Flesche
As Flesche ( French: flèche "arrow") was a field fortification made of breastworks until the 19th century . It consisted of two in a salient of converging Facen . Most of the time it had a ditch facing the enemy and leaned against a natural obstacle in the back if possible or was closed there by a picket fence. If it had attached flanks from which the faces could be coated , it was called shouldered flesch .
In the fortress construction , it corresponded to the lunette , an outer work that was usually in front of the foot of a glacis of the bastion point to create an additional fire floor, and was sometimes called that there.
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literature
- Johann Gottfried von Hoyer : Flesche . In: HA Pierer : Universal Lexicon of the Present and Past . 10th volume. Pierer, Altenburg 1842, p. 445.
- Wolfgang Klefisch: The Neuendorfer Flesche - From the fortress model to the New Prussian fortress . Bornheim (Rhl) 2006 (3rd edition).
- Michael Losse : Flesche. In: Horst Wolfgang Böhme , Reinhard Friedrich, Barbara Schock-Werner (Hrsg.): Dictionary of castles, palaces and fortresses . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-010547-1 , p. 127, doi: 10.11588 / arthistoricum.535 .