Franzosenschanze (Münden)
The Franzosenschanze was in the Seven Years' War -scale ski jump , the remains on the Questenberg to about 213 meters above sea level north of the old town of Hann. Münden are located.
description
The ski jump was a closed, hexagonal facility with a diameter of about 100 meters. It consisted of a slight elevation of the terrain with a wall and a ditch in front of it. There were also flanking moats. The facility has been well preserved under the forest.
history
The hill was laid out during the Seven Years' War by French troops who had occupied the city of Münden. The population from nearby Münden was used to build it. The cannons posted on the ramparts secured the city and traffic routes on which the enemy could approach. Opposing troops under Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , who had also built a hill on the opposite elevation of the Rabanenkopf as the later location of the Tillyschanze, also let themselves be shot at from here .
literature
- Helmut Saehrendt: Two mysterious places in the woods near Hann. Münden , Hann. Münden, 1996
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Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 29.7 " N , 9 ° 39 ′ 4.1" E