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Tvrđa (Citadel) is the Old Town of the city of Osijek in Croatia. It is the best-preserved and largest ensemble of Baroque buildings in Croatia and consists of a Habsburg star fort built on the right bank of the River Drava. Tvrđa has been described by the World Monuments Fund as "a unique example of an eighteenth-century baroque military, administrative, and commercial urban center".

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  • Tvrđa (Citadel) is the Old Town of the city of Osijek in Croatia. It is the best-preserved and largest ensemble of Baroque buildings in Croatia and consists of a Habsburg star fort built on the right bank of the River Drava. Tvrđa has been described by the World Monuments Fund as "a unique example of an eighteenth-century baroque military, administrative, and commercial urban center".
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Stad
  • Osijek
Grootte
  • 30(xsd:integer)
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  • Tvrđa
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Built
  • 1693(xsd:integer)
map size
  • 200(xsd:integer)
Logo
  • Osijek GPP.jpg
Name
  • Tvrđa
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Caption
  • Plan of Tvrđa from 1861
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afbeelding
  • Tvrđa lijn1 GT6.jpg
Latitude
  • 45(xsd:double)
map type
  • Croatia
Titel
  • Een DUEWAG GT6 tram op lijn 1
Longitude
  • 18(xsd:double)
controlledby
  • List of rulers * 1691–1744 Kingdom of Croatia within Habsburg Monarchy * 1744–1804 Kingdom of Slavonia within Habsburg Monarchy * 1804–1867 Kingdom of Slavonia within Austrian Empire * 1867–1918 Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia within Austria-Hungary
Builder
  • Habsburg Monarchy
  • Architects involved: * 1691 Mathias von Kaiserfeld * 1712 Maximilian Gosseau de Henef
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Materials
  • Limestone, brick
Location
  • Osijek, Croatia
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  • Tvrđa (Citadel) is the Old Town of the city of Osijek in Croatia. It is the best-preserved and largest ensemble of Baroque buildings in Croatia and consists of a Habsburg star fort built on the right bank of the River Drava. Tvrđa has been described by the World Monuments Fund as "a unique example of an eighteenth-century baroque military, administrative, and commercial urban center". The star fort was constructed in the immediate vicinity of medieval Osijek after the defeat of the Ottoman forces in 1687, due to Osijek's strategic importance. The official construction began on August 1, 1712 and was supervised by the city and fort's commander, General Johann Stephen von Beckers. Constructed to plans by Mathias von Kaiserfeld and then Maximilian Gosseau de Henef it was inspired with the Lowlands (Dutch) fortress' of its time. All five planned bastions and two gates were complete by 1715. By 1735, the inner town was finished and three northern bastions had been added. When complete, it was the largest and modern Habsburg fortress on the border of the Ottoman Empire. It consisted of eight bastions, two armouries, two major depots, the garrison headquarters building, the military court, the construction office, the garrison physician, the guardhouse, officer apartments, the military hospital and seven barracks. The fort was entirely surrounded with walls and palisades and had four main gates at each side (north, south, east, west). Tvrđa had street lights by 1717 and was the site of the first public water supply in Croatia, opened in 1751 with sewage system built shortly after in 1760, while horsecar was added in 1884. Tvrđa's military importance decreased after the Berlin Congress of 1878, with the increasing stability of the surrounding region. Most of the fort walls and fortifications were destroyed in the 1920s due to the obstacle they presented to the development of Osijek. While the fortifications have largely been removed, the fort's interior core remains intact and is now home to churches, museums, schools and other public buildings, as well as numerous bars and restaurants. Of the fortification system only the northern side of the walls remain as well as parts of the 1st and the 8th bastion along with the northern gates known as 'Water Gates' ('Vodena vrata'). Tvrđa sustained significant damage during the Croatian War of Independence during the 1990s and was featured on the 1996 World Monuments Watch List of Most Endangered Sites. It now features on on Croatia's 'tentative list' for consideration for nomination as a World Heritage Site.
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