Fort Hartmühl

Remains of Fort Hartmühl next to the grill hut of the mini golf club

The Fort Hartmühl , partly progress hard mill or Fort hard mill , was named part of the third mounting phase of the fortress Mainz , Germany after the reorganization by the Congress of Vienna as a fortress of the German Federal .

Geographical location

Fort Hartmühl was built on the northernmost part of the Hartenberg - where you looked down into the Gonsbachtal to the former Hartmühle, which was located roughly at today's Children's Neurological Center . It was connected to its southern neighbor, Fort Hartenberg , by an approx. 300 m long connecting structure. Fort Hartmühl was strategically located in such a way that it could bombard the northernmost part of the province of Rheinhessen (in fortress construction terminology: paint ). Some of the walls have been preserved to this day and integrated into the Hartenberg Park; they can be found north of the water features near the grill hut. In the post-war period (until they were largely buried in the 1970s) they were known as "Eierburg".

history

A round wall of Fort Hartmühl was integrated into the Hartenberg Park as a "theater", which is occasionally used for performances

Rest of the so-called "Eierburg" in Hartenberg-Park Mainz (part of the former Fort Hartmühle)

Fort Hartmühl was built from 1826 to 1831 by Austrian pioneers according to plans by the engineer colonel (later general) Franz Scholl . Due to the importance of Mainz as a fortress town, the "Hartenberg" had the military function to protect the Neustadt after 1870 with a new wall, the Rheingauwall . After the forts were closed due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the area of Fort Hartenberg and Fort Hartmühl became today's Hartenbergpark with an area of around 18 hectares.

The “Entfestigungsamt Mainz” was newly created for the removal of the fortifications. As a German agency and sub-commission for fortifications, it was entrusted with carrying out the razing work on the fortifications as determined by the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission. In 1920 and 1921 the forward outer line and the inner defensive belt on the left bank of the Rhine were laid down.

literature

Rudolf Büllesbach, Hiltrud Hollich, Elke Tautenhahn: Bollwerk Mainz - Die Selzstellung in Rheinhessen , Morisel-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-943915-04-4

Web links

As-built analysis of the urban development framework plan "Residential quarter of the former Peter-Jordan-Schule (H 97)" with a sketch of the location (top right) of the forts Hartmühle and Hartenberg in relation to the current development (attachment to the meeting of the building and renovation committee of October 1, 2014 in the council information system of City of Mainz)

Individual evidence

↑ Petra Jung: With a pounding heart in the stalactite cave - Adventure in the underworld of the "Eierburg": a Neustädter remembers his youth of 53 years . In: Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz) . September 22, 1993, p. 12 .
^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate Street names
↑ engineer geographer state of Rhineland-Palatinate

50.0136 8.24Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 49 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 24 ″ E

[1] Petra Jung: With a pounding heart in the stalactite cave - Adventure in the underworld of the "Eierburg": a Neustädter remembers his youth of 53 years . In: Allgemeine Zeitung (Mainz) . September 22, 1993, p. 12 .

[2] General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate Street names

[3] r geographer state of Rhineland-Palatinate