Fort Biehler

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Aerial view of the wooded area, in front of it the settlement with the Erbenheimer Warte

The Fort Biehler is a part of the former fortress Mainz . It was built between 1880 and 1884 as Fort Petersberg . On April 30, 1885, the name was changed to Fort Biehler in honor of the head of the Prussian engineering corps Hans Alexis von Biehler, who had resigned a year earlier . The facility corresponds to the Biehler fort or unit fort named after him . The festival is the last major work that was built to strengthen the Mainz fortress.

history

The plans for a fort on the Petersberg near the Erbenheimer Warte , built in 1497, go back to a design by the engineering corps from April 1878. After various changes to the construction, work could begin in 1880 and in 1884 the facility was completed. The last major renovation at the fortress took place in 1910 with the installation of a practice unit for the Pioneer Btl. 25 .

After the First World War , French troops occupied the fort, who used the complex as barracks and, from 1925, as a warehouse. In 1924 the facility was closed by law. Like all other Mainz fortifications, Fort Biehler also fell under the provisions of Article 180 of the Versailles Treaty and had to be deconsolidated. The demolition work on the fort extended over the period from April to August 1927.

In 1930 the Dyckerhoff cement works acquired the ruins of the fort. They left the ruins to the city of Mainz , which had the Fort Biehler settlement built nearby as part of a program to create living space for the unemployed , using stones from the fort ruins. After the occupation of the Rhineland , the former fort became a training ground for the troops stationed in Kastel .

During the Second World War , the residents of the settlement used the remains of the fortress as temporary air raid shelters. The area actually received various bomb hits. After the war, American troops took over the work and began backfilling the throat. Refugees were also temporarily housed in the ruins. Disaster control has been using the site for training purposes since 1956 , so it is not freely accessible.

Since 1998 an initiative has been trying to preserve the remains of the fortress on the Petersberg. However, the remains of the fort are not listed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klein / Lacoste: Fort Biehler , p. 170.
  2. ↑ Klein / Lacoste: Fort Biehler , pp. 139-143.

literature

  • Elmar Brohl : Fortresses in Hessen. Published by the German Society for Fortress Research eV, Wesel, Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2013 (=  German Fortresses  2), ISBN 978-3-7954-2534-0 , p. 29.
  • Peter Klein; Werner Lacoste: Fort Biehler. A fortress between Mainz, Kastel and Wiesbaden. Wiesbaden, 2005 ISBN 3-928085-38-7

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Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 35 ″  E