Moselle battery

The Mosel battery was part of the Prussian fortress Koblenz and belonged to the system Feste Kaiser Alexander . The battery was located in what is now the Karthaus district of Koblenz and was built in 1821 in the northwest of Grand Duke Alexander's ski jump as a peace powder magazine.

In 1848 the building was cleared, rebuilt and two years later occupied with troops. According to Wischemann, the battery was later used to secure the railway bridge at Güls .

After the abandonment of the Kaiser Alexander Fortress system in 1903, traces of the work are lost. Since the battery was not softened like the other fortifications in Koblenz after the First World War , it was probably removed beforehand. There are no visible remains of the fortress. Today the street Auf dem Gockelsberg runs at this point .

literature

• Klaus T. Weber (dissertation): The Prussian fortifications of Koblenz (1815–1834) . (Series: Art and Cultural Studies Research) 2003, ISBN 3-89739-340-9 , pp. 206f.
• Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the German armed forces , Koblenz 1978, p. 90 (note: outdated in many ways, but still the best representation for an overview).

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '47.9 "  N , 7 ° 34' 1.4"  E