Fort Wilhelm (Hüttenguth)
The Fort William is a former Prussian fortress building at Hüttenguth in the former district Habelschwerdt in the county of Glatz (since 1945 Huta , kłodzko county , Lower Silesia ). It is located south of Huta and above Wójtowice in the Habelschwerdter Mountains .
history
In the area of tension before the coalition wars, the decision was made in 1790 to build a fortress between Hüttenguth and Voigtsdorf . Construction began on July 14, 1790. It was named after the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II , who visited the fortress in 1792 after it was completed. In the Napoleonic Wars , the fort was in a strategically important location, but it remained unoccupied because the guards had been withdrawn to defend Glatz . After the fall of Neisse in June 1807, the fort was occupied for a short time. Soon afterwards there were doubts about the usefulness and effectiveness of the fortifications directed against Austria and Fort Wilhelm, like other fortresses, was sold for demolition. The Voigtsdorf judge Josef Dinter acquired the facility. The stones were intended for the construction of the Voigtsdorf parish church. However, after the construction of the church was delayed until 1823 and the building site for the church had changed from Oberdorf to Niederdorf, Dinter initially used a small part of the fort's stones to build his own farm buildings. From the immense mass of stone, thousands of trucks went to Habelschwerdt in the 1870s to build the railway bridge and the teachers' college, which still did not run out of stone. Remains of the fort's walls have been preserved to this day.
literature
- Maximilian Tschitschke: Local history from the Kressenbachtal. In: Home around Brandbaude and Kressenbachtal , Salzgitter o. J., pp. 12–13.
- Verlag Aktion Ost-West eV: The Glatzer Land . ISBN 3-928508-03-2 , pp. 94-95, pp. 56 and 112.
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 28.2 ″ N , 16 ° 32 ′ 34.9 ″ E