Friesach Town Text (dmb)

A  town in Carinthia with medieval town walls

of 7000 inhabitants, its 12C Romanesque parish church has excellent examples of early stained glass, while the 13C Dominican church, the first of its order in Austria, has a wonderful Gothic choir. Friesach has a beautiful main square with picturesque facades. EWT member page is now completed,

Town website

Wikipedia page unauthenticated

Baedeker 1900-1914: Eastern Alps1911 p.618, Autriche (fr) 1902 p323

Drosendorf a/d Thaya Draft Town Text (dmb)

A small walled town on the border of Austria and the Czech Republic, Drosendorf

Zadar Draft Town Text (dmb)

Zadar,

Lucca Draft Town Text dmb

An independent city state for centuries, Lucca is

here in Dubrovnik

great walled city

ARCHWAY DOCUMENTS

Interreg IIIc ARCHWAY project documents are no longer available through Chester City Council. http://www.archway-interreg.com has been deleted
The final documents are now available here as ARCHWAY final documents and other documents are available.

Fredericia and Narva battle re-enactment videos

This video is of  a re-enaction of a Danish gun defending Fredericia against  Schleswig-Holsteiner attack in 1849. Now only firing blanks towards cars.

Russians vainly attack Narva Castle during a re-enaction of the winter Charles XII's Swedish victory 310 years after the event in 1700. Five years later in 1705 Peter the Great's Russian victory in the summer (which is also re-enacted), saw Narva  made part of the Russian Empire for nearly all of 300 years. Narva is now an Estonian and European Union border town with 80% of its population Russian speaking.

Ghent EAUH "Town Walls do not a Prison Make..."

"Town Walls do not a prison Make..." is a title of a paper given at the 10th European Association of Urban History Conference in Ghent on 1st-5th September. Arabarri has kindlky made link available on TEKNET. It puts the ARCHWAY results into an Urban History context of the Braun and Hogenberg Urban Atlas of 1572-1617.Walled towns featured extensively not just in the session in 'Walls' to which I contributed. Many of the several hundred presentations and papers would be of interest to members of the Circle.The EAUH website is www.eauh2010.ugent.be

Bristol in the Braun and Hogenberg City Atlas 1572-1618

Paper presented at UWE, Bristol Regional History Centre 'Second City Remembered' 23rd July 2010

WTFC TEKNET publishes first News Letter - TEKgate1

Arabarri has published the first TEKgate 1 the Walled Towns News Letter. Follow link to see articles.