1890s Map LINZ Austria Rail Route City Plan ,1894 Antique Colour Map

HISTORICAL MAP CHART - RAIL AND ROUTE MAP

Linz is a city and Statutarstadt in northeastern Austria, by the Danube river. It is the capital of the state Upper Austria (Oberösterreich). Linz is located at 48°18?11?N, 14°17?26?E The city was founded by the Romans, who called it Lentia, but there was already a Celtic settlement called Lentos; probably their word for the winding of a river. The city was - for most of that time - only a provincial and local government city of the Holy Roman Empire, but it was also an important trading point connecting several routes, on either side of the river Danube from the East to the West and Czechoslovakia and Poland from north to the Balkans and Italy to the south. Being the city where the Habsburg Emperor Friedrich III spent his last years, it was, for a short period of time, the most important city in the empire. It lost its status to Vienna and Prague, after the death of the Emperor in 1493. Another important inhabitant of the city was Johannes Kepler, who spent several years of his life in the city studying mathematics. He discovered, on May 15, 1618, the distance-cubed-over-time-squared — or 'third' — law of planetary motion. He first made the discovery on March 8, but rejected the idea at first, only to later accept its worth. Kepler is the namesake of the local public university, the only one in Austria that embraces the campus system. Another honoured citizen of the city was Anton Bruckner, who spent the years between 1855-1868 working as a local composer and church organist in the city. The local concert hall and a local private music and arts university are named after him. The parents of Adolf Hitler are buried near Linz, in the town of Leonding. He was enrolled in the same Linz school as the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

1890s Wood Engraving, Antique Map

Approximate Overall Size: 6 X 9 1/2 inches

CONDITION: Book Plate Map - Excellent Condition. As Scanned. German Text. Beautiful with excellent detail. Map Print has Text on the back