfahr (pop. 12,827) on the opposite bank. Linz possesses two cathedrals, one built in 1669–1682 in See also:rococo See also:style, and another in See also:early See also:Gothic style, begun in 1862. In the Capuchin See also:church is the See also:tomb of See also:Count Raimondo See also:Montecucculi, who died at Linz in 1680. The museum Francisco-Carolinum, founded in 1833 and reconstructed in 1895, contains several important collections See also:relating to the See also:history of Upper Austria. In the See also:Franz Josef-Platz stands a See also:marble See also:monument, known as Trinity See also:Column, erected by the See also:emperor See also:Charles VI. in 1723, commemorating the triple deliverance of Linz from See also:war, See also:fire, and pestilence. The See also:principal manufactories are of See also:tobacco, See also:boat-See also:building, agricultural implements, foundries and See also:cloth factories. Being an important railway junction and a See also:port of the Danube, Linz has a very active transit See also:trade.

Linz is believed to stand on the site of the See also:

Roman station Lentia. The name of Linz appears in documents for the first See also:time in 799 and it received municipal rights in 1324. In 1490 it became the capital of the See also:province above the See also:Enns. It success-fully resisted the attacks of the insurgent peasants under See also:Stephen Fadinger on the 21st and 22nd of See also:July 1626, but its suburbs were laid in ashes. During the See also:siege of Vienna in 1683, the See also:castle of Linz was the See also:residence of See also:Leopold I. In 1741, during the War of the Austrian See also:Succession, Linz was taken by the Bavarians, but was recovered by the Austrians in the following See also:year. The bishopric was established in 1784. See F. Krackowitzer, See also:Die Donaustadt Linz (Linz, 1901).

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