LINZ  ,

capital of the Austrian duchy and crownland of Upper Austria, and see of a bishop, 117 M . W. of Vienna by rail . Pop . (1900) 58,778 . It lies on the right bank of the Danube and is connected by an iron bridge, 308 yds. long, with the market-town of Urfahr (pop . 12,827) on the opposite bank . Linz possesses two cathedrals, one built in 1669–1682 in rococo style, and another in early Gothic style, begun in 1862 . In the Capuchin church is the tomb of Count Raimondo Montecucculi, who died at Linz in 1680 . The museum Francisco-Carolinum, founded in 1833 and reconstructed in 1895, contains several important collections relating to the history of Upper Austria . In the Franz Josef-Platz stands a marble monument, known as Trinity Column, erected by the emperor Charles VI. in 1723, commemorating the triple deliverance of Linz from war, fire, and pestilence . The principal manufactories are of tobacco, boat-building, agricultural implements, foundries and cloth factories . Being an important railway junction and a port of the Danube, Linz has a very active transit trade .

Linz is believed to stand on the site of the

Roman station Lentia . The name of Linz appears in documents for the first time in 799 and it received municipal rights in 1324 . In 1490 it became the capital of the province above the Enns . It success-fully resisted the attacks of the insurgent peasants under Stephen Fadinger on the 21st and 22nd of July 1626, but its suburbs were laid in ashes . During the siege of Vienna in 1683, the castle of Linz was the residence of Leopold I . In 1741, during the War of the Austrian Succession, Linz was taken by the Bavarians, but was recovered by the Austrians in the following year . The bishopric was established in 1784 . See F . Krackowitzer, Die Donaustadt Linz (Linz, 1901) .