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Lines of Stollhofen

German defensive line built during the War of the Spanish Succession

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 6, 2026
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The Lines of Stollhofen was a line of defensive earthworks built for the Reichsarmee at the start of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) running for about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Stollhofen on the Rhine to the impenetrable woods on the hills east of Bühl.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Lines of Stollhofen” as german defensive line built during the War of the Spanish Succession. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1701, 1714—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Lines, Stollhofen and German can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as german defensive line built during the War of the Spanish Succession. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 6, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1701 and 1714.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lines of Stollhofen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.