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Maastricht City Walls

Maastricht City Walls

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Maastricht City Walls

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Location: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

May 20, 2022

The fortifications of Maastricht are the fortifications or fortifications of the Dutch-Limburg city of Maastricht, built over a period of 1500 years to protect the city and its inhabitants against enemy attacks.

The city has been walled and fortified from Roman times until after 1867 (when the fortress status was lifted). Over the centuries, ramparts, walls, gates, towers, bastions and other fortifications have been continuously built. Roughly speaking, one can speak of four construction periods: the Roman-Celtic fortifications, the early medieval fortifications, the medieval city walls and the 16th to 19th century outworks. For centuries, the fortified city of Maastricht was known as the "bulwark of the Netherlands", an outpost of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.

Source: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestingwerken_van_Maastricht

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Stephan N

August 17, 2023

The history of Maastricht has been marked by the presence of soldiers for centuries. The Romans were the first to build a fortress, a castellum. This fortress was located on and around the Onze Lieve Vrouweplein. The fortress was designed to protect the very first bridge over the Meuse. At the beginning of the 13th century, Maastricht received city rights and the building of a city wall began. A century later, a second city wall was built around it.
Second City Wall
The second medieval city wall on the left bank of the Meuse was created because band buildings formed on the streets, which were an obstacle to the city's defense. Around the middle of the fourteenth century, a populated area had developed in the Boschstraatkwartier, especially on the north side, where many cloth weavers lived. From about 1375 these "suburbs" were enclosed with a new stone wall. The first city wall was preserved as a reserve defensive belt. From the second medieval city wall, a large part of the southern city wall with some (partially reconstructed) towers and the De Reek water gate in the Stadspark are still preserved.
These building campaigns were the impetus for the development of Maastricht into a fortified city. Due to its strategic location, Maastricht was for centuries one of the most important fortified and garrison cities in north-western Europe.
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bezoekmaastricht.nl/locaties/4261339786/vestingwerken

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Viviane

June 13, 2022

Nice piece of tangible history

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