Fort Winiary
Fort Winiary (also known as Poznan Citadel or Poznan Castle ) is a central part of the polygonal fortifications of Poznan Fortress . It is located on the vineyard in Poznan , from which it took its name. The artillery fort was considered the largest in Europe .
history
The plans for the fortification were made on February 21, 1829 by the architect Johann Leopold Ludwig Brese . In the summer of 1830, the nearby villages of Winiary and Bonin were evacuated and the residents were relocated to New Winiary . The first and third redoubts were completed in 1830 and the others in 1832. In 1834 three infantry battalions moved in. The third and fourth ravelines were built in 1838, and the fort was completed a year later.
The bastions were renamed on October 15, 1856 in Johann, Leopold and Ludwig, the three first names of the fortress architect Leopold von Brese-Winiary . Between 1865 and 1873 two powder magazines were added to the fort, an artillery laboratory in 1890 and a telegraph station in 1903. The fortress was reinforced in 1910.
1945 to 2010
During the Battle of Poznan (1945), the fort , which was occupied by the Germans in 1939 and partly used as a prisoner of war camp , was captured by the Red Army after several days of fighting on February 23, 1945 , and was badly damaged and partly destroyed. After the end of the war, the bricks were used to build housing estates in Poznań and Warsaw. In 1962 it was converted into a monument to the Polish-Soviet friendship and brotherhood in arms and entered in the monument register. Today the partially restored fortress houses the Arms Museum and the Army Museum "Poznań".
construction
The fort had an essential redoubt on the south, the city side, flanked by four entrenchments (redoubt I and II in the west; redoubt III and IV in the east). In the eastern and western pre-storages were Ravelin I and Ravelin IV. The north side of the fort consisted of Bastion I, Bastion II and Bastion III from west to east.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 17.1 ″ N , 16 ° 55 ′ 59.6 ″ E