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The fortress
The Schlossberg was fortified from at least the 10th century
In the mid-16th century a fortress 400 metres long was built by architects from the north of Italy. A cable-hauled lift was in use between 1528 and 1595 to move construction materials.
1809
The castle was never conquered but was largely demolished in 1809
Napoleonic forces demolished most of it under the Treaty of Schönbrunn of 1809. The clock tower and the bell tower were spared after the people of Graz paid a ransom for their preservation.
The clock
The clock's hands have the opposite roles to the usual ones
The Uhrturm, the clock tower, is unusual because the larger hand marks the hours while the smaller one marks the minutes. The Glockenturm, the bell tower, holds Liesl, the heaviest bell in Graz.
The park
Ludwig von Welden made the ruins a public park in 1839
The park contains the Uhrturm, the Glockenturm, a cistern called the Türkenbrunnen and two bastions of the old castle. Below the hill is a system of tunnels created during the Second World War to protect the civilians of Graz from aerial bombing.
Day 1, morning
It comes after Hauptplatz. Then Graz Cathedral.
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