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Maria Theresia Bastion, Museum of Bánság

Bastionul Maria Theresia, Muzeul Național al Banatului
Maria Theresia Bastion, Museum of Bánság
Bastionul Maria Theresia, Muzeul Național al Banatului
Bastion Theresia corp A, B, C, E
Turbojet, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Original function:
castle / fortification
Current function:
museum
Address:
Bastionul Maria Theresia, Strada Martin Luther 4
Historical Hungarian county:
Temes
Country:
Romania
GPS coordinates:
45.7570168128, 21.2335656429
Google map:

History

Temesvár was retaken from the Turks by Prince Eugene of Savoy in 1716. The construction of the fortified city of Temesvár followed, lasting from 1723 to 1765. It was a Vauban-style regular star-shaped system fortified with nine bastions. It was enclosed by two outer defensive lines with moats between them. The fortified city was approached through three gates. The bastions were named Charles, Francis, Theresa, Joseph, Hamilton, Castle, Mercy, Eugene and Elizabeth, and the gates were named Vienna, Petrovaradin and Transylvania. Demolition of the fortifications began in 1892, and today only the Maria Theresa Bastion, built between 1730 and 1735, remains. It houses, among others, the ethnographic department of the village museum.

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