Fort Fusternberg
Fort Fusternberg is located in the Fusternberg district , on Fusternberger Straße, east of Wesel city center and served to secure the railway lines leading from the city to the south and east .
history
After the military use was given up in 1900, the city bought Fort Fusternberg in 1908. In 1915 construction work began on Fusternberger Straße, during which the fort's outer walls were leveled. This construction work was started by prisoners of war and ended in 1922 with help from the unemployed.
Of the fort itself, only the reduit and the right caponier remain after the razes in the 1920s .
During times of inflation, the remains of the fort were used as a potato store, and during the Second World War also as an air raid shelter. In the time after that, it housed a wine shop. From 1947 the former fort served as a Catholic emergency church until it was finally bought by the Catholic Church in 1950 to build a new church on the fortress walls.
church
The Catholic Church of Peace rises to the Holy Angels on the Reduit , whose crypt forms the upper floor of the Reduit. In the basement there is an exhibition on the history of the church.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated June 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.wesel.de/de/inhalt-4/feldmark-und-fusternberg/&nid1=19633_84410
Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 14 " N , 6 ° 37 ′ 55" E