!!!Flaktürme Anti-aircraft Towers, six large concrete anti-aircraft towers stand within the city of Vienna built in 1943/1944 by F. Tamms. Two towers stand in the Arenberg park (3%%sup rd/% district), two in the Augarten park (2nd district) and one each in the Esterházy park (6%%sup th/% district) and the courtyard of the Stiftkaserne barracks (7%%sup th/% district). Each group of two towers (a command tower and a gun tower) formed a unit where the smaller command tower transmitted data collected from observations to the larger gun tower, which was usually equipped with four heavy twin anti-aircraft cannons in order to ward off enemy bomber planes. Although all anti-aircraft towers were finished by autumn 1944, the towers never presented an effective defence against bomb attacks. Today the tower in the Stiftkaserne barracks is used as a command post. The former gun tower in the Esterházy park houses the Haus des Meeres. !Literature G. Holzmann, Der Einsatz der Flak-Batterien im Wiener Raum, 1970; H. Sakkers and E. Widmann, Flaktuerme. Berlin - Hamburg - Wien, 1998. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Flaktürme|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]