Fort X of the Warsaw fortress

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View from the city motorway 724 (Siekierski) in south-east direction (direction of defense) of the fort ramparts

The Fort X of the Warsaw Fortress was (also called Fort "Augustówka" or "Siekierki") of the artillery forts of the outer defense belt of Warsaw fortifications of the 19th century. It was built in the 1880s and is located in what is now the Siekierki area of Warsaw 's Mokotów district .

It was the last fort on the west side of the Vistula and secured the south. Fort IX was connected to the west . Due to its location in the wetland near the Vistula, neither bricks nor concrete were used for the construction, only earth walls were built for the batteries. The accommodations were probably made of wood or tents. The "wet defensive ditch " led to the system being drained.

In 1913, various parts of the fort were destroyed as part of the extensive abandonment of the Warsaw fortifications. In 1939 the fort was rebuilt for defense and used by the Polish army in the Warsaw defensive battle . In 1944 German troops fought out of the facility. After the Second World War , the army set up a firing range here, which has since been closed.

Today the site of the fort is freely accessible, in the former throat area there is a football field and on the slopes of the former fortification there are bicycle and motocross routes. The new Siekierkowski expressway (city motorway 724) passes the fort in the immediate vicinity, and the “Matki Bozej Naczycicielky Modziezy” sanctuary is right next to it . The former fortress was renovated and integrated into a newly laid out west-eastward cycling path.

  • View in east direction over a subsequently drawn-in inner firing range wall

  • The area outside the southwest flank is now used as a motocross track

  • Today wooded main wall in the main direction of defense

  • Water-filled moat, here view of the fort from the southeast

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Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 27 ″  N , 21 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  E