!!!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.


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