The Fortress of Luxembourg is the former fortifications of Luxembourg City, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which were mostly dismantled beginning in 1867. The fortress was of great stra
Fortress of Luxembourg, before its demolition in 1867
The "Bock" promontory in 1867
"Huelen Zant" (Hollow tooth), the remains of a tower of one of the fortress gates, on the Bock rock. During the demolition works after 1871, the tower was only half destroyed and transformed to look like the ruins of a medieval castle.
The Luxembourg Crisis was a diplomatic dispute and confrontation in 1867 between France and Prussia over the political status of Luxembourg.
Fortress of Luxembourg
…them to her territory. The city's great significance for the frontier between the Second French Empire and the German Confederation led to the 1866 Luxembourg Crisis, almost resulting in a war between France and Prussia over possession of the German Confederation's main western fortress. The 1867 Treaty of London…
Otto von Bismarck, the minister president of Prussia, whose non-committal answers encouraged French Emperor Napoleon III.
Biarritz's Villa Eugénie hosted critical negotiations between Napoleon III and Bismarck.
A 1867 German caricature showing Germania, the personification of the German nation, asking Otto von Bismarck (as a shepherd of the German states), to protect Luxembourg, who is threatened by Napoleon III (as a wolf) on the other side of the Rhine
Cartoon mocking the Dutch government for dragging the Netherlands into a European conflict because of William III's personal troubles