Bienhornschanze

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The Pfaffendorfer Höhe system on the right bank of the Rhine with the Bienhornschanze (bottom left)

The Bienhornschanze was part of the Prussian fortress Koblenz and belonged to the Pfaffendorfer Höhe system . Built from 1859 to 1920 razed Schanze is in today's Koblenz district Asterstein not get above ground longer.

history

The Bienhornschanze was built in 1859 in the southwest of Fort Rheinhell as a pure earthwork. The ski jump was given the layout of a heavily truncated Flesche , the front of which was oriented southeast. The work, surrounded by a 6.3 meter deep trench, was 109 meters long and had a fire line about 8.5 meters high. In the throat, a log house was built as a reduit. Together with the system Feste Kaiser Alexander was abandoned and the Bien Horn ski jump in 1903 and in the following years to the community Pfaffendorf leased.

After the First World War, the plant, like the other Koblenz fortifications, had to be deconsolidated in accordance with Article 180 of the Versailles Treaty . Since the ski jump was leveled in the period from mid-July to mid-October 1920, it was the only fortification on the right bank of the Rhine that had to be removed in the first softening phase (1920–1922). Only the water pipe leading to the plant remained, which was already used to supply the existing houses and was to connect new buildings to the water network. Today only a street name reminds of the hill, remnants of the fortress are no longer there.

Naming

Thanks to the inwardly curved brook valley, shaped like a horn, the valley below the Bienhornschanze was given the name "Binnhorn" (inner horn) by the Pfaffendorf population around 1600. The military took over the field name for their fortification and wrote it down in "Bienhorn".

literature

  • Matthias Kellermann: The Prussian fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein. On the history of the fortifications on the right bank of the Rhine , 3rd edition, Koblenz 2014. ISBN 978-3-934795-63-1 .
  • Klaus T. Weber (dissertation): The Prussian fortifications of Koblenz (1815–1834) . (Series: Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen) 2003, ISBN 3-89739-340-9 , p. 260.
  • Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the German Armed Forces , Koblenz 1978 (note: outdated in many ways, but still the best representation for an overview)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wischemann, Fortress Koblenz, page 70th
  2. ^ Kellermann, The Prussian Fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein. For the history of the fortifications on the right bank of the Rhine, pages 95,96.
  3. ↑ VVV-Admin: 160 years of Bienhornschanze. April 29, 2019, accessed on May 31, 2020 (German).

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 36 ″  E