Slighting

Razing usually referred to the demolition of castles and fortifications of the losing party to a military conflict. It takes place by removal, leveling, blasting or demolition. In the extreme case is meant: raze. Often a ring road relic of a looped attachment. The Boulevard ( bulwark ) originally referred also a ring road a looped attachment.

In the 19th century, many of the obsolete fortifications were razed in order to gain more space in the face of the growing cities can. This process of elimination of urban fortifications is specifically referred to as softening or Defortifikation. The resulting slag brick, brick, boulders, etc. used as building material for construction. The demolition was carried out by the mechanical removal of walls and ramparts, the leveling of trenches and, if necessary, even by blasting. In most cases the land on which were the fortifications were, as a park and green space ( promenades ) or used for (ring) roads.

Even today the outlines of the old ramparts draw often still clearly in the cityscape from. Examples are planets un Blomen in Hamburg, Frankfurt conditioning ring, Bremen, Cologne or Münstersche promenade. Also famous is the Vienna ring road, on the sides of the late 19th century arose representative magnificent. We therefore speak in terms of Vienna and the Ringstrasse style.

Others

• For removal of Viennese composer Johann Strauss fortifications ( son ) 1862 a vandal -Polka ( Op. 269).
• Sharpen the verb is regularly bent in this context: looped, never sanded.